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Subject: RE: BS: Mrs. Slocomb's Pussy From: Irish Rover Date: 26 Jul 00 - 02:40 PM I loved the episode of aybs where Mr.Moleturd was helping Mrs Slocomb hold up a Marquis(tent) pole. I near wet myself everytime I see it. I also liked allo allo! great english/French humor. Blackadder is a fave aswell. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrs. Slocomb's Pussy From: Mooh Date: 26 Jul 00 - 02:57 PM ...snatch the pussy and put it in a box...Monty Python? Mooh. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrs. Slocomb's Pussy From: Liz the Squeak Date: 26 Jul 00 - 05:48 PM Reggie Perrin - I had hysterics the first day at work for the IRS when I discovered there really is a Sunshine Desserts Ltd. Had to explain it to everyone there, as two are at least 6 years younger and most 10 or more.... Still don't think they got it, but it warped me for life. I can never think of my brother in law without seeing this image of a great silver back gorilla, in the same way that he always saw a hippo when his mother in law was mentioned.... LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrs. Slocomb's Pussy From: SINSULL Date: 26 Jul 00 - 06:48 PM Give "Malcolm in the Middle" a try. At times it is painfully funny. Saw a cartoon last night - "The Family Guy"? and nearly went into shock. Then changed the channel to see Mohammad Ali, mute and trembling, inspiring a young boy on "Touched By An Angel". Didn't know whether to gag or cry. Not sentimental tears but ones of downright anger. How could they use him like that? Would have given my soul (pun intended) for an hour or two of Hyacinth Bucket. Love her voice and her suppers. Remember her "outdoors indoors bar-b-que with finger food buffet"? Classic Hyacinth. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrs. Slocomb's Pussy From: GUEST Date: 26 Jul 00 - 07:11 PM it's "Bouquet" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrs. Slocomb's Pussy From: Alice Date: 27 Jul 00 - 01:30 AM You can get a mug with Onslow's quote "I'm sitting here completely surrounded by no beer." at Hyacinth's website.click here Here is Hyacinth's Christmas letter from 1999. One of my favorites was Mother and Son from Australia. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrs. Slocomb's Pussy From: alison Date: 27 Jul 00 - 03:49 AM the program with Nicholas Lyndhurst??? was "goodnight sweetheart" where he could time -warp back to the blitz..... great for 2 series then they should have left well alone..... Rab C. Nesbitt was fantastic but would need subtitles.. I showed a bit of an episode to an Aussie... they hadn't a hope of understanding the braod Glaswegian..... the chat show mentioned above was "Parkinson" we're getting reruns of it now.. Sting and Billy connolly singing and playing together was priceless...
ritchie and Jayhojo, I am local.. but why won't my nose stop bleeding??? slainte alison |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrs. Slocomb's Pussy From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler Date: 27 Jul 00 - 04:16 AM Bert, I too loved Private Schultz, with Michael Elphick and Ian Richardson, one that really should be repeated (unlike someof the others!). RtS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrs. Slocomb's Pussy From: GMT Date: 27 Jul 00 - 07:47 AM I'd forgotten Private Schultz, that was a cracker. Gary |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrs. Slocomb's Pussy From: Ritchie Date: 27 Jul 00 - 10:33 AM I've just remembered I like 'The Simpsons' too...Doh !! and Alison ,this one's for you.." do y'wanna buy some pegs Dave...?" blue clicky thing regards ritchie. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrs. Slocomb's Pussy From: GUEST,Colwyn Dane Date: 27 Jul 00 - 12:32 PM G'day
Philip Hill has quite a comprehensive site dealing with British TV comedy shows: Toodle-pip. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrs. Slocomb's Pussy From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler Date: 28 Jul 00 - 03:50 AM One of today's papers has a new word for our younger colleagues who are always glued to the haunted goldfish bowl or PC: "Screenagers". RtS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrs. Slocomb's Pussy From: sian, west wales Date: 28 Jul 00 - 08:46 AM What, nobody likes Wallace and Grommitt? sian |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrs. Slocomb's Pussy From: Liz the Squeak Date: 28 Jul 00 - 12:34 PM Wallace and Gromit has become a rhyming euphemism for throwing up - as in 'He's Wallaced on me new carpet!' I love him dearly, and model myself on Gwendolene, ~ not even Wensleydale..... LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrs. Slocomb's Pussy From: Mbo Date: 28 Jul 00 - 04:05 PM Wallace & Grommitt RULE! I've been know to suddenly blurt out "I do like a bit of gorgonzola!" --M |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrs. Slocomb's Pussy From: Rana who SHOULD be working Date: 28 Jul 00 - 05:10 PM Just found this web site which has descriptions of many of the above programmes + more as well as some links (Including to a reggie perrin page http://tv.cream.org/
Rana |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrs. Slocomb's Pussy From: GUEST,winterbright Date: 28 Jul 00 - 05:28 PM Kendall... I quite agree about WAITING FOR GOD. Diana Trent is a major role model for me! (as well as several young women I know) I'm surprised that no-one has mentioned MULBERRY... just about my all-time favorite. It was about the son of Death (which sounds awful, but it was a pure delight) and only lasted, I believe, one season. Any other Mulberry fans out there? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrs. Slocomb's Pussy From: Alice Date: 28 Jul 00 - 08:12 PM Yes, Mulberry, loved it, and Waiting For God, also. I linked to Hyacinth's site earlier, but it is part of a much bigger site called britcoms.com . Did we mention Rumpole of the Bailey, Chef, and Jeeves and Wooster?
Britcoms.com has pages for:
ARE YOU BEING
BENNY HILL
BLACK ADDER
CARRY ON
CHEF!
DAD'S ARMY
FAST SHOW/BRILLIANT!
FAWLTY TOWERS
FRENCH AND
FRY AND LAURIE
GOOD NEIGHBORS
HARRY HILL
JEEVES AND WOOSTER
KEEPING UP
LEAGUE OF
LENNY HENRY
MAID MARIAN
MONTY PYTHON
MR. BEAN
ON THE BUSES
ONE FOOT IN THE
ONLY FOOLS AND
OPEN ALL HOURS
RED DWARF
RUMPOLE OF THE
STEPTOE AND SON
THIN BLUE LINE
TO THE MANOR BORN
TONY HANCOCK
THE TWO RONNIES
UP POMPEII
VICAR OF DIBLEY
WAITING FOR GOD
YES MINISTER
YOUNG ONES |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrs. Slocomb's Pussy From: catspaw49 Date: 28 Jul 00 - 11:03 PM This has been a fun thread to read along with......a little look back. glad Shad and some others are Barney Miller fans......We haven't had it on anything syndicated here for years and I don't know why. "Allo Allo" always cracked me up too. Kendall made the point that writers today are all under 30. Kendall my friend, we're just getting old. How old was Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, Howard Morris, and Woody Allen when they wrote for Sid Caesar? Is "Soap" ever shown in England? What a piece of work that was. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrs. Slocomb's Pussy From: Mbo Date: 28 Jul 00 - 11:10 PM Rumpole RULES! We've ready almost all the books...but seen very few of the shows, only 2 seasons. Love that Leo McKern! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrs. Slocomb's Pussy From: alison Date: 29 Jul 00 - 12:51 AM soap was shown maybe 20 years ago... loved it..... but it was never re-run.... slainte alison |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrs. Slocomb's Pussy From: kendall Date: 29 Jul 00 - 05:43 AM British tv runs the gamut from the lowest (Benny Hill) to the best (Rumpole). Spaw, I dont know how old they were but, THEY had talent. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrs. Slocomb's Pussy From: CarolC Date: 29 Jul 00 - 07:10 AM I'm so glad someone remembered "The Norman Conquests". That was brilliant, and it had Penelope Keith in it who was also in "The Good Neighbors", and "To the Manor Born". Does anyone remember a televised play back in the 70s called "Home"? It starred John Guilgud (did I spell that right?), and Ralph Richardson, and was about some patients in a mental hospital. That was one of the best and funniest things I've ever seen come out of England. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrs. Slocomb's Pussy From: celticblues5 Date: 29 Jul 00 - 02:21 PM Ah, yes! LOVED Mulberry! Can't believe I forgot to mention it! If the netherworld is really run by him & not by his dad, none of us would mind going, eh? You're right, winterbright, Diana Trent is a true heroine. Loved how they always got the best of "the idiot Baines." Soap is a classic American that I would love to see again - unfortunately, our own local idiot cable system doesn't offer Comedy Central, which is the only place I know of here where it is being rerun. Richard Mulligan was a stitch - but, then,they were all good. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrs. Slocomb's Pussy From: alison Date: 30 Jul 00 - 12:55 AM Taxi is another one.. great show.. but never re-run after the cast got famous in other things slainte alison |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrs. Slocomb's Pussy From: Liz the Squeak Date: 30 Jul 00 - 01:57 AM We're getting re-runs of Taxi here in the UK, on a terrestrial channel, because we don't have a wok on the wall. I loved Soap, raved about it at school when no-one else knew what I was talking about. Funny that, happened with Blackadder and Red Dwarf too - I raved about those and everyone said they were crap, but look what happened!!! I liked Mulberry too - it happened at a time when Karl Howman was in practically everything, remember Brush Strokes? Now he only appears to be doing detergent ads.... Diana Trent is my heroine, and I want to be just like her. My hips are going, so I'm starting off OK. I have an Idiot Baines or two in my life and a couple of Janes. All I need now is my Tom..... LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrs. Slocomb's Pussy From: alison Date: 30 Jul 00 - 02:03 AM Never heard of Mulberry.. we've got Karl Howman now in something called "Babes in the Woods".. he doesn't seem to have aged much since "brush Strokes" unless this is an old show we're getting. slainte alison |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrs. Slocomb's Pussy From: Peter Kasin Date: 30 Jul 00 - 04:07 AM Did the American comic genius Ernie Kovacs become known in the UK? Re-runs of his 1950's shows are hard to come by. They were re-shown on PBS about 15 years ago, otherwise I don't know when or where else they've been shown since his death. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrs. Slocomb's Pussy From: catspaw49 Date: 30 Jul 00 - 04:31 AM Depending on the PBS affiliate, they still show occasionally. I think its hard for folks nowadays to see Ernie Kovacs for how far out front he was then. Luckily, a small PBS station here showed the series only last year. They don't have the money to buy the bigger programs for fillers so we get some neat older shows. Nice to get two PBS stations sometimes. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrs. Slocomb's Pussy From: GUEST,Banjo Johnny Date: 30 Jul 00 - 10:25 AM For a real send-up of soap American operas, look for "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman". -- Johnny |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrs. Slocomb's Pussy From: *Conrad Bladey Peasant-Inactive Date: 30 Jul 00 - 04:02 PM Anyone remember 'Never mind the quality, feel the width'? now thats one from my youth! a favorite. We lived NW 11 Golders Green Trouble with pbs is that they get everything 20 years after the fact and then they bang it to death so of course it becomes cult and memorized.... Conrad |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrs. Slocomb's Pussy From: Penny S. Date: 01 Aug 00 - 11:54 AM Karl Howman came to take my drama club once, years ago - a friend of one of the parents - and I didn't encourage him to visit us again! Aargh! And the Nicholas Sandhurst MI5 show was The Piglet Files -knew someone with the T-shirt. Now I really liked The Rag Trade, with Miriam Karlin, Peter what's his name - the Book in HHGTTG, and Sheila Hancock. Or does that show my age really badly? Penny |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrs. Slocomb's Pussy From: Naemanson Date: 01 Aug 00 - 03:23 PM One of th4e funniest things I ever saw on TV was Paul Hogan's old TV show. I can't remember much of the details anymore but I remember laughing myself sick over it. Other favorites include (in no particular order) Mulberry, Good Neighbors, Butterflies, Red Dwarf, Red Green, Rumpole, Poirot, Inspector Morse, and I'm sure there are others. I also remember a few Canadian shows I watched as a kid growing up in The Valley (Northern Maine). There was one about some salvagers working on the Great Lakes picking up logs from the beaches. And the old Pig & Whistle, a variety show located in a pub. I don't know if it was Canadian or English but I can still sing the closing song. Does anyone else remember this one? It had a then unknown (at least in my neck of the woods) Irish band featured every week. They called themselves the Irish Rovers. I agree with Kendall about the writers. I yet haven't seen a United Statesian show that I'd care to watch twice since MASH and the Muppet Show went off the air. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrs. Slocomb's Pussy From: GUEST,Don Firth Date: 02 Aug 00 - 07:05 PM My Gawd! I was just going to browse for a few moments and I've been hanging on this thread for an hour! I've seen many of these shows, but not all. Currently watching "Good Neighbors" and "As Time Goes By" for the umpteenth time. I think they only made about a dozen episodes of "The Vicar of Dibley." At least, that's all I've seen. In my opinion, the aforementioned dissertation on "I can't believe it's not butter" is a classic piece of comedy writing at least on a par with Abbott and Costello's "Who's on first?" I think I caught that episode on videotape, but since I'm notorious for forgetting to label tapes, I'm not sure which stack it's in. One Britcom, "Yes, Minister" and it's sequel "Yes, Prime Minister" can be something of a telecourse on how politics works -- or doesn't work -- not just British politics, but politics in general. Lines like when Sir Humphrey (Nigel Hawthorne [The Madness of King George]) explains to the Prime Minister (Paul Eddington), "The purpose of the Official Secrets Act is not to protect secrets. It's to protect officials!" Two American comedies I rarely miss are "Frasier" (although I'm afraid it's beginning to run out of steam) and "Everybody Loves Raymond." In the latter, sometimes nothing more than a long pause can be hilarious. Fun thread. Carry on. Don Firth |