Flicking thorugh this weeks "Listener" (a bit like "Radio Times"), I find that the mixed Prime TV have given a 1970's British comedy fan (like me) a treat. Good Friday could see me up at 7am to watch the movie "On the Buses", followed by "Mutiny On the Buses" and if my concentraction span is still there "Holiday On the Buses" follows.

Also on during the week is "Steptoe and Son", pure class from the underclass. To top everything off is the movie of "Are You Being Served" where the cast go to Spain for a holiday. Surely just as Morrissey admired Kenneth Williams, he must have liked John (I'm free)Inman.

Morrissey may have his kitchen sink dramas, but I'll gladly take my 1970's tv comedies. By the way does anyone remember the '70's tv comedy "Spring and Autumn"? It only ran for a short season or two and I was very young when it screened. Nostalga is a important emotion.

LoF


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Forgot to mention that Cicely Courtneidge appears in the movie and the programme. Cicely starred in one of Morrissey's favourtie films, "The L-Shaped Room".

I hate you Butler. Do you get Last of the Summer Wine in N.Z. because Blakey plays a character called Smiler in it, as well as lots of other 60's comic british actors (Thora Hird, Norman Wisdom, Dora Bryan). Though it's not a patch on the comedies mentioned.
I don't recall that Spring & Autumn show though, any more details?
Steptoe & Son pure class comedy with an emphasis on class.
Nearest & Dearest is another all time favourite of mine, Hylda Baker as Nellie Pledge was just the best comic actress in the world to me, has me rolling over laughing, bless her.
Grim 'I must get a second hand on this watch' O'Grady.


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Yeah, there always seems to be a repeat of "Last of the Summer Wine" playing on tv overhere. It's a very benign comedy which I don't mind if there is nothing else to watch. Bill Owen - Compo appeared in "Carry On Nurse" as well. I'll look up a book on "Spring and Autumm" and then respond to it, so I get my facts straight.

Lets jump forward to the Eighties, do you remember "Metal Mickey"?

LoF with Liverpool breathing down our neck!

> Lets jump forward to the Eighties, do you remember "Metal
> Mickey"?

Yes but I think I'd got to old by then, so I wasn't into much tv at that period of my life. Though I did watch 'Boys from the black stuff' in the 80's which although dealing with the serious issue of Britain in the recession had it's comic moments & most of the country was going round saying 'gisa job, I can do that, go on gis it', set in Livwerpool.

> LoF with Liverpool breathing down our neck!

& don't forget Arsenal, I took Max from the U.S. on the tour yesterday & he wanted to stop off @ Old Trafford to & as I'd been on the Guinness the day before I was rather dehydrated so we stopped off at the cafe we went to in the store for a cuppa tea.

Grim O'G.

Cicely Courtneidge was my friends Great Aunt. I tried to get hold of "Take me back to dear old blighty" but had no joy.

> & don't forget Arsenal, I took Max from the U.S. on the tour yesterday
> & he wanted to stop off @ Old Trafford to & as I'd been on the
> Guinness the day before I was rather dehydrated so we stopped off at the
> cafe we went to in the store for a cuppa tea.

Next thing you'll be buying a season ticket for Old Trafford cafe! Are you sure your not red underneath!

LoF

Hmmmn LoF, I don't think so me a closet red, I'm not having the tatt removed & replaced, it hurt enough the first time.

Grim