Only when I laugh on ITV3
jamespondo
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Anyone watching the reshowing of Only when I laugh on ITV3.
I've always found it to be one of the most underrated,funny sitcoms there has ever been.
I view it like rising damp in a sitcomwhere the actors delivery of quite basic material make it what it is.
I've always found it to be one of the most underrated,funny sitcoms there has ever been.
I view it like rising damp in a sitcomwhere the actors delivery of quite basic material make it what it is.
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A great reminder of the days when ITV made funny sitcoms and didn't have it's obsession with celebrity reality shows and rip-off phone-in and voting shows.
I remember another Yorkshire TV classic from the same era which was The Gaffer with Bill Maynard, in which he played the manager of an engineering firm. Anyone else remember this?
Well I was born in 1978, so I don't remember Selwyn from the first time around. But I've seen the videos and it's yet another great show. Yorkshire TV made quite a few classic sitcoms in the 70s and 80s.
Rising Damp, Only When I Laugh, Selwyn, The Gaffer, Duty Free, Home to Roost, The Bounder.... etc.
To name a few!
It's just a shame ITV messed up what a great comedy unit it had.
Thames and LWT were great sitcom makers. They were shows the whole family could sit down and watch together.
Those were the days!!!
A very good ITV sitcom that is never mentioned is "Get Some In"
Tony Selby and a (young) Robert Lindsay playing "3 F Smifff"
i am a very old cat and remember it on its first run
Only When I Laugh was good but I found Christopher Strauli a bit strange in a difficult to define way.
And the male voice choir theme-toon gave me the creeps somehow.
ITV used to do some great stuff though, sad how they have changed.
I've always said the same about ITV classic game shows too.
Yes YTV knew how to do good comedy in that era.
Duty Free was excellent, but did anyone like That's My Boy with Mollie Sugden? I loved that and then Mollie's next YTV show My Husband & I.
In Loving Memory with Thora Hird was another caper too.
How very true!!
Blockbusters, Bullseye, 3-2-1, Price Is Right, Winner Takes All, Krypton Factor and Play Your Cards Right to name but a few.
My Husband & I. That was the one with her late husband, William Moore if I remember right!
They were great family viewing and were so innocent. Nowadays there's always some evil streak or thousands (sometimes millions) of pounds to be won or lost.
In those days if you won a deep fat fryer and a few hundred £££s you were more than happy!
The Krypton Factor was a great show. But they ruined it in 1995 when they revamped it so it was rubbish!!! This was the time when ITV started it's obsession of ruining what great shows it had and then subsequently axing them alltogether.
Blimey I remember That's My Boy. I was beginning to think I dreamt it or summit as I was the only one that could remember it!
Oh the good old days. In my view, thats was television at its best!
Was he the actor who played Bunny in 'Raffles'? He was perfect for the part in that
He was, he was also in the UK version of 80s comedy Full House, co-starring along side Brian Capron (Coronation Street's Richard Hillman.
I remember when I was at Primary school we were doing a Christmas concert and we all had to go back to school in the evening to get ready for it and the performance. Anyway I always remember this lad arriving at school and going up to our teacher and saying "Joe said he isn't coming tonight because he wants to stop at home and watch Only When I Laugh"
Teacher went ballistic at him the next day.
So whenever I see this show I always remember that incident lol
In Loving Memory was an underrated gem IMO........never seen it repeated anywhere since it was first shown and no sign of it appearing on DVD either which is a shame.:(
Duty Free was indeed excellent. I think Gwen Taylor's performance in it is brilliant.