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Post by markfurzelover on May 25, 2008 13:49:59 GMT
I came across this 70's show on Para Com and i ended up buying the boxset. Sid James was such a great actor and his fellow co-stars on this show were excellent too, Robin Stewart was gorgeous, unfortunately he wasn't so much so when i saw him in Sons and Daughters a few years ago, which he appeared in about 10 years after Bless This House. I know Sid, Diana Coupland, Anthony Jackson and Patsy Rowlands have all died, but does anyone know what Robin and Sally Geeson are up to now? I'm not sure if Robin is still in Australia, i read somewhere that Sally is no longer an actress and became a school teacher.
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Jun 5, 2008 17:29:43 GMT
He was and it's a shame they didn't use Robin Stewart for the film. I didn't know he'd gone to Australia. No idea about Sally Geeson. So many people disappear.
How's the box set? I haven't got round to buying it yet. I'm waiting for it to be reduced a LOT. LOL!
Patsy
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Post by markfurzelover on Jun 11, 2008 12:26:17 GMT
The boxset is good, i couldn't wait to buy it, it did cost a bit, my cousin thought i was mad cause she said i could've downloaded them all, i've got it now so i guess it doesn't matter. Once you've watched them all, which i think i have, the appeal wears off though i think and when i get freinds watching it when they're round i think they think i'm a bit odd cause i like that kind of thing so many years after it was made. 65 episodes all together and something else Sid James did is on the disc of Series 4, but i've not watched it yet. I'm also a fan of Man About The House, G & M (i have them on disc as well) and Robin's Nest. Paula Wilcox was a lucky woman working with the two Richard's of her generation, even though Beckinsale was hotter than O'Sullivan, my mum always preffured Doug Fisher (Larry) than Richard in MATH anyway, , if Doug had been a woman, he would've looked a lot like my next door neighbour and she's no oil painting.
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Jun 16, 2008 13:36:05 GMT
Nothing wrong with that. It's amazing how many young people are really into the old stuff. It's all rubbish about attention spans being shorter these days because they watch this stuff and enjoy the long scenes. There's an episode of Upstairs Downstairs where the entire first part is one scene. They love it. Just hate that episode. LOL! There were also kids under 10 going to Dr Who conventions long before the series came back. You are perfectly normal because the best programmes were made in the 60s and 70s. ;D I can't understand those people who watch something constantly. You'd think they get bored. It's nice to get these things out once is a while and have a look. Perhaps one day you'll be in the mood for a Bless This House-fest. LOL! I'm a Yootha Joyce fan so love those too. I was originally buying the Australian DVDs but series 3 never materialised. It was always held up by a rights issue. So I need to buy Networks and have umpteen copies of episode 1 (ITV and UK Gold as well as the original VHS release. LOL!). I remember watching Robin's Nest at the time and it was good. My favourite is Albert. Patsy
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Post by markfurzelover on Jun 18, 2008 12:14:52 GMT
Yootha was a classic icon, Mildred's sarcasim towards George always has me in fits of laughter, comedy in the 70's is a true way of how husbands really are. One of my favourite scenes is from series 6 of MATH, where she's enticing him to a dinner dance and they're in the bathroom, he's trimming his nose hairs & says "look at the hairs up there Mildred, i've got very virile nostrils i have" and she says "hmmm, pluck a few of em out and plant em on your head George", always has me laughing. I believe they have George & Mildred in Australia at weekends on 7 Network too, , i often wonder if that's the kind of comedy Mark Furze (Ric in Home and Away) might like, i really, really like him, daft really. I've not seen all of Robin's Nest yet, i don't know if i will buy that or not, if it becomes available for rent when all the series' are released then perhaps i will just rent them from the company i'm with. Albert was hilarious, i saw the actor in a film last year, i've forgotten the title of it, but he played a guard, i didn't even recognise him cause he's got on a bit, obviously, but my younger friend said to me "that guy was Albert, the one armed dish washer in Robin's Nest" and i was like "oh my god, so it is, i never even realised". I see paramount comedy 2 has changed the schedule to completely different shows now though, so there's no Johnnie Mortimer and Brian Cooke classics on at present.
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Jul 4, 2008 13:18:33 GMT
LOL! One of my favourite lines is when George has toothache in MATH and she says, "Why don't you take an aspirin? Take two. Take hundred." LMAO! I've been a fan of Yootha since discovering what turned out to be the final series in 1979 and aren't ashamed to admit I cried when she died. She was my first favourite actress and I still have the newspaper clippings reporting her death. A great loss to the industry. She was typecast by then and it would have been hard to shake Mildred had she lived, as Brian Murphy found when he did other work and he was still thought of as George, but had been so versatile in her early career. Check out the film 'Fanatic' (on DVD under the US title of 'Die! Die! My Darling' for some stupid reason). She is superb, expecially fighting Stefanie Powers. It's my favourite flm of hers.
I know what you mean. I really believed the actor only had one arm when I was growing up so seeing him with two came as a bit of a shock. LOL!
Patsy
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Post by markfurzelover on Jul 6, 2008 13:45:02 GMT
I wish i had been around when Yootha's career was @ it's height, unfortunately she died 6 years before i was born. My dad sort of remembers her death being reported on the news and refurs to her as "the alcoholic actress with the big teeth" which i thought was unfair, from what i've read on the net, she lived quite an unhappy, lonley existense which might explain why she turned to drink. Have you ever seen any of the Unforgettable documentries made about these generation of actors? Yootha being one, i have it on dvd, it was only a half an hour thing but i learnt a bit more about her than i knew before and the guy who played little Tristram in G & M was in it, my god he looked strange, my mum said "he didn't grow into a very nice looking chap did he?" LOL. Norman Eshley, her ex-husband Glynn Edwards, Brian and Sally Thomsett also spoke about her on it. Sid James, Richard Beckinsale, Leonard Rossiter and Diana Dors are a few that have also been profiled in that series. You don't happen to know any news of Richard O'Sullivan do you? I did read some time ago that he was in a home for actors due to ill health. It's weird thinking all these good shows were on years before i was born, but they are great to look back on. I like Paula Wilcox, she was slightly annoying as Chrissy, but i would love to see The Lovers which she starred in with Richard Beckinsale, lucky woman, she's been in Emmerdale recently as Hilary Potts, mother of Charlotte Bellamy's character, Laurel Thomas, she's currently in a play though so i don't know if she'll be back in Emmerdale or not.
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Jul 18, 2008 23:13:29 GMT
She's still badly ignored by the establishment which is a shame. I have that documentary. It was very good but the memory's aren't what they were. I still have the cuttings from the time she died and no one knew she was an alcoholic, not even Glynn Edwards and Brian Murphy. None had any idea and it came as a shock. Even Brian has changed things over the years. She was very close to Glynn though and Godmother to his son from his second marriage. I have an interview with him from years ago and he partly blamed himself for her drinking as they both drank a lot when they were together. He was an alcoholic too. I think, if I remember correctly, he gave it up during the Minder years. It was many years after her death he did it.
Richard is still at Brinsworth House as far as I know. He had a stroke a few years ago. Paula shares her birthday with me and still looks good. I hope I do when I'm her age! We don't hear much about Sally these days which is a shame.
I know the feeling. I was born at the very end of the 60s and like so a lot made before then like The Avengers, The Prisoner, stuff from the 50s even. When UK Gold started it was a blessing with all their archive stuff. Same with original Bravo and Granada Plus. Then UKG and Bravo changed and G+ ended. But by then they were showing the same old stuff anyway and it was always heavily edited like Paramount. We need a decent classic channel like they have in America to show all these classics and uncut. All those satellite/cable channels and not one.
Patsy
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