Bet you drove a Toyota too eh son? Come on let's be aveing you....

@@rafflesxyz4800 That's odd I drove a Toyota when I lived down Letsbey avenue.

Your disdain was well placed.

Beautifully wrote x

Join the club! Proud youth we all were - and difficult to accept the same dished out, now I’m older!

If you haven't seen it yet, watch Porridge. This is the sequel to that show. When Fletch and Godber were in prison. Just as good as this.

Porridge is infinitely better.

you also need to search for 'Clarence' also a great one of his

Daniel Day-Lewis, who did his own Porridge with Pete Postlethwaite years later in the 1993 film 'In The Name of The Father'! :)

Nobody will ever beat David Jason as the old lag Blanco in an episode of Porridge . He was so good , I had to check the credits to confirm it was really him .

I don’t recall them being in it?

Postlethwaite was pretty good in "the Muscle Market" - an Alan Bleasdale drama

David Jason too 🤔👍

Wtf you shouting for?

Don't SHOUT! Where are you from then?

Knew how to do comedy - not any more.

Nothing wrong with British comedy today! Different, but just as good as ever.

Rodney? I thought his name was Dave!

@@alanmorgan8647 Don't be a plonker.

@@PNETriffid Raymond?

Rodney, you mean Nicholas Lyndhurst.

@@jaybob-uh8hm No, I mean Gary from Goodnight Sweetheart.

Jaime Kendler-Arnold Beckindale died suddenly. No chance.

Make hey awhile thee sun Shall shine However Quit While one's Ahead Is the key to style. )0(

"Arnold Beckindale" was Richard Beckinsale's autocorrect brother....

They could have found a replacement actor for Richard Beckinale. But I think the BBC wanted to kill off TV series.

@@angusmeigh5141 Ronnie didn't want to do it without him

Same here. For some reason, I was always wrongly under the impression that this series was a failure and bombed, but of course it was obviously the sad death of Richard Beckinsale that halted it. I'm very pleasantly surprised by how good it is.

@@TheRowlandstone73 Yes the show ended after Richards sad death they couldn't go on without him, although they were asked too. But I suppose it just wouldn't be the same. I would really like to have seen more of this show and how it all played out over the coming years.... You neve know they could have ended up back in Slade Prison.

week

​@@martinworld7214- True enough, it was always a weekly pay packet in those days.

Add to that sad list, Patricia Brake, who died in 2022.

Add to that Pete Postlethwaite

British Gas suddenly had shareholders to feed

Yes - Rikki Howard. I'm ploughing through Hi-De-Hi on Gold at present, thought I recognised the face.

Yes, the Hotel Manager also played a suicidal manic depressive in an episode of Rising Damp alongside a young Richard Beckinsale.

Aye, agreed.. (bl**dy right ;-)

They did like it, they didn’t carry it on because Richard Beckinsale died suddenly and Ronnie didn’t want to carry on without him

@@nickycotton6137 What on earth has John and Connie got to do with it? They wrote Faulty Towers not Going Straight.

@@doddyvanstraaten2774I know/❤ the "What on earth" bit!!! 😢. Never mentioned 'Going Straight'! Not sure why comment is here tbh.😕..✌(edit: Was watching a clip of FT's & this after probably. They did say that wouldn't do anymore episodes of it in a John Cleese 'Docu''. Gave reason's, but can't recall tbh!)

@@doddyvanstraaten2774Preachy idiot.

I'm guessing you don't know the reason as to why this show never carried on, Richard Beckinsale, the guy who played Lennie Godber died tragically from a heart attack aged 31, Ronnie B refused to act or work for days because he was mourning the loss of a dear friend

Thanks for the info. The death of the gifted Richard B at such an early age was a tragedy.

Carl B Absolutely agree

@@ShadowKingRPG Oh , Dear Lord . I had no idea . What a loss . I have just discovered this series and had hoped for more than one season . What a shock to discover why there is just the one .

@@georgeelmerdenbrough6906 he died in the middle of filming this an another comedy called Bloomers, David Swift was in bloomers too,David also appeared as Mr Grey in rising damp with Richard

BBC iPlayer. Check out the remade porridge. Script by clement frenais and good actors in it. It’s not fletch it’s his grandson in for it fraud. Highly recommend it, sharp neat stories and some real cracking lines. Just like this episode.

@@highdownmartin are you kidding,utter rubbish,just like every other remake,Ronnie Barker's timing & comedy writing was the best,why can't they just leave these classics alone,everything the BBC touches turns to sh*t.

@@dps8435 did you actually watch it? I thought it was a great way to carry on without making it any sort of carbon copy.

@@highdownmartin yeah,just hate remakes,shows lack of creativity,99 times out of 100 utter garbage & in today's climate of don't offend anyone usually as funny as being diagnosed with bowel cancer after winning the euro jackpot.

@@dps8435 give a go. I’m of the same opinion the original is the best. But it’s new scripts with up to date themes. You’ll see the original shining through but there’s loads of real good moments, sharp writing, inventive dialogue. It’s as good as because it’s the same writers and they’re shit hot. Trust me.

+dilwich123 Yes, I think it was planned. That's such a shame. The writing/acting was top drawer.

Well said

Andy D Beckindale died suddenly.

Richard Beckinsale died so it couldn't continue

OMG it's him!!!!

Ford Granada 😟👏👏👏👏

Pay parade in the army too.

Horrible isn't it, almost unbearable, only complaint about this show.

Very true, but she's still strangely quite nice otherwise

That's the humour of it :)

What always amuses me is that her real voice sounds nothing like that; she's rather posh.

The way she says Dad. 😂

more like 45

Yes, she played Eth lol. Excellent actress :-)

Don't think he had retired at that point. But due to be.

@@MrBazda That's my reading of it. In the first episode it was suggested that he was coming-up for the possibility of early retirement, which doesn't mean he was finished all together, and someone like PO Mackay would have worked his remaining time at the prison right up until the very second his retirement took effect. Of course, for the sake of this sitcom I guess they wanted to put the two adversaries in a situation on the outside which would allow them to end their 'antagonism' on a mutual respect basis... I think it would have been harder for this sitcom to succeed without some reference to MacKay who was such a central character to Porridge.

Layout is nothing like Fawlty Towers...😏

Definitely Fawlty Towers set!

Very similar. Considering that this was filmed and screened a couple of years after the first series of FT and a few months before the second, I am wondering if maybe the BBC simply used the only 'hotel' set they had available. Or perhaps the FT set was still available and they adapted it slightly.

@@Nickpaintbrush 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣

There’s similarities but GS is much more claustrophobic like a west end boarding house would be. FT is way more spacious.