She was brilliant in everything she did!

She played the hard of hearing woman in one of fellow Python John Cleese's 'Fawlty Towers'.

Onya Terri. 😁😁

too subtle. I find most of these much funnier the second time through as I pay attn to every word and see just how much is being taken off. mUch of the style reminds of the playwright's son who becomes a coal miner in MP sketch with Idle, Graham, & Terry Jones

Everything about Ripping Yarns is superb. They have a TV in the dining room at work and 'Tomkinson's Schooldays' was on the TV while I was eating my dinner. I laughed myself sore before returning to the factory floor. It'd been decades since I'd seen it and it reminded me how good the series really is.

Don't you believe it, mate! I stride through KZfaq Comment sections like a squishy colossus, stamping on our ancient nation's fingers and trampling on its toes, its flag, and its traditions, outraging its monarch like Flashheart getting stuck into Bob, Nursie and Queenie (Gawd bless yer, ma'am). Mockery and offence is meat and drink to me. I'm English, so why wouldn't it be. It's a jolly poor day when I don't have at least six Comments deleted. This one has already been removed twice because I used an uncomplimentary word once used by Julian Clary in referring to Her Maj (this is a third draft). Oh, but some prissy patriotic herbert or puritan algorithm will decide that my presence dishonours our war-dead (starting with Boudicca) who didn't give their lives so that dodgy slappers such as I might tear up the Magna Carta for emergency bog paper to wipe the smile off my rosy cheeks. My first name is Eleanor. I was named after Eleanor of Aquitaine, queen of England in 1154. Yes, really. I maintain that a nation that can't laugh at itself is doomed. (Goodbye, Donny T.) Britain's been around a very long time, and I still hear plenty of chuckles. The screams of outrage are there to be ignored.

@@EleanorPeterson Interesting. But please, indulge me: at what point does good old British self-mockery cross the line into being flat out subversive? I ask because I'm absolutely sure that you've never even considered such.

@MichaelKingsfordGray Why stand erect in front of an authentic name?

15/16 is almost 1

No such word as 'degressed.' You mean 'regressed.'

"The obvious mental weaknesses we have"? Speak for yourself, it's time England grew a pair and stopped this self-loathing lily-livered simpering

@@callithowiseeit5806 there is always a tool head not to worry about.

@@jackmallory7996 naaah. It refers to a mixture of grease and something

@@thomaselliott573 And amazingly nobody needs a damned good thrashing.

I watch that sequence almost every day. Top comedic bit of all time

Right Morrison - I think you know what to do

Sir Anthony yes, of course sir

Off you go

Deadpan John le Mesurier is amazingly funny in that scene :-)

Wonderful actress, she payed the Assistant Head in Please Sir - and an awkward character in Fawlty Towers.

@@grahamturner97 Joan Sanderson (1912-1992.) Her entire screen career was playing a crotchety old trout. Her theatre credits are more distinguished.

YES.I The wonderful deaf old bat, Mrs. Richards!. @@grahamturner97

They're very good but DON'T denigrate the brilliance that is Fawlty Towers - it has aged brilliantly!

I think the Ripping Yarns series is a bit uneven. Murder at Moorstones Manor, Tompkinson's schooldays and Roger of the Raj are standouts in my book, but some of the others fall a bit flat for me.

R. Powell I had to dip out of Golden Gordon cause it’s so heavily ingrained in soccer/football which I just could not get.

Does Blackadder merit a place in heart if you have any conscience towards kids? It merited prosecuting alongside Savile, for its inctement of and victim-blaming siding with bullying. autisticgroupsfairnesswatch.wordpress.com/2015/02/08/frying-tonight-20070073/

@@conscienceaginBlackadder You appear to be confusing Blackaddsr BBC comedy program wof the 80s and 90s with something else, not sure how you propose to prosecute a TV program.

Frank Featherstone did you work for the radio times in the late 70s?

@@themadplotter No I am Austerlian & those are my own original true sentiments.

Oh, I say! Steady on, old boy... ;-)

Not only that, it came out at just about the time the events of this story are set (1913, if I recall correctly).

Knob

@@sash1623No thanks. I've just eaten.

The national debt incurred by Britain to abolish the Atlantic slave trade, and to compensate British owners of slaves for the emancipation of their slaves (a debt, because it was money borrowed to cover those costs) was only finally paid off (by the British tax-payer, of course) was in 2015. So, every British person, from the mid 1800's until 2015, indeed paid their part to say 'You're free.' And that's a fact.

@@sunnyjim1355 I'm not sure that earns us morality points.

@@Hartley_Hare you are of course correct however our "morality points" are significantly greater than most of the nations at the time, on the slavery front.

Agreed, vernon, is a great character actor, the charactor being the over-ranked buffoon who always lands on his feet 🙂

Don't forget his wonderful Slartybartfast in The Hitchikers Guide To The Galaxy both radio and TV .

I certainly agree re Richard Vernon. Glazebrook is a highlight even among the stellar cast and performances of the "... Minister" series. And I'm very familiar with his performance as a rather resigned Slartibartfast. And as for "The Sandbaggers", it's one of my favourites of that genre and I don't understand why it's not more often referenced - very good series.

See also his part in the TV programme from the 1960’s ‘The Man in Room 17’. A very understated sort of spy/police programme.

In my opinion The Sandbaggers was one of the best TV series ever made. But then I do enjoy the old Cold War spy stuff.

It's far, far better than that. 🙄

“Mrs Richards! Where did you get that machine gun? It has no place in a Torquay hotel!”

@@philipkenneth24 "WHAT?!?"

Wil Davis; March 2022 calling here, ha ha you thought the world was screwed-up then? Just you wait.

Recall her in an episode of "Fawlty Towers" , episode " Communication Problems"

Philip one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen,class writing and timing!

Good. In most US universities you dont even hear of Marxism except to have it condemned and leading to the worst excesses of East Germany or Albania. It's important to hear a variety of view points and make up ones own mind. Education about marxism doesnt mean you have to agree with all aspects and become a rabid communist.

Pathans* 🤦‍♂

Yerrrrrsss. Damn fine soldier... But a bit of a lousy shot, what? ;-)

and Mrs Richards, the deaf customer

born in Perth,WA

That line had me scratching my head when I first heard it in 1979. I understand it now, though. :-)

Epi Endless Yeah same here.

Jolly good! Spank away! It's getting harder to find both Amazons and firm buttocks these days.

I think of that statement often..

Stravinsky's Rites of Spring was absolutely nothing to do with "revolutionary ideas", but yes, I admit it was well used in this COMEDY.

Shame. The laugh track is unnecessary and irritating.

Hefty Alan “it’s the Judean Peoples’ front!” - several years early.

It's well known that 'well off' people have terrible eating habits... they are taught etiquette, not manners. That's what that scene was emphasising.

Flatware? We have cutlery.

"pathans"

need to listen to my series 2 hitchikers guide CDs again soon. thanks for reminding me

Should married people be frank and earnest? Not in my book! 😂

@@greasylimpet5357 Exactly. They should be Frank and Ernestine.

@@macsnafu could also be Frances and Ernie. Don't worry, I won't try to think of all the possibilities!

Thank you! Another ageless classic that bears repeated watching, for the great sets, the careful atten to detail of all the actors. I laugh more at the pope-eyed Madeleine Basset every time, and enjoy the parody of the British fascist Spode).

They are foregoing the pampered Aristocracy to build a life as shopkeepers like Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk. You know, the Common Working Man (and woman) life. The Aristocracy consider this "slumming" behaviour beyond the pale.

It's not "outrageously true", it's just a stereotypical way that a Trotskyist would view such things... but all that obviously went right over your head. Woooooosh! 🤣

Yep. I think the BBC hoped to sell the series abroad and mucked around experimenting. Happily the man responsible died in a freak arsenic enema and knife-in-the-back mishap and many episodes were left as the writers intended, i.e. grown-up humour delivered in silence for those with the wit to appreciate it and laugh if and when they were sufficiently amused.

@Tom Bombadil. All perfectly true, but he was the product of an English public school education, where the only history that mattered was English history and, since we only dabbled in the Thirty Years War briefly, one did not need to know it well. It was all about foreigners and not people who mattered, after all.

????????😂😂😂😂😂WRONG CLIP 😨g

@@geoffreycarson2311 what you mean?

Glad to see I wasn't the only one to notice. I also agree with Alasdairwatson's explanation of why nobody bothered to look any of these very obvious things up. The actual butcher of Magdeburg (though he seems not to have intended to destroy the entire city) was Count Tilly, a Walloon Belgian who commanded first the Bavarian and then, in the 1630-32 interval you mention, also the Imperial army.