The Wackers Episode 1

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9 жыл бұрын

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@badgastein2 2 жыл бұрын

This caused outrage when it was first shown on ITV, Public opinion soon forced the cancellation of this show - it’s never been repeated on UK television to the best of my knowledge but it is a good mirror of 70’s attitudes and for that I’m glad it’s been preserved.

@rebeccahooper7968 9 ай бұрын

here here

@galinagavrick9066 Күн бұрын

That's why I never heard of this show it was taken off TV before we even got to watch it Thanks for shatring this

@footofjuniper8212 4 жыл бұрын

"Are you havin' a laugh? IS HE HAVIN' A LAUGH?!?"

@kevinbaskin9489 3 жыл бұрын

I don't get it...I actually understand what Gervais is on about. In this case, totally justified.

@sheilagravely5621 2 жыл бұрын

Wally Batty!!!!!! I love you Wally. RIP dear.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

@bnardbnard6299 2 жыл бұрын

This is the best I love it I live in the Bahamas and this is a breath of fresh air 🇧🇸

@JIMMYBUSHIDO 4 жыл бұрын

I say Nigel, let's write a sit com about those funny working class Liverpudlian chappies, , A few " Lavvie " jokes , a couple of steriotypical " scousers ", a "Posh one " and a thievin dad. Should be a winner. 🤪

@jrgboy 4 жыл бұрын

It was written by Vince Powell who came from the north, he wrote many sitcoms inc Love thy Neighbour & Bless This House..

@lynneceegee8726 3 жыл бұрын

jrgboy love thy neighbour was equally trashy.

@JIMMYBUSHIDO 3 жыл бұрын

@@jrgboy both a load of crap 🥴

@Andrew-pt1ey 2 ай бұрын

Without canned laughter there'd be no laughter at all. Very weak fair

@Matt63491 4 жыл бұрын

I'd never even heard of this before, so thanks for posting it.

@andrewpage3221 4 жыл бұрын

Same here Matt I can't remember it came across it today

@illaveyoubutler2 4 жыл бұрын

Basically, it was ITV’s attempt to cash in on the controversy created by Till Death Us Do Part

@andrewjames3908 4 жыл бұрын

@@illaveyoubutler2 how? i dont see any relation to till death us do part?

@illaveyoubutler2 4 жыл бұрын

@andrewjames I recall it’s premiere.....it was set up to be ITV’s answer to Till Death Us Do Part.....working class family, complained about bad language, even had the same watershed slot on Wednesday night 9.30

@philhopkins2528 4 жыл бұрын

Got to give Brendon O,Carroll credit...he obviously took this failed idea and made Miss Browns boys...still shite...but he became famous for it

@Bongwater33 4 жыл бұрын

Alison Steadman wow! Ive only seen her playing grandmas!

@DavidBensonActor 6 жыл бұрын

Lovely - never saw it at the time. Full of great Northern actors - Bill Dean, Joe Gladwin, Ken Jones. Sheila Fay grates though - she is clearly doing a Hilda Ogden impression.

@chrissie1066 4 жыл бұрын

David Benson Is that the mother? Overacting. Probably used to working on the stage. TV acting needs watering down...a. Bit like granddads tea!

@lynneceegee8726 3 жыл бұрын

David Benson yes, overacting and a really crap accent too.

@TheGramophoneGirl 4 жыл бұрын

All those valuable lost tv shows and video tapes of the 1960's and 70's, yet this survives :/

@sheilagravely5621 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing that, eh?

@johannrublein9483 2 жыл бұрын

I agree. I do my best to aquire copies of any surviving sitcoms from the era but even so, often times they'll be short several episodes. Tele is such trash these days. It makes my heart ache to see what's been left to historys deep abyss

@dementednun1175 Жыл бұрын

She is being sarcastic cause its crap lol

@MartysWhiteSuit 9 жыл бұрын

Some great names from TV there. Not seen this for years. Thanks.

@nationstolemyrobots Жыл бұрын

Let's have a London production company pay a Mancunian to write a sitcom about Liverpool. What could possibly go wrong?

@manwithapan9481 4 жыл бұрын

I'm from Liverpool. I don't remember this. Funny how little this country has progressed in 50 years, in fact I think it's regressed in a lot of ways.

@bridgetgibson5998 3 жыл бұрын

It might of been a local programme like cross roads was in Birmingham did Liverpool come under Granada years ago

@bridgetgibson5998 3 жыл бұрын

Regional program they called it and I'm not sure if Yorkshire still do calender that's a program of theirs we never seen that in Manchester

@michaelfinn7871 3 жыл бұрын

I’m from Liverpool as well but this is crap though. Chegwin was from Bootle i think.

@stickytapenrust6869 2 жыл бұрын

@@bridgetgibson5998 Of course it wasn’t a local programme. Do you think it would say “*THAMES* Colour Production” on the end and have their ident on the front of it if it was about a city in the Granada region if it was a regional programme? The reason this isn’t remembered is because it was so crap it was dropped before the final episode as people didn’t watch it. It was never repeated so it didn’t get the chance to pick up new audiences on a second showing.

@stickytapenrust6869 2 жыл бұрын

@@bridgetgibson5998 Crossroads wasn’t a local programme, it was a national programme as it was shown nationally. “Local programme” means only being shown in the region of the company that made it.

@profmartin1967 4 жыл бұрын

The daughter was played by Alison Stedman who now plays Gavin's mum in Gavin and Stacey. And a young Keith Chegwin pre Swap Shop

@jrgboy 4 жыл бұрын

BTW Alison was born in Liverpool..

@cathyfitzpatrick9384 3 жыл бұрын

Sadly Keith passed away gone to soon

@carolineg1872 3 жыл бұрын

Alison Stedman is known for more than that. Abigail's Party anyone?

@sophiew1967 2 жыл бұрын

Yes ,she went to the same girl's school in Childwall as me ,probably 10-15 yrs before me.

@sophiew1967 2 жыл бұрын

Drinkies Sue !👍I absolutely loved her in the Mike Leigh amazing play ' Nuts In May' ..she's an incredible actress and far too good for this crap .

@annoldham3018 5 ай бұрын

Joe Gladwin. Playing Joe Gladwin. As usual! Hey were gwwwweat though! 😂

@kevinmanns7170 5 ай бұрын

He might aswell have been Australian...No concession to a ''Scouse' accent whatsoever.

@mildredchester 4 жыл бұрын

Never heard of this, it came up in my recommended. Love all British TV shows. "Single retired American widow here interested in online discussions of same."

@mars188 4 жыл бұрын

same here

@TheRealMike1976 2 жыл бұрын

This was a poorly received sitcom set in Liverpool ( where I'm from) from the mid 70s. It didn't do to well due to its negative depiction of the working class and poor humour.

@davidcartmell2141 2 жыл бұрын

watch extras, or dare i say it, Love Thy Neighbour (same era).

@ginaplatts214 6 жыл бұрын

Rest in peace Keith chegwin , Sad news today. 11/12/2017 xx

@daveghaxton 6 жыл бұрын

Way hay!!

@johnnyjabsco1999 4 жыл бұрын

It actually is Keith Chegwin! I thought it was just a lad who looked like him. Alison Steadman was fit back then.

@tolfan4438 4 жыл бұрын

I'm an American and it's the first I've ever heard of this show quite like it

@Derwent03 4 жыл бұрын

There's a reason why this has never been repeated on t.v...

@joanfordham1305 4 жыл бұрын

At the time I thought this was rubbish......I grossly overestimated it.

@sierra6588 3 жыл бұрын

Did you mean underestimated?

@a697ag 3 жыл бұрын

@@sierra6588 she meant it was far worse then she remembered ... she's right

@JAY1892 5 ай бұрын

😂

@andrewfreeman9437 4 жыл бұрын

Well that was depressing.

@hankscorpio8928 2 жыл бұрын

After watching the first three and a half minutes of this in 1975, John Lydon called an old friend and said “Sidney- do you still happen to have that bass guitar, old chap? I’ve got an idea.”

@BillyJango Жыл бұрын

What are you on about? Sid wasn't even in the original Pistols. Glen Matlock was the bass player.

@elainethomson1712 4 жыл бұрын

Lol we were never allowed to watch this So funny

@richardsharpe2966 6 жыл бұрын

You know this is a show I can't remember at all

@Evertonfan1995-le9tr 7 ай бұрын

I can't afford to get drunk no more 😂🤣

@galinagavrick9066 Күн бұрын

Furst time i watchd this nrver heard of this show but it funny had a laugh so watching next episode Thankyou for shareing

@muk8804 3 жыл бұрын

Proper Hilda Ogden impression!!! More Salford than Scouse ...guessing it wasn't networked then 😂

@th8257 3 жыл бұрын

Jean Alexander, who played Hilda Ogden, was from Liverpool wasn't she

@stickytapenrust6869 Жыл бұрын

It was networked.

@martinkelly6709 3 ай бұрын

@@th8257So was Sheila Fay who's playing the mum in this.

@djbryanladd 2 жыл бұрын

Wow, this was brutal to get through..

@garyinspain 5 ай бұрын

i couldnt manage it myself. but well done to you if you did

@metalbearuk 4 жыл бұрын

Ken Jones was great at doing fed up/panic.

@plerpplerp5599 4 жыл бұрын

This comedy only ran for one series because it was so unpopular.

@garyinspain 5 ай бұрын

apparently i didnt manage even that as they pulled it before the end of the series

@Classictv90s 8 жыл бұрын

It's Wally Batty from Last of The Summer Wine at 3:54.

@deidraboswell8451 6 жыл бұрын

And, Walter from Nearest and Dearest❤️

@deidraboswell8451 6 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry...STAN...not Walter!😂

@patlamb5452 4 жыл бұрын

He was also in the sweeney with the best line - John Thaw is looking at a young lady in a short dress - and "Wally" goes 'I could go to jail for what your thinking!!' - which JT agrees with

@dobythedog 4 жыл бұрын

And he was probably in his fifties!

@teenybabs 2 жыл бұрын

The comment about the G/Dad and G/Daughter was a well iffy.

@gaynorpatterson2915 5 күн бұрын

The mother reminds me of Hilda Ogden 😂

@eds-egg Жыл бұрын

It was like the precursor of "Bread".

@garyinspain 5 ай бұрын

which was also crap

@hammadoolass 4 жыл бұрын

LOVED IT !!!!

@steviewonder2049 7 жыл бұрын

we really were easier to please back then

@cormaccollins4000 4 жыл бұрын

The funniest part is the robotic subtitles at the beginning " we speak Lux and take seeded Lila meet sunburst exceedingly there".

@scooby1235 4 жыл бұрын

i thought the font for "wackers" at the ad breaks really progressive.

@stingray4real 4 жыл бұрын

Ken Jones played Rex in a sitcom The Squirrels.

@philipowen3370 6 ай бұрын

Ken Jones was a Brilliant comedy actor, he's my wifes cousin.

@anitahargreaves9526 4 ай бұрын

Wasn't he married to the mother in real life?

@PlasticGirl65 4 ай бұрын

@@anitahargreaves9526Yes he was.

@nadiazidane6794 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing 😉😂😂

@ACNC1 7 жыл бұрын

06:34 the seventies..... they were all at it.

@albaproductions9602 7 жыл бұрын

A very young Alison Steadman.

@jrgboy 7 жыл бұрын

Yes,Alison was born in Liverpool.

@loonylinda 8 жыл бұрын

had forgotten all about that....

@johnjoseph3382 Жыл бұрын

Takes me back

@kennethdrewary1094 6 жыл бұрын

The mother is ahead of her time, women now go out with rollers in their hair, lol

@TheGodsrighthandman 7 жыл бұрын

That's "Horrible" Ives from Porridge . . . . Reasonable bit of continuity there.

@TheGodsrighthandman 4 жыл бұрын

@John Henshaw It is. Even if you couldn't see the face there's no mistaking the Voice . . .

@samfanhellyeah 6 жыл бұрын

Wtf is up with the grandad checking out his grandaughter.

@burnellbrowne4303 5 жыл бұрын

trump checks out invanka all the time?

@dannygroom3327 4 жыл бұрын

@@burnellbrowne4303 . There you go...

@scooby1235 4 жыл бұрын

harry cross, brookside (and groovy train video - the Farm) - bill dean, the toffee landlord

@naytch2003 4 жыл бұрын

Nice..Grandad is Joe Gladwin(Wally Batty from LOSW)

@samtyler100 8 жыл бұрын

the mother in this played Billy's mum in One Summer with David Morrissey(1983)

@pwareham61 6 жыл бұрын

samtyler100 Bloody hell yes, thought I recognized her dulcet tones, she was a horrible cow In that too.

@apodis4900 6 жыл бұрын

I forgot about that, it was great. I'll have to try and find it.

@rudymarleyaskit4573 4 жыл бұрын

I loved that back yon..

@JAY-lo3sx 3 жыл бұрын

Did she also play one of the mothers in the Liver birds ?

@quack437 3 жыл бұрын

Great upload

@MarcZERO1980 4 жыл бұрын

Is this the inspiration for The Simpsons British sitcom parody 'Do Shut up'?

@reedywomble97 4 жыл бұрын

This really got slated when it was first broadcast

@jonboy481 3 жыл бұрын

im not surprised... its crap....

@michelealexander955 5 жыл бұрын

The grandad is the guy that used to run 'Jacksons Chip Shop' in Coronation Street, back in the 60's...

@carolineg1872 3 жыл бұрын

He was in a lot of stuff...Nearest and Dearest, Last of the Summer Wine.....

@ianhawdon3680 Жыл бұрын

What a cast

@richardsharpe2966 7 жыл бұрын

From what year was the series from

@philipcurnow7990 4 жыл бұрын

It's not Rising Damp is it, or even the Liver Birds. A sort of prototype Bread.

@mr.x9566 4 жыл бұрын

Bread : Pre-Oven.

@MrThecarebear 4 жыл бұрын

@@mr.x9566 Par-baked!

@mr.x9566 4 жыл бұрын

@@MrThecarebear Ha ha ha, brilliant, spot-on!

@carolineg1872 3 жыл бұрын

Rising Dough?

@wazzereightyseven 2 жыл бұрын

Yes!!!! Kind of like underproved baps...but also, I'm almost getting the vibe of a kitchen sink drama ...like something Morrissey would write a song about ...

@martinrichards2680 Ай бұрын

I remember watching it. They pulled the show off before the last episode

@reggiebhorrorbaker1650 6 жыл бұрын

Lov this comedy

@partridgep 9 жыл бұрын

very funny. Have you got anymore episodes of the wackers?.

@garyinspain 5 ай бұрын

youre having a laugh arent you? im certaintly not although i could only take the first 5 minutes

@muttley9520 9 жыл бұрын

Streuth, that's Keith Chuffin' Chegwin!!

@kawasaki5187 9 жыл бұрын

Muttley and look at Alison Steadman !

@annoldham3018 5 ай бұрын

Cheggars! Before he played pop. Or went on the pop 😂

@philipbonner6486 4 ай бұрын

@@annoldham3018Please have respect.

@lordred4116 4 жыл бұрын

Glad I missed this shite!

@heraldeventsandfilms5970 4 жыл бұрын

Aye, utter shite.

@lllucky13 8 жыл бұрын

Cheggers plays pop

@Beatlefan67 4 жыл бұрын

Blimey I don't recall this at all!

@andrewpage3221 4 жыл бұрын

I think there's a few of us that have never heard of it and seen it must have been on in the 70s 80s

@paulbacchus1015 4 жыл бұрын

Do you know this comedy passed me by, I cant remeber it at all, but its very funny and just brilliant. Paul Bacchus esq

@peterrobinson4093 4 жыл бұрын

It's Wally Batty from Last of The Summer Wine was he ever young

@36ajames 4 ай бұрын

The acting was shocking!!

@mariansaldo1 5 жыл бұрын

Uhm, grandad leering at his grandfather? Referencing sex? Well that's a right bit of bile isn't it?

@daydays12 Жыл бұрын

Grand dad looks a bit like Gove

@JasonLane-ci5ng 2 ай бұрын

It's the first time 😮 ever saw this show it was hated in England as woe d as it wasi l liked it. Especially the accent. God. Love. It

@nikitanokia1249 2 жыл бұрын

lave it 🤣🤣😂😂😂

@geraintjones6625 6 жыл бұрын

Ken Jones and Sheila Fay were married in real life.

@kimmarievan-ever6599 4 жыл бұрын

Didnt know that

@brucebaldy 4 жыл бұрын

Cute with familiar faces, old man steptoe, lord of the manor from Strange Paradise....

@nickfleming3495 3 жыл бұрын

Old man steptoe?

@brucebaldy 3 жыл бұрын

@@nickfleming3495 the old man in Step toe and son

@marklee1783 4 жыл бұрын

I think they mistakingly put a C in the title instead of an N.

@fredflintstoner596 10 ай бұрын

Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view!" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"

@garyinspain 5 ай бұрын

good. slightly better than this crap methinks

@fredflintstoner596 5 ай бұрын

@@garyinspain HE BITE POLLY TOO !

@briabba123 6 жыл бұрын

I was hoping the kids would called out the mother on her lie

@sophiew1967 2 жыл бұрын

I don't live in my hometown of Liverpool anymore sadly but like to keep up with the local news & bizarrely today in the Liverpool Echo there's an article deriding this grubby little comedy...I see why they have it now ,seeing the great Alison Steadman in this role is just sad .

@joohop 4 жыл бұрын

Damn That Tall Blondie Chick Looked A Bit Like Karen Carpenter

@stewartsanders1173 8 жыл бұрын

de do DAT don't dea lmao

@neilmccarthy6912 5 жыл бұрын

De do doh don't de doh.. is the actual phrase!!

@peterdavidbrennan2580 8 жыл бұрын

We'd laugh at any old shite in them days...

@cotswoldcuckoo775 4 жыл бұрын

It was cancelled..there WERE limits back then.

@dlamiss 4 жыл бұрын

@@cotswoldcuckoo775 the last episode was broadcast in 2013 evidently

@MrThecarebear 4 жыл бұрын

compared to the reality shite which infects todays TV?

@lynneceegee8726 3 жыл бұрын

Peterdavid Brennan And now people are force fed such reality tv trash as Geordie shore, TOWIE , Big Brother, Celebrities in the jungle, for gods sake how things have been dumbed down over the last few decades. No wonder the general public voted for Brexit..

@kathleenbuxton6944 5 жыл бұрын

Charlie is Ken Barlow’s dad in coronation street

@WHELDON74 4 жыл бұрын

Dreadful. People shouting out a dire script.

@jonsixtythree 4 жыл бұрын

Agreed. Truly awful and it actually reminds me of Liverpool in the 70’s, also truly awful.

@Shagnasty1956 28 күн бұрын

@@jonsixtythree Nothings changed really

@deb1flanagan 3 жыл бұрын

I live in N.C. USA..I've never seen this show before..I've only watched a few minutes of it and not impressed. I love watching British shows and always looking for something new..Some of my favorites are Are You Being Served, Allo Allo and of course any thing related to Agatha Christie...

@davidcartmell2141 2 жыл бұрын

you're not impressed, the british public hated it.

@robs639 7 жыл бұрын

About as funny as finding diarrhoea in the kettle. Makes Bread seem like Noel Coward!

@wallyjumblatt 5 жыл бұрын

LOL. Excellent. Yes, it's terrible, embarrassing, awful.

@allanmiller6897 4 жыл бұрын

Agreed. Many sit coms of that era where as funny as having piles and the only bog roll available is sheets of izatol medicated tracing paper.

@thedativecase9733 Жыл бұрын

Diarrhoea in the kettle ! That is anew one on me. Definitely one to file away for future use.

@BillyJango Жыл бұрын

Like every 70's comedy show. They are funny to watch but you aren't laughing at what they are saying you are laughing at how shit they are. If you really want to cringe watch stand up from the 70's, The Comedians for instance. People call them legends but they were actually fat old men trying to be funny but wouldn't know comedy if it poked them in the eye then kicked em in the bollocks.

@elainethomson1712 4 жыл бұрын

Keith chegwin my word

@mediacityavid 4 жыл бұрын

With the writer of Love Thy Neighbour this show guarantees to offend without a single laugh.

@reedywomble97 4 жыл бұрын

Vince Powell did sail close to the wind and was often castigated for racism

@stickytapenrust6869 2 жыл бұрын

He also “wrote” Mind Your Language for LWT, who were more known for making these truly awful sitcoms. They shat out crap like On the Buses, Yus My Dear, Bottle Boys and Curry & Chips. Thames usually made better sitcoms, but their crap like this and Jim Davidson’s Up The Elephant & Round the Castle were very LWT in style and tastelessness.

@GARY.94 4 жыл бұрын

Is it me, or does this woman in the curlers sound like Hilda Ogden out of classic coronation Street ? lol.

@somethingbright4268 4 жыл бұрын

She does haha

@oldskoolfool141 4 жыл бұрын

Generic 'northern housewife', the war against the working class was in full flow, making us look pathetic through the 70s then replacing us in the 80s (alternative comedy), it was all by design and it worked a charm

@kitjunky133 7 жыл бұрын

bloody hell Keith chegwin

@jamesh9033 2 жыл бұрын

Wouldnt expect Thames Tv to make a show set in Liverpool, in any event this is utter tripe.

@stickytapenrust6869 2 жыл бұрын

Why not? Yorkshire TV made loads of sitcoms set in London, HTV in Wales made Robin of Sherwood (set in Nottinghamshire) and Central TV in Nottingham made Auf Wierdersehn Pet, set in Germany.

@ZacandOllie 2 жыл бұрын

Strikes me, in the first few scenes, as its the forerunner for Bread. Carla Lane was a wee bit more refined, but the woman even sounds like Nellie Boswells and grandad......well.

@garyfenlon5769 4 жыл бұрын

Not that bad, better than Bread.

@roterfuchs8201 4 жыл бұрын

im just in time for my favorite programme oh crikey on itv

@knockshinnoch1950 4 жыл бұрын

When this show was first broadcast it generated lost of negative press- described as "crude" "disgusting" and lowering standards on TV. The public ween't impressed either, the letters section of the papers printed loads of complaints! ITV cancelled it as a result of the backlash. 1975 seems like a whole different wold away now!