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Post by Gene Hunt on Jan 9, 2023 11:56:26 GMT
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the first broadcast of Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads. On Tuesday 9th January 1973 at 8.30pm, BBC1 broadcast the first episode of what was to become a hugely popular and forever remembered series.
Gene.
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Post by Sam Tyler on Jan 9, 2023 13:34:46 GMT
I remember being sat at home with my parents watching that first episode too. Bloody hell, fifty years!!! Sam.
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Post by Perfect Pseudonym on Jan 9, 2023 14:34:14 GMT
I certainly would have been around then and I know my parents did watch and enjoy the series, even if it didn't mean much to little(r) me back then, but whether I was present in the room when that January first episode aired I don't know. I like to think I was, even if I was busy playing with my matchbox toys at the time. Happy golden anniversary WHTLL
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Post by Perfect Pseudonym on Jan 9, 2023 19:47:44 GMT
Just reading my post back again and I need to point out that I didn’t originally write the word “January”. What I did use was the word “august”, which in this case was being used in its adjective sense, i.e. well respected, impressive, and other words which probably fall under the general umbrella term of awesome, which I believe the yoot of today use. It’s also why I didn’t capitalise the ‘a’. It doesn’t work in writing but is also pronounced slightly differently, with the emphasis on the gust. Which incidentally has its own word in a different sense entirely! I don’t know if it’s some auto-correct thing or whatever, but I’d just like to clarify that I wasn’t referring to the 8th month of the Gregorian year when I wrote that, even if it looked like it! Anyway, take an encore bow for your 50th, Bob and Terry. (Second bottle, that's one New Year's resolution gone!)
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Post by Cartman on Jan 9, 2023 20:34:14 GMT
I watched it too! Great programme, used to put off doing my homework until after it had finished
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Post by Sam Tyler on Jan 9, 2023 21:10:05 GMT
...whether I was present in the room when that January first episode aired I don't know. I like to think I was, even if I was busy playing with my matchbox toys at the time. How sad is this??? My memory of watching that first episode is such that I can remember playing Solitaire (the marble/board game which was a Christmas present from an aunt) when the intro music started playing. It left such a lasting impression that consequently from that day forward whenever I hear the opening theme to WHTTLL I associate it with playing Solitaire. Anyone would think it was the only game in town.... Sam.
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Post by Del Boy on Jan 9, 2023 21:38:33 GMT
My earliest memories of this fine series was watching repeats in the early 80s.
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Post by Steve Austin on Jan 9, 2023 22:03:51 GMT
My favourite tv programme, bar none. I don't actually remember seeing this for the first time, I like to think that being from the North East that it's just part of my DNA, much like AWP (also with a healthy dose of Clement & La Frenais). The first series I think is the best, a story woven through the 13 episodes, the second series with more stand alone episodes, apart from the classic quartet (see what I did there) of "Affairs and Relations", "The Expert", "Between Ourselves" & "The Go-Between".
It's got everything, well written, well acted with very funny comedic moments (without being farcical) and social commentry whilst also being poignant, not tainted in the slightest by the addition of a Christmas Special and movie, the latter being one of my very favourites.
Where have the last 50 years gone, is the only thing to look forward to the past? Undoubtedly.
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Post by Perfect Pseudonym on Jan 10, 2023 12:52:02 GMT
...whether I was present in the room when that January first episode aired I don't know. I like to think I was, even if I was busy playing with my matchbox toys at the time. How sad is this??? Tell me about it. They even took the matches out as well. Still, my dad (or Sir) was not all bad. He did give me Sundays off for bringing the coal in. But yes, at the time I never got into the series as it was probably a bit too grown up, but the theme tune did ring large in my early memories. That and the image of Terry failing to stop the bus. Was't until an early VHS hiring of the film in 1982 did I begin to discover the wonder of the Lads, and then catching the repeats in the early-90s (I think it was) sealed the deal. The silhouette moment on the train in that first episode is pure magic.
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Post by D.C. Burtonshaw on Jan 10, 2023 19:41:09 GMT
I first got into the series when watching the BBC2 repeats in the 90's and saw the 1976 film on TV in 1992. I do remember seeing the cycling one in the early 80's being repeated as part of a comedy classics series of repeats with an episode from a different series shown every week on a Friday evening in the early 80's. I remember my dad roaring with laughter when Bob and Terry both stood up in the back of the separate lorries, surprising each other whilst they were both travelling along the dual carriageway!!
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