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Post by Cartman on Jul 16, 2019 18:53:17 GMT
It's not a bad film but, as has been said, just an assembly of bits from the series so not one of the better TV spin off films. It was released in early 1980,as I remembered going to the cinema to see it in about April of that year.
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Post by Steve Austin on Jul 16, 2019 19:53:55 GMT
A mish mash it may have been but it was awarded best film comedy of the year, Leonard Rossiter received the Peter Sellers Award for comedy, Frances De La Tour received a best actress award & Denholm Elliott a best actor award.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Jul 17, 2019 18:09:22 GMT
Not a great film but better than another British comedy released the same year 'The Shillingbury Blowers', saw this on talkingpicturestv at the weekend, one of the most boring films I've ever seen. This was an instance of a film spawning 2 tv spin offs- 'Shillingbury Tales' & 'Cuffy'.
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Post by Cartman on Jul 18, 2019 8:47:10 GMT
Yes I remember Shillingbury Tales, I think it was on ITV in 1981, Robin Newell was in from memory
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Post by Gene Hunt on Jul 18, 2019 16:30:01 GMT
Yes I remember Shillingbury Tales, I think it was on ITV in 1981, Robin Newell was in from memory That was Robin Nedwell Carty. I remember Shillingbury Tales well, especially the theme tune. Nedwell passed away at the ridiculous age of just 52 in 1999 after suffering a heart attack in his Doctors surgery in Hampshire. Gene.
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Post by Cartman on Jul 18, 2019 17:16:14 GMT
Ta Gene, bloody predictive text! Another thing about it I've just remembered was that there was an MGB in it, and the TV Times ran a competition to win the actual car, which I entered, unsuccessfully!
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Apr 28, 2020 16:52:40 GMT
Some pages from the TV Times from 1974. Interestingly, Alan is called 'Hallam' in the photo & list of credits. Click on the pictures and enlarge the page to read the text-
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Post by Vienna on Apr 28, 2020 17:06:37 GMT
"Rigsby makes Alf Garnett look like a tolerant member of the Race Relations Board" Thanks for posting this, Arthur Vi
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Apr 28, 2020 18:07:06 GMT
Wonder where 'Hallam' came from? Maybe Eric Chappell phoned someone at the TV Times to describe the show & they misheard Alan as 'Hallam'
In the play Rising Damp was based on Alan was called Noel Parker, one of the actors who played him was Paul Jones from 'Chalk And Cheese'. The other actor to play Philip was Neville Aurelius, I saw him in an episode of 'Softly Softly Task Force' recently playing a Black Panther type character.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Apr 28, 2020 18:25:46 GMT
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