The Likely Lads

[Marabelle]

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Tricky Thanks for the site...really interesting to see what is there today.
Looks much better but the old ones have their charm as well.

[Richard1978]

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The writers did have an idea of a revival in the 1990s, with Bob's firm going bust & Terry getting a lot of money in compensation for an accident.

[lk_ie]

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I think that if the actors had not fallen out the show would have gone on through the 70's and into the 80's, maybe even the 90's. I always thought that one day Terry's son(long lost perhaps) would start dating Bob's daughter, and that the show would end with Bob & Terry as two grand dads still in the pub.

[Trickyvee]

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The exteriors were filmed in Killingsworth New Town, which looks a lot like the estate my parents first house was on (I was too young to remember it).

Here's a really good link: http://www.getcartertour.pwp.blueyon...lads/index.htm

I live a couple of miles away from Killingworth and often went there as a child. It had a huge, ugly complex of concrete blocks of flats and walkways - your typical 1960's vision of urban utopia. I remember one block was built right over the main road and had a big metal mural of George Stephenson's Rocket above the tunnel. All the flats were demolished in the mid-80's but one tiny block remains and always reminds me of its former glory/horror when I see it. On the up side, they did build a huge lake there as part of the 'vision' and that remains and is very nice.

[GreenKnight]

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I like the episode early on when the guys were putting the make on "Frieda" the older woman and Terry, ever persistant got a chance.

There's a lesson there somewhere.

I love the way they talked: "Aye, it's a canny pint though but!" Long live the Geordie accent!

[Marabelle]

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I like the episode early on when the guys were putting the make on "Frieda" the older woman and Terry, ever persistant got a chance.

[stockportyears]

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My favourite line from the show was when Bob was telling Terry about his new boss, adding 'he's from THE SOUTH', to which Terry replies 'what, Middlesbrough?'

The link to the Darlington paper that's earlier in this thread, about the guys' alleged fall-out, is gone. I just know that Bolam isn't keen on reviving the programme at all, whereas Bewes is very happy with all the nostalgia. Mind you, that's probs cause Bolam's been in loads of other programmes, and Bewes hardly seems to have worked since and might see it as the peak of his career. I imagine Bolam would be far happier talking about New Tricks rather than something from 40 years ago! (Like I remember seeing David Soul, when about to appear in Mack and Mabel at Manchester Palace Theatre, getting extremely irate with a local TV news reporter who kept asking him about Starsky and Hutch, I thought Soul was going to walk out he was doing that much tutting and sighing!)

[Richard1978]

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I first got interested in TLL by watching the film sometime in the 1980s. When WHTTLL was repeated in full in the 1990s I managed to watch almost all of them.

My parents were amused that Bob looked more a fasion victim than Terry did by that time, when originally it was the other way round.

The exteriors were filmed in Killingsworth New Town, which looks a lot like the estate my parents first house was on (I was too young to remember it).

Here's a really good link: http://www.getcartertour.pwp.blueyon...lads/index.htm

[memoman]

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Got a few dvds of this as well.Was something like marmite.You either loved it or hated it.Remember The liver birds?

[FLYING SAUCER]

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I wont argue it was a great series, but the tune made me feel morose! What with the house demolition at the start of it, I thought it was sad?

[airfix]

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So great to find other Likely Lads fans here. I have a DVD of some of the original black and white series from the 1960s but I think many must have been lost; the BBC didn't keep everything back then. A good reference site here: http://www.comedy.co.uk/guide/tv/the...lads/episodes/ shows that there were originally 21 episodes.

I do, however, have every episode of the sequel "Whatever Happened to..." (which I consider to be far superior anyway) plus the feature film which involved the caravan holiday where Terry got off with that foreign bird. Excellent stuff. Ant and Deck tried to revive it in recent years when they remade a famous episode but just like Paul Merton's horrendous attempt at "Hancock's Half Hour" it was sad and pointless. The only saving grace in Ant and Deck's effort was a cameo appearance of Rodney Bewes as a news seller. You can't improve on perfection though so leave well alone, I say.

[Marabelle]

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I bought it in Amazon.com but I think I'm misssing a few eposides. I read Rodney's book and it seemed like there were more.
Anyway, a good buy as far as I'm concerned. In the world we now live in, the past seems like the only thing worth saving.
Simple days. I don't even have a corner bar in my neighborhood anymore...it closed up. I moved closer to the new Jersey Shore so
there is more life there.

[miss grazelda]

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You can download the theme tune for free here Miss Grazelda Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads Theme Song (to keep you going until you get the cd version.)
Another great nostalgia site.

Hi yes i have tryed to download the theme tune, but for some reason it would not download so i have now brought a CD called magpie which has the tune on, which is great, thank's for telling me,

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You can download the theme tune for free here Miss Grazelda Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads Theme Song (to keep you going until you get the cd version.)
Another great nostalgia site.

[miss grazelda]

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I've never seen it repeated anywhere but on BBC2 every now and then.

Here's a lin to Rodney Bewes's version of their friendship

Darlington and Stockton Times - At war with Bolam? Not likely!

Hi the likely lads was repeated on gold channel a few weeks ago, but they did not show the christmas special, i really enjoyed watching it again, it was great,