Recent content by Jack Ward

Found this while surfing the net and found it interesting. Probably old news to everyone but I'd never seen it. I guess it's from some kind of interview with Tom Owen and he speaks about some of his costars and how they got along. Guess he wasn't too fond of Kathy Staff. I wonder what they...

I've read in various places around the web that Foggy didn't get along with very many people at all. Speaking of Capt. Peacock, there was an episode where they took Compo to a clothing store that the fellow who played Mr. Lucas from Are You Being Served worked. It would have been funny if as he...

He did a wonderful job making Truly a likeable character. His See Ya Compo was wonderful. It does seem to take a few episodes for the new guy to become his own person each time there was a switch considering he would be speaking the other guy's lines. I always wondered why more effort didn't go...

I've always had a soft spot for Truly so maybe I'm a bit biased, but here goes. The episodes dealing with the passing of Compo aired this week and I realized something about Truly that I hadn't noticed before. The scenes with just him and Clegg are very good. They really come off as close...

Took some doing but I found it!

I like the earlier Clegg more than the way he was later. There were times he was almost irritating in his timidness! Of course I liked Foggy the least of the cast and never thought bout Clegg needing to change when he joined up.

I had forgotten about Sibshaw. I worked at a hospital in the 80's and it was common to address everyone by Mr. or Mrs. Whenever I've watched Are You Being Served? I always think of the old doctor who ran that little hospital whenever Young Mr. Grace is on screen. I do remember Glenda calling...

First off, I just recently discovered this board and have enjoyed reading the messages! I noticed that on several occasions Glenda refers to Nora as Mrs. Batty (which is proper), but I've never heard her actually call Ivy or Pearl by any name. Has she ever mentioned their names (first or last)...