While we're talking about it, George Chakiris was mentioned earlier. Anyone notice how young he looked for his age back then in 1996?
He's now 92.
And, although he does look older than he did, he still looks a lot younger than 92.
I'm sorry (BUT SINCE YOU ASKED) I thought they were excellent in Welcome to Earth. The pub scene was brilliant, where everyone is taking the michael out of Paul Bown, and Casey and Woods perfected the 'always-in-the-pub' duo.
Sorry to switch Roy Clarke comedies but your post reminded me of one of my favorite calls from Sheridan to Hyacinth where she says "What's that Dear, you and Tarquin want to visit Iceland to explore the Geysers?" :D :D :D
To be fair Russ Abbot played Hobbo as Russ Abbot characters from Madhouse and Stephen Lewis played Smiler as Blakey and every other character he played they only play the role based on what Roy Clarke writes and Alan J W Bell directs...
Norman Wisdom.
No disrespect meant to Norman, but he was too famous and behaved too much like Norman Wisdom, and took over.
Which was a shame, because Norman could actually do a bit of a straight acting.
Hang on.
This is the pilot episode, isn't it?
If so, the location filming would have been done first, and the interior studio scenes done later.
So, I think either
1) The casting of Mrs Partridge hadn't fully been decided yet for...
I have John Cleese's (Welcome to Earth) autobiography, So Anyway, expecting it to be littered with bits about Fawlty Towers. There was nothing about the show.
I don't know how That's Your Funeral spawned a feature film after only seven episodes.
Check out the opening titles of the film of That's Your Funeral. The 'mourners' we see are actually the production team - so you see their face as...
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