RO
The Piglet Files is getting an airing, weekday breakfasts, on GOLD. That's a series largely forgotten from LWT.
NW
You don't see Lyndhurst's other LWT sitcom The Two Of Us on often either, not sure if that's been on GOLD.
The Piglet Files is getting an airing, weekday breakfasts, on GOLD. That's a series largely forgotten from LWT.
You don't see Lyndhurst's other LWT sitcom The Two Of Us on often either, not sure if that's been on GOLD.
NJ
Neil Jones
Founding member
According to YouTube uploads Two Of Us was repeated on Granada Plus which presumably means if its going to be repeated anywhere it'll probably be on ITV3.
IS
The other long lost 80s LWT sitcom is Me and My Girl with Richard o'Sullivan, Joan Sanderson and Tim Brook Taylor. I can't find much out about what happened to Joanne Ridley who played the girl.
NG
Fond memories of that show. Fewer fond memories of another, probably long forgotten, sitcom of around the same era 'That's My Boy' (starring Molly Sugden)
noggin
Founding member
The other long lost 80s LWT sitcom is Me and My Girl with Richard o'Sullivan, Joan Sanderson and Tim Brook Taylor. I can't find much out about what happened to Joanne Ridley who played the girl.
Fond memories of that show. Fewer fond memories of another, probably long forgotten, sitcom of around the same era 'That's My Boy' (starring Molly Sugden)
:-(
A former member
Never mention That's my boy and LWT in the same sentence
CL
The somewhat redeeming feature of That's My Boy was the appearance of Jennifer Lonsdale, previously star of ATV's The Cedar Tree - somewhat forgotten in its own right, but out on DVD.
Three from the early days of Central that no-one mentions at all these days:
The Home Front - comedy drama written by Peter Tinniswood, starring Brenda Bruce - with her catchphrase 'Am I right? I am'.
Goodnight and God Bless - Donald Churchill as a smarmy comic/game show host, wife played by Judy Loe. Remember a scene where a producer says to Churchill 'Your show keeps the money rolling in so we can concentrate on the significant franchise grabbing stuff..' Cut to an appropriately deflated Churchill.
The Cabbage Patch - Friday at 8.30, iirc, sitcom starring Julia Foster - think I've seen a TV Times clipping suggesting it was by a first-time TV writer - I rather liked it, but how much was due to Julia and how much the jokes I honestly couldn't say.
Three from the early days of Central that no-one mentions at all these days:
The Home Front - comedy drama written by Peter Tinniswood, starring Brenda Bruce - with her catchphrase 'Am I right? I am'.
Goodnight and God Bless - Donald Churchill as a smarmy comic/game show host, wife played by Judy Loe. Remember a scene where a producer says to Churchill 'Your show keeps the money rolling in so we can concentrate on the significant franchise grabbing stuff..' Cut to an appropriately deflated Churchill.
The Cabbage Patch - Friday at 8.30, iirc, sitcom starring Julia Foster - think I've seen a TV Times clipping suggesting it was by a first-time TV writer - I rather liked it, but how much was due to Julia and how much the jokes I honestly couldn't say.
WH
I never really understood the joke of Gayle Tuesday, and even if it worked in small doses, a whole series was stretching it to breaking point. Brenda Gilhooly, for it was for her, now a very successful writer of course - she was a prolific contributor to TV Burp - and funnily enough I saw her revive Gayle Tuesday last year for a charity concert I went to. She seemed a bit out of practice, though, alas.
She was OK in very small doses - I remember her in the audience of An Evening With Lily Savage when she asked a question - a very canny director cut to shots of a rather miffed Samantha Fox.
Whataday
Founding member
Gayle's World:
I never really understood the joke of Gayle Tuesday, and even if it worked in small doses, a whole series was stretching it to breaking point. Brenda Gilhooly, for it was for her, now a very successful writer of course - she was a prolific contributor to TV Burp - and funnily enough I saw her revive Gayle Tuesday last year for a charity concert I went to. She seemed a bit out of practice, though, alas.
She was OK in very small doses - I remember her in the audience of An Evening With Lily Savage when she asked a question - a very canny director cut to shots of a rather miffed Samantha Fox.