The difference in the everyday lives of Bob and Terry is really highlighted in this episode.Bob would ideally like to be as free as Terry but in reality he is like most of us , preferring stability and the material prospects of a conventional relationship and a family rather than living for the moment.The magnificent script and the near perfect casting makes for great comedy, only rarely replicated since those halcyon days of the BBC half a century ago.
Terry is living free with his parents and off the state. Free lodging, free food and acts all high and mighty. Bob is subsiding his lifestyle through taxes that he pays. He’s not a class warrior he’s a leech.
Me to people were poorer but happier and there were things to do and places to go places these days are full of woke people and no proper English restaurants
I was always on the Terry side, growing up in a terrace but then moving to an Elm Lodge-like estate. In some ways I still am, being a lifelong leftie, but at almost 60yrs-old I'm now more sympathetic to Bob than I ever was. btw - I always loved this series but I came back to this right now via the Xmas special which, apart from the film version, might be my favourite of all.
@@bodsnvimtoYes, i'm with you there. The film is champion. Every scene has something. Very funny. I still quote and embellish lines from it eg Terry to Bob "I'd give you a drink but i've only got 8 cans". There's too many to mention.
@@johntudorhallelujah2976 Speaking of quotations, BBC3 or 4 are currently showing the series again. This week they put on the last episode of series 1 when Bob gets wed. When Terry hands him back his photo album and says, "Bob Ferris, this is your life", it still gets me even now.
@peternagy-im4be not really there is no correct or incorrect. . There's just personal taste. Not everyone has the same. Just because someone doesn't like what you like doesn't make them wrong . .
At 10:04, 'Terry': "Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down." I first heard that joke back in the 1960's; on 'The Tonight Show' with Johnny Carson!
Hard to decide who was the sadder person really. Terry ( also my name ) was me before marriage and a little of Bob after was me also. Now after 56 years married think I would like to be Terry again.😂😂
@@susanhague4797 Yeah well, they did used to pick up the bins in the old days nonetheless. And besides, you would have to pay to walk 12 miles in a gym.
You got to say this, Dads Army, Auf Widershen Pet, Fools and Horses are some of the programmes evere made in British history. If these shows were made today they would have to have 50% black and Indian women, Not an Indian male though.
@@napalmslayer They both did. In another episode when trying to get to sleep Terry says think of Pans people and Bob says he thinks he prefers 'top of the form' to 'top of the pops'. But, even if nobody says it the truth is that blokes like young girls. They are beautiful and who can deny it ? Making people stop saying it does not stop them thinking it.
Locations. The Beehive pub was used in filming. Locations used include the Spanish City funfair at Whitley Bay, the Beehive public house, the Coast Road (A1058) flats and Tynemouth Pier.
Brilliant observational comedy...... I believe the writer's wanted to bring the series back in the early 1990s with bob and terry as grandparents but James Bolam refused to do it due to his falling out with Rodney Bewes......
I bumped in to Rodney Bewes litterally in Central London back in 1989 . He was on a push bike , i was on my way to work in the Aldwich , we met in The Strand opposite Waterloo Bridge , i steped out in to the road , he screeched to a halt when i looked i said "Hello your Rodney Bewes" he replied "Yes , now fuck off out of my way"
@@MrMenefrego1 I,ll be honest Jeff his answer did take me surprise , and after i thought about it i would have smacked him but at the time i was so surprised by his answer
@@johnruby147 I had a similar experience with Robin Zander, he insulted me at a party, he instantly regretted that decision. (I don't like violence, but there are times when it is needed)
driving up on a fellow from behind within a foot of where he is standing, swinging an excavator bucket within a foot of his head!!?? Only somebody who makes his living sitting behind a typewriter could find that "funny"l
The thing is Terry is being cocky while getting the money but bobs moaning about going to evening and staying up while hrs up and Terry down in the classes
And nobody wants to be Bob when they are Bob. Such is life. We all want to be someone else ideally. It is the human condition never to be satisfied and so we keep striving. That is the humour of it all.
82p four a round ..70s ........😮 it were a about 28p a pint ....when I started drinking. I remember when pub £4 ...6pints pack 10 fag.s chip + pie pea.s on way home ..then. up early four school nest day 😊
Careful chap. Ten years down the line or maybe twenty and your living space will be up for inspection. Are you sure it is of impeccable taste and decorum. Anyway, people like fashion, or at least they go along with it without complaining.
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The difference in the everyday lives of Bob and Terry is really highlighted in this episode.Bob would ideally like to be as free as Terry but in reality he is like most of us , preferring stability and the material prospects of a conventional relationship and a family rather than living for the moment.The magnificent script and the near perfect casting makes for great comedy, only rarely replicated since those halcyon days of the BBC half a century ago.
Terry is living free with his parents and off the state. Free lodging, free food and acts all high and mighty. Bob is subsiding his lifestyle through taxes that he pays. He’s not a class warrior he’s a leech.
@@gingerfellah5665 too judgemental for me but true if one cares to highlight the economic aspect of such characters
Its a story!
@@gingerfellah5665 They're actors you know!
The fcking system ages people with stress. People who stay away from that look decades younger.
I grew up in North East England, and I’m the same age as Bob and Terry, and each episode is a walk down memory lane. 😁👍🏼
👍👍
which part mate?
Brilliant. The writing, the acting, all brilliant.
Love you Thelma....RIP!
One of the BEST programmes ever.
Brilliant series - take me back, please !
Me too, brother, me too!
Me to people were poorer but happier and there were things to do and places to go places these days are full of woke people and no proper English restaurants
@blackcountrywench648i 26:03 3 I just ignore all the idiots and bullshit
Easy.
Happy days. Different England 🇬🇧
Everything changes
@Colin-rno6lh but not for the better
@@peternagy-im4beswings and roundabouts....some stuff from back then we can do without today vice versa
Elizabeth Lax brought a unique vocal delivery to this part and was very funny and charming. Love the way she looks down at her floor mark.
Sadly no longer with us 😞
RIP Bridgette. X
82p for all that 😲😲😲 Those were DEFINITELY the days 😆😆😆
About £30 now! I put £20 Then I thought just the beer and Lager is £10. Then it all came back to me, I earned £20 a week FFS
And prices shot up when we went into the common market.
I had one of those Vauxhall Vivas in that colour, great old car.
Bob's Viva was very special 'it was a 2 door ' but turned into a 4 door when required.
1 pint of lager
1 pint of bitter
1 Roast beef sandwich (plenty of chutney) and a pickled egg
1 Cheese sandwich
1 Pasty
1 Scotch egg
1 packet of crisps
2 sausages (with mustard)
Total: 82p
£1990 for a new Range Rover and £4580 for a new detached house.
I'm sure you know how much was the average weekly or monthly wage!
I remember the days when I used to pay 13p for fish & chips!
Yes, and a 14 pounds a week wage.
@@pegjames188 Precisely!
@@kevinbaird7277 At 16 as a labourer I got £6 a week in 1970
I used to watch it when i was 12 with my dad. Great series.
I am torn between "I need to be more like Bob" and "I need to be more like Terry". This episode has given me a mid-life crisis.
Funny, but I was thinking of exactly the same thing. Getting a bit tired of this Terry lifestyle 😬
I was always on the Terry side, growing up in a terrace but then moving to an Elm Lodge-like estate. In some ways I still am, being a lifelong leftie, but at almost 60yrs-old I'm now more sympathetic to Bob than I ever was.
btw - I always loved this series but I came back to this right now via the Xmas special which, apart from the film version, might be my favourite of all.
@@bodsnvimtoYes, i'm with you there.
The film is champion. Every scene has something. Very funny.
I still quote and embellish lines from it eg Terry to Bob "I'd give you a drink but i've only got 8 cans". There's too many to mention.
@@johntudorhallelujah2976 Speaking of quotations, BBC3 or 4 are currently showing the series again. This week they put on the last episode of series 1 when Bob gets wed. When Terry hands him back his photo album and says, "Bob Ferris, this is your life", it still gets me even now.
@@bodsnvimtoIf you are still a leftie in middle age you are an idiot so the saying goes.
great programs in the 60s and 70s .
Unfortunately this wasn't one of them . My dad loved it though.. .
Your dads right and your very much wrong
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@peternagy-im4be not really there is no correct or incorrect. . There's just personal taste. Not everyone has the same. Just because someone doesn't like what you like doesn't make them wrong . .
RIP Brigit Forsyth 1940 - 2023
Loved this when I was a kid xxxx
lyrics of the title track, so true. the only thing in this year 2022 to look forward to, is the past
At 10:04, 'Terry': "Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down." I first heard that joke back in the 1960's; on 'The Tonight Show' with Johnny Carson!
It was old then
@@robertcook2572 But I wasn't.
Those curtains in Bob and Thelma's lounge....so 70s....
9.26 love the way he validâtes himself by letting his hand stray down to his hip
What happened Terry?
Ah nevva talk about it
"it's a pound a drink in here" lol
still is in spoons..less if you have half
£10.55 in todays money!!!!
Slaving away like some motorway Mick 🙈😂
oh for the days of unpolitical correctness
Hard to decide who was the sadder person really. Terry ( also my name ) was me before
marriage and a little of Bob after was me also. Now after 56 years married think I would like to be Terry again.😂😂
Grass is always greener, mate.
Madelyn is played by Vicki Michelle (Yvette in "'Allo 'Allo").
Don't sound French
gud moaning , she is eelso in the film a girl hitch hooker
The guy with the glasses staring at the girls bum while sitting right next to his wife 😂
Coooor not arf sunshine!
That's Stanley Holloways son
Those were the days … when the binmen actually MOVED the bins 😂😂😂😂
U try bin man they walk 12 miles a day or more 🤔
@@susanhague4797 Yeah well, they did used to pick up the bins in the old days nonetheless. And besides, you would have to pay to walk 12 miles in a gym.
Elizabeth Lax was so beautiful
Passed away years ago, quite young, she was lovely
@@joriah69 She died of a heart attack at the age of 46 in 1996.
@@comondfollowing surgery for cancer
You got to say this, Dads Army, Auf Widershen Pet, Fools and Horses are some of the programmes evere made in British history. If these shows were made today they would have to have 50% black and Indian women, Not an Indian male though.
I adore Wendy, my heart aches for her. I have a deep burning desire to go back in time.
Extraordinary comment
Theme song is poignant & brilliant.
My favourite line is " the only thing I've got to look forward to is the past" 👍
Brigit Forsyth was SO hot!
Wendy was cuter, but Brigit had her moments 😊
82 pence, I like to put the clock back.
He did outlive him, too.
82p......fantastic. Those were the days.🤣
87p for all that tucker and two pints,them were the dayz
It's actually 82p. She gives him back £4:18 change.
Those old dustbins, hard job then
Awesome scriptwriting!
Aw, I was just reading up on the cast and found out Bob's secretary Wendy (Elizabeth Lax) died from a heart-attack at only 46 - tragic !
Very sad to hear. She was a fine looking girl 👌
She died of too much stress in the broom cupboard at Christmas.
That is tragic.
After cancer surgery
I did the same last night and was shocked and saddened to read she died so young, there was something about her…
£1 a cocktail…. 🤔I wish 😂😲😲😲
I was a year old when this series was made!😆
A £1 a drink! Lol
Best librarian ever.
Did you see all he bought for 82p..! You can't buy a packet of crisps for that.
11.02 … thé ‘look’ after saying ‘You’ve got your Arab’. These actors are next level
Pure class
That line about watching the girls play netball through the railings at the grammar school, though... 🤔
You're a follower of fashion, then...
In all fairness terry did and said a lot of questionable things
Different days
@@napalmslayer They both did. In another episode when trying to get to sleep Terry says think of Pans people and Bob says he thinks he prefers 'top of the form' to 'top of the pops'.
But, even if nobody says it the truth is that blokes like young girls. They are beautiful and who can deny it ? Making people stop saying it does not stop them thinking it.
The old metal dustbins
The humble Slide-Rule
The perfect man would be a combination of 70% Bob and 30% Terry 😄
10:29 Sean Locke in the 1970s.
Locations. The Beehive pub was used in filming. Locations used include the Spanish City funfair at Whitley Bay, the Beehive public house, the Coast Road (A1058) flats and Tynemouth Pier.
Brilliant observational comedy...... I believe the writer's wanted to bring the series back in the early 1990s with bob and terry as grandparents but James Bolam refused to do it due to his falling out with Rodney Bewes......
I bumped in to Rodney Bewes litterally in Central London back in 1989 . He was on a push bike , i was on my way to work in the Aldwich , we met in The Strand opposite Waterloo Bridge , i steped out in to the road , he screeched to a halt when i looked i said "Hello your Rodney Bewes" he replied "Yes , now fuck off out of my way"
@@johnruby147 Did he seriously say that? I'm afraid that Mr. Bewes would be missing some teeth if he spoke to me that way!
@@MrMenefrego1 I,ll be honest Jeff his answer did take me surprise , and after i thought about it i would have smacked him but at the time i was so surprised by his answer
@@johnruby147 I had a similar experience with Robin Zander, he insulted me at a party, he instantly regretted that decision. (I don't like violence, but there are times when it is needed)
@@MrMenefrego1 Maybe that's why there's a saying to never meet your idols.Robin Zander???
24:03 Why do those people in sitcoms always open their appartment or house doors and not close them?????
4:15 Craig's list.....in the 1970s???
Just realized the similarity between Thelma and Cheryl's (singer Girls Aloud) mum!
Face, hair, mannerisms, accent!
Public libraries had better opening times than they do now, and we call this progress
They were quieter once upon a time
You don't get many of those to the pound.
Miss those carefree times.
Great news. Well done Carole. If you both sign it,it will probably be worth more.
Terry says to Bob, "I'll outlive you." And he did.
Bob and workmates on that building site........no high viz, no hard hats ?
driving up on a fellow from behind within a foot of where he is standing, swinging an excavator bucket within a foot of his head!!?? Only somebody who makes his living sitting behind a typewriter could find that "funny"l
Bloody hell take a chill pill
High viz and hard hats are relatively modern. And often pointless.
@@robwilde855 just to make you comply like mask wearing..pointless
@steve-r-collier and i never wore one
Whole thing was a fcking scam.
Wendy is bloody gorgeous though
Wendy died young….tragic,lovely girl.
Two drinks, food for Terry ….82p!
Good grief! Who burnt that piece of toast at the beginning!? Just look on the underside of it.
Considering what Thelma said to Brenda in her first appearance, they seemed to have patched things up
After wetting her knickers 😂
The thing is Terry is being cocky while getting the money but bobs moaning about going to evening and staying up while hrs up and Terry down in the classes
Bridget Forsyth did it for me !
Absolutely gorgeous, something about her just oozed sexiness
Just wait till you see her as Peter Pan in the Christmas Special.
Me too. I had a real crush on her.
You can't be serious
No one wants to be Terry - even if they are Terry.
And nobody wants to be Bob when they are Bob. Such is life. We all want to be someone else ideally. It is the human condition never to be satisfied and so we keep striving. That is the humour of it all.
82p four a round ..70s ........😮 it were a about 28p a pint ....when I started drinking. I remember when pub £4 ...6pints pack 10 fag.s chip + pie pea.s on way home ..then. up early four school nest day 😊
Anyone else know she was in allo allo
Wendy is a babe 😂
Bob really did look tired and worn out…I wonder if he kept awake for a couple of days prior to filming for authenticity
2:45 That digger almost hit Bob!
That was a toy. Trick photography.
@@keneblana don't think so.
I remember those in the 1980s
A high visibility vest would have saved him.
Makes me happy to be single .
Me too
But I wouldn't mind some slap and tickle 😂
82pfor all that ……🍻🌭🍔
Definitely a fine example of the RAT RACE
If you are in the rat race then win or lose, you are still a rat.
Just one look at those dreadful sitting room curtain's, and you just know it's the 70's!!
Careful chap. Ten years down the line or maybe twenty and your living space will be up for inspection. Are you sure it is of impeccable taste and decorum.
Anyway, people like fashion, or at least they go along with it without complaining.
That wos a comen curtain my cousin had same so did dellboy
All that for 82p!! It costs £5 for a pint these days!
not in spoons id doesnt
i really like this series growing up, apart from all the moaning and whinging . perhaps i've missed the point.
its a shame the extras could not try to do a proper Newcastle accent but back in the 60's don't think the accent was as widely known
Thelma in badminton whites;-)
That beer they drink looks awful
The prices could still be the same but you vote for millionaires to govern you your choice
Voting in the UK is now a complete waste of time and effort.
I wonder what Wendy looks like now, if she's not kicking up the daises. She's gotta be 70+
She died from cancer. 46 i think
Maggotty. She died in 1996.
Not one of the cast was a geordie
Bolam was born and brought up in Sunderland, which is part of the geordie area.
@Rob Wilde you be swimming with the fish if you called a mackem a geordie
@@robwilde855definitely not Geordie
@@robwilde855Oh dear! A bit of research would have come in handy there lad.😂
The can lad 🍵
80p......
82 p….!!!!!!!!!!!
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !"
Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam."
Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!"
Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..."
Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!"
Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky."
Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction."
Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment?"
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Go away.
@@glenncambray626 NO !
Back in the days when GB cars would rust away in a week. Worst cars in the world.
Bob's secretary...worst actress ever.
Not really an actress
She was still a babe
Not noticed her acting skills 😊
She was acting like she was not an actress. Very nice. Very nice indeed.
Terry was a knob
Your a knob
That's yourself