Rupert Rigsby the ex war hero with shrapnel that moves around his body, the ex boxing chamo, the wine and food connousier, the perfect gentleman in a unruly permissive society, the best sitcom character in british comedy
I absolutely loved this series the first time it was shown on television in the 1970s. It is just as funny today with the incomparable Leonard Rossiter as Rigsby. Priceless.
Another great scouse actor ...serious player doing expert comedy....timing...absolutely spot on.....the looks...innuendo...sly asides..Rossiter had it all
Mojo, you will be rewarded for uploading this work of genius. Bless you. Sometimes I could cry for the kids I see in the streets who'll never understand the significance of Rossiter in his prime.
One comedy which has stood the test of time. As brilliant, quick and witty as it was back in the 70's. Never get tired of watching an episode. The cast and Eric Chapel the writer were fantastic.
I saw all those American sitcoms of the seventies and they were bloody boring and not funny and were really PC even back then. Archie Bunker was a bad rip off of Alf Garnett.
The range and depth of the sitcoms made by the Beeb and the various ITV companies in the 60s,70 and 80s was extraordinary. Rising Damp cast were giants. Funny and witty. Better days. Nowadays, utter crap on tv.
Imagine being given the task of writing the script and being told it's a comedy set in a boarding house? Where would you even start? And yet it was, in my ignorant opinion, an absolute masterclass of the best of British comedy that encapsulates all of the nuances of English society and social values and brought to life by the genius of the casting and their acting talent. My wife and I still banter with the dialogue fifty years later.
Spot on Colin. Leonard Rossiter definitely a top notch actor, he did his apprenticeship in regional theatrical companies, like many did years ago, that's where they learned the craft, I'm sad to say most actors these days don't have that background, that's why they're not in the same class. 👍
@@davidpollard4051 The film was, but the series were set a good 20 miles from where I come from up north, in Leeds. In fact, my great auntie used to live in nearby Holmfirth too, which we used to visit when I was really young, and which I dreaded, due to the enormous hill we had to walk up to get there, as she must have lived close to where Nora Batty was purported to live in the series Last of the Summer Wine. As for smells, well S Yorks could stink, especially when the biggest coking plant in Europe at Manvers In Wath was throwing out its variety of sulphurous compounds, which stunk like bad eggs. I reckon that was worse than any sewerage smell, but it would be probably be down personal preference, or should I say indifference, even repugnance. GREAT show by the way!
@@nialloneill5097 I know - there are frequent references to the M62 motorway during the series so no idea why you mentioned anything about London ? It's clearly set against a Northern backdrop.
Yeah, poor fella. I saw an interview with his daughter recently and she was still so upset at the fact her dad died so soon. I think he was about 36 but I could be wrong. Richard would have went on to great roles as he was a very talented actor. God bless mate.
What genius so funny everyone plays their parts fantastically well only with there were a Christmas episode for every series and a few more series aswell just got into this show properly what a treat
@@donnn-ow4rj yes saw the film to it was good beckinsales character was amiss but I truly love it all currently watching one foot in the grave having just binge watched only when I laugh also amazing
@@rra8973 yes I love one for in grave and recently binged watched them all r on bbc. I have every episode on dvd but not watched them in a few years so nice to catch up with them all again.. one for in grave is unique comedy cause it has dark serioues iissues mixed in with it. I do like only when I laugh but not as much as I want too if tjat makes sense?? lol notice peter bowles plays archie in it exactly the same as hilary in his rising dano episode it might as well be the same chracter .
@@donnn-ow4rj yeah there is alot of good british comedy we have that is true it's sad to say I'm just a recent fan of peter Bowles just watched him in bounders and fell in love I'm trying to find a copy of the complete series of perfect scoundrels but cant find it anywhere such a shame.just purchased to the manor born lyttons diary and the irish r.m and his autobiography!lol
@@rra8973 does he mention his experience in rising damp in his autobiography? I know Leonard rooster was very difficult to work with. Also if you are a fan of him, he is in a tales of the unexpected with Joan Colin's called neck. It's a great sinister episode. Filmed in about 1980 just before she got her big dynasty role.
TRIVIA : Rigsby and miss Jones didn't get on with each other in real life (opposite political beliefs) and Ironically the night leonard Rossiter had his fatal heart attack in the theatre he was performing 🎭 she was in the audience ! A 40year anniversary tribute documentary has since been made for TV including a Reunion for the Surviving cast Members ! But Frances de la tour Didnt participate ! R.I.P. Richard Beckinsdale Leonard Rossiter ! And Vienna ❤🙏
Classic, This, Ever Decreasing Circles, Fawlty Towers, Reginald Perrin, Only Fools and Horses etc, there isn't comedy like this any more. Mores the pity.
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 ?"
What racism? Are you imagining things again Mr. Sugden? Things such as “everybody born before the millennium is the spawn of satan and likely, at any moment, to mention the Devil’s Dumplings”?
I clicked SUBSCRIBE just by looking at the title and the color pallete hues popular for that decade. Just a few seconds into the show and --BULLSEYE! Excellent Show. Ohhj, to meet and have as a friend someone like the older Gent. Where are the good People these days? He's the Pillar of Society. Some cultures, the single mother is a glorification. Sad. Those Types of Social Circles are also T.R.O.U.B.L.E. I'm here in Los Angeles, so you might understand what i mean. A society doesn't long endure built on fatherless homes. Tragically, some women ONLY care to be mothers without providing for their child, a Father in the Home. That's SELFISHNESS, NARCISCISM, HEDONISM.
That's something that started in the late 70's, early 80's over in the UK, often inspired by the desire for a free flat, freedom from parents, freedom from partners, and ability to have a sh_g. These women usually preferred not to declare their men, even if they had a regular one, as it interfered with the maximisation of their benefits. I never criticised it but plenty of people did, but it was the way the poorer half of the populous got by, especially women who didn't want to work. It was then though that the honesty, and sincerity of our society began to decline, as feminism began to expand, and men generally became rats, and relationships are much more superficial. I recall my father's generation who were really chivalrous, but now they'd think you were an unscrupulous sex abuser and after something if you went to help a damsel in distress..I don't know whether it is true or not, but a chap told me older women are a nightmare over here, as they split with husband, take lion's share of home, obtain a job with lots of money in bank, then have own place with car, and holidays etc, and go around pulling younger men. So whatever the reasons for all this moral decline and decay , the result is a fractured society, with no strong father, or mother figures, that are capable of moulding genuine human beings for our societies. However, politicians as role models have a lot to account for too, and just in the last week over here, the ridiculous budget that is rewarding the greediest, and most crooked segments of society sums our society up really, we're f'd. And this won't be fixed overnight, but it will end in conflicts, and wars, that are wrose than anything we have seen thus far, sadly.
Rupert Rigsby the ex war hero with shrapnel that moves around his body, the ex boxing chamo, the wine and food connousier, the perfect gentleman in a unruly permissive society, the best sitcom character in british comedy
leonard was my father
That's a rather novel spelling of the word connoisseur.
@@SpeccyMan Isnt it just
yep
I absolutely loved this series the first time it was shown on television in the 1970s. It is just as funny today with the incomparable Leonard Rossiter as Rigsby. Priceless.
One of my favourite comedy series from my childhood. Never get tired of watching this kind of comedy.
Absolutely fantastic. Heart warming brilliance. Written and performed by absolute legends.
Rigsby is simply brilliant. "Crumpet, anyone?".
The best of British comedy ! British comedy at its best !
spot on if they put it on tv now they would judge it as being ralist
One of the best ever. Rigsby's face when he finds out he is not invited is pure class.
He could be a mean son of a bitch though...hence why the young lady used the term 'that evil old man', I think it was. Clearly liked...not!
hehe he he yeah that was gold.
Another great scouse actor ...serious player doing expert comedy....timing...absolutely spot on.....the looks...innuendo...sly asides..Rossiter had it all
Spito
Spotob
My Dad went to School with Leonard Rossiter in Liverpool.
He worked with Stanley Kubrick. Amazing actor.
Amazingly well written and delivered. Superb. Nothing like that now.
One of the great things about this brilliant sitcom is the desire to watch the episode again immediately after..
Couldn't agree more
One of the greats, LR born to be Rigsby, brilliant writing too, superb comedy series.
Mojo, you will be rewarded for uploading this work of genius. Bless you. Sometimes I could cry for the kids I see in the streets who'll never understand the significance of Rossiter in his prime.
Damm straight.
I luv Don Warrington brilliant actor and Alan sadly missed and Rigsby British comedy is the best
Watching 2024 still fab love them can’t make comedy like this anymore ❤❤❤❤
One comedy which has stood the test of time. As brilliant, quick and witty as it was back in the 70's. Never get tired of watching an episode. The cast and Eric Chapel the writer were fantastic.
Every single actor in this series was top class. You’d never see that nowadays.
Too true
No blinkered prejudice there, then.
@crazyclive Paranoid much? What logic, pray, did you deploy to deduce that said utterance was directed at you?
@crazyclive Leave me alone, you creepy old man 🥴
@crazyclive God, you are soooo creepy! 😦
Pure quality,those were the days 👏👏👏
Great comedy, brilliant actors. Timeless classics 😂.
My favourite episode, sheer brilliance
Absolutely
Judy Buxton was a very good sport in this episode ,a very lovely young lady too ,played the' upper class' daughter to perfection .💘
Greatest comedy ever produced, let’s see an American comedy remembered after so many decades
Well, there is All in the Family, the Bob Newhart Show, and the Mary Tyler Moore Show...
I saw all those American sitcoms of the seventies and they were bloody boring and not funny and were really PC even back then. Archie Bunker was a bad rip off of Alf Garnett.
The only USA comedy shows that I found funny and still do were green acres, bilko, f troop.
Sgt. Bilko, Frasier.
Seinfeld, Frasier
i dont care what some people say about racist rigsby, im of mix race and i love him😂😂😂😂one of the best
brilliant, not seen since 70's- acting, script, pinnacle stuff. thank you.
It gets repeated often on ITV3.
The range and depth of the sitcoms made by the Beeb and the various ITV companies in the 60s,70 and 80s was extraordinary. Rising Damp cast were giants. Funny and witty. Better days.
Nowadays, utter crap on tv.
In my view, another TOP comedy of the period and that I get to watch again and again on RUclips is BREAD !
The lines Alan speaks at about 3:56 where he's describing the home reminds me of Rigsby's way of putting things.
I really miss this kind of comedy. I'm old old so that probably explains it.
I am matured like a fine wine, and I'm sure you are. Rising damp was very funny 🤣
The best comedy ever 🤣 i was fetched up on this 🤣 😂 😆
Loved this in seventies,now adore it in the 2020s.
Sheer Brilliance by all the characters :)
British comedy. 60s 70s 80s 90s best fantastic. Brilliant acting. 👏😎
Still funny after all these years.
The Fall and Rise of Reggie Perrin..... Leonard Rossitor... brilliant
I love the scene when rigsby says crumpet anyone (11:08) 😂.
Cattle grid, gravel drive, six stone Labrador!
Imagine being given the task of writing the script and being told it's a comedy set in a boarding house? Where would you even start? And yet it was, in my ignorant opinion, an absolute masterclass of the best of British comedy that encapsulates all of the nuances of English society and social values and brought to life by the genius of the casting and their acting talent. My wife and I still banter with the dialogue fifty years later.
Steptoe and Son.
Oh just Brilliant! I have got the box set, but it still cracks me up watching it again! dx
Still just as good as I remember it. So well written and performed.
Love it
Absolutely hilarious
Brilliant
They don't make comedy's like this anymore because there's not actors like lenord rossiter anymore.
There are plenty of talented actors around today.
@@paulbats6996 no chance
Spot on Colin.
Leonard Rossiter definitely a top notch actor, he did his apprenticeship in regional theatrical companies, like many did years ago, that's where they learned the craft, I'm sad to say most actors these days don't have that background, that's why they're not in the same class. 👍
Leonard.
@@paulbats6996 rubbish
Crumpet anyone haha 😂 genius
"Ah yes, Glyndebourne. The three day event no doubt." 😆
Misogynist...no religion, please!
That was just so good!
Rossiter and Beckinsale were brilliant together. Fantastic timing. Sadly we lost them too soon - in 79 and 84.
11:08 Crumpet, anyone?
Love this show.proper actors.
The double goose as they stormed out lol
Love the dialogue and dingy interior.
pure class comedy
18.30 - 19.00 ....Absolute genius from Leonard Rossiter.
Leonard Rossiter was BRILLIANT...
His timing was spot on.
Priceless comedy 😂🤣
Diana King also graced us as Captain Peacock’s wife on ‘Are You Being Served’?
a glass of cold water! before or after?! no instead of! 😂😂😂😂😂
They don't make them any better than this. "Shall I go round with the air freshener ? The wind's off the abattoir tonight..."
London has many sewers, so in truth can come in from any direction.
@@nialloneill5097 Yes, but it wasn't set in London.
@@davidpollard4051 The film was, but the series were set a good 20 miles from where I come from up north, in Leeds. In fact, my great auntie used to live in nearby Holmfirth too, which we used to visit when I was really young, and which I dreaded, due to the enormous hill we had to walk up to get there, as she must have lived close to where Nora Batty was purported to live in the series Last of the Summer Wine. As for smells, well S Yorks could stink, especially when the biggest coking plant in Europe at Manvers In Wath was throwing out its variety of sulphurous compounds, which stunk like bad eggs. I reckon that was worse than any sewerage smell, but it would be probably be down personal preference, or should I say indifference, even repugnance. GREAT show by the way!
@@nialloneill5097 I know - there are frequent references to the M62 motorway during the series so no idea why you mentioned anything about London ? It's clearly set against a Northern backdrop.
@@davidpollard4051 Simply the sewers there.
Most ironic line from Richard Beckinsale if I was to go suddenly was spoken in this episode
Yeah, poor fella. I saw an interview with his daughter recently and she was still so upset at the fact her dad died so soon. I think he was about 36 but I could be wrong. Richard would have went on to great roles as he was a very talented actor. God bless mate.
@@kevinsimpson8686he was 31
What genius so funny everyone plays their parts fantastically well only with there were a Christmas episode for every series and a few more series aswell just got into this show properly what a treat
You only just got into the series?? My God what took you so long?? lol plus theres a brilliant movie rising damp , not sure if you knew ?
@@donnn-ow4rj yes saw the film to it was good beckinsales character was amiss but I truly love it all currently watching one foot in the grave having just binge watched only when I laugh also amazing
@@rra8973 yes I love one for in grave and recently binged watched them all r on bbc. I have every episode on dvd but not watched them in a few years so nice to catch up with them all again.. one for in grave is unique comedy cause it has dark serioues iissues mixed in with it. I do like only when I laugh but not as much as I want too if tjat makes sense?? lol notice peter bowles plays archie in it exactly the same as hilary in his rising dano episode it might as well be the same chracter .
@@donnn-ow4rj yeah there is alot of good british comedy we have that is true it's sad to say I'm just a recent fan of peter Bowles just watched him in bounders and fell in love I'm trying to find a copy of the complete series of perfect scoundrels but cant find it anywhere such a shame.just purchased to the manor born lyttons diary and the irish r.m and his autobiography!lol
@@rra8973 does he mention his experience in rising damp in his autobiography? I know Leonard rooster was very difficult to work with. Also if you are a fan of him, he is in a tales of the unexpected with Joan Colin's called neck. It's a great sinister episode. Filmed in about 1980 just before she got her big dynasty role.
The class war of 2022.
A great episode
I don't slurp.
Yes, you do. Sound like a buffalo at the watering hole.
I have always like 60s 70s 80s 90s Classic as the timeless as time am 54 years old not keen on the modern stuff in 50 years that will always be shown
Brilliant 😅
Classic comedy 🤣
Liverpool's finest actor imo
flick the fly out of the tea cup, a man of etiquette and refine
TRIVIA : Rigsby and miss Jones didn't get on with each other in real life (opposite political beliefs) and Ironically the night leonard Rossiter had his fatal heart attack in the theatre he was performing 🎭 she was in the audience ! A 40year anniversary tribute documentary has since been made for TV including a Reunion for the Surviving cast Members ! But Frances de la tour Didnt participate ! R.I.P. Richard Beckinsdale Leonard Rossiter ! And Vienna ❤🙏
Pure Genius 😂
And Judy Buxton was brilliant
She had a lovely harris
I remember thinking as a kid this guy looks a lot like Jackie Chan, I still do lol
Wey hey hey hey...twice.😀
Brilliant
God love ya Rigsby!
A comedy masterclass by Rossiter. We won't see his like again sadly, nor this high level comedy.. destroyed by wokeists..
Classic, This, Ever Decreasing Circles, Fawlty Towers, Reginald Perrin, Only Fools and Horses etc, there isn't comedy like this any more. Mores the pity.
I always thought Alan's girlfriend Caroline was absolutley gorgeous ❤
4:31 "Is she worth much?"
"52,000"....
Such precious times.
Simple comedy and jokes, but they usually worked, although the wish for a white wedding would cause a rumble, or two, these days.
As brilliant now as it was when it was made.
Rigsby kicking the table over
You mean Alan,
@@AnthonySmith-fv5iv at the end
@@mikegrace nice.
Simply classic comedy. Great script, great ensemble.
I fancy it...
Mildred Bagworthy that was
"Mabel"
Ruth's face at 22.38
I fancy it.
I agree to all of the comments
I agree!!
Could you imagine if this was shown today on ITV or the BBC? The woke snowflake lefties would have a meltdown! 🤣
we can only enjoy their pain.
to right
It's on itv3 10am regularly and it's 2022
"woke snowflake lefties": Client Journalist speak.
Another reactionary comment from a Daily Mail reader.
A jam butty
15:22 rigsby looks like he could demolish with a swing of that also lol
Comment , Colin Yan 👏✅
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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 ?"
Why have you posted dialogue from an episode of Fawlty Towers on the comments for Rising Damp? Why would you do that unless you were a bit strange.
@@cliffwheeler7357 HOW DO LIKE THEM APPLES ?
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@@stevenfinch9026 I KNOW NOTHING !
@@fredflintstoner596 ha ha do u watch him
Perfect comedy. -- And lots of' 'pre-programming' to the 'agendas' they now force down on us all..............
I watched and lost several IQ points in doing so.
Episode from 1977. Mrs Armitage, was played by the late Diane King, bit of a racist episode, with the usual ranting fast-talking Rigsby.
What racism? Are you imagining things again Mr. Sugden? Things such as “everybody born before the millennium is the spawn of satan and likely, at any moment, to mention the Devil’s Dumplings”?
Oh grow a ball
😅👍🏻
I clicked SUBSCRIBE just by looking at the title and the color pallete hues popular for that decade.
Just a few seconds into the show and --BULLSEYE!
Excellent Show.
Ohhj, to meet and have as a friend someone like the older Gent.
Where are the good People these days?
He's the Pillar of Society.
Some cultures, the single mother is a glorification. Sad.
Those Types of Social Circles are also T.R.O.U.B.L.E.
I'm here in Los Angeles, so you might understand what i mean.
A society doesn't long endure built on fatherless homes.
Tragically, some women ONLY care to be mothers without providing for their child, a Father in the Home.
That's SELFISHNESS, NARCISCISM, HEDONISM.
That's something that started in the late 70's, early 80's over in the UK, often inspired by the desire for a free flat, freedom from parents, freedom from partners, and ability to have a sh_g. These women usually preferred not to declare their men, even if they had a regular one, as it interfered with the maximisation of their benefits. I never criticised it but plenty of people did, but it was the way the poorer half of the populous got by, especially women who didn't want to work. It was then though that the honesty, and sincerity of our society began to decline, as feminism began to expand, and men generally became rats, and relationships are much more superficial. I recall my father's generation who were really chivalrous, but now they'd think you were an unscrupulous sex abuser and after something if you went to help a damsel in distress..I don't know whether it is true or not, but a chap told me older women are a nightmare over here, as they split with husband, take lion's share of home, obtain a job with lots of money in bank, then have own place with car, and holidays etc, and go around pulling younger men. So whatever the reasons for all this moral decline and decay , the result is a fractured society, with no strong father, or mother figures, that are capable of moulding genuine human beings for our societies. However, politicians as role models have a lot to account for too, and just in the last week over here, the ridiculous budget that is rewarding the greediest, and most crooked segments of society sums our society up really, we're f'd. And this won't be fixed overnight, but it will end in conflicts, and wars, that are wrose than anything we have seen thus far, sadly.
Going back year
Alan's gf is so gorgeous. Even better than brenda!
No-one can write like the British!!!
Brilliant