Just Googled him. Wow, I see that he wrote for a number of dramas & comedies inc Goodnight Sweetheart (one of my faves). Well done to him. Sorry to hear that he passed.
I used to love watching this growing up as a young lad. I remember I used cycle like mad to get home from school to watch it. Thanks for the upload :-)
Your welcome my friend I never get tired of watching all 54 episodes of this classic series & its great to have them all on dvd after searching for a very long time
found it at last!!!!.. i was actually in this episode.My first and last attempt at acting!. Cant remember who mentioned it earlier but it was filmed at Vicarage Road Watford..
Elflad you are a top man for giving me the opportunity to watch this again. I never missed an episode,even if it meant missing training or hanging out with mates. Wtf with the fighting over empty bottles. They don't make kids programmes like that anymore. Lol
wooo the First series of Murphy`s Mob.. With the Original Ending with the Crude anatomical Drawing of a Woman.I can Imagine many parents shocked at seeing that Picture at 4-40pm . Loved Murphys Mob and Loved that One of them went on to be the Kid in the Yellow Pages advert for French Polishers
Mark M Yeah your right. Shocking to think that two people looked like that and both in acting . Simon Schatzberger. did appear in one episode of Press gang. Its strange that im not the only one who Confuses them both. as it was common knowledge that it was the same Guy . but i guess we`re all wrong
Aye the snowflake generation , of PC brainwashed propaganda idiots,there brains have been diluted ,all manufactured through government,media ,and conglomerate slave system,,, imagine putting these xxxx in front of 50,60,70,+ television ,movies,,they would be overloaded,there would be mass fainting, unconscious through shock,, grange hill, z cars ,softly softly Benny hill etc etc,,,it's a wonder they are not giving TVs away free,, because the brainwashed propaganda is only for the snowflake sheep,,baa baa
Yeah, Wurzel you mean. I agree. From what I remember he was quite a good character on Murphy's Mob, and he was naturally funny, so it's a pity he didn't do more acting roles later.
Keith Jayne was in loads of TV series around this time; Onedin Line, Scarf Jack, Stig Of The Dump and a good few others I can't quite reca]l the names of.
Gary holton sang the theme tune and also sang the 2 lee cooper dummys ad after the first one was successful with Gary numan dummys to the left was also known as ace faces written by dave cairns of mod band secret affair
I had never heard of this before but RUclips "recommended" it. It wasn't what I was expecting. And between the accents and the dismal sound quality it was difficult to understand most of the dialogue. The state's had stories like this, just not on tv unless it was a made for tv movie, more often it was a made for theatre movie....and the kids were a bit older (so that they could be played by young adults).
Considering this was most likely taken from a 35+ year old VHS tape the sound quality is pretty good. Also I had no problem understanding the accents. I've never had a problem understanding accents from the USA either. You really do need to get out more.
I assume these were off air copies? It would be interesting to see whether the archive copies had Atv or Central on them, as certain early Central stuff such as some of the episodes of 'Shine On Harvey Moon' , when repeated on Yesterday a few years back, revealed Atv captions rather than Central ones!
Central TV came into being on 1 January 1982. Harvey Moon first aired on 8 January 1982, so it would've been produced in 1981 during the ATV days. Murphy's Mob however first aired on 1 March 1982, by this time everything ATV/Central had produced would've been updated with the correct Central TV logo.
andrew hudson Series 1 was filmed at Watford, as Central was still at Elstree. Series 2 onwards, Central had moved to Nottingham, so Derby was used for exteriors at that point. (There was 2 Dunmore teams, which explained the changeover!)
@@brucedickinson12 Poor old gal's been dead 9 years now. You'd have been lucky to get her in her prime. Think you'd have stood a cat in hell's chance, guv ?
When this program first started there were a few of us in a band at school. The keyboard player was Keith's cousin and he used to stay at their house when they filmed in Nottingham. Keith tried to get a 'yoof' band in the show (I.e. us) but it never amounted to anything.
Lynda Bellingham only played the part of Mac's wife because Lew Grade begged her to. His ATV franchise lost out to Central but he was still hanging around in the shadows. She only lasted a few episodes before resigning citing artistic and personal differences with the over bearing and interfering Micky Dolenz.
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This is fantastic. My dad wrote Murphy’s Mob, Brian Finch. I’ve not seen the show since I was a kid.
Wow
Just Googled him. Wow, I see that he wrote for a number of dramas & comedies inc Goodnight Sweetheart (one of my faves). Well done to him. Sorry to hear that he passed.
Hold up, and you’re a descendant of Dickens?? Wow lol.
@@djhonz45 Hiya. He didn't write Goodnight Sweetheart. He adapted the book Goodnight Mister Tom for the screen.
@@danielmoran9902 no it wasn’t. Sid Waddell wrote Josey’s Giants. My dad Brian Finch wrote Murphy’s Mob.
The theme tune was sung by the late Gary Holton, who became better known as the cockney carpenter Wayne Norris from "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet".
He did Hofmeister ads before the bear too...
Rubber band busted??
He was a class act was Gary Holton Rip,miss him to this very day.
@@johnnyjabsco1999 So long sucker, quadrophenia,brilliant.
I thought it was him!
I'm had the theme tune of this stuck in my head 40 odd years. Great to hear it again
Heavy metal kids,the damned,the stranglers to name but a few that Gary sang with an he was also in quadrophenia,scum,auf wiedersain pet,Rip Gary.
@@mummyd1990 Really, Gary Bolton sang that? Well ya lives un learns.
I used to love watching this growing up as a young lad. I remember I used cycle like mad to get home from school to watch it. Thanks for the upload :-)
Makes me so happy remembering the times when I rushed home to watch this after my paper round with my Mars bar happy times
Great to revisit this well made kids television series 👍
1980s kidz TV. Gives me a warm glow inside...
Yeah, blame the estate!
RIP Ken Hutchinson.
Your welcome my friend I never get tired of watching all 54 episodes of this classic series & its great to have them all on dvd after searching for a very long time
Can you tell me where you found the DVD? I really want to see series 3 cause my house is in it!
leedsguy41 What episode was it when they had a run in with the West Ham lot at the club?????
A great programme. I always remember the theme tune. Classic kids tv.
What a gem! Loved Murphy's Mob.
Note, no apostrophe in the titles‼️😄
Central tv never even credited Gary for singing the theme tune
Rest in peace Gary Forever young
found it at last!!!!.. i was actually in this episode.My first and last attempt at acting!. Cant remember who mentioned it earlier but it was filmed at Vicarage Road Watford..
You can tell its the old 80s Watford ground before they started doing it up, Elton John might have been kicking about !
Which kid were you?
"WHO R U" "WHO R U" "WHO R U" Hahaha a no one 😂😂😂
great series , one of the classics of my youth , bit like grange hill , great to see it after all this time , thank you for posting :D
Tuckers Luck, Murphys Mob….proper ‘yoof’ TV in those days
Thanks for uploading these - I'm really enjoying them. I'd given up all hope of seeing them again.
Elflad you are a top man for giving me the opportunity to watch this again. I never missed an episode,even if it meant missing training or hanging out with mates. Wtf with the fighting over empty bottles. They don't make kids programmes like that anymore. Lol
Thanks for uploading this. Brings back great memories. Cheers.
That supporters club manager was the definition of typecast.
I don't think I've ever seen him in anything where he wasn't playing a weasel
Brilliant Memories, remember watching this opening episode with my 2 sisters
Police in a little old 'Ford Escort'....Oh the days :)
"Says he wants to see you daan the place after tea". Remember those days so well 🤣🤣
09:32 "Six quids wurf of empties (got broken")! Ooooooooooooooh! :o)
Oi, 6 quid back then's about 40 today. That's a lot of money for a miser.
The Skater boy was Stig of the Dump too!
wooo the First series of Murphy`s Mob.. With the Original Ending with the Crude anatomical Drawing of a Woman.I can Imagine many parents shocked at seeing that Picture at 4-40pm . Loved Murphys Mob and Loved that One of them went on to be the Kid in the Yellow Pages advert for French Polishers
+skawashers
Well remembered. It was the bloke who played Wurzel. He'd grown a Madchester era parting as half of us had.
No, apparently that guy is Simon Schatzberger.
Mark M
Yeah your right. Shocking to think that two people looked like that and both in acting .
Simon Schatzberger. did appear in one episode of Press gang. Its strange that im not the only one who Confuses them both. as it was common knowledge that it was the same Guy . but i guess we`re all wrong
Aye the snowflake generation , of PC brainwashed propaganda idiots,there brains have been diluted ,all manufactured through government,media ,and conglomerate slave system,,, imagine putting these xxxx in front of 50,60,70,+ television ,movies,,they would be overloaded,there would be mass fainting, unconscious through shock,, grange hill, z cars ,softly softly Benny hill etc etc,,,it's a wonder they are not giving TVs away free,, because the brainwashed propaganda is only for the snowflake sheep,,baa baa
The great Ken Hutchison.
Thank you so much! I am now a wee small boy again!
Keith Jayne was always great in whatever acting roles he did glitter ball stig of the dump and the brilliant Murphy's mob
Think the caretaker was Ronny"fucking"Pickering
Thanks so much for this upload. Great memories 🍺
Qualiteee.I remember there was another footie telly show from the late seventies called striker,but not as good as this.
Dr. Connie Beauchamp from Casualty was in this show.
Fun fact: Keith Jayne (Boxer) was 21 years old when this was filmed.
Fun fact: Kids bullied him at school for being a boy called 'Jayne'. He had to learn how to fight an became a 'boxer'. True story.
RIP KEN HUTCHISON aka Murphy
Murphy's Mob was produced by actor and The Monkees drummer Mickey Dolenz.
And Metal Mickey
Amanda Mealing who played Sheila was in Grange Hill.
For someone supposedly a 'Boxer' he sure does like to wrestle lol. *six quids worth of empties* has to be the line of the 80s
Sounds a bit like Gary Holton, Auf Weidersehen Pet singing the theme
Gary Holton singing. The theme tune Rip.
they fillmed parts of this in what was "Ma Bakers" pool hall in Friargate Derby
good skinhead anthem
His wife makes great OXO gravy..
Yeah, that Rasputin fella seemed to think so and all!
Just watched an old minder with Gary Holton, the guy from Auf weidersain pet (spelling is wrong) didn’t know he sang the theme tune to this
RIP Ken
Efflad do you have any episodes of jossys giants,, another great football orientated kids show from the 80s.
Ah, the memories!
Was that "Stig of the dump" in the skating arena??
World is a dead ringer for Keith Moon
Yeah, Wurzel you mean. I agree. From what I remember he was quite a good character on Murphy's Mob, and he was naturally funny, so it's a pity he didn't do more acting roles later.
Yep, always thought that, he could play Moon in a film easily.
absolute classic
Some Murphys Mob episodes were written by Roald Dahl
this is great ,but i wanna watch series 3 onwards cant find it anywhere forest tv have some also
Nobody's mentioned 'Ra Ra' Rasputin !
any chance of season 2 please efflad? bloody brill brings back so many memories
yeh none good though
I like it can you tell me what stadiums did they use
Six quid worth of empties? Hopefully in the bluray release this will be overdubbed by a Rasputin soundalike saying two hundred quid.
Keith Jayne was in loads of TV series around this time; Onedin Line, Scarf Jack, Stig Of The Dump and a good few others I can't quite reca]l the names of.
Yeah, then, after that lot, never to be heard of again...😥😢😭
Keith jayne and stig of the dump ;)
Gary holton sang the theme tune and also sang the 2 lee cooper dummys ad after the first one was successful with Gary numan dummys to the left was also known as ace faces written by dave cairns of mod band secret affair
John DuCann sang 'Don't be a dummy' after Gaz Numan rejected it. DuCann appeared on TOTP with this song.
Whatever happened to Terence Budd?
6:31 Is Mrs Murphy the woman from the oxo advert??? She looks well fit here.
Yes it is
It is the late, great Lynda Bellingham
I had never heard of this before but RUclips "recommended" it. It wasn't what I was expecting. And between the accents and the dismal sound quality it was difficult to understand most of the dialogue.
The state's had stories like this, just not on tv unless it was a made for tv movie, more often it was a made for theatre movie....and the kids were a bit older (so that they could be played by young adults).
Considering this was most likely taken from a 35+ year old VHS tape the sound quality is pretty good. Also I had no problem understanding the accents. I've never had a problem understanding accents from the USA either. You really do need to get out more.
They don't make them like this anymore.
Saved by the bell theme music?
I assume these were off air copies? It would be interesting to see whether the archive copies had Atv or Central on them, as certain early Central stuff such as some of the episodes of 'Shine On Harvey Moon' , when repeated on Yesterday a few years back, revealed Atv captions rather than Central ones!
Central TV came into being on 1 January 1982. Harvey Moon first aired on 8 January 1982, so it would've been produced in 1981 during the ATV days. Murphy's Mob however first aired on 1 March 1982, by this time everything ATV/Central had produced would've been updated with the correct Central TV logo.
Britbox has got the first episode on there, and it definitely got the Central endcap.
Linda Bellingham.......
Phwoar
I thought this was filmed at Baseball ground (Derby County) not Watford
andrew hudson Series 1 was filmed at Watford, as Central was still at Elstree. Series 2 onwards, Central had moved to Nottingham, so Derby was used for exteriors at that point. (There was 2 Dunmore teams, which explained the changeover!)
There would have been more sand than grass if it was the sheep shagers ground 👍
#CHILDHOOD
@12:17 Paul Truman from Eastenders?
They would all be bladed up now days 🙄
Danmawah Unartid Futbawl Klab
aahhhh bisto.
I do not remember this🤔let's watch.
Philip Hindley...WHO...?
Loved the show - always found ot a bit odd that they showed so much racist Nazi graffiti at the end, though
Gritty realism of those times...
That's the Bisto mum
👏
OXO.
MM = 33
no more what today?
+AmazingPudding
No more mindless empty days.
No more "mind the shit today " I had.
ad give bellingham one then but not now old hag
ha ha a said it 2 yrs ago
She was very fond of gravy
Ooh, picky are we ?
@@k.avilla8061 yes
@@brucedickinson12 Poor old gal's been dead 9 years now. You'd have been lucky to get her in her prime. Think you'd have stood a cat in hell's chance, guv ?
RIP Ken Hutchison 1948- 2021 who played Mac Murphy.
Great job uploading these and Tuckers Luck mate
When this program first started there were a few of us in a band at school. The keyboard player was Keith's cousin and he used to stay at their house when they filmed in Nottingham. Keith tried to get a 'yoof' band in the show (I.e. us) but it never amounted to anything.
Lynda Bellingham only played the part of Mac's wife because Lew Grade begged her to. His ATV franchise lost out to Central but he was still hanging around in the shadows. She only lasted a few episodes before resigning citing artistic and personal differences with the over bearing and interfering Micky Dolenz.
You mean 'super Milf' Lynda Bellingham
@@gargantuk 😂
Would it be possible to have these episodes on Dvd off you???
Mac Murphy RIP
No more mindless empty days....
just watching something that reminded me of this.... happy days.... anyone remember Rocky O'Rourke???
Dunmore United played at the Baseball Ground, Derby County footage was used?
=Watford Ground !
Series 2 onwards from the Baseball Ground