Category: Russ Abbot

  • Married For Life
    Married For Life

    After the success of retooling Who’s The Boss? into The Upper Hand, Carlton had a stab at converting another monster US hit for UK screens. And for some reason they chose Married … With Children. I mean, after two hundred episodes (by 1995), the show was doing very well for Fox, but it does seem…

  • Lisa, Bella, And Russ Go Woganing
    Lisa, Bella, And Russ Go Woganing

    Tel opens with a Twin Peaks joke, which is unexpected. Has Russ Abbot always been the same age?

  • 008 – The Real James Bond
    008 – The Real James Bond

    It’s not often you get a peek at the unproduced work of writers, and it’s amazing that Roy Clarke found the time to write pilots at all, what with writing over 500 episodes of shows over the years. There’s an episode of Last Of The Summer Wine that guest stars Brian Conley. It’s called Enter…

  • Russ Abbot Is That Little Bit Bigger
    Russ Abbot Is That Little Bit Bigger

    This is still a really good advert. I do want to know how they achieved the fish jumping gag though.

  • A Perfect Day For Christmas
    A Perfect Day For Christmas

    Seems like a good time to share this. And because you now need to see the full show, here it is.

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  • Proctology: A Bottom Examination
    Proctology: A Bottom Examination

    For a long time now I’ve been wanting to write an old-fashioned programme guide. One you can hold in your hand and thumb through, make notes on, spill coffee on. So I did. Proctology: A Bottom Examination is my deep dive into Bottom, the hit BBC Two sitcom starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson. That’s…

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  • Re-Casting Keanu
    Re-Casting Keanu

    Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him eight years older than Clive Dunn was when he was first cast in Dad’s Army. But don’t panic, Clive Dunn was always playing much older characters than his own age. Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him seven years older than Stephanie Cole was when she was first…

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