Tag: Roy Clarke

  • Roy Clarke’s Fantasy Sci Fi Epic
    Roy Clarke’s Fantasy Sci Fi Epic

    Keeping Up Appearances was on at the end of every year for its first four series, then it took a whole year off before Hyacinth returned for the final series. Also strangely absent from BBC screens in 1994 was the perenniel presence of Last Of The Summer Wine. Why the gap? Did Roy take some…

  • Don’t Tell Father
    Don’t Tell Father

    It’s not often that a Roy Clarke series passes me by, but one did. Don’t Tell Father, starring Tony Britton, Caroline Quentin and Susan Hampshire ran for six episodes on BBC One in the spring of 1992. Not to be confused with the ITV sitcom of the same from 1959, this short-lived Roy Clarke series…

  • It’s Bouquet
    It’s Bouquet

    I should preface this with an admission that I only realised Fawlty Towers was a pun title about 18 months ago, so what follows is hardly surprising. I was watching the fourth Doctor Who serial Seeds Of Doom last night, and there’s a scene in it where he and Sarah Jane meet a botanical painter…

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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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