I was so sad when Jack Smethurst died. When I watched it ( many many times) I 'd think how good it was they are all still alive. RIP Jack. Brilliant actor and so so funny
What have phones got to do with this comedy? That's what's knows as a non-sequitur Rocket and a rather spectacular ('It pays to increase your Word Power' as 'Readers Digest' had it, correctly).
@@troops1980 A stupid insult entirely consonant with likely this witless, mirth-free comedy. Still if you find it funny, good for you but it's like will not appear again. The acting is appalling too, Smethurst got almost no work after this and I'm not surprised. He's terrible.
@CZcamsINCLUSIVITYWHATAJOKE My feelings aren't brittle but I find this dreadfully unfunny. I'd not ban ot but that it couldn't be commissioned now isn't surprising since racial prejudice isn't publicly acceptable now is all. Cheers, Ga
Love Thy Neighbour was ITVs answer to Till Death Us Do Part, but far more reliant on cheap laughs. I grew up in the 70s, and it was considered acceptable then to laugh at racist jibes. To be fair to LTN, Eddie was usually shown-up for his ignorance and stupidity, and Bill was the one who had the last laugh. Even so, it gets its biggest laughs from blind insults, and it's a show that should stay in the 70s. People are still free to watch it if they choose, but no place for it on any TV channel today.
The point always was that Eddie looked the idiot and was always cast as such. It was a good way of accentuating how stupid racism is, but that point is lost on the woke.
When it was the beginning of realisation that racism was wrong and the Eddie's of this world were idiots, it was funny. But, decades later, racism is still going on and Eddie's like yourself persist in their idiocy, it's no longer funny but an irritating malicious taking the mickey experience. And how do I know your part of the problem, cause you used the term woke and because you think racism is ok, just a bit of fun, nothing to take too serious. How many times did Bill and Barbie feel like they were so deeply wounded that they were going to have to leave and go back to Trinidad. Eddie's really funny and someone to laugh at, I enjoy the show too, but how funny would it be if you were black and lived next door to an Eddie?
Can you image shows like this out today..with all the calles of racism..cancel culture and..you can't say that brigade. No wonder I only watch, old less guarded shows.
it would not work in 2021....we already know how stupid and ugly racism is...we do not need any Archie Bunkers..or Alf, the Original....now...we need help with the Anti American Gop....dividers of Americans...
In a purely white household I had no idea what being racist meant. I learned that it was stupid people with stupid ideas about superiority. I never saw the black couple as inferior. Eddie’s mates weren’t as stupid as he was either. The wives were my heroes. They cut through the crap. We don’t learn from tv shoes anymore. Reality show crap is just that. Thank you for the memories of sitting in the lounge room as a family, watching the telly. It was time to relax in the evening after dinner and dishes were done. When viewing was over kids went to bed and adults watched adult shows. Depending on ages and tastes of course.
@@narelleworks8448 me neither....I was 10 and laughed at the comedy. I'll have half.😃Jacko...... take the comedy away and this is the world you have left.
I refuse to watch the garbage on Tv today and prefer to collect boxsets. Just added this one to my collection. I mostly have UK & US but only retro classic ones. Big wide screen Tv, up to date smart Blue Ray player, multi region DVD player. Recliner armchair, snack and drink and sod off rest of world time.
Racism is a useful political tool to use on a society who's had few real problems to worry about for so long. Fat, privileged, lazy and narcissistic people are easily turned against one another with petty, made up grievances.
It was quite popular with black people back then because lets face it Eddies a fat little bigot with ideas that were bizarre even back then, worrying about voodoo, cannibalism, and catching tropical diseases. On the other hand Bill and Barbie are both attractive and Bill is very spirited and often get's the better of Eddie and makes him look the fool he is.
@@markclarke9370 your showing your ignorance this comedy shows how Eddie yes was racist but was always put in his place and always by his mates its part of life but the idiots of today just can't laugh at themselves or at anything this was comedy its best
@@bricktop2090 Please stand up your claim that "the British government that removed it" since I don't recall such an action by any of our governments, ever. That "it wasn't Black people who complained" may be true, I've no idea, but they may have and should have! And before you reply that Rudolph Walker's character dishes out as much racism as Eddie, the point is that he is part of a minority group thus Black racism has an entirely different quality. This twisted idea of 'balance' is absurd: "snowflake!","knickers!" ffs! Mind you my greatest complaint is that the acting is dreadful, the script witless and stupid and the whole a pustule on the face of British television. I'm 62 and grew up on Monty Python, and that this could have been made at the same time as 'Fawlty Towers' is almost incredible. The wit and brilliance of these two had more to do with the beaching of this bloated comedy whale than any government action! Chacun a son gout, as no-one in this farce would ever say. Keep well. Gary.
@@garymorgan4274 every West Indian family loved the show, those few who did was probably paid by the government to do so, as a family we used to gather round our black and white Tv to watch this just like all our other black friends. 1 person’s complains doesn’t mean the majority has, this was one of my favourite shows as was Rising damp. Not all black people call on the race card.
@@bricktop2090 Oh I know not all "play the race card" and my guess is they may have been blindsided by Walker's character's racism and that he's the patsy equally.AmI to infer that you are Black? It wouldn't make any difference to my points since some Black people NOT being offended in no way means it's necessarily inoffensive, just that you find laughs where I only see a painful lack of wit. And you didn't answer my inquiry about some alleged government ban. I assume because there wasn't one. Are you going to justify your wild-looking claim? Best wishes, Gary
This was the year kung fu films hit our cinema screens, l still remember my buddies went to odean cinema in New Street Birmingham, It was fist of fury Bruce lee, also King Boxer. Still remember those great programmes in them years, great days in our lives.
i remember 2000 being so futuristic thought we would have flying cars. jet packs. robots. We come a long way in a short time. But i do wish i could be around for another 100 years just to see how things go.
We were also promised a 3 day working week with full pay, Colonies on the Moon and Mars and control of the Universe. "To boldly go where no manmade mining and colonisation space fleet has gone before" to liberally paraphrase the original Startrek's opening statement.
Oh...and I forgot the imminent destruction of the Earth by the rapidly approaching ice-age. In the 1970's, scientists, media and futurists were adamant that was to be our frozen future fate.
@@dianebritish Yes, I pray to be in the Kingdom when it is fully established, although I will have a new body. Things might look bad at the moment, but it could still be 100+ years before the day of the Lord.
I used to work for a firm years ago and every Friday people brought drink in, there was bottles of cider on top of there machines. I only worked there a week when the foreman asked me if I could drive a Forklift, I said no, he said you can dive a car can't you come with me I'll show you.
Can remember at the time there was indeed friction at the sudden very high numbers of black people arriving in the UK but shows like this did also make many white boys, in particular, realize black women were (still are) incredibly beautiful. Many of us just tuned in to watch Baden-Semper :)
This was broadcast on the night the Three Day Week Work Order came into force (at midnight). It was because of trades union troublemakers like Eddie Booth that we eventually ended up with Thatcher.
i cant believe people defend and even venerate Thatcher today...Even people from the working class.... She was a narcissistic psychopath of the highest order. she did way more harm than good and we certainly dont want another leader like her EVER.
18:50 - "...I don't care if someone's pinched your bicycle. Pinch someone else's." That line (and even the p'lice station) was also used in the sitcom "Mind Your Language".
It’s like I said on something before it’s good for CZcams because they’re bringing all some of the old comedies on CZcams so we get to see him again❤😂😂😂
I remember being on the three day week during Ted Heaths reign as Priminister. I also remember the Bus Strike and Power Workers strike during this period. We never knew when we would be in darkness or when the Buses would go off. It was a scary time because the Yorkshire Ripper was still at large and people were terrified to go out in the dark.( As most of you will know he murdered 13 women and attempted to murder seven more) The Manchester Police could not catch him. He was on the loose for well over a decade then finally the Police in my home Town of Sheffield in South Yorkshire caught him on a car technicallity. Then they noticed him hiding something. It turned out to be Hammers he had used on his victims. Sheffield had a Steel Industry the most famous and largest in the world. During the Thatcher years this Industry was crushed to nothing and we all lost our Jobs. Along with this our South Yorkshire Coal Mining industry was also crushed when she closed down our pits.There were countless Strikes during her reign in power. our Miners. went on strike and following her orders the Police came down hard on the Miners lots were brutally attacked with Truncheons the police even brutally attacked the then leader of the NUM (National Union of Mine Workers).Arthur Scargil. She also sent Secret Intelligence Services to spy on every move the Mining Unions made, then crushed them to a pulp. She also caused chaos within our Housing System when her right to buy bill came in to force letting people buy our Council House's which meant there were less Houses to rent to the poor. During the year of 1926 the whole of the UK came out on strike while under Prime minister Stanley Baldwins Government he was also a Tory just like Heath and Thatcher. In this year the workers had turn to the Unions as they were betrayed by .the later that year Labour Leader Ramsay McDonald who held a vote of no confidence to the strikes.
alfie081 The Yorkshire Ripper killings were not publicised until later in the 1970's and whilst there is speculation that he was killing since 1969 the officially recognised offences were committed between 1975 and 1981. Although she became leader of the Conservatives in 1976 it was not she did not become prime minister until 1979. She promised that if she became prime minister every council house owner would have the right to buy and this is what happened. The early 1970's were a struggle for many people, however the actual unemployment rate amongst men was low in comparison to current levels and there were many more women with children who were full-time home makers.
If this was in 2021,Granger would have used Eddie's racism as a justifiable reason to fire him so he didn't have to listen to Eddie harp on about Union Rules and Eddie wouldn't have a leg to stand on.
What this show actually does very well is show bigots and biggotted attitudes up for how ridiculous they are. The language may not be PC by modern standards but I don't view this show as racist. The humour comes from showing us how silly we are when we we fail to tolerate and show prejudice to others.
What a load of old rubbish about a work shy racist, this isn't funny! I'd prefer to watch Bless This house, George and Mildred, Steptoe and Son, now those are funny TV shows
The language used by Eddie was a deliberate ploy to make him appear as a ridiculous racist. It wasnt meant to encourage racism but to show it's cowardice...hence the black man threatening Eddie with a spanking when all else failed. You could call it social engineering by proxy but it was embarrassing clunky crap sit com to most of us.
The way you get up from the beached whale position as a heavily pregnant woman is, you roll onto your side, get onto all 4's then push yourself up from there. I had to do it all the time, as my useless, now ex-husband, promised to exchange the mattress on the floor in his ex-bachelor pad, for a real bed, but never did. And as he was never home, I had to handle myself whatever happened. I became quite the expert at ex-beach waling myself!
It was a different era a thought it was funny they are getting one up on each other is specially with the cars at the scrap yard both there cars were scrap never for get that
It makes fun of the racist and shows real affection between the other characters. And doesn't crow on about grievances and privilege which just boringly infects all media now.
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I was so sad when Jack Smethurst died. When I watched it ( many many times) I 'd think how good it was they are all still alive. RIP Jack. Brilliant actor and so so funny
RIP Eddie Booth, I was so sad when I realised Nobby and Arthur died in the 80's. Joane, Barbie and Bill are still alive btw.
Jack and Rudolph were best of friends in real life, they used to laugh about the time of that show
These were the best days ever ❤miss them so much 😢
Great comedy from the golden age of the sitcoms.
The good old days, the good old laughs, the good old comedies so shame we still don’t have them❤
Love this. Wish this could happen now.
The workers being drunk, worried that their boss will fire them, but the boss is just as drunk as they are. 😂😂😂
This series was fantastic, and I'm glad to say, still is👍👏
Agree 👍👍👍
What a gentleman Rudolph is
Eddie ( Jack) was always hilarious, his neighbor Bill (Rudolph) were best mates in real life
In real life jack had black grandchildren
When Jack Smethurst passed away recently Rudolph Walker spoke very highly of him as a great actor, a gentleman and a friend.
Gotta love Barbie and Joan 😂😂😂
Kate Williams, underrated and great with the wisecracks
Yes I love this also when we could all laugh and joke with each other
Laughing and joking with each other is ‘not’ about calling someone a Nig-Nog
Brilliant show , back in the day when everyone didn't have a phone stuck in there face with there narcissistic heads up there arses.
What have phones got to do with this comedy? That's what's knows as a non-sequitur Rocket and a rather spectacular ('It pays to increase your Word Power' as 'Readers Digest' had it, correctly).
@@garymorgan4274 Tit
@@troops1980 A stupid insult entirely consonant with likely this witless, mirth-free comedy. Still if you find it funny, good for you but it's like will not appear again.
The acting is appalling too, Smethurst got almost no work after this and I'm not surprised. He's terrible.
@CZcamsINCLUSIVITYWHATAJOKE My feelings aren't brittle but I find this dreadfully unfunny. I'd not ban ot but that it couldn't be commissioned now isn't surprising since racial prejudice isn't publicly acceptable now is all.
Cheers, Ga
Love Thy Neighbour was ITVs answer to Till Death Us Do Part, but far more reliant on cheap laughs. I grew up in the 70s, and it was considered acceptable then to laugh at racist jibes. To be fair to LTN, Eddie was usually shown-up for his ignorance and stupidity, and Bill was the one who had the last laugh. Even so, it gets its biggest laughs from blind insults, and it's a show that should stay in the 70s. People are still free to watch it if they choose, but no place for it on any TV channel today.
The point always was that Eddie looked the idiot and was always cast as such. It was a good way of accentuating how stupid racism is, but that point is lost on the woke.
Jack Smethurst stated in an interview on talking pictures tv that he ONLY agreed to playing Eddie if he played him as a bigoted fool which Eddie was!!
RIP Jack Smethurst x
When it was the beginning of realisation that racism was wrong and the Eddie's of this world were idiots, it was funny. But, decades later, racism is still going on and Eddie's like yourself persist in their idiocy, it's no longer funny but an irritating malicious taking the mickey experience. And how do I know your part of the problem, cause you used the term woke and because you think racism is ok, just a bit of fun, nothing to take too serious. How many times did Bill and Barbie feel like they were so deeply wounded that they were going to have to leave and go back to Trinidad. Eddie's really funny and someone to laugh at, I enjoy the show too, but how funny would it be if you were black and lived next door to an Eddie?
one of the best sitcom ever from the old good days😂😍🤓👍✌✋👏👏👏👏👏
A racist's you must've been, or most probably still is today...
Shame to think such a program was Great
Top marks to all involved and not forgetting Vince Powell and Harry Driver.
I'm loving this GEM OF A FIND
I will be binging this the rest of this wkend 😊😁😀☺️
i like to revisit the old ones- they still make me laugh
Me too!
Me too !
Funny is funny merry Christmas x
Just brilliant laughed my socks of ..great to see they were the days hay.
They sure were.
zzzZyy
Can you image shows like this out today..with all the calles of racism..cancel culture and..you can't say that brigade. No wonder I only watch, old less guarded shows.
found a whole new group of silly old friends to spend time with! Happy 2021 all!
Here is some hot chocolate and a moon pie ☕🍫🌔
Wot the frig is moon pie, I prefer steak & Kidney myself
Proper comedy at its best 😊😊
These British comedies were fantastic, humour was not censored, or insulting or politically correct
Nor funny.
@@garymorgan3314 yes they were, for me.
@@garymorgan3314 yes they were troll ..you didn't have to watch them ..
Great show they should bring it back on prime time.
Unfortunately they wouldn't dare.
Be absolute uproar. The racism wouldn't fly today.
Bloody Nora ill have half 🍺 🤭
it would not work in 2021....we already know how stupid and ugly racism is...we do not need any Archie Bunkers..or Alf, the Original....now...we need help with the Anti American Gop....dividers of Americans...
It wouldn't happen sadly
A blast from the past, brilliant.
Total rubbish
Ahh yeh, ya do need a sense of humour though... A dying trait in some... Be lucky
@@DD-101 Nah Lee's right, it's bolleaux.
@@garymorgan3314 omg you do not have a sense of humour these days were the best ever
@@leeprendergast3453 only to the younger generation who seem to be growing up without morals or a sense of humour
great memories
Wow we've come long way since then.😂😂😂😂😂please take me back. Life was great.😊
When comedy was COMEDY and funny... No snowflakes.. Brilliant
Bloody good laugh 😆 🤣
Loved it back in the day ❤️❤️❤️❤️
British humour, all that’s gone now, thanks to PC.
Yes sadly
Yes ..everything is seen as Racists today .. ridiculous
The joke was always on Eddie , that the whole point , a brilliant show watching now before CZcams ban it
Exactly. And this was nearly 50 years ago.....if you believe the wokeist whingers of today we were all KKK members...Its absurd.
In a purely white household I had no idea what being racist meant. I learned that it was stupid people with stupid ideas about superiority. I never saw the black couple as inferior. Eddie’s mates weren’t as stupid as he was either. The wives were my heroes. They cut through the crap. We don’t learn from tv shoes anymore. Reality show crap is just that.
Thank you for the memories of sitting in the lounge room as a family, watching the telly. It was time to relax in the evening after dinner and dishes were done. When viewing was over kids went to bed and adults watched adult shows. Depending on ages and tastes of course.
@@narelleworks8448 me neither....I was 10 and laughed at the comedy. I'll have half.😃Jacko...... take the comedy away and this is the world you have left.
Used to love this thank you 🥰
Loved Bill's impromtu calypso song.
I was 10 years old when this was on great times
I refuse to watch the garbage on Tv today and prefer to collect boxsets. Just added this one to my collection. I mostly have UK & US but only retro classic ones. Big wide screen Tv, up to date smart Blue Ray player, multi region DVD player. Recliner armchair, snack and drink and sod off rest of world time.
Love hearing the northern dialect.
Best comedy of all
Not quite
I have ordered the film of this on Dvd and I am looking forward to seeing it after all these years
Wow 2000, that’s 27 years into the future, being 1973, it’s now 2022, and 45 years into the future 🥸
The 70s audience probably found the Union bashing in this episode more offensive than the racism.
Thats nonsense. There werent many more racists then than there are now....Some people are just hateful. most people are live and let live.
Racism is a useful political tool to use on a society who's had few real problems to worry about for so long. Fat, privileged, lazy and narcissistic people are easily turned against one another with petty, made up grievances.
@@LusciousTwinkle There wasnt twenty four hour, shooting your mouth of on social media then.
@@51WCDodge don't really understand where you are coming from tbh...
Loved, loved this show, back in the good times. Shame it's just gone so downhill since millennium!!!!!!!🙄🙄
Can you imagine that going out on prime time tv today? The woke/leftie brigade would need therapy to get over the shock!!!
netfllix with bleeps basically - this is tv gold cos jack & rudy were great friends off screen bless em
@lossadjuster1 Ah, cobblers. (KNICKERS!)
@mcfcguvnors . bleeps?
When it's the people who find it funny whoREAALY need help. See samples 'wit' above. You think THAT is funny?
It was quite popular with black people back then because lets face it Eddies a fat little bigot with ideas that were bizarre even back then, worrying about voodoo, cannibalism, and catching tropical diseases.
On the other hand Bill and Barbie are both attractive and Bill is very spirited and often get's the better of Eddie and makes him look the fool he is.
We need more of these put on please
Your showing your ignorance you racist
@@markclarke9370 You are showing your pathetic mentality that has wreaked havoc upon the world, you "woke"!
He's just another brainwashed Marxist child.
@@markclarke9370 your showing your ignorance this comedy shows how Eddie yes was racist but was always put in his place and always by his mates its part of life but the idiots of today just can't laugh at themselves or at anything this was comedy its best
@@rrajdippawskar9853 well said 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Back in the day when we could all have a laugh..............
JEEEZ at THIS
I still do” our family loved watching this” in the 70s it wasn’t black people who complained” it was the British government that removed it,
@@bricktop2090 Please stand up your claim that "the British government that removed it" since I don't recall such an action by any of our governments, ever. That "it wasn't Black people who complained" may be true, I've no idea, but they may have and should have! And before you reply that Rudolph Walker's character dishes out as much racism as Eddie, the point is that he is part of a minority group thus Black racism has an entirely different quality. This twisted idea of 'balance' is absurd: "snowflake!","knickers!" ffs!
Mind you my greatest complaint is that the acting is dreadful, the script witless and stupid and the whole a pustule on the face of British television. I'm 62 and grew up on Monty Python, and that this could have been made at the same time as 'Fawlty Towers' is almost incredible. The wit and brilliance of these two had more to do with the beaching of this bloated comedy whale than any government action!
Chacun a son gout, as no-one in this farce would ever say. Keep well. Gary.
@@garymorgan4274 every West Indian family loved the show, those few who did was probably paid by the government to do so, as a family we used to gather round our black and white Tv to watch this just like all our other black friends. 1 person’s complains doesn’t mean the majority has, this was one of my favourite shows as was Rising damp. Not all black people call on the race card.
@@bricktop2090 Oh I know not all "play the race card" and my guess is they may have been blindsided by Walker's character's racism and that he's the patsy equally.AmI to infer that you are Black? It wouldn't make any difference to my points since some Black people NOT being offended in no way means it's necessarily inoffensive, just that you find laughs where I only see a painful lack of wit.
And you didn't answer my inquiry about some alleged government ban. I assume because there wasn't one. Are you going to justify your wild-looking claim? Best wishes, Gary
I love Joan and Barbie ❤️🖤
This was the year kung fu films hit our cinema screens, l still remember my buddies went to odean cinema in New Street Birmingham, It was fist of fury Bruce lee, also King Boxer. Still remember those great programmes in them years, great days in our lives.
Beautiful lovely TV.
Why cant we go back to these amazing days...funny as fuck
I couldn't agree more
Agreed I'd go back tomorrow if I could happier days
@@dawnfinch8232 indeed miss Finch. Im 54 and English and life used to be so different
Stoned out of our minds means something a little now days ??? Lmao🤣🤣🤣
I loved Thames Television
i remember 2000 being so futuristic thought we would have flying cars. jet packs. robots. We come a long way in a short time. But i do wish i could be around for another 100 years just to see how things go.
We were also promised a 3 day working week with full pay, Colonies on the Moon and Mars and control of the Universe. "To boldly go where no manmade mining and colonisation space fleet has gone before" to liberally paraphrase the original Startrek's opening statement.
Oh...and I forgot the imminent destruction of the Earth by the rapidly approaching ice-age. In the 1970's, scientists, media and futurists were adamant that was to be our frozen future fate.
You could be around in 100 years. Bible promises death done away with.When God's kingdom rules earth.Revelation 21:3&4
@@dianebritish Yes, I pray to be in the Kingdom when it is fully established, although I will have a new body. Things might look bad at the moment, but it could still be 100+ years before the day of the Lord.
Me too buddy! cheers!
In today's climate and Eddie's antics/attitude he would have been fired. Great show
Fantastic, why can't they bring this back on TV never laughed so much
Because it would 100% be considered racist in today’s society
Haha... drinking whilst near machinery.
That's nothing, my colleague drinks while using his machine. Pissed as a newt he was once.
I used to work for a firm years ago and every Friday people brought drink in, there was bottles of cider on top of there machines. I only worked there a week when the foreman asked me if I could drive a Forklift, I said no, he said you can dive a car can't you come with me I'll show you.
@@montygemma wow! I can't imagine that happening now.
Back in the day when ENGLAND WAS STILL ENGLAND, now it's just a memory of halcyon days long gone .
Patrick in eastenders, doesn't look much older now, gr8 actor 👍
He’s 83 now bless him, he still young 😊
Great actor
UNIONS! bringing our way of living down!
Really. You only have to look at working conditions now to see they are still necessary…ie. Nil hours contracts!
Can remember at the time there was indeed friction at the sudden very high numbers of black people arriving in the UK but shows like this did also make many white boys, in particular, realize black women were (still are) incredibly beautiful. Many of us just tuned in to watch Baden-Semper :)
Hes a david Brent of the 80s it's not racist it's funny az everyone character thinks the main character is a prick lmao
Good grief I was almost 3 years old when this was broadcast, seems forever ago 😲
Bring it back ❤😂
This was broadcast on the night the Three Day Week Work Order came into force (at midnight). It was because of trades union troublemakers like Eddie Booth that we eventually ended up with Thatcher.
Tiger of the Night nonsense
Well at least something good came out of it !!!
i cant believe people defend and even venerate Thatcher today...Even people from the working class.... She was a narcissistic psychopath of the highest order. she did way more harm than good and we certainly dont want another leader like her EVER.
@@LusciousTwinkle deluded lefty fool !!! . one of the best p.m.`s we ever had and dont you forget it dummy !!!!!
@@andywfc1 I am one of Thatchers children and will never forget her. The massive homelessness problem we have is a constant reminder for a start.
18:50 - "...I don't care if someone's pinched your bicycle. Pinch someone else's."
That line (and even the p'lice station) was also used in the sitcom "Mind Your Language".
"Where is Pride & Prejudice then"????
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Grea loved the way you had a working mens club and everyone knew each other ,I don't know any of the neighbours here.
This is a fine example as to why the country was in a financial mess at the time. Strike after strike after strike.
Being it Back Eddie hahaha great guy's
It’s like I said on something before it’s good for CZcams because they’re bringing all some of the old comedies on CZcams so we get to see him again❤😂😂😂
Good ha ha better then rubbish on tv today’s rubbish
I remember being on the three day week during Ted Heaths reign as Priminister. I also remember the Bus Strike and Power Workers strike during this period. We never knew when we would be in darkness or when the Buses would go off. It was a scary time because the Yorkshire Ripper was still at large and people were terrified to go out in the dark.( As most of you will know he murdered 13 women and attempted to murder seven more) The Manchester Police could not catch him. He was on the loose for well over a decade then finally the Police in my home Town of Sheffield in South Yorkshire caught him on a car technicallity. Then they noticed him hiding something. It turned out to be Hammers he had used on his victims.
Sheffield had a Steel Industry the most famous and largest in the world. During the Thatcher years this Industry was crushed to nothing and we all lost our Jobs. Along with this our South Yorkshire Coal Mining industry was also crushed when she closed down our pits.There were countless Strikes during her reign in power. our Miners. went on strike and following her orders the Police came down hard on the Miners lots were brutally attacked with Truncheons the police even brutally attacked the then leader of the NUM (National Union of Mine Workers).Arthur Scargil. She also sent Secret Intelligence Services to spy on every move the Mining Unions made, then crushed them to a pulp. She also caused chaos within our Housing System when her right to buy bill came in to force letting people buy our Council House's which meant there were less Houses to rent to the poor.
During the year of 1926 the whole of the UK came out on strike while under Prime minister Stanley Baldwins Government he was also a Tory just like Heath and Thatcher. In this year the workers had turn to the Unions as they were betrayed by .the later that year Labour Leader Ramsay McDonald who held a vote of no confidence to the strikes.
alfie081 The Yorkshire Ripper killings were not publicised until later in the 1970's and whilst there is speculation that he was killing since 1969 the officially recognised offences were committed between 1975 and 1981.
Although she became leader of the Conservatives in 1976 it was not she did not become prime minister until 1979. She promised that if she became prime minister every council house owner would have the right to buy and this is what happened.
The early 1970's were a struggle for many people, however the actual unemployment rate amongst men was low in comparison to current levels and there were many more women with children who were full-time home makers.
@Pope Wilson I think the Blitz made that point.
I think Pope represents America's mentality nicely.
alfie081 very amazing times wow
That's typical,blame Maggie. I read that more pits closed under Labour.
Fabulous scene😊
Pmsl. No matter how many times I watch this I still laugh my head off.
It's like going back in time. Edward Heath , the then prime minister .
Indeed
If this was in 2021,Granger would have used Eddie's racism as a justifiable reason to fire him so he didn't have to listen to Eddie harp on about Union Rules and Eddie wouldn't have a leg to stand on.
If this was 2021 Eddie wouldn't be employed, neither would Bill probably
Eddski and Billski would have their jobs
Imagine the uproar if this show aired now lol
It's ridiculous these days are needed now , would sort all the idiots out
Mark Anthony best shows the English comedy love them all
What this show actually does very well is show bigots and biggotted attitudes up for how ridiculous they are. The language may not be PC by modern standards but I don't view this show as racist. The humour comes from showing us how silly we are when we we fail to tolerate and show prejudice to others.
What a load of old rubbish about a work shy racist, this isn't funny! I'd prefer to watch Bless This house, George and Mildred, Steptoe and Son, now those are funny TV shows
The language used by Eddie was a deliberate ploy to make him appear as a ridiculous racist. It wasnt meant to encourage racism but to show it's cowardice...hence the black man threatening Eddie with a spanking when all else failed. You could call it social engineering by proxy but it was embarrassing clunky crap sit com to most of us.
Funny Funny show, The poms made good comedy shows back then
The best
Good comedy today's comedy is rubbish people are 'not allowed to laugh today give me the good old days
Just make it funny
Dancing in thin lines of racism and comedy. Great cultural study of that decade. Thank you for uploading in such a good condition.
Knickers! 🤣🤣🤣
I got called sambo by some yobs the other day.
This is still going on.
Don't worry about it ..I'm white and get racists comments ..
What’s wrong with that, you should have said - what’s the problem, snowflake - get over it
*Googles hinge-pins *
The way you get up from the beached whale position as a heavily pregnant woman is, you roll onto your side, get onto all 4's then push yourself up from there. I had to do it all the time, as my useless, now ex-husband, promised to exchange the mattress on the floor in his ex-bachelor pad, for a real bed, but never did. And as he was never home, I had to handle myself whatever happened. I became quite the expert at ex-beach waling myself!
This could never be played these days. But no one thought anything of it. Today people play the racist card
You make me happy when eddle booth live good meds Allah eddle booth hgfo😅😅😅
Wow I was 3 almost 4
It was a different era a thought it was funny they are getting one up on each other is specially with the cars at the scrap yard both there cars were scrap never for get that
It makes fun of the racist and shows real affection between the other characters. And doesn't crow on about grievances and privilege which just boringly infects all media now.
I just we have 4 or 5 players back come the 6th of January when we play away to to Sunderland in the fa cup mate
proper baby clothes not loincloth's 😂😂😂.
The two lead characters probably watched this episode in 2000 and think how we had come!
Not really. It's comedy, get over it.
@@Puppy-ew4be What's your problem??
I`ll have half ...🍻
Class
RIP Jack
You can see where mick lynch gets it from
Coppers checking in on Two Women Home alone who's Husbands are working late?!?! That can't be for Realz.
Arthur played a great drunk
No chance of seeing this anymore. When this and Alf Garnet is allowed on tv again, then normality will be restored.
I’m sure this will get beeped out soon , I suggest you record it before that happens.
happy days
So would the torys!
Great sitcom....fancied Kate Williams very much 😊
Eddie ❤️