As it is Sunday night, I'd thought I'd watch this for nostalgia purposes. But you are right. I can still smell the Dettol and Matey combo from bath night and have a subconscious fear that school is looming after hearing that theme tune.
I have just come from seeing that very clip from "Not The Nine O'Clock News". It was funny anyway, but it is a whole lot funnier now that I've seen one of the earlier episodes of "That's Life!" upon which it was based.
@@foxo4992 Yes, I'm just about old enough to (somewhat) remember it from the late '80s and early '90s but the format was different by then, compared to earlier years. I only knew of Cyril Fletcher (the older man in the corner with his "Odd Odes", satirised as a "camp old twat" in the NTNON clip) because I had seen a documentary about its 21 years on air. Seeing it here, instead of it being almost exclusively them going out to meet people, or laughing at oddly shaped vegetables (which was about its level by the time I knew it, but we stayed glued somehow) you get a clearer idea of exactly what was being satirised.
Really? People being "offended" is the only metric you measure quality of life? Why do you even care how other people are "offended". Also there was no internet in 1981. You went without it at the time because you didn't know otherwise, if you lost it now it would be like having a limb removed. Also people weren't nicer back then. People were arseholes back then. The difference is back then you could get away with it.
Good old days when communities were being destroyed by unemployment because lost of industry (closing down the pits etc) IRA blowing stuff up regularly. The Old Bill fitting people up and targeting people because of the colour of their skin. The constant threat of the Cold War becoming hot with the use of nuclear weapons. Yeah, the good old days.
Allowed to stay up late on a Sunday evening, to watch That's Life, but not before egg salad sammies with salad cream and a big mug of tea! I was 8 years old when this was aired on Auntie, but still can recollect watching it as a child. Growing up in Northern Ireland during The Troubles, any lightheartedness or comedy was very, very welcome....😔
The older man kissing a girl at 3.40mins, is my Dad, George. If anyone comes across any more That's Life videos with him in them, could you please share? Living in Canada, I only got to see two of him when visiting. This was a wonderful treat to get a blast from his past. . Thank you.
As I remember as a kid it was the only thing on tense Sunday nights with a new school week to start in the morning. On ITV was The South Bank Show that was too grown-up. I also remember on ITV later-evening there was a comedy series called Agony, the Australian detective Boney, Barretta with his Parrott and the Protectors
I used to watch this programme as a kid in the 80s. I forgot how good it was. It’s lovely to watch again and have a titter🤭😂… Thank you so much for sharing 🙏🏽🙏🏽🥰❤️❤️❤️
I came here because of Not the Nine O’clock News’ spoof, I thought they must have been exaggerating. Turns out they were spot on, especially Pamela Robertson’s take on Esther Rantzen!
Nonsense! I've just watched the spoof and then this actual programme, and Pamela Stephenson's imitation is a gross exaggeration! Rantzen can't do anything about the fact that her teeth protrude, and the way she alternates between high-pitched and low-pitched speech is well within normal parameters: many people talked like this back then. Now, in 2020, the extremely deep female voice habit (vocal fry) has become irritatingly common. Rantzen was not that bad.
@@betaman7988 I'm indebted to a gentleman from Swansea, who wrote to tell me that his television entertainment is constantly ruined by the appearance a 'camp old twat' who continuously reads his appalling drivel over the air
I came here from Not the Nine O'clock News taking the mickey but actually it was a superb programme. Cyril was a hilarious, lovely geezer and not on the Box enough as far as I'm concerned. Nice one Potsie.
Should bring back a version of it..could do with a laugh and odd segments rather than the disposable shite, negativity and violent crap that dominates tv now!
Thank you for uploading this V L. Ohh does this bring back some memories. When there was only three channels to choose from. Sunday nights, That's Life, brilliant. I've always admired Esther. I only found out recently that Cyril was an actor. 👍🇬🇧😂
It.was a remarkable mix of very British ingredients some cheeky humour and occasional sexual innuendo . It had a strong consumer and social campaigning strand ..highlighting to huge audiences in its early days matters which were often altered through the support of MPs and campaigning of audiences Throw in a meet the public segment and a song or two. Excellent stuff eventually deteriorating like most formats. Esther Rantzen was a first class and controversial broadcaster
I had just turned 11 when this particular episode was aired and so at the end of junior school. I remember the programme well and the tune too - the key is C minor.
......Can't help but think of the "BBC Not The Nine O'Clock News sketch which parodys this show...... "We rang the Electricity Board...... They said......." ....... I'm sorry,... this has nothing to do with us!!! 😂😂
@@mikethebloodthirsty and of course you are absolutely entitled to your opinion which is why we still, just about, live in a free society but make the most of it; it’s rapidly disappearing. I’m no longer a license payer haven’t been for a number of years but occasionally when I visit others homes I get glimpses of what is currently being served up as “entertainment “ by the old style media and can only say that my decision to ditch the nonce tax is vindicated over and over. Many others have cancelled following proof that you can live an old style media free life and thrive. The proof of the entertainment factor of the BBC fare will only become apparent when they are forced to go subscription. I suspect that they would sink into the also rans especially as their cost cutting measures alienate customers even more.
And you know this how, easy to blame others who were in the dark but you assume knew because they worked with him, people like him get way with it because they kno how to hide it from those who would be a threat. She started Childline so he would have been just that threat to expose him and would have.
That old man kissing that passer by. Unbelievable. You'd get arrested nowadays. See how we were 40 years ago!? Now everyone is so sensitive and objects to the slightest thing.
Shown 39 years ago last night. I actually have an audio copy of the whole program and after the whistling guy, there was a feature on the dangers surrounding red kidney beans (the raw ones are poisonous if not boiled for a minimum of 10 minutes), followed by a story of a couple whose house was being destroyed by a large bee infestation. Chris Serle was dispatched by the program to get rid of the bees using everything from live music to burning sulfur, but failed to sort the problem.
Oh man I was enjoying Three Blind Mice dammit !! That segment I remember one guy came on and hummed and whistled two different tunes at the same time, another made a trumpet out of a brass bed frame, and another guy performed the theme tune to Dallas with a bunch of hums, pops and clicks with his mouth and hands. Friggin weirdos ! And not to forget the dog who could say "Sausages"
That's Life was originally shown on a Saturday night and it was very good, then it moved to Sunday nights and seemed to lose something of its (for the time) renegade attitude. They did move it back to Saturday night to try and get the lost viewers back but it didn't work. Sausages!
This show just seems so alien now. It's a very strange mix of light and heavy topics. It reminds me of the incomprehensible foriegn network Channel 9 sketch in The Fast Show, where you just couldn't quite grasp what the whole damn thing was meant to be about. Sminky pinky Chris Waddle.
Ah, now there's a thing. I sometimes agree, sometimes disagree with his opinions. But I've always respected his balls to voice alternative thoughts, regardless of whether or not I like him for it in that particular moment. And now I know he's said something on this matter, I'm compelled to go and hear it. Even if it damns me to an eternity of it. Late edit: I've just remembered "It's nice being Esther.", from around twenty years ago.
I checked BBC Genome, Radio times listing. This episode was actually transmitted on Fathers day, Sunday 21st of June 1981, as there was no series of That's life in 1980.
You're very welcome. I was a bit confused. I heard Cyril Fletcher say it was fathers day, and it fell on the 15th of June 1980, so I checked BBC Genome, but it wasn't transmitted that day. I then checked all the transmission dates of That's life, it ran consistently from 1973 to 1979, skipping 1980 for some reason, then there was a series in 1981, this is where this particular episode came from, so I checked the 1981 calendar, stating that fathers day was on Sunday 21st of June. I then checked BBC Genome again for that Radio times listings and sure enough this episode was on Sunday the 21st of June 1981 at 9:25 pm.
BBC Genome is great. I have a memory of staying up late to watch That's Life and then having to go to bed when Sergeant Bilko came on, and there being a news report then of Bud Abbot's death. I see he died on 24th April 1974 (when I was 6), and BBC Genome shows that That's Life, followed by Bilko was on Saturday evening, 27th April. Perhaps it was a Newsflash between the two programmes.
Esther Rantzen is one of our greatest national treasures .. I recently watched her on ‘Who Do You Think You Are ?’ and I felt such a warm affection and respect for her. Of course, I recall how ace she was on That’s Life when I was a young lad but it was so nice to see how time has done nothing to wither her contagious smile and personality .. everyone she met on the show she showed such friendly respect towards and they ALL seemed to genuinely like and respect her as much as I do. I know she’s had some health scares recently but I believe her positive outlook and huge appetite for life will help her get through it. God bless you Esther Rantzen, us Brits love ya ! x
Oh what a laugh! I'd been on Fb chatting in a group and someone had put in a post about teeth which reminded me of an episode, so of course I came to see if I could find the bloke who couldn't keep his falsies in....I've gotten here so far!! 😆😆
My god, looking at this video now.. everyone looks so respectable and happy. Was this really what life was like before uncontrollable immigration, I wish I was old enough to completely remember a time like this.
what are you talking about, I was on about how everyone looked and presented there self you fucking imbecile. child molestation is probably on an even bigger scale now than it was back then anyway so your comment is completely irrelevant, so get off the internet grandpa
If you honestly think there are less bad things going on in the world today than in 1981 you must have been very seriously brainwashed. The reality is that it's probably around the same amount, and that it doesn't change much over time. Most people are good, but there are always a certain percentage of bad people. It'll always be like that.
That play on "Death of a Princess" at [12:35]. 😯 Nice dig at Saudi Arabia. New Zealand didn't show that documentary after being "advised" that it would be bad for NZ-Saudi relations (our sheep exports?).
I wonder whether she was entitled to her money back. In those days, could sellers blithely say "it's the customer's responsibility to check that it complies with the standards"? Or was there an over-riding "not fit for purpose" law that trumped any unfair contract terms that the seller tried to impose? The Sale of Goods Act had already come into effect in 1979, and I bet it has something to say about the matter ;-) There are two different things: is it illegal to sell somethig that doesn't comply with the law (evidently not), and is the customer entitled to their money back?
OH YES ! Same thing, with Sunday afternoons, Follyfoot & Black Beauty : Is Tomorrow really Monday & Do I have to go Back to School ? Happy DAZE. czcams.com/video/CqwJoEGyGMY/video.html
9:44 This couldn't happen now. Today you could rely on the integrity of the water companies like Thames Water, the professionalism of their chief executives and their masters in the government.
@@mistofoles were you under a lot of stress 4 years ago? On my old account I’d get replies to comments I had no memory of making, but they were made during a very harrowing period in my life.
I SO loved this when I was a kid. It's great to see it again. The mixture of stupid humour and serious topical concerns is a much-missed delight.
BLIMEY FLASHBACK ..... straight to bed after this for school on Monday 😊
Good times
Same 😁
If only @fozziebear26. ☺️
lol me too. bath, then that's life then bed.
Same here. One of the best programmes on Sunday night TV in the 80’s.
As it is Sunday night, I'd thought I'd watch this for nostalgia purposes. But you are right. I can still smell the Dettol and Matey combo from bath night and have a subconscious fear that school is looming after hearing that theme tune.
Oh my god, Matey! Now there's a flashbaack, jesus!
Oh amen to that, and possibly the sound of a washing machine in the background
Wow lol.. Same for me.. Super matey and dreading school the next day - mainly because the homework wasn't done
Ditto..
Sunday night before bank holiday and no school. It’d lighten your heart ..ahh bliss : D
It was then that I called the electricity board. And they said... "Sorry, but this really has got nothing to do with us!"
I have just come from seeing that very clip from "Not The Nine O'Clock News". It was funny anyway, but it is a whole lot funnier now that I've seen one of the earlier episodes of "That's Life!" upon which it was based.
@@Extra_050 I’m here for the exact same reason, and the similarity is uncanny!
@@foxo4992 Yes, I'm just about old enough to (somewhat) remember it from the late '80s and early '90s but the format was different by then, compared to earlier years. I only knew of Cyril Fletcher (the older man in the corner with his "Odd Odes", satirised as a "camp old twat" in the NTNON clip) because I had seen a documentary about its 21 years on air.
Seeing it here, instead of it being almost exclusively them going out to meet people, or laughing at oddly shaped vegetables (which was about its level by the time I knew it, but we stayed glued somehow) you get a clearer idea of exactly what was being satirised.
I like that. "Camp old twat" reading snippings
And I was arrested on the street……..
Ah a time when people just seemed nicer and were not offended by anything. I would go back to these times in a heartbeat.
Really? People being "offended" is the only metric you measure quality of life? Why do you even care how other people are "offended".
Also there was no internet in 1981. You went without it at the time because you didn't know otherwise, if you lost it now it would be like having a limb removed.
Also people weren't nicer back then. People were arseholes back then. The difference is back then you could get away with it.
Except them coppers who arrested Esther for serving bat soup on the streets
Good old days when communities were being destroyed by unemployment because lost of industry (closing down the pits etc)
IRA blowing stuff up regularly.
The Old Bill fitting people up and targeting people because of the colour of their skin.
The constant threat of the Cold War becoming hot with the use of nuclear weapons.
Yeah, the good old days.
I loathed this programme as a child as it always meant the weekend was truly over and Monday and school were mere hours away.
lol was about to post the same comment!
I remember how I would pretend to like the program so my parents would let me stay up a bit longer
I felt precisely the same.
@@Robert.Deeeee I used to do that. When I was younger and bed time was earlier, I employed the same tactic with The Last of the Summer Wine.
I just loathed it because it was shit and the presenters were annoying.
Allowed to stay up late on a Sunday evening, to watch That's Life, but not before egg salad sammies with salad cream and a big mug of tea! I was 8 years old when this was aired on Auntie, but still can recollect watching it as a child. Growing up in Northern Ireland during The Troubles, any lightheartedness or comedy was very, very welcome....😔
I would have been eleven and just a month away from finishing junior school, so three years older than you. Remember this era well!
The older man kissing a girl at 3.40mins, is my Dad, George. If anyone comes across any more That's Life videos with him in them, could you please share? Living in Canada, I only got to see two of him when visiting. This was a wonderful treat to get a blast from his past. . Thank you.
He sounded like a great guy!
Thanks... we used to call him "laughing boy". lol
What a dashing man he was!
He was hilarious 😂😂
@@ajs41 oh lighten up
Sunday nights, this was essential viewing.
As I remember as a kid it was the only thing on tense Sunday nights with a new school week to start in the morning. On ITV was The South Bank Show that was too grown-up. I also remember on ITV later-evening there was a comedy series called Agony, the Australian detective Boney, Barretta with his Parrott and the Protectors
After your bath and before bed. School tomorrow.
@@bustedfender It would always signal the end of your weekend though hearing that music.
Watched this every week with my family.
I used to watch this programme as a kid in the 80s. I forgot how good it was. It’s lovely to watch again and have a titter🤭😂… Thank you so much for sharing 🙏🏽🙏🏽🥰❤️❤️❤️
I remember watching this as a kid on a Sunday night !! Them were the days.
I blame social media, it was rare to find anyone up their own arse in those days...
I came here because of Not the Nine O’clock News’ spoof, I thought they must have been exaggerating. Turns out they were spot on, especially Pamela Robertson’s take on Esther Rantzen!
Don't forget Vivian Stanshall & the Bonzo's research on Shirts....
Nonsense! I've just watched the spoof and then this actual programme, and Pamela Stephenson's imitation is a gross exaggeration! Rantzen can't do anything about the fact that her teeth protrude, and the way she alternates between high-pitched and low-pitched speech is well within normal parameters: many people talked like this back then. Now, in 2020, the extremely deep female voice habit (vocal fry) has become irritatingly common. Rantzen was not that bad.
Thank you so much for this upload! It was a joy to watch took me back to simpler, happier times.
fantastic, I loved this program thanks for posting :D
They should bring back shows like this, they would have a field day!
Best thingto come out of this show was the introduction to a wider audience of the legend that was jake Thackeray
The Gas Board said 'This has nothing to do with us.'
...Prince Philip exploded and I was arrested on the street for causing an obstruction...
@@betaman7988 I'm indebted to a gentleman from Swansea, who wrote to tell me that his television entertainment is constantly ruined by the appearance a 'camp old twat' who continuously reads his appalling drivel over the air
@@steveforest8385 All I have to say is, this has nothing to do with me.
I came here from Not the Nine O'clock News taking the mickey but actually it was a superb programme. Cyril was a hilarious, lovely geezer and not on the Box enough as far as I'm concerned. Nice one Potsie.
I miss the program I was a teenager and those were good times.
I remember Not the Nine O'Clock News ripping this to pieces. It was hilarious!
Look up 'Not the nine o'clock news that's life'
That's my upload 😊
Should bring back a version of it..could do with a laugh and odd segments rather than the disposable shite, negativity and violent crap that dominates tv now!
There was all those things back then too. It's just back then you weren't a miserable old fart.
Thank you for uploading this V L. Ohh does this bring back some memories. When there was only three channels to choose from. Sunday nights, That's Life, brilliant. I've always admired Esther. I only found out recently that Cyril was an actor. 👍🇬🇧😂
It.was a remarkable mix of very British ingredients some cheeky humour and occasional sexual innuendo . It had a strong consumer and social campaigning strand ..highlighting to huge audiences in its early days matters which were often altered through the support of MPs and campaigning of audiences Throw in a meet the public segment and a song or two. Excellent stuff eventually deteriorating like most formats. Esther Rantzen was a first class and controversial broadcaster
Classic program with a regular 20 million viewers. Thank you, Dame Esther.
loved esther rantzen,... this show takes me back.
I watch this Loads XXX Fabulous work XXX
& Laughter XXX
Used to hope the family were so enthralled they wouldn't send me to bed as it had gone 9pm
used to love that show
I had just turned 11 when this particular episode was aired and so at the end of junior school. I remember the programme well and the tune too - the key is C minor.
......Can't help but think of the "BBC Not The Nine O'Clock News sketch which parodys this show......
"We rang the Electricity Board...... They said......."
....... I'm sorry,... this has nothing to do with us!!! 😂😂
Annnnd I'm 17 again. Thank you @VintageLynx!
Me too I was 17 in 1981 I loved that's life on a Sunday.. wish they could bring it back.
Back in the days when the BBC used to provide entertainment - who knew
Well yes they did, but I would call this load of crp entertainment.
@@mikethebloodthirsty and of course you are absolutely entitled to your opinion which is why we still, just about, live in a free society but make the most of it; it’s rapidly disappearing. I’m no longer a license payer haven’t been for a number of years but occasionally when I visit others homes I get glimpses of what is currently being served up as “entertainment “ by the old style media and can only say that my decision to ditch the nonce tax is vindicated over and over. Many others have cancelled following proof that you can live an old style media free life and thrive. The proof of the entertainment factor of the BBC fare will only become apparent when they are forced to go subscription. I suspect that they would sink into the also rans especially as their cost cutting measures alienate customers even more.
i will never forgive her for not doing anything about stopping jimmy saville..... she knew for decades and ignored what he had done....
And you know this how, easy to blame others who were in the dark but you assume knew because they worked with him, people like him get way with it because they kno how to hide it from those who would be a threat. She started Childline so he would have been just that threat to expose him and would have.
The world moved on during the “That’s Life” era, but Esther Rantzen’s wardrobe never got past its “Abigail’s Party” phase.
Top marks!
poor woman losing £2000 it was a lot of money in those days.
If it was me and the winnings were over a million. Then most likely, there would've been 2 cases going to court
I bet the television theatre was good when Thats Life was filmed!
That old man kissing that passer by. Unbelievable. You'd get arrested nowadays.
See how we were 40 years ago!? Now everyone is so sensitive and objects to the slightest thing.
I OBJECT to this comment! I am also offended by people who are always being offended!
Arrested? Why? She was more than willing.
@@Technoidmania that's my point. Some people find it harmless. Many though object at the slightest thing.
Yep the world cup kiss recently one overexcited man over the win and female player offended, case still going on.
Great show
We could do with something like this on TV again. I'm sick of reality tv and humourless drivel.
I think they love reality rubbish because it's cheap to make. Terrible, but cheap!
Lucia Tilyard haha so true :D
they already have it its called watchdog.
This would be deemed to be too "twee" by the trendy idiots in charge of television these days. Not edgy enough.
Why are you all watching TV shows that you don't like? Right now all you dum-dums are on the internet, the repository of just about everything ever.
I wanted the whistler to do the flight of the bumble bee and theme from Starsky and Hutch simultaneously.
Cyril Fletcher = Fucking Legend. That dinner jacket, those manners.
Cyril Feltcher..yeh, right sick f***! RI..Hell
@@Stiffd1 why’d you say that? He comes across like a nonce, but I’ve never heard anything.
Or a camp old twat.
He was an actor comedian businessman and writer he died aged 91 in 2005 he lived in the Channel Islands
The tale of Sonia smell was performed in 1937
Those painful odes.
Mr Harrington of Bourton-by-the-water wrote in to show us this marvelous fungus that looks amusingly like a bell-end and pair of bollocks.
“Yes, and it even smells of cheese! Cyril?”
Exactly. That was the programme was like. Tripe.
Cyril's poem was funny and well written.
Cyril Fletcher was a genius
Shown 39 years ago last night. I actually have an audio copy of the whole program and after the whistling guy, there was a feature on the dangers surrounding red kidney beans (the raw ones are poisonous if not boiled for a minimum of 10 minutes), followed by a story of a couple whose house was being destroyed by a large bee infestation. Chris Serle was dispatched by the program to get rid of the bees using everything from live music to burning sulfur, but failed to sort the problem.
That’s Life - Memes before the internet. No wonder this show was way ahead of its time. RIP Cyril Fletcher.
I used to watch this every week
......."It was then we contacted the Electricity Board,......They said??
.....I'm sorry,... this has nothing to do with us!".
Miss this show
Oh man I was enjoying Three Blind Mice dammit !!
That segment I remember one guy came on and hummed and whistled two different tunes at the same time, another made a trumpet out of a brass bed frame, and another guy performed the theme tune to Dallas with a bunch of hums, pops and clicks with his mouth and hands. Friggin weirdos ! And not to forget the dog who could say "Sausages"
Before social media sucked the life and vibrance out of people.
Loved this Program when it was on the TV lol
That's Life was originally shown on a Saturday night and it was very good, then it moved to Sunday nights and seemed to lose something of its (for the time) renegade attitude. They did move it back to Saturday night to try and get the lost viewers back but it didn't work.
Sausages!
I was so in love with Ester
This is the show they parodied on Not the Nine O'clock News!
This show just seems so alien now. It's a very strange mix of light and heavy topics. It reminds me of the incomprehensible foriegn network Channel 9 sketch in The Fast Show, where you just couldn't quite grasp what the whole damn thing was meant to be about. Sminky pinky Chris Waddle.
Ah, now there's a thing. I sometimes agree, sometimes disagree with his opinions. But I've always respected his balls to voice alternative thoughts, regardless of whether or not I like him for it in that particular moment. And now I know he's said something on this matter, I'm compelled to go and hear it. Even if it damns me to an eternity of it.
Late edit: I've just remembered "It's nice being Esther.", from around twenty years ago.
Brilliant 😊💚✌️
That foreign lady is bloody hilarious
I checked BBC Genome, Radio times listing. This episode was actually transmitted on Fathers day, Sunday 21st of June 1981, as there was no series of That's life in 1980.
Andrew Dexter Thanks I'll update.
You're very welcome. I was a bit confused. I heard Cyril Fletcher say it was fathers day, and it fell on the 15th of June 1980, so I checked BBC Genome, but it wasn't transmitted that day. I then checked all the transmission dates of That's life, it ran consistently from 1973 to 1979, skipping 1980 for some reason, then there was a series in 1981, this is where this particular episode came from, so I checked the 1981 calendar, stating that fathers day was on Sunday 21st of June. I then checked BBC Genome again for that Radio times listings and sure enough this episode was on Sunday the 21st of June 1981 at 9:25 pm.
Great research, thanks.
BBC Genome is great. I have a memory of staying up late to watch That's Life and then having to go to bed when Sergeant Bilko came on, and there being a news report then of Bud Abbot's death. I see he died on 24th April 1974 (when I was 6), and BBC Genome shows that That's Life, followed by Bilko was on Saturday evening, 27th April. Perhaps it was a Newsflash between the two programmes.
Am bloody foreigners.....classic
He gave His life for a Rantzen for many//
Nostalgia, nostalgia. How the world has changed!
they always seemed so pleased with themselves-especially Mr Fletcher
My childhood !!
A modern day mash up of The One Show, Watchdog and HIGNFY.
Well, an olden-day mash-up, really, but otherwise yes :)
Esther Rantzen is one of our greatest national treasures .. I recently watched her on ‘Who Do You Think You Are ?’ and I felt such a warm affection and respect for her. Of course, I recall how ace she was on That’s Life when I was a young lad but it was so nice to see how time has done nothing to wither her contagious smile and personality .. everyone she met on the show she showed such friendly respect towards and they ALL seemed to genuinely like and respect her as much as I do.
I know she’s had some health scares recently but I believe her positive outlook and huge appetite for life will help her get through it. God bless you Esther Rantzen, us Brits love ya ! x
You don't get whistling on TV anymore.
Have you got any more of these great funny shows that are a memory of my childhood teenage years . Might be unsuccessful but it just a mention
Sadly not at the moment, but I will be uploading some other 1980s TV soon.
I might be able to find some.
Please bring it back! The god auld days.
Good!
It was awful and tacky!
Oh what a laugh!
I'd been on Fb chatting in a group and someone had put in a post about teeth which reminded me of an episode, so of course I came to see if I could find the bloke who couldn't keep his falsies in....I've gotten here so far!! 😆😆
Started childline because she new about Savile. But used the i heard the rumors line to protect here future at BBC
Remember the not the nine o'clock news version.😊
classic
They take the piss out of this show on "NOT THE 9' 0 CLOCK NEWS", but this episode is almost a parody of itself !
Which episode had Les Dawson judging the most infectious laugh? I’ve never forgotten that all these years later.
I can't believe I'm here. Don't tell anyone about this, right?
@PeckyThePigeon Are you holding me to Rantzen?! (sorry...)
I'll hold you to Rantzen as well.
I wonder whether Peter Greenaway was watching and was inspired by the bit about kissing to make A Zed and Two Noughts..
Has anyone got the bit where esther gets arrested for causing an obstrution, and what year was it broadcast?!
"Sonia, this is Dr Hunt." "Just free this bog seat from my bottom !"
i like that Greek lady lol ,I am bloody foreigners
My god, looking at this video now.. everyone looks so respectable and happy. Was this really what life was like before uncontrollable immigration, I wish I was old enough to completely remember a time like this.
"a time like this...."...Children being molested by BBC employees.......yeah, wonderful times..... WAKE UP.
what are you talking about, I was on about how everyone looked and presented there self you fucking imbecile.
child molestation is probably on an even bigger scale now than it was back then anyway so your comment is completely irrelevant, so get off the internet grandpa
Blaming immigration for own short comings. Sad prick
Yes, people were a lot less stressed out at this time, as you can see.
If you honestly think there are less bad things going on in the world today than in 1981 you must have been very seriously brainwashed. The reality is that it's probably around the same amount, and that it doesn't change much over time. Most people are good, but there are always a certain percentage of bad people. It'll always be like that.
Hahaha haha hahaha.
What a flashback.
Is Cyril reading off a cue card when hes telling the story of Sonia Snell? Thats Life is great, so classic and was the first Watchdog!
They all read off an autocue, quite obviously, not just Cyril.
Teddy Bunthammer brought me here...
That play on "Death of a Princess" at [12:35]. 😯 Nice dig at Saudi Arabia. New Zealand didn't show that documentary after being "advised" that it would be bad for NZ-Saudi relations (our sheep exports?).
I'm sure she laughed at the little poem read out and it compensated for the 3500 quid that went down the drain 36 years ago..
I wonder whether she was entitled to her money back. In those days, could sellers blithely say "it's the customer's responsibility to check that it complies with the standards"? Or was there an over-riding "not fit for purpose" law that trumped any unfair contract terms that the seller tried to impose? The Sale of Goods Act had already come into effect in 1979, and I bet it has something to say about the matter ;-) There are two different things: is it illegal to sell somethig that doesn't comply with the law (evidently not), and is the customer entitled to their money back?
The baths from "Mrs Waterman"
OH YES ! Same thing, with Sunday afternoons, Follyfoot & Black Beauty : Is Tomorrow really Monday & Do I have to go Back to School ? Happy DAZE. czcams.com/video/CqwJoEGyGMY/video.html
9:44 This couldn't happen now. Today you could rely on the integrity of the water companies like Thames Water, the professionalism of their chief executives and their masters in the government.
She got arrested !!!!
Um.
Those were the days.
However................Over to you Ceril. It is more then my jobsworth.
Cyril Fletcher was a legend.
Why was this great show axed ??
Because it was hypocritical rubbish
Because it was shit!
Is that Vince Cable singing the virtues of Brut? Blimey, he was old even in 1981.
He was 40 in 1981.
And now, Esther is self isolating from Coronavirus - eating plenty of bowls of stew.
Unfortunately, since it is BAT stew - she will still get it !
She should be investigating the PCR tests! LOL!
Germs from other people helps your immune system.
She's a dreadful woman!
Have you forgotten what she said about UNVAXED people?
I can only wish the same to her
Do you have the episode with captain helliwell?
That " ALL ASSES MUST BE SHOWN " sign is ripped off from the movie " CARRY ON CAMPING ".
Weird...I don't remember posting the above comment !
@@mistofoles were you under a lot of stress 4 years ago? On my old account I’d get replies to comments I had no memory of making, but they were made during a very harrowing period in my life.