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Onedayilwin
06 Dec 09 19:16
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when ever its advertised its with that "Vat is your name don't tell him Pike line"

can't say I've ever watched a whole episode but the few bits I have seen were total shiit and unfunny
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Report STEPTOES YARD • December 6, 2009 7:16 PM GMT
Stupid boy
Report Benny brown trousers • December 6, 2009 7:17 PM GMT
Your entering the realms of fantasy now jones.
Report custardcream64 • December 6, 2009 7:18 PM GMT
I agree with the opening poster .
I know it was a popular show but like all the shows written by Perry & Croft i thought it was a pile of cack .
Report positively4thsteet • December 6, 2009 7:20 PM GMT
Some great characters and great actors imo.

When they relied on jonesy falling in a river or getting a chimney between the legs thn they let themselves down imo.

Mainwaring, Fraser and Wilson are 3 of the all time great characters (superbly acted too) Godfrey and Walker brilliant too.

Jones was great, but sometimes, as stated above, the writing let him down imo.

Pikey and the ARP warden slightly hammed up a little imo.

In summary a great programme imo
Report positively4thsteet • December 6, 2009 7:21 PM GMT
Bloody hell i said "imo" 5 times there.
Report BillKiller • December 6, 2009 7:22 PM GMT
don't panic
Report morpteh mackem • December 6, 2009 7:22 PM GMT
same as only fools and horses, im always told its a classic series yet only clip ever see is del boy falling through the bar. poor mans minder.
Report Benny brown trousers • December 6, 2009 7:23 PM GMT
Now,pay attention men.
Report Ovalman. • December 6, 2009 7:23 PM GMT
I agree with the 2nd poster
Report HRH The Lager Khan • December 6, 2009 7:25 PM GMT
Fantastic character based clean comedy with running gags. If you can't appreciate it, go and jerk off to overrated shoite like The Office and The Royle Family.
Report STEPTOES YARD • December 6, 2009 7:29 PM GMT
Oh doctor beeching a pile of cack :0
Report Onedayilwin • December 6, 2009 7:30 PM GMT
Rising Damp - now that was funny

Dad's Army just isn't
Report Brodie • December 6, 2009 7:31 PM GMT
Yeah Dad's Army was poor imo. Clean comedy like Panto is.
Report positively4thsteet • December 6, 2009 7:31 PM GMT
I didn't like rising damp
Report Brodie • December 6, 2009 7:32 PM GMT
iyo ?
Report redrich • December 6, 2009 7:32 PM GMT
Dad's Army = a great show imvho
Report positively4thsteet • December 6, 2009 7:34 PM GMT
who elses opinion would it be?
Report Brodie • December 6, 2009 7:36 PM GMT
T'was a joke on you saying imo 5 times earlier. I sort of missed it.
Report positively4thsteet • December 6, 2009 7:37 PM GMT
:)
Report Brodie • December 6, 2009 7:37 PM GMT
:D
Report custardcream64 • December 6, 2009 7:40 PM GMT
ONEDAYILWIN talks a lot of sense IMO - Rising Damp classic comedy .
Report STEPTOES YARD • December 6, 2009 7:40 PM GMT
Brodie :^0
Report positively4thsteet • December 6, 2009 7:40 PM GMT
The little i've seen of rising damp i didn't like. any of that are you being served trash i thought was cr.ap.

the only comedies i like pre 1990s are:

only fools and horss
fawlty towers
dad's army
blackadder
Alf Garnett

to a lesser extent: Porridge, Steptoe and Son

open allhours another one that is cr.ap imo.
Report Van Basten • December 6, 2009 7:41 PM GMT

Onedayilwin 06 Dec 20:30
Rising Damp - now that was funny

Dad's Army just isn't



Well said dad's army was pish compared to Rising Damp
Report Van Basten • December 6, 2009 7:44 PM GMT
positively4thsteet

only fools and horss
fawlty towers
dad's army
blackadder
Alf Garnett

Apart from dads army the rest are classics,specially garnett i have all 47 i think it is now of in sickness and in health.Dads army wasn't funny to me anyway.
Report BillKiller • December 6, 2009 7:44 PM GMT
I like most of the older comedies but Last Of The Summer Wine has too many bathtubs on wheels for my taste.
Report positively4thsteet • December 6, 2009 7:46 PM GMT
i've always put dad's army well above other perry and croft stuff. In fact the best thing about the show wasn't the scriptwriting, but the acting and characters.
Report positively4thsteet • December 6, 2009 7:47 PM GMT
I loved In sickness and in health , used to watch it when i was a kid. only seen tildeath us do part on youtube, or the odd clip on some compilation programme.

Really thought alf garnett was funny as.
Report Max and Paddy • December 6, 2009 7:48 PM GMT
You wanna watch Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads. One of the all-time great TV programmes.
Report positively4thsteet • December 6, 2009 7:49 PM GMT
I hate that programme.
Report Van Basten • December 6, 2009 7:52 PM GMT
i wish it i could get all til death us do part,my bro has some old ones on video thatw ill never be shown again.And just to think the BBC banned a lot of episodes of til death is do part.But when garnett made in Sickness and in health you can get every episode ever made,i have the lot,its brilliant.Just a shame about til death us do part,as i am am huge fan of alf garnett
Report positively4thsteet • December 6, 2009 7:53 PM GMT
till death was in the 60s, thought they routinely wiped lots of those tapes at the bbc.
Report Big Charlie • December 6, 2009 11:14 PM GMT
No mention of It Aint Half Hot Mum ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc_E3Zs2E-U

As somebody on the page posted, the PC BBC would crap themselves with a script like this today.
Report Get me a drink • December 7, 2009 12:00 AM GMT
They don't like it up 'em!
Report sparkmaster. • December 7, 2009 12:04 AM GMT
I think dad's army was a very british sitcom - there weren't that many great jokes, but the quality of the acting, the empathy of the characters and the originality of the plots more than compensated for it. True, it may not raise that many laughs when watched today, because we've already heard the jokes - but they told them first.
Report a bitofinterest • December 7, 2009 12:06 AM GMT
it actually was and still is marvellous
Report bodil • December 7, 2009 12:09 AM GMT
Wonderful character actors with private lives full of snakes, sh*te, abortions and vampire squids. It's the sub-text, moron!

And their stage-craft - often apprently unsubtle - was, nonetheless, excellent.
Report charwell. • December 7, 2009 4:54 PM GMT
Don't tell him Pike!

A truly wonderful, timeless comedy which never had to revert to smut to get a laugh.

Now look here opening poster, and get back in line!
Report Capt__F • December 7, 2009 4:55 PM GMT
Good Haul
Report Tom Salt • December 7, 2009 6:59 PM GMT
positively4thsteet

Shocking ommission - Rise and Fall of Regnad Perrin and Fall and Rise
Report Tevez is God • December 7, 2009 8:07 PM GMT
Was Dad's Army a 1 joke show?

I don't think there were even that many tbf
Report positively4thsteet • December 7, 2009 8:08 PM GMT
i'm afraid the little i've seen of that rossiter fellow i just didn't find amusing.
Report mad mad moon • December 7, 2009 8:14 PM GMT
Cant believe that normally sane people are calling Dads Army a one joke comedy.
A comedy with class struggles, great acting, perfect timing and a half decent script.
As has been said earlier, BBC would be repeating it every other day on BBC 4 if it was a new comedy.
Report kenny mann • October 8, 2014 7:14 PM BST
I quite enjoyed it, especially the one with Freddie Trueman in it.
Report Make my hay • October 8, 2014 7:16 PM BST
Laugh i missed this one.
Report kenny mann • October 8, 2014 7:17 PM BST
and the other Laugh
Report CLYDEBANK29 • October 8, 2014 7:26 PM BST
When I was a youngster I wasn't the greatest fan of Dad's Army.  As I've got older and wiser I've appreciated it a lot more and now regard it as a timeless classic.  It's a fine wine not a cheap lager.  If you watch it expecting a cheap lager you'll be disappointed.
Report kenny mann • October 8, 2014 7:30 PM BST
Agree completely. Only watched it if it happened to be on and thought it was rather stupid.  Very funny now.
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