terry and june is so much betterer than people admit!

I liked it, one of the old situation comedies we used to do, of the 70s
people tired of them, we don't really do them anymore much

all comedies and comedians have a shelf life

most people now are ashamed to admit they laughed at it

it was one of the funnier ones , Terry cracked me up & always though June a bit of an elderly MILF

the GILF

I was only a pup though so cut me some slack !

she cant have been that old, shes still alive now!

she did look about 60, people looked older back then though. she was probably about 35 lol

yep they obv made her up to look that bit older (my excuse!!)


I never had any sexual desires towards her , just would've loved her to have been my gran that fed me lots of expensive biscuits n stuff

http://news.sky.com/story/775948/granny-72-having-a-baby-with-her-grandson

That series ran for only 8 years. Funny, it seemed much much longer.

I must say I was sceptical about that story which Ken posted until I realized Sky News had lifted it from New Zealand's New Idea magazine.

Were stuck in 2-channel land in the late 70s which didnt start till 4 o'clock, liked anything that was on - Terry & June was good as was its almost identical twin George & Mildred

of this genre my favourite was Bless This House, with Sid getting into various scrapes with his next door neighbour and pal Trev.

the way terry gets in the funny scrapes every episode.

it was funny, admit it!

It really wasn't. It was absoulte sihte. Just watched an episode to see if I was wrong and it was dire.

Now, "Ever Decreasing Circles", on around the same time, maybe a bit later. That's what you call comedy.

That genre formed my view of middle class life -- come home from the office to a large house and immediately pour yourself an extremely generous scotch.

fall and rise of reggie perrin on now......absolute genius comedy writing

Sorry but I didn't get where I am today by watching 1970s comedy repeats on Dave

super

I was in the same class at school as the "super" guy.

Bruce Bould is his name. Hanson Grammar, Bradford 1960- 1966

Got quite pally with him, but he was a bit of a swat.

No flies on him then.

The Bless This House film was the high point of UK family sitcoms imo, with none other than Terry and June featuring as Sid and Jean's neighbours. Trev was now the wonderful Peter Butterworth (the site owner in Carry On Camping), while Sid and Jean's drippy son was replaced by UK porn legend Robin Askwith, the man they called the Ron Jeremy of the Home Counties.

Ken , will be calling you on another thread.

actually i agree with Kenny , it wasn't that funny at all , it was complete junk just mildy amusing like a lot of daft stuff from that era , sitcoms like Butterflies were more watchable

Terry and June was your standard 70's comedy, never uproariously funny or original ,but I watched it

the trouble is one can only tell the same joke so many times, before it comes unfunny

any comedy which makes somebody laugh is valid

we need more humour in this world

ps
I won't blame you for liking it Moonbeam, our comedy tastes are our own
but yes it had a sort of cosy warmth about it

My favourite comedy series of all time, for originality was 'The League Of Gentleman'
although that came later...the first two series, which had some surreal plot, unbelievable

After that, there was a decline, because again
one can only tell same joke so many times

Terry and June seemed to go on for aeons
but I watched it...something to watch, a sort of cosy normality about it
but I could well understand the younger viewers finally starting to rebel
I would say there were better series at the time...but it served its purpose for some

The Fall and Rise of Reggie Perrin, a classic of course

just my opinion

and others (see above)

true Kenny..

For me The Phil Silvers show was the high end of comedy from the early tv era and still stands up well today. Whatever happened to the likely lads another good 70s standard bearer

Sergeant Bilko ...I had many a laugh over that, in B & W john

and the Likely Lads...especially when he told how he came to divorce his wife in Germany
Rising Damp, I laughed at that a lot

and of course early seventies Monty Python, very high originality there the shows had some hit and miss
sketches but advanced the cause of comedy, and had the wonderful Terry Gilliam animations

What I think comedy is, it is the comedian or the situation which is the joke.
You look at them and laugh
They basically tell this same joke in a never ending of variations and combinations
as long as it is not predictable it works

When it becomes predictable, the same joke has been told too many times

I think this is why comedy has to keep changing and moving on, although sometimes it is cyclic

I think this even applies to stand ups, the best are funny in themselves

just my opinion

Mrs Brown's Boys quite popular now
the joke, basically a man playing a woman....in a certain style, it has it's own originality

the same joke over and over again, that is what comedy is

Phil Silvers Show and Reggie Perrin are a bit special imo. Having watched Phil Silvers over and over, I have also been enjoying the spinoff, if that's what it was - Car 54 Where are you? lately. It's a bit weaker but Joe E Ross (Mess Sgt. Ritzik in Phil Silvers) is very watchable. His partner, Hermann Munster and The Stomach in Phil Silvers, is good, and they kept Ritzik'z wife Emma as Joe E Ross's wife.

Terry and June ran from 1979 to 1987.

Is basically an eighties show.  And it was sh1te.

I think it ran longer than that it may have changed channels. I think it started around 1970.

What was the one with david Jason I think it was,called secret life of edgar?? or something

googled it

The Top Secret Life of Edgar Briggs.

I thought it was hilarious but I was only about 7

Terry and June didn't start before 1979, but if you look in IMDB they were in a series as Terry and June Fletcher called Happy Ever After from 1974 to 1979 and before that Scott had a series called Scott On... which ran from 1964 to 74 which June Whitfield was in as well. So though it feels like they were on forever ever they were in a way as well, it's not just a bad dream.

Sorry I got confused I mistook Happy ever After for Terry and June

I still stink comedians and situation comedies have only so many jokes in them,
which can only be told so many times

I think Tony Hancock made that mistake, he was mega in his day, particularly on radio
But he made the mistake of becoming jealous of his co stars and dropping them  and going on too long

He then became completely confused and committed suicide in an Australian  Hotel room I think, very sad

He did not see that comedy is like a baton, it has to be passed on at some time

Wasn't Happy Ever After,the same script with a different name attached to it?

propably...it definitely went on too long
I remember laughing at it in the 70's, but even then there were funnier, it filled a hole I suppose
Terry Scott was funny, but I have forgotten what he started in

Hmm, I think back then, like now, some people will just watch any old sh1te.  Around the same time porridge, fawlty towers, till death us do part and dads army, ony fools and horses were on.  You would have thought theyd have learned that comedy can actually be proper good.

everybody has different tastes rob

yes I probably watched any old sh1te, if was on before I went up the pub

Gery my favourite Likely Lads episode was the famous one where they spent the day trying to avoid hearing the scoreline of the england game...a classic. I did like Monty Python, the movies especially are genius, but i think spike milligan and the goon squad deserve as much if not more credit...truly groundbreaking stuff at that time.

Comedy is a highly personal thing of course, one mans piss can be another's porter. Whatever the attraction of Mrs Browns Boys is totally beyond me, Brendan o carroll has been doing the same joke for 30 years at least now and its made him a multi millionaire finally, good luck to him but i think you'd need to do a deep psychological study to find out why people like it....cant be the "comedy" surely because on no level is it funny....i am certain about that!

Flower i dont see any direct link between Bilko and Car 54 beyond the writer but i love them both, just for the theme tune alone Car 54 will always be dear to my heart. And staying on a nostalgia theme i recently hired the first series of Taxi from my local library and am pleased at how well it holds up - for the sheer acting talent alone - danny de vito, chris lloyd, andy kaufman, judd hirsch - it stands up with the best imho

Those Hancock shows were often great, but while the ones with Syd James were good, the ones with Kenneth William, Hattie Jacques and Bill Kerr were terrible, imo. So he was right to ditch some of the cast, but it was near perfect with just Syd and a cast of regular support actors, Syd and Tony's relationship was like a Bottom of its time without the frying pans. And yeah it was a shame that he started to believe that he was the star and everyone else was holding him back. Did you see his stand up routine from about 1966? It was terrible to see him reduced to awful Robert Newton impressions, which I always thought was the worst thing about him.

Was Terry Scott in something with Hugh Lloyd called:

The Gnomes Of Dulwich ?

According to IMDB again, yes, ran 1 season 1969

Bloody hell, Galton and Simpson are both still alive, well after most(all?) of the actors in steptoe and hancock are long gone.

terry scott was in a fair few carry on movies. the one that springs to mind is carry on up the jungle where he was the tarzan type character.

Carry on up the jungle was one of the better efforts of that lamentable enterprise imo

He was actually quite good as Cardinal Wolsey in one.

He was good in Carry on Camping, where the farmer thought Terry had got his daughter pregnant.

Though Terry and June was not really funny it did have a homely feel to it like Good Life and Sykes at least we made early evening comedy back then

I liked Sir Dennis, I mean he just got bellow "Medford!" every now and then, must have been fun to act that stuff, no strain and years of work.

Women are not into comedy that much...with a few exceptions
I can attest to that from trying to live with some of them...they have little sense of humour

Though Terry and June was not really funny it did have a homely feel to it like Good Life and Sykes at least we made early evening comedy back then
I agree with that steamship....I suppose society has changed
My Dad loved Sykes and his constant battle with Richard Wattis, his posh neighbour, and of course there was Hattie Jacques
a comedy star in her own right

Terry and June did have some funny moments, even if too few for some
but it could not have been that bad, because the viewing figures must have been there, for the BBC to keep showing it

The only program I know who ignores viewing figures is Channel 4 racing

Yes ebul Eric Sykes was a great actor who perhaps never got the credit he deserved...a truly funny man and in a different league to the people referred to as comedians these days.

A mid 1980s sitcom that made me laugh was Brush Strokes but whether i'd still find it funny some 30 years later is a different matter.

To be fair if you compare it to badults or uncle it is a comedy classic,
And the commisioning editor for bbc comedy should have their tits/knackers put through a mangle  For the steaming pile of sh!te that is jaime private schoolgirl or jonah from tonga ,i can only assume they are distant relatives of chris lilley because both are fecking dire.

Terry Scott and Huw Lloyd were a long-running double act, with Hugh And I Spy and Hugh And I back in the 1960s. If there was ever a funny moment in either of them, I can't recall it now.

But I did like Scott in the Carry On films. He looked to be having a great time playing Tarzan and I had a great time watching him. And he was perfect as the frustrated husband in Carry On Camping. Whatever else he did, he could be proud he had a role to play in perhaps the most widely loved film ever made in this country.

yes flushgordon, BBC comedy is dire now

script writers are so important
eve though I said we are sometimes watching the same joke
the characters themselves must have fresh lines, fresh things to do, fresh situations
they cannot literally tell the same joke

I don't know how they do it?

Badults is from a group of performers called Pappys. The Pappys live show is far superior to their TV programme. I see excellent comedy performers every year at the Fringe yet they either do not make it to Tv or get let down by writing.

If yopu get the chance to see a 4 piece comedy group called Mixed Doubles then do I think they are doing Radio 4 at the moment.

the trouble with the BBC is they aint got no money to employ anyone decent
and they filled with feminists...who are humourless
I would find in hard to find anyone with less humour than a feminist, except maybe a Muslim Fundamentalist Preacher
neither are a barrel of laughs

A lot of humour nowadays is aimed at young people
we don't see the family situation comedies much anymore
perhaps we have done them to death...or our society don't think much of families anymore

Citizens feckin khant

they should do a catholic version of citizen khan, called power to the papal

But anything like that would only be a pale imitation of father ted one of the best comedies ever.