recently started watching what ever happened to the likely lads

I LOVE THE THEME , of that show .Oh , what happened to you , whatever happened to me , what became of that people , we used to be . Tomorrows almost over , the day went past so fast , etc , etc .

The street where they start the bike race from isn't far from me,used to love the view down the bank past the church clock to the river very different looking now.

best sitcom ever bar none imo,the bike race and the fight with scaif are two of my favs

My favourite was the one where Terry kept bumping into Little Hutch had a period like that one myself great days

housing estate is in killingworth ...

nearly moved there once, got a bad report, sulphur or something like that.

could have watched filming!

LITTLE HUTCH , who's he when he's at home .

Jan 3, 2019 -- 1:54PM, Culvin wrote:

LITTLE HUTCH , who's he when he's at home .

'I was literally on my way to the Job Centre when I bumped into Little Hutch' He kept giving Terry tips on the horses

I THINK I MET , big hutch outside a pub in Huyton , yesterday . He looked like Peter Crouch on stilts .

From wiki:

Nigel "Little Hutch" Hutchinson, a sex-mad pal who always has a racing tip for Terry

The Fat Ox pub.!!
So sad that in real life Terry did the dirty on Bob.

"Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads" is still the yardstick by which all others should be judged.

Peerless.

The episode "The Old Magic" sees Terry inform Bob that the latter is suffering from "Hutchinson's Disease", a euphemism for someone wanting to have sex with every available female.

The reason why 'WHTTLL' is so revered is that the excellence of the product is due to script, plot, dialogue, characterisation and performance. 

The writers didn't feel obliged to parachute in any Left-Wing, Trans, Multicultural and/or Gay characters to get the project green-lighted. As we know all too well, this latter strategy is absolutely compulsory today, however ridiculous the result.

I CAN WELL IMAGINE , that some of dirty little hutch's tips may well have had names like , Fill your boots , Get stuck in , Backdoor alley and his fave one , Dirty little fella . All those tips he gave would run at Newcastle , and if they run again , i advice you not to back them .I have a tip to give you , back a horse called , FLOWER GIRL .I'm not sure when it's running next but i'm gunna put my shirt on that pretty filly .

Parachuting trannies alun? What's not to like?

Northern Mithering Sh1te

HAPPY NEW YEAR , to you , alun .

AND YOU , woundedknee .I fell off my bike yesterday and i've wounded my knee .

Pints of Mild in barrel glasses. I like the episode when they're trying to avoid finding out the result of an England game.

Did Terry ever find the source of the Tweed?

A measure of the show's quality is how many all-time-great sequences are stuffed into just one individual episode.

We all love the 'No Hiding Place' episode ("People don't go around saying nil-two, do they?"), but that's also the show which features Terry's epic takedown of every foreigner on the planet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brNiTo_TbeQ

There's nothing bigoted about it. Everyone is treated equally. As Terry concludes: "Come to think of it, I don't even like the people next door." And besides, his are the views of a man who's travelled the world, and even married a German woman. As he says of the breakdown of that marriage, "There's them and us. People should take heed of the failure of my entry into Europe."

A brilliant summary of Teryy's take on foreigners,cockneys,jocks and yorkshiremen screaming, still smiling when I think about that scene ! The BBC management team would have to be given counselling just watching that episode today !