Big Deal starring Ray Brooks

used to luv that show when i was a kid, think it got me started on betting.

Its no big deal..

Gone are the dreams you had for so very long.

How true for 95% of us on here.

One of the best series around at the time..

You are all showing your age!

walos, Robbie always won in the end.

Loved the programme and loved to see London pre mass-immigration...

Good evening sparrow..... halcyon days.... all the cast were good !


Met a character just like ''ferret!''

yeah great series. can't believe the ****s at bbc don't have it on again. they put so much **** on it's not worth the fee now.

Just Good Friends, followed by Big Deal.

What telly, then!

Nowpisswank

Anybody remember '' The Ritz ? ''

didnt the bird who played the daughter ended up on the bill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2ETi8Sppj4


Very funny series !   

She did chavman.

Nowhere near as good loking as her TV mommy (Sharon Duce?)

Just Good Friends?

Mad Mick looks like Roida !     

Big Deal loved it ,I won the Jackpot at Cleveland park Greyhound stadium in about 1988 2.5 k remember jumping up in the air as last dog won and shouting eat your heart out Bobby Box

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_md90H5Xnv4

One for you halcyon and probably one of my all time faps...

koikeeper     06 Sep 15 11:18 
One of the best series around at the time.



Still enjoyable now.

Fantastic show, used to love watching this with the family on a Sunday night.

From Wikipedia:
He was the original 'next stop' announcement voice of the London Tramlink system, before being replaced by Nicholas Owen

BobbyPeru 07 Sep 15 01:42
Fantastic show, used to love watching this with the family on a Sunday night.

You must have videoed it because it was shown in midweek

Really? could have sworn it was on a Sunday 

I am pretty sure it was shown on Sunday's.

Just checked

Series 1 was on a Sunday, series 2 and 3 were on a Tuesday

I just checked.   Big Deal is a British television comedy/drama series produced by the BBC between 1984 and 1986. The series was created and written by Geoff McQueen who created several other major television series ... Wikipedia
First episode date: October 14, 1984
Final episode date: November 4, 1986



October 4th 1984 was a Sunday and November 4th 1986 was a Tuesday.       

Yes, like i said.

I think cj180 must have taped Sunday's episode on his betamax, and watched it midweek and got confused

Either way we can watch again on youtube.   

Ray Brooks is in Sleaford this week doing his show

sparrow I have just changed that wiki entry as I do fairly often...

Just a thought.

Yep, cheers Sparrow. Chuffed you put that link up, all 30 episodes converted and on my flash drive.

The useless BBC only sold series 1 on DVD. Last time i watched this was when it was on UK Gold in the 90's.

The BBC suck in your money and never replay the best series..

Anyone remember Tutti Frutti or something like that from a similar era starring that fat waste of space Robbie Coltrane and I do believe Emma Thompson...

Well done, bobbyperu. Going to watch a few episodes tonight.

Ray Brooks will always be Mr Benn to me.

I will always remember him for the film " The Knack" with Rita Tushingham who was a great favoutite of mine.

*favourite.

You must have given up on it after the first series Bobby

Nah, i would never give up on Robbie

Cathy Come Home is a 1966 BBC television play by Jeremy Sandford, produced by Tony Garnett and directed by Ken Loach, about homelessness. A 1998 Radio Times readers' poll voted it the "best single television drama" and a 2000 industry poll rated it as the second best British television programme ever made.[2][3] Filmed in a gritty, realistic drama documentary style, it was first broadcast on 16 November 1966 on BBC1. The play was shown in the BBC's The Wednesday Play anthology strand, which often tackled social issues.

This play starred Ray Brooks and Carol White. It made a huge impact on the Uk public who watched it.

This was the era when greatly playwrights wrote for the BBC, expressing social comments on the massive injustices that poor and socially deprived people were suffering.

Ray Brooks made his name in this play - he was brilliant.

Also available on youtube, excellent drama.

Ray Brooks portrayed brilliantly in Big Deal how, most ''gambler's'' in the company of their loved one's appear distant ! They always think about getting there money back, and the next bet !   

Jimmy "Yosser" Hughes gizza job. Best ever in my humble opinion.

Shake Hands .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6I8-0eDxaY

Bring back memories.

Yes all good stuff just makes you wonder what the average age of people on here is maybe 40 and are there youngsters on here racing doesn't  seem to attract youngsters too many other things going on now guess.

Also available on youtube, excellent drama.

Regarding Cathy Come Home.

Looking back it seems a little surprising that Cathy Come Home caused such a stir. But people then had more of a social conscience in my view.

It's beginning to return. A backlash to the unnecessary creation of Tory austerity measures.

Cathy Come Home
Poor Cow
Edna The Inebriate Woman

All excellent hard hitting social  dramas

I'm in lust with the barmaid (The Big Deal) - what a chest

New    This Is England on later this week or next week.
First 2 were great.

Sunday 13th C4 9pm

Fact cannot help himself..

Tory austerity measures...Who has been affected - OK the single black mother that oils his wheelchair may get less hours but to the rest of us it is business as normal only I do not get £20k a year in interest..

People have never had it so good and a benefit cap of £25k a year is outrageous..

It should be food vouchers and a bed in a dormitory..

As for Rita Tushingham what a dog have you seen the state of her..

Facts' brain is bigger than her head...

Rita also speaks highly of you, homefortea.

Sparrow she is a dog..

And I am an equal opportunity poster..

If only facts knew that his brain was so small he might stop posting such Liberal drivel on this forum..

That exists TO TAKE MONEY OFF THE POOR AND RETURN IT TO THE RICH..

Have to go now as I have just started to work again and am negotiating to build 200 new Mosques around the UK..

The one in Wisbech is nearly at the planning stage..