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View Teddy Eagle's Profile Teddy Eagle Flag 17 Sep 21 10.45am Send a Private Message to Teddy Eagle Add Teddy Eagle as a friend


All series are currently available on catch-up. I saw the first series and bits of the second so thought I’d watch the rest.
It’s not quite as entertaining as I remembered it, the editing hasn’t helped, but is notable for not making the characters overly sympathetic except they all, to some degree, share a moral code.
Dennis - dependable but with a habit of shouting at his mates and getting drunk when faced with problems.
Moxey - a bit odd; who’d want to share a hut with an habitual arsonist?
Wayne - maybe the worst chippie ever and liable to get his mates in trouble with his constant womanising.
Oz - cartoonish yob but is loyal to his mates if not his wife and son.
Barry - boring but good hearted bloke who keeps getting arrested. A Spark who never does any work.
Neville - whining, self righteous.
Bomber - amiable sort of chap.


 

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View PalazioVecchio's Profile PalazioVecchio Flag south pole 17 Sep 21 11.04am Send a Private Message to PalazioVecchio Add PalazioVecchio as a friend

Bomber....Pat Roach....an interesting career as a wrestler. A 6'5" judo black belt....and a gentle giant. RiP

 


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I didn't realise that Dennis's sister Norma was Jimmy Nail's sister in real life.

I wonder what happened to Jimmy Nail as he was flavour of the month for ages with Crocodile Shoes and Spender plus a couple of hit records and then he just vanished

 

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View Noz's Profile Noz Flag North Hampshire 17 Sep 21 11.56am Send a Private Message to Noz Add Noz as a friend

Interesting to note: Timothy Spall, who played Barry is a big Palace fan, as is his famous son Rafe.

 

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View Teddy Eagle's Profile Teddy Eagle Flag 17 Sep 21 12.16pm Send a Private Message to Teddy Eagle Add Teddy Eagle as a friend

Originally posted by Midlands Eagle

I didn't realise that Dennis's sister Norma was Jimmy Nail's sister in real life.

I wonder what happened to Jimmy Nail as he was flavour of the month for ages with Crocodile Shoes and Spender plus a couple of hit records and then he just vanished

I think he got fed up with the Oz image and was a bit difficult to work with on other projects.
The set they used for the first series was knocked down and Albert Square put up in it’s place.

 

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croydon proud Flag Any european country i fancy! 17 Sep 21 4.17pm

One of my favourite series, got two box sets and might just get them out!But the editing thing is spot on, it was bad back in the day, jumpinmg from opne scene to another, I imagine it hasn"t got any better with time! The first series in Germany was great, and also the second series in spain. Always remember, it was the time of pavement jobs on a thursday lunchtime over here-most securicor vans delivered cash to sites on a thursday, and a gang of big time robbers had fled to Spain. Barry was reading the sun, in a bar, and all you could see was a tattoed arm next to him at the bar, the headline was about the bank job and had a pic of a suspect. Barry said to the bloke drinking, i"d hang him or something of the like, "what mate?", said the bloke. "I"d hang him," says gormless Barry, the music started rolling, the camera cut to the paper mug shot, then slowly up the mans arm to his face, and it was the same bloke! Priceless. They did spoil it by doing another two series 20 years later, in South America I think, and had their sons involved, less Wayne who died of a heroin overdose, but Pat Roach was still alive, but it was crap. Series one and two,then end of.

 

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Originally posted by croydon proud

One of my favourite series, got two box sets and might just get them out!But the editing thing is spot on, it was bad back in the day, jumpinmg from opne scene to another, I imagine it hasn"t got any better with time! The first series in Germany was great, and also the second series in spain. Always remember, it was the time of pavement jobs on a thursday lunchtime over here-most securicor vans delivered cash to sites on a thursday, and a gang of big time robbers had fled to Spain. Barry was reading the sun, in a bar, and all you could see was a tattoed arm next to him at the bar, the headline was about the bank job and had a pic of a suspect. Barry said to the bloke drinking, i"d hang him or something of the like, "what mate?", said the bloke. "I"d hang him," says gormless Barry, the music started rolling, the camera cut to the paper mug shot, then slowly up the mans arm to his face, and it was the same bloke! Priceless. They did spoil it by doing another two series 20 years later, in South America I think, and had their sons involved, less Wayne who died of a heroin overdose, but Pat Roach was still alive, but it was crap. Series one and two,then end of.

Agree about the last two series, in Arizona and Cuba and the add-on two episodes in Thailand are if anything worse. They were too plot heavy and not enough about the characters.
The editing in the current version cuts out mostly Oz letting loose.

 

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BlueJay Flag UK 17 Sep 21 6.15pm

A classic, but yes it was definitely a bit makeshift and hasn't exactly aged well visually. Some well drawn, gritty characters though. Personally I didn't actually mind the last two series (obviously not a patch on the original series' but was good to see it back).

I love comedy from the 60s-early 90s. Give me a bit of On the Buses, Ever Decreasing Circles, or Reggie Perrin any day of the week.

 

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View nickyf's Profile nickyf 17 Sep 21 7.07pm Send a Private Message to nickyf Add nickyf as a friend

I enjoy watching some of the old comedies based about working life in britain I watched a series of common as muck about some northern bin men on you tube great series and funny and interesting insight into the UK in the early 90s and how it's changed.

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View Rudi Hedman's Profile Rudi Hedman Flag Caterham 17 Sep 21 8.23pm Send a Private Message to Rudi Hedman Add Rudi Hedman as a friend

Originally posted by Teddy Eagle

Agree about the last two series, in Arizona and Cuba and the add-on two episodes in Thailand are if anything worse. They were too plot heavy and not enough about the characters.
The editing in the current version cuts out mostly Oz letting loose.

I’ve got the first 2 series on box set and if they’ve censored Oz then I wouldn’t bother. He is brilliant and natural, because he was a heavy drinking hooligan who didn’t care, but had a soft side to him.

 


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View robdave2k's Profile robdave2k Flag 17 Sep 21 9.04pm Send a Private Message to robdave2k Add robdave2k as a friend

I was 2 when it came out. Loved it when I saw it in the 90’s- especially Bomber.

I always thought the choppy shooting was part of it, it wasn’t supposed to be slick, it was supposed to be unnatural to represent the situation,

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croydon proud Flag Any european country i fancy! 17 Sep 21 9.24pm

Originally posted by Teddy Eagle

Agree about the last two series, in Arizona and Cuba and the add-on two episodes in Thailand are if anything worse. They were too plot heavy and not enough about the characters.
The editing in the current version cuts out mostly Oz letting loose.

Yeah, the first two were factual at the time, we had loads of builders working in Germany and in the second series, there was a non extradition agreement with Spain, so british criminals fled there, last two series just waffle.

 

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