Generic British Sitcom Cast Shots

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When I was proper young the waitresses in 'ello 'ello were the high of eroticism for me. I reckon I can blame a lot of shit on that.

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chris barrie has such an awesome face

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Chris Barrie subsection:

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omg, prince among men, NO!

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Not really a cast shot but that Brush Strokes dude really was proto Mangan who in turn really was proto ILX WDYLL thread material.

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duty free pic sums up so much brit sitcom rongness.

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Not really a cast shot but that Brush Strokes dude really was proto Mangan who in turn really was proto ILX WDYLL thread material.

Ha, you are actually kind of Steven Mangan

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ha ha you don't know. i am steven mangan.

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I want Tom's jumper

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That's one for "Up The Arse Corner" in VIz.

some more richard o'sullivan love

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doh xpost

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I bet you'd forgotten this, huh?

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Is it me or is Timothy Claypole off Rentaghost is a dead ringer for Flea in that photo?

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^^^ OTM

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"I got hos... in different area codes..."

Claypole looks a lot like the young Terry Gilliam too.

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re miles of posts upthread: I cocking love Wolfie Smith.

Can we get one of the Yanks to do this for American sitcoms so we can compare and contrast?

Have we had this one yet?
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A youngish Simon Pegg...

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Man, I would have totally nailed Sally Phillips before she became a Bridge of Christ.
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Hippies Pegg = 1995 Luke Haines

And yeah, a corresponding US thread would be great.

lols @ 'hippies'

or not.

Till Death Us Do Part = most indie album cover friendly shot on the thread so far?

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can not find Piglet Files cast shot );

Hope this shrinks

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hippie pegg = paul merton

I never thought there'd be pictures for this:

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"With a joke in Episode 5"

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lol at john harris

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French bird still hottt.

re: John Harris

Which one, Lyndhurst or Wendy Craig?

omg 8080 re. harris

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The Swedish one from Mind Your Language was Ingmar Bergman's daughter.

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I've got the Mind Your Language theme stuck in my head now. Jesus.

david jason would have been great as a british tony soprano judging by that pic

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indie

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old skool sally phillips vs sarah alexander

Smashing stuff. Had forgotten about Lavender's involvement in Mrs Noah. That Dear John promo shot is achingly sad. I still sing the theme whenever I read Dear Zoo with my 2-y-o.

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AAAGH!

old skool sally phillips vs sarah alexander

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all about gina bellman. not so much in that pic.

Cosign, she's a number one stunner.

lynda bellingham?

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As the waitresses in Alllo Allo were to Jim, Adrian from Bread was to me.

also
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woah, is that last b&w shot alison steadman?

yeh. people who reguarly play mums in british sitcoms being hot shock.

This thread is horrifying.

I want Tom's jumper

I want Tom's wife.

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don't remember that one at all

only my scottish friends like high life. in fact, those that do REALLY like it. everyone else i know thinks exactly the opposite.

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The High Life was fine. Easily the equal of Peep Show or Spaced.

no

oh fuck, Margo was so hot

I want Tom's jumper

haha ed i knew that was you without even looking.

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my school drama teacher, back row second left!

the high life was ace iirc - and the theme tune sounded exactly like Corduroy...

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Is it twisted that this thread makes me homesick?

It's all so...cosy.

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the format of Mind Your Language was sold to American TV where it was re-made as What A Country! and syndicated in 1986-87 for 26 episodes. Soviet comedian/defector Yakov Smirnoff (yes, really) starred as a Russian immigrant taxi driver, studying in Los Angeles to become an American citizen, together with Hungarian, Pakistani, Chinese, African and Mexican classmates. The Pakistani was played by the Indian tennis star Vijay Amritaj. Garrett M Brown was Taylor Brown, the teacher, and Gail Strickland was cast as the principal.

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So many more broken links in this one than on the US one - very sad.

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lol @ hold steady

LOVE the IT Crowd...

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can't find one of these for All at No 20

so Clunes was pretty handsome back in the day then. who knew?

he is still pretty handsome now imo!

giving up on All at No 20 and skipping ahead to Men Behaving Badly (or 'British Men Behaving Badly' as imdb has it)

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Caroline Quentin had a good kinda-Britpop look going for a while there

is Gone to the Dogs any good? It had an impressive looking cast

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Was there a sitcom with Donald Sinden and Martin Clunes as father and son and both doctors, living together after both being divorce I think. I can't find anything about it on IMDB or have I got the actors wrong?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Wait_Up

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Ah, that's the one. Would have been a better show with Sinden/Clunes imho.

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^Plot: When Ida Willis gets a new job as Housekeeper to Dr. Robert Price and his wife Angie, she moves into their London flat. However, she soon discovers that Robert is the son she gave up for adoption when he was a baby, and she proceeds to call him Shane, the name she gave him when he was born. Other characters include Ida's troublesome brother Wilfred, and Robert's adoptive mother, Mrs. Price, an upmarket widow with whom Ida does not get on. In the fourth series, they move to the Yorkshire village of Little Birchmarch, where Ida befriends Robert's mousy receptionist, Miss Parfitt.

go Molly

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early Last of the Summer Wine was really good, basic concept of three old guys dossing about talking crap seemed to get lost somewhere between Michael Bates leaving and the Russ Abbot era, though

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yes exactly, Roy Clarke is one of the great dialogue writers on his day, no need for the slapstick or farce elements

37 years of that sitcom..Practically an act of hostility by the BBC, especially screening it within a seemingly endless Sunday triple bill of Sings of Praise, Antiques Roadshow and LotSW for maximum depression 'sunday sad' impact.

From around 2002 - 2008, I used to be forced to watch it in an old peoples' home during parental visits - which brought out a certain piquancy. Glad it's all over.

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my favourite sitcom since Blackadder. it's a crime this wasn't better known.

From around 2002 - 2008, I used to be forced to watch it in an old peoples' home during parental visits - which brought out a certain piquancy. Glad it's all over.

― Twist of Caliphate (Bob Six), Monday, 29 December 2014

For several years I had to see those things at my grandmother's house every weekend. I think I recall Heartbeat also being a Sunday thing too.
But at least those shows weren't as unbearable as Blind Date, Gladiators, X-Factor or Strictly Come Dancing (other shows my grandmother watched endlessly). The repetition of most of these shows is truly mind-numbing.

Bit sad about the number of broken links ITT.

I used to see a lot of late period LotSW while visiting an elderly relative as well. Even though it had been terrible for several decades by that point I did feel a bit sad when the BBC cancelled it, there are loads of dreadful comedy shows aimed at young people, it seems fair that there should be at least one for old people

Yeah Pulling was amazing

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we need to reup these pics

this thread needs turtlenecks

I really want to see this pre-Last of the Summer Wine Roy Clarke sitcom starring Ronald Fraser but it doesn't seem to have ever been released on vhs or dvd and there's nothing on youtube, I don't even know if the recordings exist anymore

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Misfit_%28TV_series%29

Premise[edit]
Basil Allenby-Johnson ("Badger" for short) returned from a colonial life in Malaya to an England he no longer recognised. Each episode explored Badger's response to a different aspect of modern life in a Britain which had just emerged from the Swinging Sixties.

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Was Last Tango In Halifax ever a sitcom?

I've saw two episodes of that and by god, it's one of the dullest dramas I've ever seen, probably the reason good dramas are overpraised because they contrast with that punishment.

(x-post) Maureen, Dennis and Pete all r.i.p

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Gimme Gimme Gimme = best british sitcom of the 90s imo

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the wikipedia page for 2point4 Children is crazy defensive

Critics[who?] hailed it as "one of the greatest British sitcoms of all time", whilst some made comparisons to US sitcom Roseanne, yet few critics made the connection between Marshall and former writing partner David Renwick, whose sitcom One Foot in the Grave features a variety of domestic surrealism, similar to 2point4 children.

Further recent articles have made reference to the show being "perhaps one of the most subversive prime-time family sitcoms" noting underlying levels of post modernism such as the main couple being named after the Flowerpot Men and the two children's names referencing the children in Monty Python's "The Atilla the Hun Show" sketch. It has also been noted that the character of Rona can be read as that of a single gay man. Many other similar references and concepts are buried carefully beneath the apparently simple appearance of a family-type comedy, although Marshall has never drawn attention to them in interviews.

2.4 children has often been seen as a rather under-rated sitcom amongst fans.

I don't think I've ever met someone who likes 2point4 Children. who are these people who like 2point4 Children?

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I made some 'Agony Again' gifs a few years ago but now I can't find them

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I just found out today that Howard Lew Lewis aka Elmo from Brush Strokes is the grandson of John Lewis, the founder of John Lewis (the department store chain)

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I thought for sure that there would be a tumblr devoted to Watching, but there isn't

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not a cast shot, but maybe live action sitcoms with animated title sequences could be a sister thread

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can someone explain this to me? the caption says "Little known sitcom starring Mollie Sugden and Melvyn Hayes from LWT (1975-76) Also featured Patsy Rowlands." I know that You Must Be The Husband was the title a sitcom from the late 80s with Tim Brooke-Taylor Diane Keen, but this Mollie Sugden/Melvyn Hayes show doesn't exist as far as I can tell. has someone doctored the title sequence to another sitcom and uploaded it to youtube?

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I looked at some of the other videos uploaded by that person and they include stuff like mocked up title sequences for crossroads if it had carried on running into the 90s, so I think it is a fake, Fictitious British Sitcom Cast Shots is a good idea though

those title graphics are definitely not from 1975. and possibly the LWT logo too.

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Also staring Keith Barron, 'Haggard' which somehow managed to just avoid being 'Shit Blackadder III'.
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... that is some 70s cast there: Ken Jones! Keith Chegwin! Bill Dean! Alison Steadman! Joe Gladwin! The Spinners!! (xp)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Cope

In 1984 Cope starred in an ill-conceived surreal sitcom about a failing themed cowboy village on the outskirts of Merseyside called Bootle Saddles. He played the lead character Percy James, who was passionate about the park despite the poor financial returns. The series appeared to be less of a parody but more a sort of homage to 1950s and '60s westerns, with episodes structured loosely around epics like High Noon and The Magnificent Seven. The characters rarely strayed out of their diegetic cowboy personas, despite the contemporary setting. The series was axed after one season.

this sounds made up as well, but then I looked on youtube and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ1FFZC6ggI

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ha which is that early 70s looking one Tom? the one with Chegwin(?), Harry Cross from Brookside and Ives from Porridge? looks awful/amazing. the fella on the right looks like Tom O Connor but i know it can't be.

bootle saddles sounds fantastic but i have 100% confidence that watching it would dispel this notion

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bootle saddles sounds fantastic but i have 100% confidence that watching it would dispel this notion

― Merdeyeux, Sunday, December 6, 2015 5:20 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I was really hoping that it would be some kind of forgotten masterpiece, but sadly Merdeyeux is correct, it's terrible. "the characters rarely strayed out of their diegetic cowboy personas, despite the contemporary setting" makes it sound like Philip Martin's Gangsters or something

'Dear John' somehow managed to transcend it's British Sitcom generic-ness.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/staticarchive/366be0773fc03d5a3187e7d969ced322351fa290.jpg
Even in the face of such generic British Sitcom costume, set design, and (on the face of it at least) 'wacky' characters.

ha which is that early 70s looking one Tom? the one with Chegwin(?), Harry Cross from Brookside and Ives from Porridge? looks awful/amazing. the fella on the right looks like Tom O Connor but i know it can't be.

It's something called The Wackers, the four guys on the right with Harry Cross are The Spinners, the ones from Liverpool not Detroit.

xp the first picture I posted on this revive was from Three Up, Two Down, which also had an implausible American remake:

The pilot for an American adaptation of Three Up, Two Down, titled 5 Up, 2 Down, aired on 5 June 1991 on CBS, but was not picked up as a series. Nick and Angie were played by Jeffrey D. Sams and Jackie Mari Roberts, and Angie had given birth to triplets. Sam and Daphne were played by Cleavon Little and Emily Yancy.

replacing Michael Elphick with Cleavon Little makes me kind of want to see that one tbh

sort of related- Cleavon Little won an emmy for a guest appearance in an episode of the US Dear John. He was slated to star in this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Dugan

Mr. Dugan is an American sitcom about a black Congressman that was scheduled to air in March 1979 on CBS, but was pulled at the last minute and never shown...Mr. Dugan had been scheduled for a March 11, 1979 premiere, and was heavily promoted by its network, CBS. A special screening for real black Congressmen, however, proved to be an unmitigated disaster; many found the show "demeaning" and threatened a boycott of CBS if the program aired. Lear subsequently pulled the plug on Mr. Dugan, saying "we have not yet totally fulfilled our intention for the series."

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I remember watching Give My Head Peace and not finding it funny at all, but thinking that maybe because I'm English I didn't 'get it', can anyone more qualified confirm/deny if it was in fact amusing?

I'm qualified. It was shite

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Oh God, there was a time in my life when those last three were genuinely must-watch TV for me. I'm curious to see if City Lights holds up at all (I've seen the others since, they really don't), but not really enough to try and find it anywhere.

The lass on the bottom left of the photo three up is Mrs Peter Capaldi.

Yeah I'd be interested to see city lights again, though don't imagine it'd be good. I watched the other two shows and I'm fairly confident they'd be awful. To me just the thought of the piglet files has me creasing for the wrong reasons

I remember watching Give My Head Peace and not finding it funny at all, but thinking that maybe because I'm English I didn't 'get it', can anyone more qualified confirm/deny if it was in fact amusing?

A Canadian friend of mine said it was as if someone from the BBC had just driven past a bus queue in Belfast and invited everyone in it to be on a television show.

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bloke who plays the security guard lives just round the corner from me

What is that?

Trollied. Sky sitcom 5(?) series in.

this got seven seasons ffs

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Deserved more! Excellent 'trad' sitcom

lies

Nicholas Lyndhurst, you sly dog.

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http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Media/Pix/pictures/2013/7/9/1373383747837/The-Wright-Way-008.jpg

Although there was nothing generic about it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/staticarchive/aa6753c601ce3de0d71440887ab4912bc6445294.jpg

i'm still eagerly anticipating a second season of the wright way.

while watching it as a child it never really came to mind that the premise of goodnight sweetheart was nicholas lyndhurst being an adulterer.

I loved The High Life, entirely possibly because I was doing the shuttle run between Bristol and Scotland weekly while it was on.

I once boldly made the claim Goodnight Sweetheart was the best SF show on television; to be fair the competition was probably Farscape so I might have been right.

All I can really remember about GNSH is him going back to the 40s and claiming to have written Beatles songs. Seems like his character was just a massive arsehole.

http://i0.wp.com/www.britishclassiccomedy.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Jim-Davidson.jpeg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/11/03/14/2E111FA900000578-3301912-image-m-94_1446560742205.jpg

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/1a/a5/25/1aa525799eee79bee659678cb9306c77.jpg

Difficult to find a decent cast shot of the other, inferior 90s Samantha Janus vehicle Babes in the Woods.

Which also starred that awful bloke who was in adverts and stuff, sure you know the one.

https://johnkell.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/two-pints.jpg

xp yeah, that guy was inescapable for like 18 horrible months

Karl Howman?

him from Brush Strokes, yeah dislike that guy

Security guard from Trollied also in Goodnight Sweetheart (and Bread, and Sean's Show)

posted above, I almost thought these guys were sitting in Seinfields apartment

http://i2.dailyrecord.co.uk/incoming/article2029723.ece/ALTERNATES/s1023/Iain-McColl-First-left-back-row-is-pictured-with-the-cast-of-popular-BBC-sitcom-December-1989.jpg

Each of the guys in the top row look like they're from a different decade of British sitcom.

L-R 00s, 90s, 70s, 80s

ha ha, otm

One man. Lyndhurst.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/06/23/article-0-05740F8F000005DC-22_468x286.jpg

Might have been mentioned in the obits but Nicholas Smith died in last couple of days, a man who looked ancient to me in the 70s, but I guess he must've only been in his 40s in Are You Being Served? One for the people you were surprised to hear weren't dead already thread.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/83/
"Pissing by the door", etc.

Actually I just realised that someone at my office looks like René Artois.

The death of N Smith means the whole of the original main cast of AYBS? have gone. Just Mike Berry (Trevor Bannister's replacement in the '80s) left of the leads. I guess some of Young Mr Grace's nurses are still around.

A Canadian friend of mine said it was as if someone from the BBC had just driven past a bus queue in Belfast and invited everyone in it to be on a television show.

I like to think of Give My Head Peace as if Tommy Wiseau had invited that bus queue into a studio and directed it

The comically OTT characterisation and pantomime of GMHP went beyond merely cringe/awful into something just fucking weird and wrong

One of those shows where it's hard to believe every cast member is a 'local'

I'm wincing, but especially at the fact that 75% of all American sitcoms are based upon these.

http://i.imgur.com/JqjX0ms.jpg

"This could work in the States. Just - um - give the guy with the stripes a family and his own TV show, make the guy next to him his assistant. Instead of the bald guy, how about Pamela Anderson? And the guy with the hat, let's never show his face on television again."

Gordon Kaye extremely sidelined in the sitcom of which he is the main star! the light seems funny on him though - is it a cardboard cut-out?

(also as always a reminder of what a fucking odd thing is the very existence of 'Allo 'Allo)

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/33/8d/01/338d01d9d9658014dad4b80bea8935d7.jpg

posted above, I almost thought these guys were sitting in Seinfields apartment

http://i2.dailyrecord.co.uk/incoming/article2029723.ece/ALTERNATES/s1023/Iain-McColl-First-left-back-row-is-pictured-with-the-cast-of-popular-BBC-sitcom-December-1989.jpg

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the actor second from right on the top row there has a brother who is a high up manager at my place of work. was quite weird to be at a work function and be introduced to a fellow glaswegian, and then him telling me his brother is the bank manager from city lights/dad from gregory's girl

Even weirder, I used to work with his sister.

haha

oh yeah and another weird thing, he asked me what i was doing in canada, and i told him the yarn about meeting my wife at Oran Mor when she was on holiday in scotland. on reflection i remembered that his brother drinks in the Oran Mor and was in on the night i met my wife (iirc which i might not as i was drunk)

I was working on a show with him in it at the Tron when the fire alarm went off in the middle of the performance. The show had to stop and the whole cast, crew and audience went out onto Trongate for 10 mins until the all-clear was given. But the show couldn't restart because he was nowhere to be found. The audience had to wait while the stage manager got the crew, box office staff and ushers to run around all the pubs in the Merchant city, Saltmarket etc. He was eventually found, getting wired into his third or fourth pint and dragged back to finish the show.