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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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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Although there was nothing generic about it.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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"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.

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"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)

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

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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.