From a quick scroll through thread titles in this Forum, I don’t think we marked the death of BF on 1st December a few months ago. Bob’s wife Thelma. Just learnt of her death on being prompted to search online after spotting her in the very first episode of the David Suchet Poirot series, which I’m rewatching on DVD. RIP.
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RIP Brigit Forsyth
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Originally posted by Guy Profumo View PostHave you rewatched any of them?
The kindest thing to say about them is "they haven't aged well"
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I think that there's a huge difference between something being 'of its time' and 'not ageing well'. A lot of the attitudes in Whatever Happened to The Likely Lads? are extremely outmoded and cringeworthy, but I genuinely believe that the audience was expected to laugh 'at' Terry (James Bolam). The scene in which Bob (Rodney Bewes) castigates him on his routine dismissal of all other nationalities should be proof of that.
Essentially a study of the relationship between two friends moving in different directions - and the superficial status-seeking therein - it remains one of the best-written comedies British TV has ever produced.
RIP of course to Brigit F - as Thelma, she was key to the dynamic between the two main characters. And of course a very decent actor all told.
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