Quote: Craig @ 1st December 2013, 7:19 PM GMT
A shame you don't understand the long lasting quality factor. More than 40 years after it first aired it is still deemed worthy of repeats due to high viewing figures. It still gains a new generation of fans and has fan clubs based in all four corners of the world from Australia to Canada and Scandinavia to South Africa.
And it captured the laughable industrial relations of the period so well, and was sending both sides up. Only Rag Trade equals it for this in sitcoms although nothing matches I'm Alright Jack. People forget or just don't know how things were at work then, pretty much Them v Us and power mad types on both sides going too far. Great source of comedy. For me it way overdid the domestic scenes, it clogged the flow of it horribly.