Does anyone remember this? It was about 2 girls living in a tower block in New Cross. It was very Channel 4 if you know what I mean.
Early or mid '80s Channel 4 flatshare sitcom
Is this the one? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_Stuffing
I remember it a bit. No idea how good it was or anything...
That's it, thanks very much. I was hoping for a moment of realisation when I saw the name but that didn't happen!
I've been watching Dream Stuffing recently, and despite being incredibly of its time, it's still really quite funny. Quite a few really great gags. Not something that an awful lot of other contemporary mid-80s sitcoms can claim, I find.
(Oh, and I think it's set in Limehouse, not New Cross.)
If memory serves it was quite "right-on" in that it featured gay characters who weren't there simply to provide easy laughs, single mums, and mixed race relationships. It also stands out to me as being the first time I heard the expression "you don't know your arse from your elbow". Would love to see it again, where is it available?
Quote: happychef @ August 28 2011, 2:41 PM BSTWould love to see it again, where is it available?
Sadly, it's not available anywhere legally. I've held a copy of the series in my private archive for a number of years.
If it's the one I'm thinking of, I do remember it sketchily, because I couldn't watch five minutes without wanting to kick the TV in. Seems just like yesterday when I ogled at the early days of C4 in half wonder/half hatred at this strange but fascinating new channel.
The comment above about this one being very C4 is exactly right, if this is the sitcom I'm thinking of. One of the girls had an off duty policeman who fancied her but she didn't like, because he was a policeman. That the one? So there was a 'cool, trendy' thing going on with it which really, really made me >_<
Quote: happychef @ August 28 2011, 2:41 PM BSTIf memory serves it was quite "right-on" in that it featured gay characters who weren't there simply to provide easy laughs, single mums, and mixed race relationships.
That's right, it is the one I thought it was. One of the girls was a plumber? Or seemed to do a lot of DIY. I only saw snatches so I don't know the exact set up. I think I hated this sitcom with a burning fiery intensity. Ah, sigh, the memories. 
Neither are plumbers in any of the episodes I've seen. Jude appears permanently 'employed' by the DHSS, and Mo initially works at a factory making glass eyes.
Their neighbours (on the umpteenth floor of a tower block) run a scrap metal/junk yard from their flat, if that helps your memory any.
How is asking if something has pubes in it off-topic?
Dude said it was very Channel 4, and to the best of my recollection during the 1980s Channel 4 was full of pubes.
I wasn't asking if anybody knows of a good porn site. I wasn't asking whether people prefer red pubes or black. I wasn't spouting off about my love of a clean-shaven clunge.
I was asking about the show! How much more on-topic does it get?
I wanted to know whether it was a pube-oriented program, as so many on Channel 4 were back then.
Oh, so it was set in Limehouse -- and THAT's on-topic, is it? Let me break out the f**king A-Z.
Jesus sharting Christ. Try to get involved...
Quote: Kevin Murphy @ August 28 2011, 3:41 PM BSTHow is asking if something has pubes in it off-topic?
Dude said it was very Channel 4, and to the best of my recollection during the 1980s Channel 4 was full of pubes.
I wasn't asking if anybody knows of a good porn site. I wasn't asking whether people prefer red pubes or black. I wasn't spouting off about my love of a clean-shaven clunge.
I was asking about the show! How much more on-topic does it get?
I wanted to know whether it was a pube-oriented program, as so many on Channel 4 were back then.
Oh, so it was set in Limehouse -- and THAT's on-topic, is it? Let me break out the f**king A-Z.
Jesus sharting Christ. Try to get involved...
Oh, if you did need a good pornsite ever, I may be able to help you there...
Was the idea of a glass eye factory meant to be deliberately idiotic?
How much demand is there for glass eyes in the world? Would the market really require a whole factory?
I'd hazard a guess that there's probably fewer than a million people, globally, in a position where they a) need and b) can afford, a glass eye.
Even if this glass-eye-factory-company managed to capture the entire global market, how long would it take to make a million glass eyes? Probably a few weeks, is my guess.
They're just coloured glass spheres.
A pubic wig factory would be more realistic.
I don't think the writer really thought this through properly.
Quote: Aaron @ August 28 2011, 3:40 PM BSTTheir neighbours (on the umpteenth floor of a tower block) run a scrap metal/junk yard from their flat, if that helps your memory any.
Oh I think that's what I'm thinking of then, I remember one of them setting some kind of boiler up or something and a lot of coming and going with bits of stuff. My memory needs quite a lot of help, alas. Definitely remember the copper wanting to go out with her, but she couldn't stand him. It was quite a perky or spikey script if I remember rightly. But I doubt if I do!
Quote: Kevin Murphy @ August 28 2011, 4:28 PM BSTWas the idea of a glass eye factory meant to be deliberately idiotic?
How much demand is there for glass eyes in the world? Would the market really require a whole factory?
The character is made redundant in pretty much the first episode because there's no demand for the product she's otherwise been employed to produce.