Alfred J Kipper
Wednesday 28th October 2009 9:57pm [Edited]
Aldershot
8,312 posts
Oh, glad to hear he's still around then. I rather enjoyed his visual incarnation in the 1980s.
'Mog' does ring a loud bell, yes, but was there more to the title? I think I'm right in saying it only ran for one brief series? It seemed to come and go very quickly. One of the nutcases was a deluded black man who dressed in dapper country gentleman/lord of the manor type clothes and talked very posh. I thought that was a funny comic creation in its own right, but was reminded again of it just a few years later when an even dapper dressed, posh talking black world champion boxer from Brighton bounced onto the scene. I was gobsmacked - the man had either modelled himself on the certified lunatic character in the sitcom or he had actually escaped from the house himself.
No, you're right, it was just called Mog, who evidently was the central character played by Reitel. It was indeed penned by Clement & Le Frenais! and was based on the novel by Peter Tinniswood. Perhaps most surprisingly of all, for me, is that it ran for two series! Don't know what I was doing then, because I definitely only saw the first series and thought that was it. And I definitely recall really liking it - the mad characters and concept - but I can't remember how good it was or how funny. Scripted by Clement & Le Frenais though! Hmm, I've never seen or heard a mention of it since in all these (25) years! It wasn't that bad, really...or was it?