Quote: Geffers @ June 8 2010, 1:41 PM BSTAnd didn't Robin's Nest have the main couple living together unmarried?
I didn't mention it as I could have sworn that they were newly married, but you're right, they weren't. Good call.
Quote: youngian @ June 8 2010, 1:41 PM BSTSame can be said of the gay vicar.
In Sykes, he shared with his sister.
It was quite unusual at that time to portray such an incestual relationship.
Yeah, we're looking for serious suggestion and discussion here, Nogget. Thanks. 
Very true, though DA is complicated by the fact that the characters ought to be seen as 1970s attitudes to the hypocrisy of previous decades, so that as a pedantic academic I'd have to take DA as evidence of what people in 1970s thought about the 1940s rather than how people in the 1940s actually behaved. (There's plenty of perfectly good evidence of sexual hypocrisy from the 40s as it is!!)
Could there be something interesting in the contrast between how the 1970s thought the 40s would feel (Dad's Army) and how the 1990s thought the 40s would feel (Goodnight Sweetheart)? It might throw up some interesting attitude changes?
Quote: Tomtom08 @ June 8 2010, 4:35 PM BSTVery true, though DA is complicated by the fact that the characters ought to be seen as 1970s attitudes to the hypocrisy of previous decades, so that as a pedantic academic I'd have to take DA as evidence of what people in 1970s thought about the 1940s rather than how people in the 1940s actually behaved. (There's plenty of perfectly good evidence of sexual hypocrisy from the 40s as it is!!)
Not sure if that is true as Croft and Perry were writing from experience and if anything the 70s attitude would be that everyone was uptight and formal whereas the 70s were oh so liberated.
This is probably because it was the upper middle classes that are so heavily portrayed on screen along with morality codes that give us our vision of the 40s.
There is a story about Noel Coward watching Brief Encounter in a down-market part of London to find out what the great unwashed thought. He walked out in tears after hearing how the beastly working classes were constantly shouting 'just f**k her,' then laughing and jeering.