Citizen Smith Page 5

Quote: peter gazzard @ 21st May 2011, 5:08 PM

Shirley was written out as Robert Lindsay and Cheryl Hall divorced. It obviously wasnt amicable.

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I thought this was the only reason Lindsay doesn't like CS much, as it brings up the bad memories. I believe he rated the characterisation, being a working class socialist from Nottingham way, a reason he took the later role in drama GBH.

Quote: Badge @ 15th May 2011, 10:55 PM

Maybe more of a "scandal" is the legend/rumour that Robert Lindsay hated it so much he tried to block any repeats. That's Robert Lindsay, star of My Family.

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I used to love this. Interesting to see it resurrected after 13 years!

And wouldn't it be great to see a Sitcom based on BLM or XR.

Quote: Chappers @ 6th September 2020, 5:21 PM

I used to love this. Interesting to see it resurrected after 13 years!

And wouldn't it be great to see a Sitcom based on BLM or XR.

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Is this about boot kissing. I never considered it a fetish until I saw that.
A cascade of delicious emotions enveloped me. Exquisite humiliation
I suppose that will be banned now.
It was great while it lasted..

Well I thought I was going mad or had a faulty disc as I viewed Disc 1 in my box set rotation, but it turns out they basically did the pilot episode twice, and clearly only reshot the scenes where Peter Vaughan replaced Artro Morris as the father.

The opening scene of Wolfie painting some graffiti on a wall was identical, hence my confusion, and I eventually twigged it when his girlfriend Shirley's father changed from being the owner of the record shop where she worked to a security guard (WTF - why?). Shirley played of course by Robert Lindsay's one-time wife Cheryl Hall.

So there you have it. Confusion over. The father's scenes reshot. Carry on viewing.........................

I do wonder though, why Artro Morris didn't retain his part, and was he a bit miffed about losing it to Vaughan.

Tough tits!

Vaughan was fantastic

Quote: lofthouse @ 9th January 2021, 12:03 PM

Vaughan was fantastic

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Couldn't agree more.

Vaughan, like George A Cooper, was always perfect in whatever part - the sinister threat he gave to Grouty was wonderful!

Him and Hilda Braid together...

Unlikely but inspired choice!

Quote: Chappers @ 6th September 2020, 5:21 PM

I used to love this. Interesting to see it resurrected after 13 years!

And wouldn't it be great to see a Sitcom based on BLM or XR.

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Sadly sitcoms along the lines of 2012 or W1 focussing on BLM it XR wouldn't fly today due to political correctness, identity politics and television executive being just to plain scared!

And I'd say this is also the reason there are very few sitcoms being made at all right now, broadcasters, especially the Beeb have lost their bottle and fear the wrath of Cancel Culture (which can f**k off and die in a ditch). And the ones that are being made aren't that funny because comedy basically requires targets.

Imo it doesn't help that the current wave of execs and production staff are the leftish leaning liberals who according to John Humphries couldn't believe the nation voted for Brexit. They're also stuffing every new show with ill fitting diversity quotas despite surveys showing their employee base to be almost exclusively white middle class.

Quote: Chappers @ 6th September 2020, 5:21 PM

I used to love this. Interesting to see it resurrected after 13 years!

And wouldn't it be great to see a Sitcom based on BLM or XR.

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I'd like to see a BLM sitcom, if only for people on this forum to complain that there are too many black people in the cast, and how it's minority quotas gone mad.

And we've sort of had an XR sitcom in the form of The Good Life. It might as well have been written by Greta Thunberg it was so achingly right on with its politically correct green agenda. In fact if they made the exact same show now Lawrence Fox would be seething with fury about it on Twitter, bemoaning it as another exercise in wokeness from the BBC.

As for Citizen Smith. Fun but bugger me, it's aged badly.

I don't know if this has been mentioned before but one of the episodes of Citizen Smith has the title "Only fools and Horses"

Quote: Steve Sunshine @ 15th May 2021, 1:04 AM

I don't know if this has been mentioned before but one of the episodes of Citizen Smith has the title "Only fools and Horses"

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I think that's the episode with Wilfred Bramble in it.

Quote: Ivor Hardy @ 31st May 2021, 10:01 AM

I think that's the episode with Wilfred Bramble in it.

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Yes, Wilfrid Brambell was in it (just watched it this morning, as it happens) - his only one, and 5 years after Steptoe finished.

God only knows what "Only fools and Horses" had got to do with it, as it was nothing to do with obtaining moolah for very little effort.

They wouldn't do a show about Marxists trying to start a revolution these days, unless they called it Twitter
Amiright?

Was very slightly taken aback when Tucker asked Wolfie if he was turning into a poof.

Those were the days