The Likely Lads
- TV sitcom
- BBC Two
- 1964 - 1966
- 20 episodes (3 series)
Bob and Terry are two lads from the North East with contrasting desires and ambitions - except when it comes to chatting up girls. Stars James Bolam, Rodney Bewes, Bartlett Mullins, Donald McKillop, Sheila Fearn and Olive Milbourne
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Series 2, Episode 1 - Baby, It's Cold Outside
Bob and Terry have a date with a couple of nurses who are leaving the area in a few days' time. Thinking they may be on to a sure thing, they try to find a place to take them to but draw a blank. They finally get a break when they meet Jack in the pub and they offer to babysit for him. When they take the girls back to his flat they try to pass it off as their own - but when the baby cries it's a difficult one to explain!
Notes
Repeated on BBC 1 on Fri 23/8/65 at 8pm with 6.9 million viewers.
This episode no longer exists in the archives. It is missing, believed wiped.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Wednesday 16th June 1965
- Time
- 9:40pm
- Channel
- BBC Two
- Length
- 25 minutes
Cast & crew
| James Bolam | Terry Collier |
| Rodney Bewes | Bob Ferris |
| Donald McKillop | Jack |
| Sheila Fearn | Audrey Collier |
| Dorothy White | Margaret |
| Kate Storey | Rose |
| Janet Kelly | June |
| John Scott Martin (as John Scott-Martin) | Barman |
| Dick Clement | Writer |
| Ian La Frenais | Writer |
| Dick Clement | Director |
| Dick Clement | Producer |
| Jack Hulls | Editor |
| Ronnie Hazlehurst | Composer |
| Martin Johnson | Production Designer |