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 3, Episode 1 - Outward Bound
Bob's idea of a weekend away starts to interest Terry when he is told the place they are going to is full of beatniks - to him that means free love! They decide to hitch-hike but Terry gets blisters and complains all the way there. When they arrive they find the place they were going to stop in has been demolished and it is too late to get a bus or a train home. Their only salvation is the two young ladies camping in a nearby field...
Notes
Repeated on BBC 1 on Tues 4/10/66 at 7:30pm with 11.3 million viewers.
This episode no longer exists in the archives. It is missing, believed wiped.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Saturday 4th June 1966
- Time
- 9:30pm
- Channel
- BBC Two
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
| James Bolam | Terry Collier |
| Rodney Bewes | Bob Ferris |
| Bartlett Mullins | Mr. Clough |
| Donald McKillop | Jack |
| Keith Roberts | Café Proprietor |
| James Cossins | Scoutmaster |
| Amy Dalby | Postmistress |
| Nerys Hughes | Valerie |
| Sandra Blaine | Susan |
| John Shelley | Boy Scout |
| Gary Neilson | Boy Scout |
| Ann Parnell-McGarry (as Parnell McGarry) | Large Lady |
| Dick Clement | Writer |
| Ian La Frenais | Writer |
| Dick Clement | Director |
| Dick Clement | Producer |
| Ronnie Hazlehurst | Composer |
| Alan Hunter-Craig | Production Designer |