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
Press clippings
All Likely Lads episodes collected on DVD for the first time
The BBC is releasing a new DVD box set collating every single episode of The Likely Lads and Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads? - although some only survive as audio recordings.
British Comedy Guide, 14th November 2024Missing BBC sitcom episodes' audio recovered
Audio recordings of five missing BBC television sitcom episodes from the 1960s, written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, have been found.
British Comedy Guide, 2nd September 2024Top 10 Network Comedy Releases of the 2010s
A look back at Network Distributing's best ten comedy DVD and Blu-ray titles released in the last decade.
Aaron Brown, Network, 6th December 2019How creators convinced James Bolam to be Likely Lad
Sitcom Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads is one of the most iconic comedies of all time - now creators Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais have revealed in a new book how they wrote it and why star James Bolam nearly did not want to do it.
Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais, The Daily Express, 14th September 2019Clement & La Frenais to publish memoir
Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais - the creators of sitcoms including Porridge and The Likely Lads - are to publish a memoir in September.
British Comedy Guide, 29th May 2019The Likely Lads creators on the unearthed episodes
As two lost episodes of the comedy classic are found - and released on DVD - Mark Braxton catches up with Bob and Terry's creators, Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais.
Mark Braxton, Radio Times, 2nd April 2019What did happen to the Likely Lads? Now we know
It is one of television's great mysteries and the sitcom writer Ian La Frenais finally has an answer.
The Times, 18th March 2019Network confirms Likely Lads screening event
Network Distributing has announced a special screening of the Likely Lads film, plus two newly recovered episodes, and a Q&A with writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais.
British Comedy Guide, 13th February 2019Missing Likely Lads and Till Death Us Do Part recovered
Three missing sitcom episodes - two of The Likely Lads and one of Till Death Us Do Part - have been recovered and will be released on DVD and Blu-ray between January and March.
British Comedy Guide, 18th January 2019The Top 10 British sitcoms of the 60s
We all have favourite sitcoms that we love to watch and revisit. Something about the familiarity of the format that resets itself to zero for the start of each new episode makes for comforting viewing.
Greg Jameson, Entertainment Focus, 16th November 2018