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
The Likely Lads Complete Collection: 60th Anniversary Edition
All episodes of The Likely Lads and of its sequel Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads?, released together on DVD for the first time.
The first series to be made by prolific writing partners Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, The Likely Lads chronicled the misadventures of best friends Bob (Rodney Bewes) and Terry (James Bolam), as they navigated life and love in a northern town in the 1960s. The series ran for three series (and one Christmas special) from 1964 to 1966. One of a wave of innovative new working class sitcoms in the 1960s, the series was the first top 20 comedy hit for BBC Two.
In the early 1970s, the series was revived as the even more successful Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads?, picking up on Bob and Terry seven years later and looking at how their lives had drifted apart in the intervening years. The show rose to become the second most watched television programme in Britain, running to 26 episodes, plus another Christmas special.
All 38 surviving episodes of the two series are presented here together on DVD for the first time, alongside audio recordings of 10 otherwise lost episodes from the 1960s that were never archived by the BBC. Additional features, exclusive to this set, include two documentaries about the programme; footage from one of the lost episodes; two new audio commentaries from Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais; and a collection of previously unreleased archive content.
First released: Monday 25th November 2024
Extra features
- The Lively Arts: The Unlikely Lads (arts documentary, aired 10th October 1976)
- BBC short feature on filming The Likely Lads
- Comedy Choice: The Likely Lads (short introduction by James Bolam)
- Free Thinking: Whatever Happened To Dick Clement And Ian La Frenais? (BBC Radio 3 documentary, aired 27th March 2019)
- Photo gallery
DVD New- Distributor: BBC
- Region: 2
- Discs: 7
- Minutes: 1,420
- Subtitles: English
- Catalogue: BBCDVD4618
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