[TV] Which one was the worst.. Love thy neighbour or On the buses

[BLOCK F]

Hope you're not calling me liberal. I'm somewhere to the right of Attlla the hun well that's what some on here say

Well, I was sort of hinting at it
You surprise me, but then again, it isn’t always difficult to be classified as ‘to the right of Attila’ on NSC.

 

[dazzer6666]

….from 6 mins…..

 

[AlbionBro]

Rising Damp, Till death us to part, Steptoe and Son, Fawlty Towers etc all brilliant and all stuff 'our ancestors' watched

Oh Mrs Jones, was my type of girl.

 

[METALMICKY]

I didn't get where I am today by not watching classic 70's comedy like The Rise and Fall of Reginald Perrin!

Super! Great! And a bit of a cock up on the catering front by uncle Jimmy

 

[Super Steve Earle]

….from 6 mins…..

People have a go at 70's comedy then up pops Micky Flanagan, surely the least funny 'comedian' live or on TV this century.

 

[Comrade Sam]

Whilst Bless this house was cak, my awesome neighbour Toby and his wife are the exact doubles of them, they even have live at home son and daughter.
As for on the buses, my daughters stumbled onto an episode during lock down. The men - in their 40s and 50s, were playing a football match against a women's team. The women all looked like they were off the cover of a Parade of the Pops album, all blond, 16 to 20 in age and in hot pants. My daughters were shocked when the final punch line was that the old men bundled into the women's changing room to molest the 'Crumpet.' I explained that's why alternative comedy was so exciting, as it swept away all that shit.

 

[sydney]

They are /were all completely crap as well.

There's nothing like an old 1970's racist comic (fortunately).

fucksake mate , have a lie down.

 

[London Irish]

I have a softer spot for On the Buses as it was a crapper version of Carry On but with a bollocks to line managers edge to it. Whereas Love Thy Neighbour was actively harmful as the racist language it popularised was then spat out the next day at black kids in schoolgrounds across Britain, certainly was in mine

 

[AK74]

Reg Varney opened the first ATM machine in the UK…
Pickles told me that.

Barclays Bank, Enfield High Street.

Varney far right [of the picture, not politically].

 

[Bakero]

I'm nowhere near 70 and remember watching both. And if you watch Love thy Neighbour, any episode, the black guy gets the upper hand every time.

I hate to break it to you but it you remember watching them when they first aired, you ain't far off 70

 

[lawros left foot]

This thread has stirred some long repressed memories of 70,s comedy shows.(some may be from the 60,s)

Of the top of my head, I can remember,
Bottle boys,
The Dustbin men,
Curry and Chips,
Only when I laugh
Doctor at Large,
Anything with Thora Herd,
And, in my opinion the absolute nadir of 70s comedy,
Terry and June.

 

[tigertim68]

Used to like both of them

 

[London Irish]

This thread has stirred some long repressed memories of 70,s comedy shows.(some may be from the 60,s)

Of the top of my head, I can remember,
Bottle boys,
The Dustbin men,
Curry and Chips,
Only when I laugh
Doctor at Large,
Anything with Thora Herd,
And, in my opinion the absolute nadir of 70s comedy,
Terry and June.

Saw an incredible film yesterday with a young Thora Hird shooting Nazis - fair play to her - amazing watch https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/jul/03/went-day-well-patterson

 

[Birdie Boy]

I hate to break it to you but it you remember watching them when they first aired, you ain't far off 70

I'm 55. It aired from 1972 to 1976 so I must have watched it at 8 years old!

 

[BLOCK F]

I'm 55. It aired from 1972 to 1976 so I must have watched it at 8 years old!

Scarred for life, no doubt!

 

[wellquickwoody]

No they weren't. They were crap at the time, and haven't improved with age.

If you did not find Dave Allen funny then you really are a humourless human being.

 

[Dick Head]

Francois Pascal (the French bird) did a Mayfair centrefold ……. I treasured that copy for two years.

I think you'll find it was Club International, you pervert.

 

[Justice]

I remember one particular On The Buses, where Stan made some home brew, drank some at lunch time, turned up for work pissed then devised a plan with Jack that they could use it to get the clippies legless and basically shag them.

A hilarious episode

if you are into shagging drunk girls whom are incapable of saying no then maybe you would find it amusing

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

if you are into shagging drunk girls whom are incapable of saying no then maybe you would find it amusing

On reflection I didn’t make myself clear. Sarcasm doesn’t always travel well.

A”hilarious” episode(!)

 

[Indy]

On the Buses is still aired and although a few episodes are a bit dodgy the show is still watchable.
it’s a shame ITV have since given up on comedy.