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It’s only Sonia!

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It’s eight o’clock and next on Thames, new comedy as Julia McKenzie and Anton Rodgers search for those… Fresh Fields!

In full, here’s the first instalment of the quintessential ITV gin-belt sitcom. No pancake tossing in silhoutte here, mind, as it’s the premiere episode, so there’s a helpful orientation sequence, showing how those crazy Fields live their lives, accompanied by the full-length version of that ace rowdy-parpy tune.

Do keep watching, not just for the most stereotypical sitcom happening ever (leaving the shopping on the roof of someone else’s car… with hilarious consequences!) and a neat throwaway reference to the show’s title (“most men who go wandering off in search of fresh fields come back to their first love”) but also for a restaurant bearing what’s come to be known at TVC Towers as ‘the Five-Centres font’.

And yes, Teddington Lock’s answer to Cosmo Kramer is in there too. “I’ll have a small one!”

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMqVQ916W6c&fmt=18

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“Let’s turn the pages now! Let’s have some fun!”

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What Sir Tim Berners-Lee created the internet for… reliving Andrew Secombe’s Harpo Marx-esque turn as the human-dog hybrid, creatively named Rover, in C4′s daytime the-pages-are-brought-to-life extravaganza, CHIPS COMIC!

Warning: May contain Wayne Jackman.
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“There may be something that will make you stop and look”

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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63ov2UnYyHs

NB: As the person who uploaded the clips has disabled embedding, you’ll have to click through to view. Worth it, though.

Brilliant stuff. A fleeting glance of a disconsolate Gary Terzza and Debbie Shore chaperoning some young CITV starlet as they cue in Plymouth’s Christoper Lillicrap’s smiley antidote to THE BOOK TOWER. Rod ‘n’ Freddy on vocals, then Chris himself, essaying his agreeable, “Oh hello ” presentational style, as if we’ve popped around unexpectedly, but he’s amenable to that situation. Intro done, let’s get to the meat of if: “…Well, that’s called your imagination!”

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO7MmTaG1MM

…And we’re out of here, with double-headed person being delighted by the left-hand page of their book, but saddened by the right.

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