All posts tagged "Richard Briers"

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  RIP

  Richard Briers, 1934-2013

  The great Richard Briers has passed away at the age of 79. Eight years ago (give or take) we were lucky enough...

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  Good Life, The

  OBSCURE VEHICLE for FELICITY "HONEY FOR TEA" KENDAL.

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  Fathom

  Ill-fated attempt at creating a sort of amphibious counterpart to Modesty Blaise

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  Ever Decreasing Circles

  "WE'RE RESPECTABLE PEOPLE, not the London School of Economics!"

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  Bottoms Up!

  Full-blown film version of Whack-O! (1956), which starred marvellously moustachioed Jimmy Edwards (massively bewhiskered as always to hide the plastic surgery he...

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  Rentadick

  This second John Cleese/Graham Chapman offering for David Frost’s Paradine Productions knocked its predecessor The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer’s satirical...

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  Cream Classics

  The VIPs

  Terrence Rattigan, warhorse of West End French window theatre, makes the final stand for old fashioned sighs-'n'-string-sections melodrama in a big ensemble...

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  Play For Today

  Play Not-Quite-For Today: Series One

  Notebooks out, completists!

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  PQ17

  By Roger Mulner. Richard Briers plays a commander on the merchant navy Russian convoy of WWII who purposely disobeys an order to...

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  Our Flesh and Blood

  By Mike Stott. Maternity comedy with Bernard Hill and Alison Steadman expecting their first baby, and opting for the then-modish ‘natural’ childbirth...

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  Doctor Who

  "NO NO, that's not his name, it's just the name of the programme." Bollocks to that.

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  Great – Isambard Kingdom Brunel

  BETWIXT ROOBARB and NOAH AND NELLY, Sir BOB GODFREY gave us this tribute

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  Home of Your Own, A

  YET ANOTHER pre-decimal diversion and faithful big screen supporting flick.

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  One-Upmanship

  SKITS AND spoofery adapted from STEPHEN POTTER's 1950s titular "guides" to modern living

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  Other One, The

  PIDDLING TITFER scripted by the Esmonde-Larbey GOOD LIFE dream team had RICHARD BRIERS and MICHAEL GAMBON

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  All in Good Faith

  The instant Nimmo had hung up his cowl, it was only gone and swiped by RICHARD BRIERS doing a spot of moonlighting...

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  Alias the Jester

  LATE ERA Cosgrove-Hall spectacular