RIP Jack Smethurst ..... died last week aged 89

@dixienormous2440

2 жыл бұрын

Aw sad news. I didn't know that! He was great as Eddie.

@jonsant7232

2 жыл бұрын

Very sad to hear RIP Jack

@davidcooks5265

2 жыл бұрын

R.i.p🙏

@TheSonnyfaiz

Жыл бұрын

RIP Jack Smethurst Please watch my longest tribute series to him 20 episodes

@martinconnors6200

7 ай бұрын

RIP Jack Smethurst

"Mind your language" is a great old series to watch

@gavhinds8190

2 жыл бұрын

Barry evans....bless him.

@gavhinds8190

2 жыл бұрын

@Darren Pete hahaha...I remember that so well..

The Alf Garnett series 'till death us do part' and 'in sickness and in health' were incredible especially when 'Marigold' (eamonn walker) was in it... hysterical.

@stingray4real

2 жыл бұрын

Pele played by Vas Blackwood (Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels) when he replaced Eamonn Walker

@ukzen9309

2 жыл бұрын

Alf Garnett became Archie Bunker in the states

@tonyc9460

2 жыл бұрын

@@ukzen9309 Archie wasn’t played by a jew though

@jameshumphreys9715

2 жыл бұрын

Garnett and he would be a great screen.

@hardtohandleweddingbandent8653

2 жыл бұрын

Not sure why you're mentioning Alf Garnett. No comparison between the two.

I can remember watching this as a kid and thought it was hilarious I can even remember my favourite episode, itwas in a later episode as they were became close friends, they decided to make some brandy in the garden shed, and ended up blowing the shed and half the garden up, it was so funny. The interplay between the two guys, just gets better and better as the series goes on as Eddie gets to know Bill better and better until eventually they are firm friends and have really funny adventures together, it was one of those TV shows that just shows the pointlessness and stupidity of racism.

@dave_h_8742

2 жыл бұрын

Well said. Unfortunately I work with Eddies who are too stupid to have evolved past the moron phase stating the usua racistl bollocks.

@leeboy2k1

2 жыл бұрын

@@dave_h_8742 Hardly surprising since weaponized race-identity politics are a practical and unfortunately effective way of keeping racial demographics more divided than they would be if they weren't put into the nefarious black/white dialectic. But whatever people want to call racism i.e 'ingroup preference' it is just as real on all sides as witnessed in studies where small children instictively gravitate toward people who look the most like them, truth is painful, but weaponized lying does far more damage, and that's just how the powers that shouldn't be want it.

@elemar5

2 жыл бұрын

@@leeboy2k1 'where small children instinctively gravitate toward people who look the most like them' If you mean by gravitating towards other children I totally agree.

@leeboy2k1

2 жыл бұрын

@@elemar5 Other children who most resemble them in appearance.. not something perhaps we want to discover emotionally, but on the positive side there is more nuance between personality traits in humans than there are in ethnic traits, so as with everything objective, it gets complicated.

@andrewlaw

2 жыл бұрын

The works cricket match episode was great as well with all the black team being fast bowlers ala the West Indies team in the 70's.

Glad you are reacting to this episode now, as Jack Smethurst sadly passed away this week. It is a real tribute to him and the whole cast.

It's great to see that Rudolph Walker is still going strong in Eastenders (very long running British soap) and still has a wonderful, sexy West Indian accent.

@kirstygunn9149

2 жыл бұрын

He has always been handsome, he maybe getting on in age but my god he has still got it

@martinconnors6200

3 ай бұрын

I love Rudolph Walker. He's a gentleman, and a likeable guy. Great handshake too

The all time classic, watched by over 20 million in its day between 1972 - 1976 and sadly we have just lost Jack Smethurst (Eddie Booth) aged 89 only last week

@thomasrowe25

2 жыл бұрын

What really

@carannweir4641

2 жыл бұрын

Awww I didn’t know I’m sorry to hear that , my here was so many great episodes but I loved it when Eddie blacked up

@jimsmith1998

2 жыл бұрын

20 million people, as there was only 2 channels, people had no choice, it portrays Eddie as a nobhead, which he was.

Just wouldn't fly these days, this has been banned on British TV for over 30 years as being racist and highly offensive. Its just a pity people forgot the main white protagonist character (Eddie) is the one who ends up looking the fool every episode. The two wives actively combine to make sure he's the butt of all the jokes.

@nikkgardiner8026

2 жыл бұрын

Bill came a cropper too sometimes, when he was being anti white. The way the wive's dealt with them was a bigpart of the series

@leeboy2k1

2 жыл бұрын

'It wouldn't fly' because the milieu of today's social engineers pick and choose when we are supposed to bark when our Pavlovian training is triggered.. Remove a child from state schooling, and later TV/state propaganda, and weaponized words and terms would have far less power, which just wouldn't do for the powers that shouldn't be. Lastly, let us not forget that political correctness was correctly explained by the murderous Rockefella lap dog Mao Tse tong, when he said "Political correctness is anything that is considered harmful to the communist party"

@darrenwilson8042

2 жыл бұрын

Eddie - Jack Smethurst - sadly passed away on the 16th of Feb - this role all but finished his career which is sad because like Warren Mitchell with Alf Garnett he always insisted that his character was poking fun AT the racists not siding with them

@ladykaycey

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly. I've often wondered why people can't see what comedies like this are doing. They're shining a light on unacceptable behaviour and views whilst being extremely funny.

@NickHewlettTHATCHIT

2 жыл бұрын

Quite Agree... Andrew Law. 🤗💭🤺

The funny thing I always thought happened in the show was that the white guy was made to look the fool. In actual real life, both actors where good friends.

@maewest68

2 жыл бұрын

Funny, the Nazis made the jews look the fool. Funny how the power structure perpetuates its own bent, isn't it?

@Muckylittleme

2 жыл бұрын

This is from a time before liberalism became woke leftist activism and an attempt by the liberal middle classes to prepare and "educate" the white working classes for mass immigration by showed up the idiocy and incredible ignorance behind racism in a humorous self deprecating way. The fact that it came to be seen as racist itself, after the nation was anything but racist, is absolute proof of the lunacy and illiberal hypocrisy behind liberal progressive wokedom and just how damaging it is and has been to real race relations and equitable society. We were much better off 20 years ago, before political correctness decided we were all racist bigoted white supremacists despite living peacefully and with equality in a multicultural society for decades.

@davidfaulkner4760

2 жыл бұрын

I'm white and my white brother was a welcomed member of Liverpool's Caribbean club. The Caribbean community where well liked. The people that the Caribbean community had a problem with (Not of their making) where the muslin Somalis. The Somalis looked down on the Caribbean community.

@maewest68

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidfaulkner4760 You can't put that many different groups together and expect it to work out well. There's a bloodbath coming, probably of white people, it's what they wished for, asked for, and ultimately deserve I guess.

@TheEclecticBeard

2 жыл бұрын

Woke leftist activism was going on in that time period but it was all false smiles and is one reason Malcolm X said the white liberal was not to be trusted as they weren't as benevolent as they were making themselves out to be.

When this first came on the TV, I was nine and we had a family in our road who was then called half castes, bloody awful! I grew up with them as my friends, my parents didn't care as they were are playmates and my parents were not racist. So it took a question from a innocent 9 yr old to my neighbours mum to ask why our friends weren't invited to my neighbours birthday party, they got invited. Everyone talked about the show at school but my multiracial friends weren't allowed to watch it. My Dad hit that on the head as he made sure that they watched it with us. Standing alone it hit a hell of a lot of racism on the head in this country. Thank god for that!! When Harry and Megan accused the British people and press of racism it finished their reputation over here.

A perfect example of humour demonstrating how not to act. This helped realign a lot of attitudes without preaching, condemning or legislating... If you saw this in yourself you realised "you" had a problem... It was a great cultural experience that ran for several seasons, leaving them as good friends and neighbours...

@equaliser2265

2 жыл бұрын

Had a problem,! !. It was life , give and take, it's the equality people that have caused the inequality and the division.

@daveofyorkshire301

2 жыл бұрын

The biggest problem we all have is ego and the idea that we should be perfect. No one is... Ignorance is not a sin, ignorance is not abusive, ignorance is not evil, ignorance is the lack of knowledge, experience or emotional development, it comes through experience and time. Punishing ignorance is like punishing a child that can't walk yet, a skill learnt and people develop, people react differently to the unknown, it's experiential and simply a matter of growth and understanding... Words aren't harmful, especially if they come from ignorance... Actions are to be handled differently of course, but communication is about exchanging ideas, thought processes and open unrestricted speech enables that. You don't see a problem if they're scared to even voice their concerns... Right or wrong! Learning a lesson should not be punitive, it should be collaborative and if done right it's can be a shared experience. Its hard to explain the difference between real r@cism and perceived r@cism, only those suffering it can tell you the difference unless it's devolved into systemic apartheid or violence which is easier to see. The problem now is people are condemned for their innocent, naïve, ignorance rather than shown in a collaborative act of social awareness like a show like this - how society can grow, change, develop, recognise, address and advance.

@stewartmackay

2 жыл бұрын

@@daveofyorkshire301 "The problem now is people are condemned for their innocent, naïve, ignorance" - The entire premise of the show is the black people living next door. Good old English humour, eh?

@daveofyorkshire301

2 жыл бұрын

@@stewartmackay if you actually watched it you might have realised both couples had the same fears and concerns, it was a great way to show how we're all the same and its our own ignorance the gets in the way... and doing that through comedy and humour is a great way NOT to preach or stigmatise someone for a lack of understanding...

@HBrip

2 жыл бұрын

You’ve hit the nail on the head. It managed to show the stupidity of racism (from all sides).

I remember reading once that Jack Smethurst agreed to play Eddie on the condition that his role would be the one to be made to look like a fool. R.I.P Jack, and thanks for the laughs.

You're very perceptive about a lot of the nuances of this show, but to really appreciate how well it works, you have to see a number of episodes and situations they get into, and see how it all develops, with the main protagonists getting to have a genuine mutual respect for each other. They can give as good as they get and realise that they're not all that different from one another. The wives are usually the sensible ones who treat their husbands like a couple of silly kids whenever they kick off. Rather than promoting racism, it actually highlighted the stupidity of it to the point where it gets down to nothing but ridiculous name-calling on both sides. That's part of the humour, that some people never really got and would accuse the show of being racist as a result. Another show like this one, (that even gets a mention in one episode), is, 'Til Death Us Do Part/In Sickness And In Health', (one being the sequel to the other), where the same sort of thing is used to highlight the bigotry some people have. Except, with that show, it's just the one protagonist who's basically against anyone who isn't him! There's no holds barred as he goes on one of his rants, without everyone around him pointing out the ridiculousness of it all.

There's a great scene, in the movie George and Mildred, where George sees Jack Smethurst and Rudolf Walker having a drink at the bar, at the TV studios. When he describes Rudolf in the derogatory term used in the show, Jack tells him "you can't call him that". George replies "you do". Rudolf replies "Yes, but he gets paid for it". 😁

@johnallan4826

2 жыл бұрын

It was man about the house film

Your in for a real treat with love thy neighbour 🤣 I personally love this show

Great series, used to watch this with my parents. It was a great way of highlighting and taking the piss out of prejudices. You are definitely going to like this series Alan.

@JackHernandezGentlemanJack

2 жыл бұрын

It defintely was NOT about that. It just was prejudice.

@Eleventhearlofmars

7 ай бұрын

@@JackHernandezGentlemanJackit was about making the racist look the fool like Alf garnett till death is do part did.

I grew up with this series, It taught me the stupidity of racism (from both 'side'). Rising damp and Alf Garnet had a similar message.

This was a great series, the beauty was that Bill always got the better of Eddie who was a stereotypical British working class guy of that era (the early to mid 70s)

@iriscollins7583

2 жыл бұрын

Those who actually worked were not like that, when it came to personal friendships Etc. You can't work next to someone and not get to know and trust them. The same with the children in school.

@Ionabrodie69

2 жыл бұрын

The “ Stereotypical working man “ is not like that at all , they aren’t beneath ANYBODY and just because they WORK for a living .. 😡

@sandraolivacce4559

2 жыл бұрын

Definitely

Honestly, I can't believe this used to be broadcast....... how times have changed. One you really need to watch is "Till death Us Do Part", it has the most opinionated, bigoted, sexist loudmouth anywhere on TV, in any country. The main actor (Warren Mitchell) was simply brilliant playing the part. He was the complete opposite in real life

@mikephillips8810

2 жыл бұрын

The US did a version of the Alf Garnett character that he may already be familiar with, called Archie Bunker.

For context, it's possibly worth mentioning that the UK was virtually entirely white until the 1950s. Even in the 70s, for a large amount of the population, they would have rarely had any real contact with someone who wasn't white. The racism that existed was (unlike the USA, where the history of slavery plays a massive part) largely based on pure ignorance. Older generations had grown up old reading about black people in history books, depicting them as tribal, like Zulus, and people (ridiculous as it might seem) genuinely thought they would have spent their lives hunting with spears before coming to England.

@terrythomas3755

2 жыл бұрын

Hmm..there were concentrations of black people, particularly sailors, in many of the major ports; Bristol, Liverpool, Cardiff etc..Ships could wait for months for their cargo to be unloaded, and many sailors set up home in these cities, marrying local girls. The second world war increased the number of Black sailors in this country, again marrying local girls, I am the off-spring of such a case. So, for some white British, black people were not uncommon.

@RevStickleback

2 жыл бұрын

@@terrythomas3755 Yes, the country was certainly not exclusively white. Away from the bigger/port cities though, a non-white face would be very rare. My mother, who grew up around Oxford in the 50s, said she was about 10 before she saw an actual black person. Even then though, there's seeing, and actually interacting with. In the Rising Damp episode reaction, there's a deliberately awkward moment when Richard Beckinsdale's character starts to say he's never had a black acquaintance before, which wouldn't have been that unusual in the 1970s.

@MrHullRockers

2 жыл бұрын

@@terrythomas3755 A few hundred sailors waiting for their next ship in a port city is statistically zero in a country of 50 million which the UK was in 1950. Being an island, trading nation there have always been foreign visitors, they weren't citizens and the overwhelming majority of British people would never have seen or interacted with them. One or two exceptions doesn't change the fact of a homogeneous, ethnically white British population for the vast majority of the history of the British Isles until the last few decades of uncontrolled mass immigration.

@englandav1693

2 жыл бұрын

14

@adamlaycock3702

2 жыл бұрын

true, my mum was born in 1961 and when she was about 7 her auntie brought a black man home and my mum had never seen one before and she can remember wanting to keep touching his hair because it was so different to everyone else's

This was a huge show on 60's British TV. The actor who played Eddie was called Jack Smethurst. He was, like me, from a small village suburb of Manchester England, called Blackley. My family only lived around half a mile from him. I used to see him around and about all the time back then. I even went to school with his nephew..

@craigstaggs8597

2 жыл бұрын

It was 70s , not 60s .....

The period in which all these comedies came out was so insightful. They laid bare the underlying prejudices the population had and through humour just showed how stupid they were. As a result the U.K. was a much better place to live in than before.

@holydiver73

2 жыл бұрын

Rubbish.

@marcuswardle3180

2 жыл бұрын

@@holydiver73 So, how old are you then?

@holydiver73

2 жыл бұрын

@@marcuswardle3180 older than you obviously you globalist pup.

@geoffpoole483

2 жыл бұрын

@@marcuswardle3180 The problem with the Alf Garnett character was people supporting his views, which is not what the writer (Johnny Speight) or the actor (Warren Mitchell) intended.

@npc3po301

2 жыл бұрын

@@geoffpoole483 Socialist tribesman writer and star knew what they were doing, Alf was put there to look pathetic and rid post-war national pride softening us up to welcome the world into our country, look deeper

RIP: Jack Smethurst (who played bigot Eddie Booth) 9th April 1932- 16th February's 2022. Condolences to his family he was 89. Yes, this was literally just six day ago!

@LPCLASSICAL

2 жыл бұрын

he played the part to perfection

A must reaction is an episode called 'Voodoo'. Absolute classic!!!

I'm a 60 year old Australian, and first watched this show when I was in my teens.. What a funny show! It pushed boundaries, as the series develops, they added great characters like Jacko (I'll have a half! You'll get the reference later). This was the pilot. They changed houses and also changed the actress who played Joan. Enjoy this gem.

Brilliant reaction as always. Your love of British Comedy is heartwarming. This show you will definitely enjoy. I hope you can get to watch all episodes. I have had the privilege of watching this awesome comedy series when it aired in the seventies. Yes we had racial issues at that time but I think this helped people from different ethnicities live together in a much better light. Bill Smethurst who played Eddie has recently passed away. He was one of our finest comedy actors of that Era. Another risqué comedy also from the seventies was Till death us do part starring Alf Garnett. That should be another on your list to react to. Your laugh is so infectious 😂

I knew you would love this. I grew up watching it, it really shows how racism is utterly stupid while being hilarious. And yeah it gets even better!

@maewest68

2 жыл бұрын

How is it stupid? It's a maybe ... 75-100 year old experiment? Good luck, you'll see what's coming eventually, when it's too late.

Love thy neighbour ran from 1972 to 1976. I remember watching this as a kid and laughing my socks off, mainly at the stupidity of Eddie. I grew up in a very multicultural area and as a kid and never really understood racism. To me friends were friends and colour never came into it.

@paulrichards6894

2 жыл бұрын

they changed his wife

@seamuslannon6972

2 жыл бұрын

@@paulrichards6894 yes and never explained why??

@paulrichards6894

2 жыл бұрын

@@seamuslannon6972 they thought she was a bit posh for eddie

@seamuslannon6972

2 жыл бұрын

@@paulrichards6894 could have been correct😂😂😂

@paulrichards6894

2 жыл бұрын

@@seamuslannon6972 the one they plumped for was a far better fit

I love Rudolph Walker’s accent, an accent that is sadly vanishing from the country as those first generation West Indian migrants sadly pass away & their offspring having more localised accents. He was wonderful as Gladstone in the Thin Blue Line with Rowan Atkinson & was also in the last story arc on my favourite Doctor Who Patrick Troughton.

@RltchieI

2 жыл бұрын

P.s Between 1947 & the 70s around 500,000 people migrated to the U.K. from the West Indies that is why Eddie said he’d “deport” them. Eddie also as a socialist doesn’t like the fact Bill is a conservative so it’s racial and ideological discrimination. Sadly there were many like Eddie in back in the day, but there were also many more who would gladly take 1,000 Bill’s for one Eddie. The genius of many of these shows frowned upon by todays generation is its ability to use that language and humour to show that racism is stupid. You laugh at them & not with them. Blazing Saddles is very much in the same mould, sadly people today don’t get the context focusing too much on the words used instead of why they are used.

@DarrenMalin

2 жыл бұрын

you might like to see Death in Paradise set in a English Caribbean island. The accents are brilliant.

@richardjones4466

2 жыл бұрын

Plays a black Union soldier with West Indian accent! Excellent actor, I saw him on tv once in a play about political prisoners during Idi Amin's regime.

I see that Jack Smethurst (‘Eddie’) died 5 days ago on 16th Feb. He was 89 years old. God rest his soul. RIP. 🙏🏼

That's a brilliant reaction...........easy to be offended and switch off but your analysis is bang on point

Wow love this series and never seen the pilot!…thanks for reviewing and airing this….thank you very much…cheers

love the fact that as an American you are taking the time to dig out classic early 70s comedy which even most Brits have forgotten about, time has moved on and that generation that watched those programmes have passed on

@carolynthompson3291

2 жыл бұрын

I’m aged 60 and hope I’ve a few years yet before I pass on! I watched all of these type of comedies as a kid. Even though I didn’t get the political stuff, I could understand the prejudice and appreciate it for what it was. Comedy. On the busses was another classic. There were some brilliant comedians then too; Dick Emery, Stanley Baxter , Morecambe and Wise, The two Ronnies. Monty Pythons Flying Circus would be on the tv but I didn’t understand much of it; too clever and satirical for a ten year old. Loved the Carry On films too which are still on tv today.

I heard that this was, the number one show in Jamaica.

Hi Beard, incase you didn't know, England was mainly white until the late 1950's when a mostly black Caribbean's emigrated to the UK. There were newspaper stories in the 1970's saying the value of your house would fall if a black family moved in next-door. This show was a reaction to certain rhetoric's being pushed at the time, exposing and mocking ignorance.

@npc3po301

2 жыл бұрын

And now look, no go areas for non-muslims in England, funny that huh

I do remember watching this as kid. Curry and Chips was another interesting show that only ran for a half a dozen episodes starred Spike Milligan, Eric Sykes and Kenny Lynch. I had the 'don't sound black' said to me, I did have a good laugh over that one.

After this episode for the rest of the series, Joan was played by Kate Williams. Don't get too excited about this show; after at the most a couple of seasons Bill and Eddie almost become mates and it loses its edginess, with them just getting into bog standard 70s sitcom tropes. One episode coming up though is when Bill pretends to put a voodoo curse on Eddie. It's hysterical. I saw Rudolph Walker talking about the show once, and he said the UK Afro Caribbean community loved it! People who say the show is racist completely miss the point. Really enjoy your stuff mate.

@martinp3018

2 жыл бұрын

That episode with the voodoo curse has to be one of the funniest, the end scene with Eddie trying to break to spell on Bill by dancing naked around the holly tree, chanting pinky ponky, me white honkie is etched in my mind. :)

I grew up watching this , the good thing was both sides gave as good as they got. My garden at my bungalow was cleared out before I moved in !! Plants, pots ,garden ornaments .🤷🤷 Only 2 years ago .!!!

@highpath4776

2 жыл бұрын

Dont worry, I am always giving away stuff on freecycle I grow to excess

I have been waiting for you to react to this. It was a great show back then, exposing some of the attitudes and prejudices of the time. I think shows like this had a hand in reducing the racism in Britain over the years. (I know it still exists, but nowhere near as bad as then)

A bit curious about this episode. It is not S1E1. The actress playing Eddie's wife Joan is not the actress who played her in the series. The houses where where they live are not the houses they live in for the rest of the series. I wonder if this pilot episode was ever actually broadcast? There is a playlist here on youtube which contains all the actual episodes from the series. If this series interests you I suggest watching some of them. They are actually quite well written and funny. The conversation with his wife that you didn't understand. The Common Market is the European Economic Community EEC, predecessor of the European Union, which the UK was about to join. Transport and General Workers is the Transport and General Workers Union and Jack Jones was an official of that trades union. Eddie is a socialist, a trades unionist and votes Labour. Bill is a Conservative voter. This series is not racist. The wives become the best of friends and Eddie and Bill are always bickering but Eddie always comes out the fool. This pilot episode was probably made in 1971. The first episode of the series was first broadcast in May 1972.

I watched this as a kid. The white guy was working class - Trade Union Socialist - Labour Party. The black guy is middle class - Conservative. They were the opposite in everything. Great political satire on the day.

This was a very good show. The interaction and banter is just brilliant. xx

Love your reaction to this!! Gotta appreciate the clever writing of this show 👌🏻

Omg, love this! I had never seen it but my dad always spoke about it then my sister bought the box set for my dad. We watched it on Christmas day and all saying that could never get away with saying stuff like that now 😂😂

This is only the pilot - it gets a lot better so far as character development is concerned. It is from the very early 70s. Although some of the 'racist' jokes were a bit heavy handed, even for the 1970s, the overall point of the show was (as you already gleaned) to show the stupidity and pointlessness of racism. In the end, it is the differing politics of the two men that case the real division and not race. The Race Relations Act was passed in the UK shortly after this series ended. Incidentally, another YT channel is reacting to this series too. He is black and thinks that overall it is hilarious.

@BedsitBob

2 жыл бұрын

You notice that, in almost every case, it was the white guy who lost.

@wordsmith52

2 жыл бұрын

@@BedsitBob Yes, he is the one who gets regularly humiliated. And that does grate a bit sometimes. But then look at the parts they wrote for him! I suppose it had to be that way and overdone or it would not have been so funny. There was a certain amount of the same for the black guy, and when that happened, it turned into a men v women scenario. I grew up in that era and in my experience, there was little, if any real, racism against West Indies black people among most of the working classes, particularly in London. Believe it or not, we had a lot in common. There was a lot of integration, especially in the work place, shops and pubs.

@Mviews-hb4ib

2 жыл бұрын

Jayzee or something

@goose300183

2 жыл бұрын

To paraphrase Lee Mack: "it's something that was considered cheeky in the 70s, but now is illegal"

I think this actually did more good for britian than bad as it was when Jamaicans were integrating into britian and it showed both side are human 👍

@oyaami1874

2 жыл бұрын

He is not Jamaican

@kevinhayes7830

2 жыл бұрын

@@oyaami1874 no he's from Trinidad but it was mostly Jamaicans integrating at the time not all but mostly 👍

The voodoo episode is brilliant 😂

@dixienormous2440

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that is funny!

Love this series!! Keep this one going please! I know you will love it because it just keeps getting better!Watching with you mate 😊

At the start when he's talking about different workers in the kitchen, he's talking about various European countries, as the UK had just joined the common market or the EEC, which later became the EU. It was the start of the thing we just ended with Brexit. I'm sure others have suggested Alf Garnet, who as a character managed to keep this kind of comedy going in one way or another from 1965 until 1992.

I remember as a kid watching this it was funny then and it is still funny now. Programs like this helped to change the mind set of a lot of people. The writing was very cleaver, you could see the bigotry and how both sides behaved. The wife of the Eddy was changed to a different actress but the writing went on just as good. There were other shows if you haven't seen it already check out Till Death do us part with Warren Mitchell. A great actor of his time and a great show.

I grew up a immigrant child in the UK watching this show and loved it.. so funny 😁

Dude your laugh cracks me up 😂😂

I remember my grandad watching this when I was only little and my Nan coming on and having a go at my grandad for putting it on with us my mom went mad my dad found it hilarious.

Great to see this added to the channel mate. I think you were spot on during the intro, when you said that they didn't write the 'protagonist', as it were, to be a complete ass but to have some endearing qualities. It meant the "relevant" person in the family didn't feel blatantly attacked and watched it, saw the family laugh *at* it and likely put 2+2 together before too long. They're Sit-Com parables that are lost to the current generation of writers, or production companies at least.

RIP Jack Smethurst (died 16 Feb 22), wonderful show, glad your reacting to Love Thy Neighbour

Great reaction, that was a lot of wow's, the series continues in the same way so look forward to a lot more, WOW!

This show was written as a response to the BBC’s Till Death Us Do Part which touched on very much the same issues. That show had been broadcast from 1965 - 75. It was famous for Warren Mitchell calling his on screen wife, played by Dandy Nichols, a “silly old moo”! It was the inspiration for the American comedy ‘All in the Family’.

I was 13 years old when this series started on our screens in 1972. Acting and script writing weren’t particularly great, but a landmark series… a product of its time. I remember it well.

Yesssss about time pal

Blimey must be best part of 5 decades since i last watched this.....nice reaction....cheers.

I have Love Thy Neighbour on DVD, this episode is included on series 1. The line that was cut when Eddie realises that Bill is his neighbour and not the furniture remover is "Bloody Nora", he uses this catchphrase throughout the series.

@BrisbaneBoy86

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, I think that line was cut when the company who produced the DVDS cut out the advert break captions (the "End of Part One" and "Part Two" on screen in order to make the episode a continious thing.

@matelot95

2 жыл бұрын

I had the VHS of the whole series and the recast episode 1 with Kate Williams, Eddie says "Bloody Nora, I've been integrated!"

This episode was from 1972. It was an extremely funny sitcom that showed the idiocy of racism and poked fun at the stereotypes and attitudes of both sides of the racism thing. Added to which they made the white guy a labour party supporter and the black guy a conservative supporter so it let the stupidities of politics also be parodied. The series ran from 72 to 76 and was very funny for the first couple of years at least. I don't remember seeing it much after that so not sure how it continued.

My brother's workmate is a West Indian. He has the full box set of Love Thy Neighbour. He loves it.

Oh classic..loved these..👍

Watch Father Ted. It’s a classic! 👌 The episode “Are you right there, Father Ted” is the best one! 😂👍

Being the pilot a few things did change. The houses for 1, they moved the setting so the doors was touching so they could have close door conversations in 1 shot and easier to set up sets. Another change was Eddie's wife (the buffy the vampire pilot had a fat girl I stead of alyson hannigan). After the pilot they got an idea of what worked and the show just gets better. It was so successful enough they even made a movie out of it. The guy playing bill is still doing TV today on one of the most popular shows here, Eastenders.

@highpath4776

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, Eddie's Pilot wife was a bit too up class for Eddie.

@clinteastwood8230

2 жыл бұрын

I'm glad they changed both actress . Alyson was awesome as willow . Just how she says her lines and jokes in a geeky way . And that nervous bit about her . And the switch to Kate Williams I'n this was perfect the chemistry between her and Eddie was brilliant

@clinteastwood8230

2 жыл бұрын

@@highpath4776 yeah very and they don't click the same

@highpath4776

2 жыл бұрын

@@clinteastwood8230 Eddies Wife in the Pilot reminds me of a mix of Penelope Kieth and Felicity Kendal, I actually wonder what happened to her as I think cast in the right role she could have been good as straight or comedy actress. The other good comedy (was it BBC? John Alderton and Hannah Gordon in My Wife Next Door)

@clinteastwood8230

2 жыл бұрын

@@highpath4776 she been in some carry on films .and other comedy shows like on the buses . The only John alderton show I know is please sir that's funny as long as you don't count the final series

Really enjoyed your reaction to this and you 'get it' totally!

Enjoyed your reaction to this classic show

I loved this show when I was a kid in the early 70's. What you've seen so far develops and if you can handle the time sensitive racism, it's very funny. The references against today's sensitivities are brutal at times. Both Eddie and Bill are equally at fault and the girls are always balanced and friendly. I'd advise to watch the whole series. I think they are still available on KZread. You mentioned Eddie's speech/accent but that is a typical northern English accent (around Manchester). Sorry to hear that Jack Smethurst (Eddie) died this week.

I think your assessment is correct. The language today isn't acceptable, but the central theme was about how similar the two couples are (both men being quite arrogant and pig-headed; the women down-to-Earth and getting on with each other) and in general the two men were the butt of the jokes, and Eddie's prejudice in particular being highlighted. In the 70s it wasn't common to have lead black characters on TV shows, and so this exposed a lot of people to a couple that were pretty much just like them. It's a smarter show than people who haven't seen it give it credit for.

Aww man! Incredible! I discovered this during the first Lockdown and I binged it all. I’m from England, so I do understand probably more of the dialect, but I’m so glad that you INSTANTLY got the point. The actor who plays Bill is still a very much loved actor here, and has received an MBE honour from the queen. You can find lots of interviews with him on here talking about LTN, and he’s proud of it, and confirms that you’re 100% correct in your analysis on what the angle is here.

There is a cut when Mr. Booth mistakes the removal man for his new neighbour. When Mr. Reyonlds (the new neighbour) extends his hand to meet Mr. Booth and announces that he is the new neighbour, Mr. Booth turns round and says "Bloody Nora (English curse), I've been integrated". The scene then goes to Mr. Booth on the telephone. Unfortunately, Jack Smethurst who played Mr. Booth in this show passed away last week. Rudolph Walker, who played Mr. Reynolds, has played Patrick Trueman in the UK soap opera EastEnders since 2001.

@The Eclectic Beard , Alan this show gets better and better with each episode , the chemistry between Bill and Eddie is funny as hell . R.I.P to Jack Smethurst who plays Eddie who just passed away last week aged 89 . These episodes are unlikely to get blocked as they are ITV shows , it's mostly BBC that blocks shows . So if your looking to introduce British shows check which channel they originated from you'll have a lot less hassle if you avoid the BBC lol . Both Love Thy Neighbour and Rising Damp are ITV shows .

*Mind Your Language* (1977-1986) which is also by *ITV* is a legendary sitcom, which as the title suggests is also about race, language and stereotypes. All the episodes are on KZread.

@neilgrundy

2 жыл бұрын

Mind Your Language is a much different show, though. It punches down, the foreigners are always the butt of the joke.

@npc3po301

2 жыл бұрын

@@neilgrundy The 3 English characters were stereotypes too, the bumbling naive middle class teacher, the battleaxe feminist head and the 'cor bloimey guv' peasant janitor, funny how those who want to point fingers always miss that detail

watched this as a kid thanks for this !

Watched this show as a kid back in the day …. And laughed my bollocks off … watched it again just now …. And laughed my bollocks off 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

You're very brave taking this on... . We all know you'll find a lot of it offensive, please rise above it and see it for what it was - part of British TV History EDITED : Why did I doubt you... you got it nailed in one !

RIP to Jack Smethurst who only just passed away very recently . . .. the 2 men, Jack & Rudolph were great friends during and after the show, too, Alan . . . and were always laughing at what they had to say or call each other from the scripts . . . basically 2 opposing racist views getting at each other all the time - just so as to take the piss out of all of the racists who were out there - (There was always a life lesson being taught in those days in all of the older sit-coms by their writers) . . . Another one just like this from about the same period was, "Mind Your Language" . . .

@hazelhodgkinson6002

2 жыл бұрын

one of my favourites was citizen smith.

you wait till he goes to the local shop lol

Really appreciate your understanding of these great shows. 👍

Eddie's wife is replaced by a better actress for the entire run. It was recently properly remastered by Network home video in the UK last year uncut. Sadly the actor playing Eddie died last week aged 89... He was a superb actor, as far removed from the character he played as you could get.

Love thy Neighbour ran from 1972 to 1976. There was also a feature film, made in 1973, which was a box office hit in the U.K. Please check out the BBC show Till Death us Do Part, where the character Alf Garnett shares the same views as Eddie Booth, but unlike Eddie, Alf isn’t a Labour (Socialist - or Democrat in the US) supporter, but a Conservative supporter (Republican in the U.S). Till Death us Do Part was re made in the U.S. as All in the Family, with the Alf Garnett character renamed as Archie Bunker.

@sporkfindus4777

2 жыл бұрын

And that's the bizarre thing about the far ends of the ideological spectrum. The far right and far left have a lot in common!

@sjbict

2 жыл бұрын

@@sporkfindus4777 Yep two cheeks of the same backside

Bill always gave as good as he took. 😄

My father is Jamaican and I grew up in the 70s, this was my favorite show, outstanding!!

I've only ever seen this one episode so I'll be watching it for the first time on this channel. I think you'd like the Alf Garnett character in Till Death Us Do Part and In Sickness And In Health as well

@dave_h_8742

2 жыл бұрын

Definitely

@stuwebb5727

2 жыл бұрын

aye alf tne bigots bigot so funny

@billysmith3841

2 жыл бұрын

@@stuwebb5727 the later series' mellowed a bit. It's the same as this though you're not supposed to laugh with Alf Garnett you're supposed to laugh at how ridiculous he is. Same as Rigsby the comedy is with his struggle fitting in with the modern world

I was watching this in the early 70's, aged 11 or so. Very different times! But, like the 60's sit-com 'Til Death Do Us Part', it used a racist character to represent the attitudes of many at the time and then ensured he ended up being the foolish-looking one. Couldn't imagine anyone writing this now.

@maewest68

2 жыл бұрын

Funny how you have to "make it" that way. I found it equally funny how the Nazis depicted the Jews... hilarious how you can just make things happen.

This show took no prisoners and I love that way that you appreciate it. You made a great comment about the difference between the comedy of Rising Damp and this show. In my eyes it still makes to point of the stupidity of racism. Keep on Rocking my man.

most of those British 60s 70s 80s comedies were hilarious and top notch...laugh ya right out of your seat back in the day...love watching someone with a crack up laugh 😅 makes me laugh and feel like I have a lot more in common with the people I'm sharing this big ol world of ours with... all the best from Aotearoa New Zealand bro...

You should go watch the Top Gear episode where Clarkson, Hammond and May drive through Alabama and paint slogans on each other’s vehicles to offend the locals. It was all a bit of a dare to see who could get the other one killed or arrested. It was crazy but also hilarious. 😂😂 Your Alabama shirt made me think of it. 👍

@richardjones4466

2 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't be a great loss!

This pilot was never shown and the part of the racist's wife was recast for the actual series. The first proper episode is very similar to this script.

@redf7209

2 жыл бұрын

It definitely improved as it went on and was hugely popular.

@papalaz4444244

2 жыл бұрын

@@redf7209 ok "This channel doesn't have any content"

I just love your reactions to our old shows! Another late 1970's early 1980's series 'George & Mildred' is also hilarious!

@clinteastwood8230

2 жыл бұрын

The bathroom episode funny with Jerry the plumber

This guy's reactions has me in stitches

Did you do red dwarf? I can't remember

@markscouler2534

2 жыл бұрын

The quarantine episode was my favourite

@Mviews-hb4ib

2 жыл бұрын

@@markscouler2534 I'll of seen it I just loose track now

You will have to wade through some mediocre (or not to your taste) tripe but it's worth it for the gems you'll come across (alot of the best stuff predates our current "PC crazy" society. steptoe and son, the "carry on" films, some mothers do av em, and Til death do us part might struggle to be accepted nowadays)

@cyberash3000

2 жыл бұрын

This was pc friendly. It was pc friendly for the time and tomes change. Also note they jave explained this ahow was mea t to be taking the piss out of old fashioned racists

@majpanik

2 жыл бұрын

I know that's what I was getting at.

@cyberash3000

2 жыл бұрын

@@majpanik also the conservatives and labours views on race have swapped so now all conservative voters are racist

@majpanik

2 жыл бұрын

@@cyberash3000 There is no ALL when it comes to Labour & Conservative voters, I voted for different sides many times and it's not changed my personal view on things (and being labelled a racist is incredibly easy nowadays, hell as a brit I've bèen condemned as a slave trading racist on many occasions)

@cyberash3000

2 жыл бұрын

@@majpanik well most brits are I've lived all my life in this coubtry and I can count the on rscist white people I've met in 40 years of life on one hand and I've lived in Northampton Liverpool and blackpool and travelled all over rhe country and I've yet to find none racists. I even walked into a pub full of skinheads with nazi tattoos on their heads

best part of 50 years since this pilot show. a good comedy showing both sides of the colour bar.

This takes me back

I remember watching this back in the 1970s. Looking back I can't understand why people, myself include found this funny. You will never see this repeated on British Television and I can't say I'll miss it.

Brilliant series. Unfortunately banned by the wankers who see offence even where none exists, and have no idea of nuance whatsoever. Jack Smethurst sadly passed away just a few days ago, aged 89.

@chalkus

2 жыл бұрын

It wasn't banned. Also, it was taking the pass out of the wankers who couldn't understand it was taking the pass out of them! You should watch his interviews.

@andyblogger1

2 жыл бұрын

@@chalkus, not banned in the traditional sense maybe, but certainly never got an airing on terrestrial TV for decades. Smethurst's death never even got a mention on the news.

@chalkus

2 жыл бұрын

@@andyblogger1 not banned in the literal sense either. Also, his name did get quite some coverage

@andyblogger1

2 жыл бұрын

@@chalkus, I watched three BBC News bulletins that day. Was not mentioned on one of them. Then again, I don't expect much from the BBC so I shouldn't be surprised.

@chalkus

2 жыл бұрын

@@andyblogger1 so did I, and it was mentioned. I'm beginning to build a picture here... pro offence, anti-bbc... let me guess, you also don't realise that this programme took the piss out of racists and Smethurst, repeatedly referred to such people as "vile"

The man who played Eddie passed away two days ago I believe he was 89

This is a great show comedy gold.. it brought us together