I was 9 when this was aired and I absolutely bloody loved it. Ronnie Barker was the Midas of comedy. RIP Josephine Tewson.

@user-et6pj4db9s

4 ай бұрын

Yes he'd done the cockney role before so this was easy, sad to see Josephine died last year, there's not many left from the keeping up appearances gang.

This series is utterly charming and beautiful. It is also very funny. In particular, the actress who plays Jane is just perfect in the role. A little gem made when the BBC was a proper broadcasting organisation and not as it is now, a reincarnation of the old Greater London Council.

@keeley-jasminemaxinecavend9780

2 жыл бұрын

Quite agree.

Ronnie barker and Ronnie Corbett was comedy genius there never be another greats

@joedent3323

7 ай бұрын

What about Ant & Dec?

@johnferguson40

2 ай бұрын

Oh surely, not Corbett?

1st time watching this. Brilliant so funny 😅

Everything about this series is spot on including the music , it was very well researched. Such memorable music all in context so good that you can imagine you are actually there with them

Thanks prof so much, I can't find this anywhere, it's never repeated, and I have such fond memories of it. Finding this has made my day.

@roomullan3050

9 ай бұрын

That’s just what we say, it’s never ever been put on tv since

Absolutely fantastic 🍾

I think it was very well done I certainly enjoyed it he had worked with the lovely Josephine Tewson many times and you could tell it’s a shame they didn’t make more

🍭💗Our lost England🍭💗

Hard to believe I was in my prime as a 32 year old when this first aired in 1988, sadly loosing Ron and Jo, where has all time gone 36 years on…

Absolutely loved this series. Always wished it had gone on longer

@crckr2010

4 ай бұрын

I was the same, could never understand how they only did one series.

@Perfect_Rice

2 ай бұрын

​@@crckr2010Ronnie Barker retired in December 1987 and this aired in January 1988. Had it been a huge success, maybe he would have been tempted back for more, but it wasn't very successful at the time.

I remember watching the first one but (thanks to the one who made it possible to record the series ) I didn't realise there was another 5 episodes .. It's a fantastic series and Ronnie Barker is an amazing actor as he can act the part so good that you can actually believe it is a like watching a real character. The writers are excellent to as it's all chronologically correct to the detail . Awesome thankyou

I remember watching this back in the day great programme

I love this. It reminds me of my grandparents.

What a lovely perfectly pitched performance by the ever beautiful Phyllida Law. She is a hoot from start to finish.

I enjoyed Clarence when it first showed. A touch of Mr Magoo, well a fistful more like, but the critics slated it. Why? Well they expected the usual Barker quick witted creations but this took more guile which they misunderstood. Nice to see it, should of had more but Ronnie B. was quite hurt by it & that made his retirement come sooner. Great man, up their with Peter Sellers.

Totally great.

Episode 1 was a remake of The Removals Person from the series 6 Dates with Barker, first broadcast 50 years ago in 1971. Other episodes included The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town which was later remade as a serial for The Two Ronnies, and The Odd Job which was remade as a movie starring Graham Chapman and David Jason.

Have the whole box set. This is pure magic.

@wookieboy0776

3 жыл бұрын

where do i get the boxset please?

@TheSuperHarrygeorge

3 жыл бұрын

@@wookieboy0776 you may be able to buy online but mine was a present from my son. DVDs of whole series.

@80sImproud

3 жыл бұрын

Hi

@fapkebefsema7545

2 жыл бұрын

@@wookieboy0776 Try Ebay, Base, Amazon and such. Best look for the Ronnie Barker Collection, great boxed set with some good stuff.

I love this show I was young when the show aired. I have extreme Myopia 20/10 vision so when show came on I could relate guess what my nickname has been ever since? You got it Claren

RIP Josephine Tewson.

Great series, happened to get it when ordering the Ronnie Barker collection but had never heard of this before.

Never seen this show in my life and had me laughing in the first minute

A very funny show, thanks so much

Ronnie Barker was a genious of comedy , as per Eric Sykes , Tommy Cooper , Les Dawson and Ronnie midge. Fabulous playmates. Dave

Recon best show he done

thank you.

Memories. 🎬📺🙂

I love this

I remember this when I was 10

This is the only Ronnie B thing I haven't seen, worth watching the entire series?

I used to like this as a child.

This Bob Ferris might have a future in comedy writing 🤔

@madabbafan

4 жыл бұрын

He did. Bob Ferris AKA Gerald Wiely AKA Ronnie Barker. Ronnie NEVER wrore things under his own name as that way everything would be viewed on merit rather than producers thinking 'If Ronnie wrote it we had better use it'

@borkmcfink

3 жыл бұрын

Everything you say on the internet will be taken literally by someone.

@That_Random_Bloke

3 жыл бұрын

borkmcfink 🤣🤣🤣

There was a lot of inter-war comedy and comedy-drama around in those days - this, My Family and Other Animals, You Rang M'Lord, First of the Summer Wine, The House of Eliott. I suppose in the late 1980s there were still enough people alive who remembered the period. More recently, Peaky Blinders has been very popular but I feel that's been purely as a period/historical piece, rather than as a story with any meaningful connection to the present, which I think these were. Just an effect of the passage of time, ultimately.

@claireb4259

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your take on this series. I'm sure it was quite relevant then. To me it is a charming bit of nostalgia of days gone past.

No wonder the Rangoon Removal Company has such a Bad Reputation for Breakages.

first part as he opens the door....there you are

I like how he tried to relive the days of the great British comedy when it was clearly falling out of favour in the 80’s. Fair play Ronnie.

“What’s the matter with this bleedin lift?” 😁😆😂

How unfair of me to ignore the actress who gives a lovely performance as the frantic, desperate lovelorn daughter. She is the kind of young lady who would decide to marry a horrified Bertie Wooster.

@claireb4259

2 жыл бұрын

Oh yes indeed!

The maid know as the neighbour of mrs bucket 🤣🤣

A lovely, gentle, good natured and funny series. Now we have reality shows and political correctness all around us…..

Not a series that people remember. A poor vehicle for Barker’s talent. It never really took off.

Cool

This was his last show rip Ronnie Barker

Where is the rest of the series? OY!

@professorcynic

4 жыл бұрын

Will put up in a few days

People were really so controlled etc to think that way about the so called upper class & its actually always been working class the back bone of the country same as now

RIP Josephine Tewson

@seltaeb3302

7 ай бұрын

This RIPing has got to stop! Get over it, long dead,.

LMAO.!!

Hi there just pick on market stall it was seal on dvd

Who is the lady

its not bad by any means but the visual gags play a big part as someone else said this was part of six dates with barker and he was called fred not clarence

Wonder why programs like this aren’t repeated. Snowflakes I spose

could you make a sitcom like this today without upsetting the snowflakes

the only really good thing commedy wise in this is that it just made me realise why OFAH used the name trotter close to totter

barker hated it thats why it was never re broadcast and you can only get it in the box set

@spookydreamer7370

2 жыл бұрын

It wasn't that he hated it, Barker hated the reception it got, coming off other series it wasn't what his fan base wanted.

Clarence is dead

Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam ." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window ? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"