Is it just me or are these older shows so much more funny than the modern ones?

@peternagy-im4be

Жыл бұрын

They are better. Reason i stopped watching TV

@Heaven-dy9lj

Жыл бұрын

They are so much better, it's true.

@LivesInLibertyCity

Жыл бұрын

I'm in my late 30s and love the older sitcoms. Between 75 and 95 are my personal favourite years for TV.

@VestigialHead

Жыл бұрын

There is still a rare show of quality, but they are much fewer between. These days producers seem more concerned with meeting diversity quotas and appealing to minority groups than producing quality or intelligent content. Very sad that the golden age of TV is no more.

@peternagy-im4be

Жыл бұрын

@Ian in other words shows are made by idiotic woke losers. Best just to ignore them all.

The perfect continuation of Porridge. Rest in peace all those who stared in it. Perfect comedy!

@iwillsendyoutojesus

8 ай бұрын

Agreed

@markfowler1467

23 күн бұрын

well said

Ronnie is pure class such natural talent in whatever he plays BRILLIANT JUST BRILLIANT

When he starts clicking the pen to get the tea out 🤣🤣🤣

Ronnie Barker is such a brilliant man. I have seen this series for the first time. Hooked

Love the lines: "I didn't think anyone your age had never worked" Fletcher replies: "Yeah, me and the Duke of Edinburgh".

@uppercut2246

Жыл бұрын

Prince Philip wanted to be reincarnated as a ‘deadly virus’ to ‘stop overpopulation’. No need, Event 201 has created Mass formation Psychosis in the Cattle already eh.

@MOGGS1942

Жыл бұрын

Phil the Greek and the rest of the deadbeat windsors. Not a days work between the lot of them.

You can troddle of. I haven't heard that in year's. Good old Ronnie Barker.

It's like a time machine back to my childhood 😢. Times were hard but simple

@michaelcoward1902

Жыл бұрын

Yeah so hard with your subsidized housing, free education, public services that worked and more than five years between each once in a lifetime crisis

@allanwelsh3095

Жыл бұрын

@@michaelcoward1902 that's an awful lot of presumptions. Tell me do you know what my life was like. As you assume I'm thinking no. So shhhhhhh theres a good boy

RIP Patricia. She was such a cutie pie

Just noticed the hotel is also the same set used for Fawlty towers

I love Fletcher's line when the sarcastic receptionist says how the previous porter stole her 'portable fan heater'. "Oh dear", says Fletcher, "And you need one of those more than most I should think".

@adzdahlman9724

Жыл бұрын

Ah haaa . I always comment before reading others ; but , yeah ~ hilarious*

@theculturedthug6609

11 ай бұрын

I don't really get it what is he implying?

@LivesInLibertyCity

9 ай бұрын

​@theculturedthug6609 i believe he's implying she's lazy. Enjoying the fan rather than cracking on with work. Or vanity related

@ianworley8169

5 ай бұрын

I took to imply a bawdy reference. I need a fan(ny) 'eater. Could be wrong, but I thought it was funny anyway.

@highdownmartin

4 ай бұрын

@@ianworley8169ditto. I missed that line the last time I saw it, but took it as keeping her bits warm as so parky in reception Anyway, slightly suggestive

All three gone now. Patricia was great as fletches daughter

Ronnie is the funniest. And wit person they were ever in comedy. R.i.p .Ronnie barker

You wouldn't have complained if you'd ever fallen out of a window, would ya? One of the best lines ever. Acting, writing bloody brilliant.

RIP Patricia Brake.

I didn't realise this program was around I love it. Love fletcher in porridge and open all hours.🤣😍❤

@smiffy113

10 ай бұрын

Fletcher wasn't in open all hours

@JazzFunk22

8 ай бұрын

Ooohhhh fletch you are awful but I like you 🤭

@LisaKitching

8 күн бұрын

@@smiffy113fletcher was Arkwright

It’s so sad that he died, he would of done some amazing things, at least we have this and other shows, rest in peace.

@raymondwelsh6028

2 жыл бұрын

Only found out his daughter was Kate Beckinsale.🇦🇺

@danw1374

2 жыл бұрын

@@raymondwelsh6028 Richards other daughter Samantha is the image of her dad.

@KebabMusicLtd

Жыл бұрын

I believe Richard died within a year or so of the making of Going Straight. Ironically, David Swift was also in Richard Beckinsale's last tv show Bloomers. It's noticeable the bags-under-the-eyes on Richard in this episode and it has been said that he had raised concerns about his health with his doctor in the months before his tragic death.

@DrCrabfingers

Жыл бұрын

He did do some amazing things. He made some awesome tv and films. Some people live to be 100 and don't do half of what he achieved.

I haven't seen this since it was aired in 1978...lol . Fantastic. Anything with Ronnie Barker is going to be good. The guy was brilliant. Thanks for the upload.

@johnnunn8688

Жыл бұрын

19787, I must have missed that year.

@doktoruzo

Жыл бұрын

@@johnnunn8688 ..lol

Love all the old accessories in the kitchen , brings me right back to being a nipper.

What a great comedy I'm 58 remember this very well 😂

Even though those days were hard, they are so much better than today in so many ways.

@allangilchrist5938

Жыл бұрын

Here! Here!

@breenirwin2356

Жыл бұрын

More integrity in society

@paulfletcher3998

Жыл бұрын

@J Film - 85pence for a double whiskey being one.

@johnnunn8688

Жыл бұрын

What was hard about them?

@paulfletcher3998

Жыл бұрын

@@johnnunn8688 mass unemployment, the 3 day working week, endless strikes, public TV not broadcast several nights aweek, the height of IRA violence, violence at football matches to name a few of the problems. The 70's were the worse times since WW2.

Ronnie Barker just steals the show.... one of the greatest comic actors of the TV age.

The lovely Patricia Brake rip. Those jeans fitted her well 😉

85p for a double scotch ! And table service ! ! !

thank you so much for the full episode's. 💯🔔👌👐👐👐👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Gift of the gab would describe Fletch, and Godber was too nice to have eaten porridge.

Ronnie b absolutely amazing legend xx ❤

he`s taking a bit of a risk by showing fletcher the safe isn`t he, and although this is still not porridge, really anything starring ronnie barker is bound to be comedy gold without fail.

King of comedy !!! The best !!! 4 candles !!!

@rockabyebaby6111

Жыл бұрын

sorry mate.. we ave run out of fork handles ha ha !!

Great show just wish been more rip Ronnie and Richard xxx

23:01 "I think you ought to have another Polo" Richard Beckinsale's timing on that line is comedy gold.

@robertwhyte6914

Жыл бұрын

Godber been learning from Fletch

I don't think the actress who played Ingrid gets enough credit. Obviously Ronnie and Richard were both comedy genius. But I really liked Ingrid since porridge and the wearing the bra gag. And I think she is great to have as the 3rd lead in the series.

@jonathanliddane4144

11 ай бұрын

I can't stand her. Her voice ruins this whole series. It's so over the top cockney.

@martinworld7214

3 ай бұрын

I'm sorry but Richard Beckinsale cannot be described as a comedy genius . Taking nothing away from his ability ~& craft

David Swift was great in this, with his mysterious references to "two unfortunate occasions" and the way he always says "etcetera, etcetera" instead of properly finishing his sentences.

@allangilchrist5938

Жыл бұрын

I agree with you. It's very funny the way he stares into the middle distance as he remembers the two 'unfortunate occasions'.

@MrGranfield

Жыл бұрын

Loved him in Drop the Dead Donkey.

I miss that generation of people, I really do.

Ronnie barker legend

Excellent never gets old nothing like it now shame 😉

Awe, that theme ❤ (let alone the rest) brings the nostalgia on. Ta very much.☝

I remember loving porridge when you was young and it was on again in the early 90s. I never knew this existed untill my late Mum and her then partner was talkng about it while singing the theme song. That must have been around 2000. I found this on yt a few years ago. Love it ❤

I think we are all like Fletcher, allergic to work. 😂

@kidpresentable6004

2 жыл бұрын

@@logangreen3616 nope.me too

@Cloudsouth

2 жыл бұрын

Allergic to work we hate, yes.

@uppercut2246

Жыл бұрын

@@logangreen3616 Yes, there's nothing quite like, coming out of University with a debt & an expensive piece of Paper, to waft under the nose of your future slave owner eh. You want fries with that...

@josefserf1926

Жыл бұрын

Work is just a way for the elites to collect our taxes. The wages are secondary.

@franzherflek4116

Жыл бұрын

I hate work

I don't need no money off you Pat pat Lend us a quid Len! Beautiful

Allergic to work ha ha classic. 😂😂

Ronnie Barker has to be the best character actor of all time

Absolutely brilliant

Pamela should have been a receptionist at the doctors, got the same attitude

@martinjenkins6467

Жыл бұрын

Yeah narky cows.

@incargeek

Жыл бұрын

Interesting, because I think Swift would play a great, gruff doctor actually; in a similar style to his character here.

WHEN MR MCKEOWN TOLD FLETCH HE LIKES TO GIVE THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT, HE SOUNDS LIKE OLD MR BARRACLOUGH

Going Straight was great to watch (10/09/2022)

And it’s the first time that things for me are starting to move forward for myself 🇬🇧

Brilliant show, such a shame it never lasted long.

@nicky6334

Жыл бұрын

Weren't they planning to until Richard Hathaway died ?

@LivesInLibertyCity

9 ай бұрын

Richards untimely death caused it 😢

Thank goodness I was brought up when shows like this came on the box. Any of the younger generation on here like these, type of shows? Too many to list.

If there is such a thing as intelligent comedy - this is it!

16:05 Godber hasn't mastered the art of storming out of the room after an argument. Lol.

just fantastic.

17:12 A well written sitcom about the bright working class, what could be better?

just spotted the hoover twin tub behind Godber, 3174 model worked on hundreds of them, great comedy made magic by the legend that is Ronnie B!

Thank you so much this is one series I've never seen and always wanted to 👍

Fletch getting his first job ever just like little Charlie Windsor.

I really enjoyed that! I watched Porridge as a kid.

on the fiddle. 😂😂😂😂😂

Cheese and chutney sandwiches; how delightfully Bri-ishh....

@magna4100

Жыл бұрын

In the present madness cheese 'n' chutney sarnies would be considered "racist."

@martinworld7214

3 ай бұрын

those & the picallilli sandwiches sound truly revolting

Thanks Comedylegends for posting these.

Those trousers fit her well. :) Thanks for sharing.

@brianhaskard1042

6 жыл бұрын

great camel

@janroberts347

Жыл бұрын

🥴👹😽👍🏻

Fantastic

I think I'm in love with fletches daughter.

thanks for the upload I remember this as a kid

haughty people doing menial jobs. I miss that

“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams..

She got money to fritter away on tea and biscuits

you just don't see these very long sketches anymore

"I am...actually...... allergic.....to work"!

"Like the whistle!"

The prices. 1976 I was ripped off, 32p for a can of Lilt worth only 16p. How many quid today?

@geoffreycarson2311

Жыл бұрын

IM 66 you are NOT Wrong !!!g

It's a story but...isn't Ingrid a loyal daughter? The way she goes to see his boss...and explain why he's not there...Aw.

Sad watching Ronnie and Richard and Patricia at home - all gone now! I thought this was better than Porridge - wish they'd made more than one series!

@scottandrewbrass1931

Жыл бұрын

...Better than Porridge?! PAH!

@MrHarleyoldfart

Жыл бұрын

They only made one series because it was shite,

@lawrencejhutchinson

Жыл бұрын

@@MrHarleyoldfart Actually, it was because Richard Beckinsale died!

@hogwashmcturnip8930

Жыл бұрын

@@MrHarleyoldfart That is why it won a BAFTA. Maybe it is only 'shite' if you are incapable of cohesive thought and empathy.

@MrHarleyoldfart

Жыл бұрын

@@hogwashmcturnip8930 I didn't realise you needed to be empathetic to watch a 'comedy' programme. Winning an award means nothing, masses of films win awards for all sorts of things, but that doesn't guarantee they're not shite.

2019 anyone?

@bloodbornetwotterman4966

4 жыл бұрын

Yep!!!

@darrenlock3307

4 жыл бұрын

2020 and love it

@andrewbleasdale790

3 жыл бұрын

@@darrenlock3307 good man

@gordonmulligan5145

3 жыл бұрын

June 2020 👍

@raflaughter3474

3 жыл бұрын

2021!

It's says a lot that a sub par show compared to porridge is still more amusing than most modern comedy shows

@tuberworksjones

Жыл бұрын

Oh do they still make comedy, I thought it was all stuff like Alaskan gold,or something about a fishing boat

@anthonybeavan5648

Жыл бұрын

The bar was set a lot higher back then - there were only three TV channels in the UK, so programme quality had to be competitive to get viewers in. Even though Going Straight paled next to Porridge, it still had quality writing and a very talented presence in Ronnie Barker - not just a veteran comedian, but an excellent actor with impeccable timing, a craft he honed through many years of experience and talent.

@highdownmartin

Жыл бұрын

Watching the last series of father Ted knowing that dermot Morgan was dead, it seemed less funny and not as good. But years later that was just my mood. Watching going straight at the time felt like “ it’s not porridge it’s not as good “. But forty years later ( naffin ell ! Really?) it’s still sharp writing, fletch is in civvies but clement frenais still give him excellent lines and the same outlook, there’s beckinsale and maybe that time away from it makes me think that this is way better than the credit I gave it at the time of transmission. And the two hander with Mac Kay on the train in ep 1 is right up there with the absolute best of superb acting and brilliant dialogue. That’s a real jewel

Cosey comedy, so well done.

Nice to hear the overture from Yeomen of the Guard

They should have made more series he was wonderful

Brilliant 👏 15th August 2022 🍀🇨🇮

@franzherflek4116

Жыл бұрын

Ivory coast flag??

Thank you

One for the Getaway car, one for the Wages Van 😂

Such a bloody shame about Richard Beckinsale, he died only a few years after this, and I can't believe it but "I've" never seen this version of porridge either, can't believe it, and like other people are saying, I'm enjoying this better than any other present comedy, this is sarcasm personified, Beautiful! 85pence for a double scotch!! Those 'were' the days...

I'm allergic to work, if only that was a medical condition.

Comedy Gold.🤣

Sack of crisps = 7p? Not on your Nellie! (2022)

I HAVE NEVER SEEN THAT BEFORE

Oh my God I’ve never seen Fletcher out of prison, I think once the prison went away to play football once in a film version……..?

85p a scotch?! When was this? Can't buy nothing for under £1 nowadays

they must have used some of the same set for faulty towers in the hotel scene. very familiar

True to life back then - cigarettes, alcohol, sugar. We now know that the sugar is as bad as the other two.

Sadly all of the main cast is dead Ronnie Barker, Richard Beckinsale, Patricia brake, and David Swift 😥 wonderful British comedy from a time when we laughed

RAZOR SHARP !!!!CANADA 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂g

Great stuff

Keep offf it! The sofa l mean! 😂

have they just reused the fawlty towers set?!

GOOD.

The master

Here aren’t many comedy shows that attract so many viewers that don’t need to resort to bad language

They never show this on tv

How do you get a pint of lager out of a mcewens font just saying