SADDO Podcast - Sitcom Archive Deep Dive Overdrive

SADDO Podcast - Sitcom Archive Deep Dive Overdrive

We love sitcoms. Particularly classic British sitcoms of the 1970s and 1980s. They remind us of our happy childhoods, watching television with our families in the evenings, back when choice was limited to just three or four channels.

Now - 30 or 40 years later - we still love to watch classic sitcoms like Rising Damp, Fawlty Towers, Porridge and more: it’s like going to visit an old friend with whom you immediately feel relaxed and comfortable.

So far we've covered every single episode of The Good Life (Good Neighbors to American audiences) as well as Fawlty Towers, and fairly soon we'll be taking a weekly deep dive into every single episode ever made of Dear John (UK version) too!

We love forensically examining our favourite childhood sitcoms: checking out the humour, characters, fashions and cringey bits together.

Join us at saddo.club to get involved!

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  • @naqwnaqw3712
    @naqwnaqw37127 күн бұрын

    I think I’ve seen this. If there was a U.S. tv spot ,that is.

  • @batterpudding229
    @batterpudding22913 күн бұрын

    i think YT has banned it for some wokery reason.

  • @hugoboss5895
    @hugoboss589515 күн бұрын

    Matt is a good mrs S.

  • @MrEdwardsg
    @MrEdwardsg17 күн бұрын

    Genius

  • @1chrisandangie
    @1chrisandangieАй бұрын

    As a teenager i had a crush on Panelope Keith she so beautiful.

  • @manjarichatterji9349
    @manjarichatterji9349Ай бұрын

    Thank you 4 posting this!!!

  • @anarchistatheist1917
    @anarchistatheist1917Ай бұрын

    Sadly the hotel gleaneagles in torquay is not in operation anymore.

  • @petemcintire4339
    @petemcintire4339Ай бұрын

    Way better then the Australian version.

  • @allenanish2730
    @allenanish2730Ай бұрын

    RIP Paul Eddington ❤

  • @comedyfish
    @comedyfishАй бұрын

    …or do it the hard way

  • @lulud2934
    @lulud29342 ай бұрын

    Loved this show! Elizabeth Morten played Lucinda from the 80*s sitcom Watching on itv

  • @wolverine005
    @wolverine0052 ай бұрын

    HH

  • @sirpepeofhousekek6741
    @sirpepeofhousekek67412 ай бұрын

    SORCERERS, FORTY FIVE YOUR MIME!

  • @I-speak-U-shut-it
    @I-speak-U-shut-it2 ай бұрын

    *45 my mind he says...like by putting a real number and slice my skull up and toss the number in it 🤔

  • @joncarthy7183
    @joncarthy71832 ай бұрын

    This is why the aliens decided not to visit our planet

  • @jamesparsons9022
    @jamesparsons90223 ай бұрын

    The Quaker school he mentions was Sibford School, founded in 1842. I worked there for a year and loved it there. I think if I did have a faith, I would be a Quaker.

  • @ianpeddle6818
    @ianpeddle68183 ай бұрын

    Dolly Mountshaft 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @ianpeddle6818
    @ianpeddle68183 ай бұрын

    Margo was one of the greatest comedy characters ever. Fabulous

  • @simonvazquez6751
    @simonvazquez67513 ай бұрын

    Are you smiling mr o'reilly

  • @SadAnorak
    @SadAnorak3 ай бұрын

    interesting insight

  • @deejannemeiurffnicht1791
    @deejannemeiurffnicht17914 ай бұрын

    what a beautifully crafted character. and inadvertantly very sexy! lol. the real life vPenny Keith is so unlike Margo. According to the rest of the good life team, she was constantly hilarious and giggly, as opposed to Margo's humor bypass. beautiful work. the one where she and Tom got pissed? oooft!

  • @deejannemeiurffnicht1791
    @deejannemeiurffnicht17914 ай бұрын

    it's hardly surprising Felicity, Richard, Paul, and Penny remained lifelong friends. All of whom were fairly, in personal lives, opposites of their on-screen personas. Which made them enjoy the work and each other all the more.

  • @jaycee330
    @jaycee3304 ай бұрын

    It was actually Douglas the bean, and Felicity is battling a cold during this episode.

  • @danielmcfall4106
    @danielmcfall41064 ай бұрын

    Brilliant ..one of the best

  • @skylongskylong1982
    @skylongskylong19824 ай бұрын

    Rex ! Who names their son after a dog ?

  • @nickgodfrey1148
    @nickgodfrey11485 ай бұрын

    Great show. Like Minder and Fools and Horses it was funny without being foul-mouthed and had great characters. Kirk should have been such an unlikable tosspot but he was so well-played by Peter Blake you couldn’t help but like him. I remember watching this scene when I was about 13-14 and going “go on Kirk, go on my son”. Really well-written with a lovely understated lead performance by Ralph Bates.

  • @tombstoneharrystudios584
    @tombstoneharrystudios5845 ай бұрын

    As much as I loved the show, I wondered if, had Ralph Bates not sadly passed away, whether they could have gotten a third series John Sullivan sort of wrote himself into a corner here…Eric/Kirk was portrayed as a fantasist and mummy’s boy, yet here he EFFORTLESSLY defeats 1/2 dozen Hells Angels So…was Kirk actually telling the truth, and he was really a spy?

  • @mangojones3707
    @mangojones37075 ай бұрын

    Thanks for these deep dives into Dear John. I videoed these off the TV back in the 80s. There is a missing 5 minutes or so from the scene in John's room with Kate. Kate says that she really feels in the mood for the first time in a long time but John says he respects her too much as a friend. She says something along the lines of everything feels just right for the first time but I've got a date with the Pope! She reluctantly accepts what John says and rolls over to sleep-John looks at her on the bed and says What the hell and jumps into bed with her. It then cuts to the next morning as they wake up. Not sure why this scene was cut out.

  • @TheNzfroggy
    @TheNzfroggy5 ай бұрын

    36B. My very favourite Margo moment and line in the whole series. That and leering at Mrs Doombs Patterson through the window.

  • @circle2867
    @circle28676 ай бұрын

    anyone got the full episodes?

  • @mangojones3707
    @mangojones37076 ай бұрын

    The actor who played Roger briefly at the beginning of the first episode was mentioned. Michael Cochrane is still alive, as at November 2023,and is 76. Maybe he survived the 'curse' as it was a minor role!!! BTW I remember watching the second series in 1987 and looking up the viewing figures which used to be in the daily papers. Dear John was averaging 12 million viewers so quite popular.

  • @bryangarnet3553
    @bryangarnet35536 ай бұрын

    CAN SOMEONE TECH SAVVY please fix this and repost

  • @Velociraptor1066
    @Velociraptor10666 ай бұрын

    2:37 I find sweep (super dog ) pulling on the rope funny

  • @mangojones3707
    @mangojones37076 ай бұрын

    I was surprised on the DVD liner notes that they showed Michael Cochrane, who played his friend Roger at the beginning of the first episode, as one of the main actors. However there was no mention of the actresses who played Mrs Arnott or Sylvia (later on in the series). I think the edit at the end of the first episode cut out a scene where John and Kate discussed whether they would return the following week.

  • @whitevanadventures4116
    @whitevanadventures41166 ай бұрын

    Has anyone got a better copy?

  • @Wyngardian
    @Wyngardian6 ай бұрын

    Hate to be picky yet AGAIN, but you do seem to be DOING it yet again. Just because Ken [played by Terence Edmond] is a lying bastard and cheats on his wife, that doesn't make him "a dirty old perv" It makes him a cad, a bounder, a roue and a variety of other things, but suggesting he or John have noncy tendencies [especially when I'm pretty sure the girl in question is an 18-year-old sixth former, and thereby a fully grown adult old enough to own a car, buy a house, join the army, get married, drink alcohol, kill people etc etc, not to mention probably played by an actress in her 20s] is stretching credibility a bit. I don't have anything against you personally, but I'm just getting increasingly tired in general of this 'revisionist' attitude [not just from yourselves, but many other contemporary commentators] which continually tries to insinuate that everything that took place before some mythical arbitrary watershed date of politcal correctness groupthink was "inappropriate" "sick" "not OK" "problematic" and a multitude of other derogatory buzzword phrases: it gets bandied about far to freely these days, it comes across as smug and condescending, and it shouldn't be encouraged. After all, do you really think John Sullivan wrote this script, or indeed any script, with the purpose in mind of perving lecherously or appealing to old men in macs? Of course he didn't. Moreover, if you think he did, why are you enjoying his writing so much? Seems more than a little hypocritical. Look, I watch your podcasts [before you ask me why I bother] because when you're informative and intelligent, you're actually quite incisive and interesting- but please, for God's sake, would it be too much to expect, just for once, an analysis of something from the 70s or 80s that DOESN'T attempt to pick holes in it from a cynical modernist standpoint? Episodes such as this are a perfectly accurate reflection of their era, when bawdy, salacious humour, whilst in no way as broadly drawn as in the 70s, was still very much in evidence- and should be seen as such, nothing more. And no, I DON'T MEAN BY SAYING BLOODY 'HASHTAG DIFFERENT TIMES!' That isn't even a sentence. After all, back when I was a kid, they tried to make out that Noddy & Big Ears books were 'evil' because there was an allegedly homoerotic undercurrent to them- yet while that assertion clearly more from a right-wing stance rather than a liberal one, it was still just as much of a glaring misnomer, and just as reactionary, as some of the things you've been coming out with here. There really is no need for it: to people such as myself, who still look back very fondly on our 70s and 80s youths, such attitudes ARE offensive and VERY problematic. Almost as offensive to certain people, in fact, as calling them a "gyppo"...not that I have any problem with that MYSELF, although it's most curious that you don't seem to either....

  • @DavidJones-ig8cl
    @DavidJones-ig8cl6 ай бұрын

    This was a great show, everybody in the playground saying “ where you going now “, I still say it now and again and I’m 48, lol.

  • @Wyngardian
    @Wyngardian6 ай бұрын

    NB Oh and while we're at it, I don't think it's a particularly fair comment to link Prince Andrew's dodgy proclivities to him being a fan of the Confessions films....Robin Askwith is a great actor and a thoroughly well-liked person all round [as is Linda Hayden and as were most of the other people involved] and I think they would be shocked and insulted, as indeed the millions of people who loved those films would be, at any suggestion that their content was somehow linked to anything as uniformly dodgy as what the Prince ALLEGEDLY [for the record, nothing's ever been proven] got up to. I find your blog funny and informative, but please, as we swould say Daaahn Saahf where I cahm from, "leave it aaaht" with the generalisations already!! On serious note, people have been sued for lesser inferences, and you certainly wouldn't want to deal with THAT minefield.

  • @Wyngardian
    @Wyngardian6 ай бұрын

    Just one minor point we should be clear about here: though Alison Mack [referred to in the intro] did several horrible things to people that they may [quite rightly] never forgive her for, NONE of them were children and she was not in any way "a dirty paedo" Rather, she was an inductee of one of the multitude of bizarro, cranko wacko cults operating in the US [somehow they hardly ever seem to happen over here, which is one of the very few instances of Britain getting things right] who, under the indoctrination of the leader who had ensnared her, went on to commit the very same acts of trafficking, human slavery and false imprisonment that had first been committed against her own person upon other people. The general idea being, as is usually the way with these manipulative loonies, that these new converts would then go out and procure yet more people to do the same [and so forth, and so forth] like an endless pyramid scheme, with each crime supposedly committed to "serve" their self-appointed founder's great purpose. Thus, while I can in no way excuse the crimes committed, it does seem to me that, much like many participants in such cases [Manson's Family being the prime example] Mack was not in her 'own mind' when committing them, believing herself to be answerable to a 'higher power' than her own humane conscience [which the psy-op training probably told her to 'abandon' or 'leave at the door' anyway] As Ray McAnally says in 'Jack The Ripper' [1988] - 'convince a little man that he's serving a great purpose, and he'll even kill for you' Although obviously, you do have to wonder what sort of mental state one could possibly find oneself in that would make them think joining such a cult would be a good idea in the first place. As Magnum [the band, not the cop] sang, "Only In America".....

  • @user-rc1fi5gz6g
    @user-rc1fi5gz6g6 ай бұрын

    Should've used beatamax

  • @helenagackowska8398
    @helenagackowska83986 ай бұрын

    I love her so much lool

  • @riverevergreene
    @riverevergreene6 ай бұрын

    "SORCERERS! 45 YOU'RE MINE!"

  • @nestorsifuentesaguirre2722
    @nestorsifuentesaguirre27227 ай бұрын

    Black Cat has returned in Spider Man 2 PS5 Me:

  • @dancingdan1994
    @dancingdan19947 ай бұрын

    But why when you watch it tou do hear the laughter i can never understand this point on the audience when i re watch the show unless they did an over dub

  • @AJM01
    @AJM017 ай бұрын

    I remember watching this series as a child!

  • @gilwood7530
    @gilwood75307 ай бұрын

    BOB is insane !

  • @F4Insight-uq6nt
    @F4Insight-uq6nt7 ай бұрын

    That might even be some original set furniture from the original.. Both BBC.

  • @jackbuckley7816
    @jackbuckley78168 ай бұрын

    The voice impression approximated that of Mr. Thomas' but not too well. One wouldn't guess it was his, if you only heard this person, unknown to me, doing him. Until now, though, I've never heard anyone impersonate Thomas' voice, so I guess I shouldn't be too critical. Briers does make some interesting comments on the famous gap-toothed actor, however, which piques my already-existing interest in Thomas that much further, biographically speaking. For one thing, I didn't realize he appeared on as many TV programs as he did, judging from the surprisingly numerous You Tube selections I'm noticing. Looks like Thomas fans like me can have a field-day, so onward I explore!

  • @kateking8820
    @kateking88208 ай бұрын

    I loved these two

  • @MarkfromFinland
    @MarkfromFinland8 ай бұрын

    Lovely Margo ❤️❤️❤️

  • @mattapacca
    @mattapacca8 ай бұрын

    Is this a remastered version?