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Weber (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 194.176.105.55
Posted on Thursday, June 17, 2010 - 03:14 pm:   

What was the name of the 80's sitcom about two doctors, father and son, one of them was played by Nigel Havers?
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Weber (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 194.176.105.55
Posted on Thursday, June 17, 2010 - 03:15 pm:   

They both had the same character name which led to all sorts of hilarious consequences as they opened each other's mail, received the wrong messages etc.

(that was sarcastic by the way)
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Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey)
Username: Ramsey

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 195.93.21.74
Posted on Thursday, June 17, 2010 - 03:48 pm:   

I don't know, Marc - never seen it - but check the IMDb.
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Stevie Walsh (Stephenw)
Username: Stephenw

Registered: 03-2009
Posted From: 194.32.31.1
Posted on Thursday, June 17, 2010 - 03:56 pm:   

It was 'Don't Wait Up', Weber. One of those insufferably boring and unfunny middle class sitcoms that followed in the wake of 'The Good Life', 'To The Manor Born', etc... yuck!
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Weber (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 194.176.105.55
Posted on Thursday, June 17, 2010 - 04:51 pm:   

Thank you. It's been bugging me for about an hour.

It's one of those that now seems extremely bland from what I can remember of it but I seem to remember thinking it was quite funny when I was very young.
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Stevie Walsh (Stephenw)
Username: Stephenw

Registered: 03-2009
Posted From: 194.32.31.1
Posted on Thursday, June 17, 2010 - 05:00 pm:   

I was a teenager at the time and remember even my parents thinking it was boring - they were all so awfully polite.

Shows like that were at the extreme other end of the comedy spectrum from what made me laugh out loud in those days - 'The Young Ones', 'Not The Nine O'Clock News', etc...
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Weber (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 194.176.105.55
Posted on Thursday, June 17, 2010 - 05:25 pm:   

My parents didn't watch anything even slightly rude while us kids were in the room. Come to think of it, they still don't.

When we finally got a telly in our room so we could watch what we liked a whole new world of TV opened up to us.
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Stevie Walsh (Stephenw)
Username: Stephenw

Registered: 03-2009
Posted From: 82.17.252.126
Posted on Friday, June 18, 2010 - 12:17 am:   

I had a portable in my room to watch all the nasty stuff on lol.
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Simon Bestwick (Simon_b)
Username: Simon_b

Registered: 10-2008
Posted From: 86.24.209.217
Posted on Friday, June 18, 2010 - 09:15 am:   

I remember the opening credits showed the Havers' characters Mum bathing him as a baby... apparently this was a shot from the actress' family album. The baby (now growed up) was the then Conservative Party chairman (Jeremy Hanley?) who stated it was perhaps the only occasion an MP had been photographed naked with a woman who was not his wife and not had to resign...

Just sharing. I hate it when a Tory actually says something witty. Makes it that little bit harder to hate the bastards.
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Joel (Joel)
Username: Joel

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 217.37.199.45
Posted on Friday, June 18, 2010 - 03:45 pm:   

Like Ken Clarke being an authentic jazz enthusiast. Makes you wish he'd made his career there. And Michael Portillo is practically likeable as a broadcaster.

Imagine if Margaret Thatcher has stayed in the world of food technology. She might still have poisoned society, but only literally.

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