General Chat

I liked Prunella Scales and the lady who was John Cleese aka Basil Fawltey's real wife

Fawlty Towers - only 12 episodes made and they dust them off here every so often and we have rerun after rerun.

I was never one to watch Mickey Rourke - but I definitely - most definitely remember seeing him in Nine and 1/2 Weeks.

They had the Shining on here last night - I wouldn't watch it and then this was followed by a repeat showing of "Half Broken Things" - I think it was probably made for Television as it is more like a TV Drama.

cheers

Norma

At a boot sale at a market I visited on Thursday I was fortunate to find a stall selling cheap videos.

I got 2 videos each having 3 episodes of Father Ted and 3 videos each having 3 episodes of Fawltey Towers.

All for the princely sum of one pound

Father Ted is demonstrating some plastic toy cows to Dougal.

Father Ted: ...OK, one last time. These are small... but the ones out there are far away. Small... far away... ah forget it!

Hello folks, I watched The Diner on TCM channel the other night, I'd forgotton how handsome Mickey Rourke was...and even now after all the surgery he still has something about him.

Pam.

David

My youngest daughter was a real " Father Ted" fan and I would watch the odd one and the one I liked had Graham Norton in it and they were playing hide and seek in a carvan. They ended up doing Irish dancing and I think the whole caravan toppled over.

Pam, I hope you don't mind all this chatter about TV programmes as well as movies but then a lot of stars cross over from one to the other (and I am not talking about crossdressing will leave that to Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Mrs Doubtfire, Some Like it Hot and that one with John Travolta in it.)

Perse (Norma)

I watched ,Man on a Wire the other day......The chap that walked the wire between the Twin Towers in the 70's.He was obsessed with doing this and planned it since the beginning of the building of the towers.I don't know if you have all seen it,but I felt he was a selfish man and used his friends to get to his goal ,because after he had done the walk it was as though he didn't need those friends anymore.
I don't know if I am right in thinking that.

Father Ted was a popular TV series about a group of Irish Catholic priests and their house keeper



Roger Rabbit's hype exceeded the goods

No i think you were correct with your first statement David.......Roger rabbit was rather BLAH....nothing to do with being tired....Lol

As for Father Ted, don`t know where i was at the time but I`ve actually never seen a whole episode of it........ wasn`t that the series that made a star of Graham Norton?....I know he`s crude, but he is funny......


Nicky

Father Ted was always brilliant.
Wonder why they don't repeat it ?

I remember staying up to watch who killed Roger Rabbit ?

It was either BLAH or I was tired. I fell asleep 20 mins into it.

Dear All

Hello

Yes, the TV comedies were great on Friday nights.

"The Golden Girls", a break through for women of a certain age.

I remember watching "MASH" when it was repeated on BBC2 on Wednesday nights on BBC2.

Need to get back to me brick walls....!!

Take care of yourselves
Very best wishes
xx

Sorry forgot about Jo Brand - she was very funny - used to appear on Dean Martin and a few other shows.

Well I only popped in whilst I had the chance this morning it is 11.30am and we are about to go "To the dump, to the dump to the dump dump dump"

So that takes care of lunch - get to eat out.

Perse

Soap was a regular in our household - I loved the way Bert would think he was an invisible. The dimwit son that thought the ventrioquist son's dummy was real.

The chap that played Benson - I think his name was Robert Guillame (sori abt spelling) played the lead in Phantom in the Opera in Los Angeles - this would be in the nineties .

Not a Rosanne fan Nicky, but I used to watch the odd one as my youngest
daughter watched it and she was good bit like Tim the Tool Man in Home Improvements or whatever it is called - only used to see the odd one now and again.

But I was definitely a M*A*S*H fan and a Barney Miller fan.

Cheers and glad you have returned to the fray (fraying thread) Pam for awhile there I thought I would have to talk to myself.

When are you "Coming out to play Roy?"

Norma

Hi Pam, do stay with us. It's only pennies a day for all of this.

I love Jo Brand, comedienne. She is a former nurse and her styyle of humour is earthy and hilarious lol

Yes, De Vito's the one I was thinking of

Hello folks and hello to Norma, I've been a bit busy of late and as Nicky said occasionally do nights...so have turned into a bit of a vampire of late sleeping during the day! (Dawn 'til Dusk, Mo!) ha ha!

I never really liked Rosanne Barr, occasionally I watched Cheers and Taxi, yes it was Danny De Vito Norma, he was a right bossy little so 'n' so wasn't he!!

Does anyone remember "Soap", it was shown in the late ninties and early eighties, about two families the Tates and the Campbells, I really enjoyed that. Not often I'm into american humour, but that was good i thought, normally shown far too late ona Sunday night.

Glad the thread is keepng busy even when I neglet it! It's nice to see new name on here, (Hi Nicky glad you're okay)

My membership runs out on the 22nd November and i'm not sure if I'll be renewing it, but if I don't i know the threads in safe hands!

Pam.

Seeing you mention Cheers Norma reminded what great Friday night TV we had in the late 80s early 90s......Channel 4 was Cheers followed by Rosanne....did any of you watch it?


Not a Rosanne Barr fan, but she was excellent in it, with John Goodman as the long suffering husband and a mixed assortment of kids....oh I used to laugh...

Nicky

Hi David

Think you mean Danny Devito or is it De Vito - the whole cast of taxi were good. His wife was in Cheers - Pearl someone or was that her name in Cheers? They had a good cast as well. Not much for American Sitcoms prefer the British but there are the odd good ones that come out of USA.

Edit: was out this arvo and her name came to me... well I think it did - Rhea Pearlman?

Cheers

Norma

Will have to keep this thread on the alert until Pam reappears!!

That short actor always makes me laugh, can't think of his name.

Starred in the wire cage in the TV series TAXI years ago, since made several films

Give me George Clooney in Dusk till Dawn any day
Thats my type of film,blood and guts
lol