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Post by Philip Hindley on Jan 2, 2011 11:19:30 GMT
Fantastic film and performances all round, I always liked M&W but this made me realise how really good they were and how much they are really missed.  |
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Post by Robert Belford on Jan 2, 2011 13:29:53 GMT
Some recent dramas haven't captured the period very well but I thought this one did an excellent job of recreating the 1930's. You could almost smell the mothballs.
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Post by Bernie King on Jan 2, 2011 14:13:51 GMT
The whole thing was brilliant. Particular mention must go to the actors playing Eric and Ern and Sadie. Eric and Ern were played to perfection.
We have so much to thank Sadie for. IMHO that was the best nights telly over the whole festive period, which just shows how great M+W were, still are, and always will be.
On a related note...are there any audios for missing episodes? Particularly the 1968 b+w BBC series?
Now get out of that!!!! :-)
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Post by Joe Haynes on Jan 2, 2011 15:19:34 GMT
I thought it was great too.
Does anyone know if their first series 'Running Wild' exists? i doubt very much so
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Post by Peter Stirling on Jan 2, 2011 15:30:19 GMT
. On a related note...are there any audios for missing episodes? Particularly the 1968 b+w BBC series? Now get out of that!!!! :-) Maybe old news but sometime ago a B/W version of a 1968 show was recovered, the exciting thing about it was, it still had colour information in it and was a candidate for colour recovery like the pilot of 'are you being served'. However this has all gone very quiet since.. |
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Post by John Wall on Jan 2, 2011 19:42:29 GMT
I thought it was great too. Does anyone know if their first series 'Running Wild' exists? i doubt very much so The Behind the Scenes documentary covered that. It doesn't but the scripts, or some of them, do. |
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Post by John Wall on Jan 2, 2011 19:50:50 GMT
The whole thing was brilliant. Particular mention must go to the actors playing Eric and Ern and Sadie. Eric and Ern were played to perfection. We have so much to thank Sadie for. IMHO that was the best nights telly over the whole festive period, which just shows how great M+W were, still are, and always will be. |
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Post by johnstewart on Jan 2, 2011 21:20:36 GMT
Fantastic film and performances all round, I always liked M&W but this made me realise how really good they were and how much they are really missed. Am I the only one amazed that the BBC could produce such a strong production proud to present itself in todays climate as being TV; much in the tradition of the BBCs SCREEN PLAY series. It was 'filmised' type tape but its relation to imitation of cinema stopped there. Can't understand why therefore the DR WHO product for Xmas was made in such a second hand cinematic way; and proff that quality acting and direction outstrips quality screen effects with little pace and poor acting. The inclusion of Morecombe and Wise Afficianado Vic Reeves was nice. The kid as young Ernie and the guy as Eric were absolutely outstanding. Nice period touches to, definitely a welcome higlight of my TV Xmas! |
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Post by John Wall on Jan 2, 2011 22:23:22 GMT
I really enjoyed seeing the 76 Christmas Show (and then the 77 one earlier tonight) complete. Most of what's been shown in recent years has been clips/compilations and I didn't remember that 76 had Singin' In The Rain, The Sweeney AND Angela Rippon ! I saw most of them when they were first shown and almost 35 years later they're still brilliant and I still laugh a lot. To think that about half of the population would be watching them in those days. I remember what the late, great, Bob Monkhouse once said about Alternative Comedy, something to the effect that when you watch it you realise that there must be an alternative to it ! There will never be another Eric and Ernie - and the reason is that you can't learn showbusiness the way they did any more.
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Post by adriane17 on Jan 3, 2011 19:57:38 GMT
I only caught the last part of Eric & Ernie (but will get the inevitable DVD) but what I saw was excellent. I thought the documentary was very strong too although I didn't like the way that the numerous clips appeared to have been "filmised" (I don't know the technical term!) - the repeated shows weren't and looked fine so why did they do it here?
Incidentally I have a friend born in the early/mid 1970s who has never found Eric & Ernie funny so I wonder if it is partly an age thing?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2011 12:29:18 GMT
A nicely made little drama with the actors capturing the stars well, I thought.
I also hate it when a doc filmises clips that were VT originally. It's gratuitous and pretty predictable these days when everything has to look cinematic. Leave things as they were!
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Post by Alan Scott on Jan 4, 2011 18:38:32 GMT
Incidentally I have a friend born in the early/mid 1970s who has never found Eric & Ernie funny so I wonder if it is partly an age thing? I was born in the early/mid 70s and whilst I'm not a diehard fan, I've found most of their routines funny. A friend of mine who is a few years younger recently asked for a loan of my Fawlty Towers box set after he watched a documentary on Dave. I was convinced he would love it as our taste in comedy is very similar. He watched the first series and said it was funny at times but very overrated. I think it's just a matter of taste rather than an age thing. |
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