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Post by VAT on Jun 30, 2019 14:32:31 GMT
Great episode for me this one. Great characters, great lines.
I made this little clip a few years ago now and its got over 100,00 views on Utbube
Its just such a great opening scene...and I just love Arthurs line: "I said to Her Indoors only this morning...I said....no my dear you cant have it...Mr Rushmore is a gentleman and he deserves a gentleman"s conveyance..."
Fantastic.
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Post by VAT on Oct 26, 2019 15:36:36 GMT
Just watched this one again...Umbrella style...and what a great ep it is...Terry on good form, Wally West, June Whitfield and Jimmy Nail playing their parts really well...but a big shout out for GC in this one in particular for me...with Arthur being the thread throughout...his scenes with WW, Mr De-Ath and June Whitfield being perfect as usual!
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Post by nationalpelmet on May 8, 2020 21:41:09 GMT
Yes, another top episode. Just fantastic when Arthur goes into overdrive with his patter on the car lot. Not that Mr Rushmore was having any of it. And the grass growing out of the bonnet 😂. Terry giggling in the portacabin at Arthur and then asking Arthur in the Winchester if she had been after his little cherry !!
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Post by steve74 on May 10, 2020 15:41:32 GMT
Another one of my favourites. I laughed so hard when Arthur was laying on the patter to Mr Rushmer, only Arthur could try and get away with grass growing out of a car bonnet - "it looks like some sort of flora" or "have you tried trimming it with nail scissors". The cast is first rate - Harry Scott and Jimmy Nail. I think this was Arnie's first appearance. Chisholm is at his best here - even quoting Latin. A brilliant turn by June Whitfield as randy Mrs Murdcoch. A great story line and a proper scrap for Terry to get involved in. A very satisfactory ending, all rounded off with a drink at the Winchester, leaving Chisholm to fend off Mrs Murdoch. Excellent episode - it's mustard throughout. 5 out of 5.
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Post by chopper on May 11, 2020 19:49:07 GMT
Absolutely brilliant episode
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Post by pr1 on Jun 22, 2020 21:36:44 GMT
Watched this for the third time last night and it's still a great episode. The grass growing in the car is one of my all time favorite moments in the series.
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Post by jjmolloy on Jun 22, 2020 22:11:21 GMT
Watched this for the third time last night and it's still a great episode. The grass growing in the car is one of my all time favorite moments in the series. Quite common in the motor trade at the time! Corrosion under the wheel arches and on the underbody stuffed with newspaper/cardboard and given a coating of filler was another one, along with the more infamous sawdust in the gearbox.. (my uncle had a Des/Arnie type of operation in Maida Vale back then)
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Post by harryshand on Jul 7, 2020 13:09:45 GMT
Half way into this and enter Jimmy Nail with the worst attempt at an Irish accent I've heard. Size apart, his Geordie accent is just too dominant for the role. Enjoyable episode so far though.
Edit - a very good episode with the car lot sequence the stand out but a point dropped for JN's accent which is just ridiculous. I don't think Joe Public would have noticed if he played the role in pure Geordie but I'm sure the attempts at multiple regional Irish accents would irritate others.
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Post by gustav on Jul 25, 2020 21:24:38 GMT
A few uncredited boat races in this too... the policeman who finds Terry at the burning car lot is Owen Brenman, who later went on to be Victor Meldrew's neighbour. IMDb here: www.imdb.com/name/nm0003859/ Saw this the other day on ITV4 and didn't notice that. That's interesting. I still haven't seen this all the way through, I should get the DVDs out really. But this is an excellent episode.
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Post by baz171075 on Jul 26, 2020 10:38:58 GMT
Half way into this and enter Jimmy Nail with the worst attempt at an Irish accent I've heard. Size apart, his Geordie accent is just too dominant for the role. Enjoyable episode so far though.
Edit - a very good episode with the car lot sequence the stand out but a point dropped for JN's accent which is just ridiculous. I don't think Joe Public would have noticed if he played the role in pure Geordie but I'm sure the attempts at multiple regional Irish accents would irritate others.
I agree, he should have stayed away from trying to attempt an Irish accent. Im sure there is Geordie born travellers, he should have just played the part as an English born traveller,
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Post by jjmolloy on Jul 26, 2020 16:13:05 GMT
Half way into this and enter Jimmy Nail with the worst attempt at an Irish accent I've heard. Size apart, his Geordie accent is just too dominant for the role. Enjoyable episode so far though.
Edit - a very good episode with the car lot sequence the stand out but a point dropped for JN's accent which is just ridiculous. I don't think Joe Public would have noticed if he played the role in pure Geordie but I'm sure the attempts at multiple regional Irish accents would irritate others.
I agree, he should have stayed away from trying to attempt an Irish accent. Im sure there is Geordie born travellers, he should have just played the part as an English born traveller, His accent was so bad I just assumed he was playing it as a Geordie!
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Post by Twin2 on Jul 29, 2020 6:42:01 GMT
Love this episode, one of the best imo.
I have watched it countless times and have never noticed that part of the registration number on one of the hearses is BYE
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Post by daz on Dec 28, 2020 16:16:47 GMT
This is on Britbox as one of the best episodes and who am I to argue.
Brilliant, although a few cuts on this one on Britbox.
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Post by joshmel on Feb 19, 2021 19:16:36 GMT
Without question one of the very best episodes. It was only a warm up for things to come from Jimmy Nail with his later hit single Crocodile Shoes.
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Post by rycottsraincoat on Nov 11, 2021 20:14:47 GMT
Had a spare hour the other day and watched this again, so much better on DVD than ITV4. Its hard to fault it really, even Jimmy Nail`s accent doesn`t grate too much when compared to the whole story. I love the bit at the end when Arthur and Wally confront Apsimon, and Wally blurts out "You schiester"! That bit certainly gets cut from the telly! June Whitfield certainly had a twinkle in her eye!
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Post by coyote on Nov 12, 2021 22:06:36 GMT
Without question one of the very best episodes. It was only a warm up for things to come from Jimmy Nail with his later hit single Crocodile Shoes. Thankfully he doesn't sing in this (I liked 'Crocodile Shoes' when it was on, and 'Spender' too. Haven't seen either since)
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Post by jno on Nov 13, 2021 5:53:30 GMT
Without question one of the very best episodes. It was only a warm up for things to come from Jimmy Nail with his later hit single Crocodile Shoes. Thankfully he doesn't sing in this (I liked 'Crocodile Shoes' when it was on, and 'Spender' too. Haven't seen either since) minder.proboards.com/thread/881/spender-1991-1993
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Post by Albert Wendell on Mar 19, 2022 0:16:55 GMT
I may be wrong here but I think I have spotted a blooper, during the fight scene in the yard when Nathan (Jimmy Nail) is by the paving slabs and one of the heavies goes to hit him with a plank of wood, you can hear possibly one of the crew shout "mind his head" (or similar words to that effect) I don't think it came from one of the cast in the fight scene it sounded like it came from behind the camera.
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Post by plasticpenguin on Mar 19, 2022 20:36:13 GMT
I like this episode a lot. It ticks most my boxes: Jimmy Nail at his acting peak; dodgy council workers (nothing new in that) and a randy undertaker, played beautifully by June Whitfield. The story and script was so set-up for her & Chisholm.
Good fun 50 mins
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Post by jjmolloy on Mar 20, 2022 14:48:00 GMT
I like this episode a lot. It ticks most my boxes: Jimmy Nail at his acting peak; dodgy council workers (nothing new in that) and a randy undertaker, played beautifully by June Whitfield. The story and script was so set-up for her & Chisholm. Good fun 50 mins Chisholm would have been on a winner getting his feet under the table there! He was too dim to see it of course.
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Post by jno on Mar 20, 2022 22:12:59 GMT
Seen healthier looking face on a pirate flag!
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Post by kelotoph on Mar 31, 2022 11:52:30 GMT
A few uncredited boat races in this too... the policeman who finds Terry at the burning car lot is Owen Brenman, who later went on to be Victor Meldrew's neighbour. IMDb here: www.imdb.com/name/nm0003859/ also Billy Tasker as 'Old Man', just right now I am struggling to think where he appears in this one - IMDb here: www.imdb.com/name/nm1205164/ at time of writing this information is not on IMDb though, so if it ends up there we will all know it came from this forum. Watched this one again today and loved it. I think the 'Old Man' referred to in the above post was the man who doffs his hat at the (empty) hearse whilst Arthur is test driving it. Some great lines in this episode, my favourites being "I've seen a healthier face on a pirate flag" and in the description of the magistrate "if he was a funeral director, people would give up dying". Colin Jeavons seems fated to play weaselly characters, and he does it very well. Nice to see June Whitfield, albeit in a fairly minor, but important part. The area where much of this was filmed in North Kensington was quite run down and indeed had been declared independent as the Republic of Frestonia in 1977, when squatters took over many of the council-owned properties.
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Post by ltd on Apr 7, 2022 18:25:35 GMT
dodgy council workers (nothing new in that) Jeavons character is stated, fairly late in the episode, as being a councillor i.e. an elected politician. In my experience a fair amount of them are on the take/fiddle. Land deals and planning are particularly fertile grounds for corruption, as indeed occurs in this episode. I've met a few bent council officers (i.e. employees), but most of them are ordinary people doing their jobs. It's the councillors who generally need watching - as I said plenty of them "at it".
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Post by barrythebook on Apr 8, 2022 18:14:19 GMT
dodgy council workers (nothing new in that) Jeavons character is stated, fairly late in the episode, as being a councillor i.e. an elected politician. In my experience a fair amount of them are on the take/fiddle. Land deals and planning are particularly fertile grounds for corruption, as indeed occurs in this episode. I've met a few bent council officers (i.e. employees), but most of them are ordinary people doing their jobs. It's the councillors who generally need watching - as I said plenty of them "at it". In a small village close to where i live, a farmer applied several times for planning permission on a plot of land that he owned, only to be refused on each application. The land was eventually sold as agricultural/grazing use only and was bought by the ex Mayor and at the time current councillor of the town. Guess what? Planning permission was applied for again and after some revisions were made to the original application, permission was granted. As bent as Uri Gellers wotsit.
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Post by ltd on Apr 8, 2022 18:51:02 GMT
In a small village close to where i live, a farmer applied several times for planning permission on a plot of land that he owned, only to be refused on each application. The land was eventually sold as agricultural/grazing use only and was bought by the ex Mayor and at the time current councillor of the town. Guess what? Planning permission was applied for again and after some revisions were made to the original application, permission was granted. As bent as Uri Gellers wotsit. This sort of thing all too common unfortunately. You don't live in Herefordshire by any chance Barry? The Council there used to be notorious for that sort of thing - the senior councillors a bunch of carrot crunching would-be Al Capones who treated the county as if it was there solely for their own personal enrichment.
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Post by barrythebook on Apr 8, 2022 22:41:00 GMT
In a small village close to where i live, a farmer applied several times for planning permission on a plot of land that he owned, only to be refused on each application. The land was eventually sold as agricultural/grazing use only and was bought by the ex Mayor and at the time current councillor of the town. Guess what? Planning permission was applied for again and after some revisions were made to the original application, permission was granted. As bent as Uri Gellers wotsit. This sort of thing all too common unfortunately. You don't live in Herefordshire by any chance Barry? The Council there used to be notorious for that sort of thing - the senior councillors a bunch of carrot crunching would-be Al Capones who treated the county as if it was there solely for their own personal enrichment. I'm in West Cornwall ltd and believe me the 'old boys network' is rife, primarily between farmers, land management companies, valuers and sellers, they're in it together to make what they can imo.
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Post by ltd on Apr 9, 2022 15:37:52 GMT
I'm in West Cornwall ltd and believe me the 'old boys network' is rife, primarily between farmers, land management companies, valuers and sellers, they're in it together to make what they can imo. I reckon a lot of that goes on in the rural counties, it's not just in London and the big cities.
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Post by 615 on Aug 15, 2022 11:22:09 GMT
Ah the old Mother's Pride bread wagon at the gypsy site. A real flashback. You used to see loads of that distinctive red and white colour scheme floating about. And the scrapyard behind Wally's car lot must have had a contract with Schweppes.
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Post by rycottsraincoat on Nov 11, 2022 14:07:36 GMT
Seen healthier looking face on a pirate flag! What`s this, tea or talcum powder?
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Post by jjmolloy on Nov 11, 2022 15:48:36 GMT
Ah the old Mother's Pride bread wagon at the gypsy site. A real flashback. You used to see loads of that distinctive red and white colour scheme floating about. And the scrapyard behind Wally's car lot must have had a contract with Schweppes. Worked in a pub in West London in the mid 80s. Schweppes tonic for the VAT's (Athur's tipple) and Gin an' tonics, meant they were going a bomb at the time.
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