Here comes Christmas, lets get chilled out and some time off with repeats on the telly !
oh,,If I p...
Here comes Christmas, lets get chilled out and some time off with repeats on the telly !
oh,,If I promise to come back with an 'E', THEN REMIND ME !!, I will not be offended.Greg
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The Very Best of Rising Damp ====================
~Introduction~
Some points of interest before we start. First broadcast in 1974 Rising Damp was an instant success. Not just because of the wonderful casting or the writing but because of the chemistry between all the cast members.
Cast and Crew =========
~Eric Chappell~ originally working for the gas board, Eric quit his job and took to writing. His first play was 'The Banana Box'. This was a moderate success and coincidentally starred Leonard Rossiter, Frances de la Tour and Don Warrington. Points of interest, in the banana box the landlord was actually called Rooksby. Philip was already a tenant with his own flat. Eric went on write Rising Damp but after a complaint from an actual landlord called Rooksby he changed the name to Rigsby.
RIGSBY - Leonard Rossiter. Miserly landlord who was married during the war and once said," It was a blunder on the scale of Anzio"
Miss JONES - Frances de la Tour. Frustrated spinster who is a sufferer of headaches resulting in her having to wear 'blue glasses'.
PHILIP - Don Warrington. 'Son of a Chief' allegedly. Married with 10 wives, allegedly. The 2 marks on his cheek where part of an initiation ceremony on his 14th birthday. 1 for becoming a man and the other for his first sexual experience, or so he claimed.
ALAN - Richard Beckinsale. Scruffy, desperate, long haired student. Because he is always eating, Rigsby believes he has a tape worm. Alan sadly died of a heart attack in 1979. Aged only 28.
~The DVD~ Contains the following episodes' Charisma A Perfect Gentleman For The Man Who Has Everything Stage Struck Come On In The Water's Lovely
Lets start: ======== ~Charisma~ Getting nowhere fast with 'wooing' Miss Jones Rigsby turns to Philip to find out what he would do back in his country. Rigsby ends up burns some 'Love Wood' outside Miss Jones's door. It actually came of the back of the wardrobe!
~A Perfect Gentleman~ Rigsby gets ideas above his abilities when Seymour the conman and scrounger bamboozle Rigsby into buying shares in oil in the Pennines.
~For The Man Who Has Everything~ Christmas Special Not much really to explain here, its Rigsby playing 'Scrooge'.
~Stage Struck~ Hilary is a new tenant who happen s to be a bit effeminate. Rigsby takes an instant dislike to him, so the boys wind him up to the point where Hilary makes a pass at Rigsby.
~Come On In The Water's Lovely~ The final episode where Finally Rigsby proposes to Ruth but even that doesn't go according to plan
~Opinions~ You could put nearly every episode on this DVD and call it 'the best' they where all fairly funny. Not when Alan left but even then they where Ok. Where watching, worth catching on TV for free though.
Classification: U Run Time: 120 minutes ASIN: B00004YVDG Amazon Price: £3.74
Greg
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