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The Likely Lads (1976)
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Emotion blazes across the big screen as Bob and Terry knock down the frontiers of human knowledge and Newcastle ale.
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30 years have passed and no sequel - Unbelievable !
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Rodney Bewes | ... | Bob Ferris | |
| James Bolam | ... | Terry Collier | |
| Brigit Forsyth | ... | Thelma Ferris | |
| Mary Tamm | ... | Christina | |
| Sheila Fearn | ... | Audrey Collier | |
| Zena Walker | ... | Laura | |
| Anulka Dziubinska | ... | Dawn (as Anulka Dubinska) | |
| Alun Armstrong | ... | Milkman | |
| Judy Buxton | ... | Iris | |
| Vicki Michelle | ... | Glenys | |
| Penny Irving | ... | Sandy | |
| Michelle Newell | ... | Alice | |
| Susan Tracy | ... | Edith | |
| Gordon Griffin | ... | Cyril | |
| Edward Wilson | ... | Les |
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Alun Armstrong(milkman) would later star with James Bolam in New Tricks in the early 21st Century.
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Spin off from "Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?" (1973)
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These two actors were so good together and the script equally top notch - why oh why in these days of poor sequels and the flogging to death of anything half-decent must we be deprived of this fantastic idea / partnership. The main players are still alive - so too the writers - what is the problem BBC ?? If it is still Bewes & Bolam's dislike of each other that is simply not an excuse - many actors have turned out memorable roles opposite people they detested. Common sense and professionalism should enter the scenario here as future generations will not thank us for allowing this wonderful pairing to die off - DO IT NOW. You did it with 'Only Fools....' Whether they like it or not these two characters/actors are a NATIONAL INSTITUTION and they achieved legendary status in their own lifetimes - something very rare indeed - this should simply NOT BE ALLOWED to wither on the vine. If you are reading this Messrs. Bolam and Bewes...please bury the hatchet (if that is indeed the problem). Even if only for the sake of posterity...Delboy has gone, so too Victor Meldrew.....Blair's Britain must have something to look forward to.....your nation expects.
Must more licence-payers money be thrown at a seamless line of Antique / Boot Sale / Move to the country / Flog it / DIY / Cookery programmes? To say nothing of those awfully bad sensationalist fly-on-the-wall 'Reality' programmes which only serve to provide a stage for and inevitably generate yet more moronic and talentless 'wannabes'.
I recently met up with an old work colleague after 30 years and it's been great - please let Bob Ferris and Terry Collier do the same.
As both would now be heading down the retirement road, a nice twist would be Terry having finally turned out to be the more successful of the two whilst Bob (& Thelma's) fortunes have stagnated on the Elm Lodge Housing Estate courtesy of occupational pensions that didn't live up to their expectations.
They could meet at an airport ......having recently sold his string of Costa Del Sol bars, a flush, sun-tanned Terry returns and literally bumps into Bob re-stocking vending machines in the airport lounge "I do this part-time purely to keep active, you understand, kidder" Come on..MAKE IT HAPPEN FOR A NATION CRYING OUT FOR A DECENT SIT-COM....I've started it off, all you've got to do is carry it on.