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Harold Bishop Killer
Got bummed around Aus
Open All Hours. Never really got into Alan Partridge and Open All Hours was a good show which featured two of the best sitcom actors of all time - David Jason and the late great Ronnie Barker.
canveyshrimper
R.I.P
Open All Hours for me also.
seany t
President
Well I like OAH too, but I think everyone involved had stronger hours. And so, what do I need to say about my choice?
Arguably the finest comic creation ever, Alan Partridge has had a career laid bare on TV and radio for us all to marvel at. From his first newsreader appearance on “The Day Today”, through to his own chat show on “Knowing me knowing you”, Alan was always destined for stardom. But when BBC cutbacks and poor ratings took their toll in the early 90’s, this monumental programme was there to document Alan fighting for a new series, before eventually having a nervous breakdown and driving to Dublin bare-footed in his Lexus after a Toblerone binge-eating session.
However that’s not where the story ends. For Alan bounced back, and is the very embodiment of the phrase. Relocated to a temporary caravan, Alan got a job on local radio and together with his trusty P.A. Lyn and his exotic partner Sonia, plotted a way back into the nations’ hearts.
Some people thought Series 2 to be weaker than the first when it initially aired, but time has, if anything, proven it to be consistently even better. But both are a tour de force, featuring the brilliant Geordie - Michael, a superb canal boat episode, Alan filming “Crash! Bang! Wallop! What a video!” and all of the below:
Lyns pay raise - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOvjrU_yM5I
Air bass - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lecytazY6n4
Dan! - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2D3-FkoXNU
“Stop getting Bond wrong!” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czWLEbNwjCI
Ladyboys - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW4yAPpEwT0
Alan being smooth with the reception girls - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa291zWzz3A
Memorable lines:
• “Well done Lynn... that was textbook”
• “Convoy? Michael your hanging around with a person who uses a collective term for a single object.”
• “I wish I'd be at bit more spontaneous. Sometimes I feel like going out, stealing a traffic cone, putting it on my head and saying, "Look at me, I'm a giant witch."”
• “The temperature inside this apple pie is over 1000 degrees. If I squeeze it, a jet of molten bramley apple will squirt out. Could go your way; could go mine. Either way, one of us is going down!!!! “
• “My girlfriends 33, I’m 47. Shes 14 years younger than me. Back of the net...”
• “I'm going nowhere, Lynn. Quite literally - I'm on the ring road!”
Arguably the finest comic creation ever, Alan Partridge has had a career laid bare on TV and radio for us all to marvel at. From his first newsreader appearance on “The Day Today”, through to his own chat show on “Knowing me knowing you”, Alan was always destined for stardom. But when BBC cutbacks and poor ratings took their toll in the early 90’s, this monumental programme was there to document Alan fighting for a new series, before eventually having a nervous breakdown and driving to Dublin bare-footed in his Lexus after a Toblerone binge-eating session.
However that’s not where the story ends. For Alan bounced back, and is the very embodiment of the phrase. Relocated to a temporary caravan, Alan got a job on local radio and together with his trusty P.A. Lyn and his exotic partner Sonia, plotted a way back into the nations’ hearts.
Some people thought Series 2 to be weaker than the first when it initially aired, but time has, if anything, proven it to be consistently even better. But both are a tour de force, featuring the brilliant Geordie - Michael, a superb canal boat episode, Alan filming “Crash! Bang! Wallop! What a video!” and all of the below:
Lyns pay raise - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOvjrU_yM5I
Air bass - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lecytazY6n4
Dan! - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2D3-FkoXNU
“Stop getting Bond wrong!” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czWLEbNwjCI
Ladyboys - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW4yAPpEwT0
Alan being smooth with the reception girls - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa291zWzz3A
Memorable lines:
• “Well done Lynn... that was textbook”
• “Convoy? Michael your hanging around with a person who uses a collective term for a single object.”
• “I wish I'd be at bit more spontaneous. Sometimes I feel like going out, stealing a traffic cone, putting it on my head and saying, "Look at me, I'm a giant witch."”
• “The temperature inside this apple pie is over 1000 degrees. If I squeeze it, a jet of molten bramley apple will squirt out. Could go your way; could go mine. Either way, one of us is going down!!!! “
• “My girlfriends 33, I’m 47. Shes 14 years younger than me. Back of the net...”
• “I'm going nowhere, Lynn. Quite literally - I'm on the ring road!”
Sorry, Alan Partridge and his real persona are another couple I don't much like so Open All Hours wins this one easily as far as I'm concerned. G-g-g-g-g-g-granville!
HUTTON
Guest
You called :unsure:
BILLERICAY BLUE
Rose Tinted Brigade Member⭐⭐🦐
OAH for me, as I can't stand Steve Coogan
You really ought to change your avatar picture for today Scott! I'm sure I won't be the first!
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HUTTON
Guest
To what Granville or The Good Life
Jedi Shrimper
formerly Drastic™
Jurassic Park!
Has to be Partridge.
Has to be Partridge.
MK Shrimper
Striker
Alan Partridge all the time. OAH is comfortable, sunday night and just plain middle of the road comedy. Not my bag at all.
Jedi Shrimper
formerly Drastic™
"There's never any graffiti in the hotel. Although in the Gents a couple of weeks a go I did see someone had drawn a lady's part. Quite detailed. The guy obviously had talent, that's the tragedy."
"Right, dry skin cream. I'm having an attack of the old flakes again. This morning, my pillow looked like a flapjack."
"Lynn's not my wife. She's my PA. Hard-worker, but there's no affection."
"All this wine nonsense! You get all these wine people, don't you? Wine this, wine that. Let's have a bit of red, let's have a bit of white. Ooh, that's a snazzy bouquet. Oh, this smells of, I don't know, basil. Sometimes you just want to say, sod all this wine, just give me a pint of, mineral water."
'Ruddy hell its Soft Cell'
"Right, dry skin cream. I'm having an attack of the old flakes again. This morning, my pillow looked like a flapjack."
"Lynn's not my wife. She's my PA. Hard-worker, but there's no affection."
"All this wine nonsense! You get all these wine people, don't you? Wine this, wine that. Let's have a bit of red, let's have a bit of white. Ooh, that's a snazzy bouquet. Oh, this smells of, I don't know, basil. Sometimes you just want to say, sod all this wine, just give me a pint of, mineral water."
'Ruddy hell its Soft Cell'
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