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Bless this house
This is first series of what was to prove one of Britain's best loved sitcoms, a sitcom that is still gaining new fans all the time despite its age. It ran from 1971 until 1976 in six series totalling 65 episodes. Sid James was Sid Abbot, a successful stationery salesman living in Putney with his devoted wife Jean (Diana Coupland), hippie layabout son Mike (Robin Stewart), and jejune schoolgirl daughter Sally (Sally Geeson). Their next-door-neighbours Trevor (Anthony Jackson) and Betty (Patsy Rowlands) were also their best friends, though unlike the Abbots they rowed a lot.
It was very much a middle-class suburban comedy based around domestic misunderstandings and the generation gap between parents and children. Sid wanted to spend his spare time with laddish Trevor, drinking at their local, the 'Hare and Hounds' or going fishing and getting drunk afterwards in a different pub. He liked his pipe, his classical music and wife-cooked meals. He also liked to ogle the young dolly-birds though that was all it was - ogling. He always remained faithful to Jean.
Sid usually found himself on a different plane to long-haired young Mike, who was apparently an art student but loafed around the house producing abstract sculptures and risque paintings, while Sally went through the usual teenage girl phases, vegetarianism, boyfriend obsessions and rejections, and dithered between the options of career, marriage and free love. Jean was the fulcrum of the family who kept the others functioning together under the same roof.
The first series, which was recorded in black-and-white, establishes the characters and sets templates for future storylines, but is still as laughworthy as any of the later episodes.Read full review...
Bless This House.... First Series.. DVD
I bought this DVD because I hadn't seen episodes of this fantastic comedy for many years..... I really loved this DVD because it brought back so many memories and just like the Carry On films, although you more than often can guess what will happen next it still makes you laugh.... I loved Sid James who, like Tommy Cooper, made me smile with just a look!.......... This was a superb purchase which I will never regret... Golfnut1955Read full review...
Bless This House - Series One
Bless This House is brilliant, funny and a lot of laughs and is well worth getting hold of what's more this started way in 1971!!! and starred the much loved Sid James of Carry On Fame no Less ...