Prefer Gerald (and the Stag) in Hadleigh

oh to have been there in those days.....

‘A sight for sore eyes’ actually means something good to look at, not something bad to look at as it’s used here, in reference to post war London.

I am sure I saw Jonathan Miller in the crowd.

4:37 there’s a young Jonathan Miller?

AWESOME documentary as well as a veritable time capsule. The scene in Soho in the 1940s and 50s wasn't too dissimilar, from what I've gathered here, from that of Greenwich Village in New York, which was also a bohemian haven at the time and was incidentally frequented by the likes of Dylan Thomas during his reading and lecture tours in America. Great to hear such stories directly from the horse's mouth, as it were. Thank you for posting this gem!

Awful but fascinating culture.

a young Jonathan Miller at 4.39

But they call Bath "the graveyard of ambition" the local council have ruined it apparently.

One canoe in exchange for a radio cassette. Worthwhile swap indeed….😂

Interesting but poorly researched documentary .Thank you for sharing. Armchair Theatre was not made by the BBC. It was ITV.

Julies the friend everyone wants.

Marvellous to see Trevor Horn. The man who invented the eighties! Stuart Hall. Ugh.

We mythologise the artistic drunk too much.

Now the bars have tattooed thugd deciding who can or cannot go anywhere. The irony is, the figures who made Soho what it became would be considered persona non grata🎉

Thatcher's children, self absorbed w**kers

Loved this series!

Stuart Hall in the peak of his kiddy fiddling. Operation Yew Tree hasn’t been completed yet, there are a few on this film that are in need of some research.

juliet lugh is just the same as was then! and then she was much more athletic that mrs peel.

Gerald Harper is 93 next year, almost as old as Adam Adamant himself!

56:41

A lot of adults acting like children with drugs sex and booze. What’s new about this?

I thought this was a spoof first 5 mins. Very entertaining.

Moral degeneracy all the way.

Loved Soho 1950's - The Pub, Street and 'arty' club characters one encountered - The mischievous ladies standing in doorways - The Jazz, the Coffee bars and the Skiffle! Just walking through in your Duffle coat and battered Trilby, you felt intellectually reinvigorated. Then you got the late bus home to Surbiton and next morning left your faux Bohemian self behind and became once again just another boring bank clerk, plumber or shop assistant! Halcyon days!

Silver spoons and arses.

Small clip of Jonathan Miller at 4.39 ?

Just watched this again - great introductory to my reading some of the lesser known writers of that era. Sadly, Haight-Ashbury went the same way. Those that stayed behind became caricatures of themselves when the tourists arrived. So it goes - RIP Soho.

It’s unfortunate that most are brainwashed into believing conformity is mandatory to achieve acceptance. It’s precisely what the system so desperately enforce to keep the minions in slavery and drudgery. The few who are courageous enough to reject the mind prison are looked upon by the slaves with ignorant fear and disdain. This is why these communities come into existence, humans are social creatures, having a desire for acceptance and like mindedness. There seems to be a resurgence of escapee’s. Thank goodness for that. These are the people and places I seek, I am at home.

What a wonderful historical cultural documentary 😲👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏😊👍👍

I watched 'Adam Adamant Lives' when I was fourteen years old. I must say that I never really warmed to it and wasn't surprised that it was quickly forgotten. Even at that time I regarded it as a pale imitation of iconic series of the sixties such as Dangerman, The Prisoner, The Avengers etc. I'm sure that the BBC's bizarre decision to air the series on a weekday evening as opposed to the Friday/Saturday evening slot which ITV reserved for this sort of stuff didn't help.

Great teeth julie

That 4 year old son Jack later decided that he didn't even want to be on the same planet as Julie.

I can't imagine a place like that existing now. The rich and poor, famous and ordinary, educated and uneducated, all sharing the same pubs and locations is almost unthinkable now.

The puppet show Is really funny that’s first pig I want 3rd pig love It

I Love you Geoffrey

just wondering how bad Trevor Horne's eyesight is . . .

Just watched. Fascinating TV. Imagine you could time travel back for a day (and a night). Was life simpler back then........?

George Melly................with his one-eyed symbolism.

The Adam Adamant series was such a classic--me & my mates watched it avidly, & now, thanks to the DVD box-set, some of us have sat together and watched it again!

Juliet is still beautiful.

Clever, but, shallow people.

My parents were always in Soho and would invariably come home drunk with Nina Hamnett and others as we all lived in Paddington by the canal. Lucian was our neighbour and a frequent visitor. He painted my step-father and two paintings of my Mother Ruby of which one is in M O M A. It was a crazy and stimulating life.

SO-HO !

I grew up in Bath and I'm really interested in finding out about this period in the 60's and 70's. All of the parts of the city that were re-built then all share the same deadness in their sense of place. You can feel the lifelessness whenever you're close. I felt that as a child in the 80's/90's when I had no idea about this building 'revolution'. There were just small pockets of Bath that I didn't like passing or visiting, they felt empty, that all correspond with 60/70's architecture. It's amazing how architecture can change you perception of a street, and that the loss of buildings that had stood there for hundreds of years can suck the life away with it.

Self absorbed London media types.

I was visiting the haunts of Earls Court after an earlier evening at Adams club In Leicester Square. 1980’s, brilliant decade when visiting old smokie I was showing the American playwright Jerome Lawrence (Aunty Mame) around when he introduced me to Quintin Crisp at his small studio near Harrods That must have been about 45 years ago- today being 2023 👌 too those gone and us that still stand 😊 👌 ❤

10:47 .. this poor bloke is in need of some decent lip balm, that bottom lip has been pulverised.. its all swelled up ready to pop like a baboons r.sole .. . He also sounds parched, I mean couldn't the greedy BBC have gave the man a drink whilst filming this ? .. it sounds like he has drank an inch of loft dust.. Its no wonder he is keep dropping hints about coffee shops.. the man has a tongue like an Arabs flip flop !

My Gran was a Boho...she was Nude modle in Bloomsbury in the early 20s ..(itaian) we loved her..❤