Bank Management | Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em | BBC Studios

Frank Spencer wants to take out a loan so he visits his bank manager. Hilarious clip from the classic BBC comedy TV series from BBC Worldwide.
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[@extremeconcepts1]

He owned this role so well....comedy classic

[@try_this_one_]

I always feel better about myself after watching Frank 🤣

[@paulec2634]

What a way to watch it... to feel above him?

[@johnsmith-rs2vk]

NICE !

[@RedEyedHawk1]

His purpose is to make us feel better ;)

[@doppelganger2166]

I’m 16 and even I love this show, my grandpa used to show me it

[@rgw5991]

omg

[@nathan2497]

Michael Crawford is a legend👌

[@nickcassettes]

"I could ask the landlord." 😂

[@roseyk7677]

The best actors, are those that make the role theirs, and theirs alone, so that no-one else could ever touch it... Now that's genius...

[@TomthatiscalledTom]

That was the early 1970s. In the noughties the banker would have happily arranged for Frank to get a 200 year mortgage to buy a house, made a quick profit then been nationalised when the whole system collapsed

[@irenedavo3768]

200 years!

[@-null-null8857]

@@irenedavo3768 200 Beers

[@-null-null8857]

Did you know that I have an egg spoon for 11 years ago? It is not anyone that I know. So eggs are a must

[@kentcyclist]

Lol😅😅😊

[@RaySpainPlayer]

You have just described the global economic system and the cause of our current problems

[@nicholasdavies6264]

What an absolute icon of theatre and tv .... fabulous actor ! 👍

[@evangiles4403]

And music he's an excellent singer

[@alexmorgan3435]

"Just remember me as a little nut ........who's trying to grow!" Prophetic words Michael, prophetic words.

[@sallygard63]

Classic ❤ I used to impersonate him ! I was a 10 year old … and would have everyone in stitches 😂

[@kq700]

this kind of humor is the best!!!

[@jasonfernee2401]

Comedy genius. It always got me the way he would turn the most confident, well educated professional into a quivering wreck needing psychiatric help.

[@Cool2BCeltic]

I wouldn't say he did that. He was the quivering wreck needing psychiatric help. These confident well educated professionals most certainly would not forget him.

[@gottliebdee263]

You know that they are both acting right?

[@Cool2BCeltic]

@@gottliebdee263 Yes, and I was talking about the characters, not the actors playing them.

[@sunnysleep7850]

Da cat took a whoopsie on the carpet and Frank accidentally set the house of fire 🔥

[@alexmorgan3435]

It is staggering that Michael Crawford was not first nor even the second choice to play Frank Spencer. I believe first was Ronnie Barker and second Norman Wisdom were both offered the role but turned it down. A young David Jason was also considered for the role before Michael, but when he got the part he definitely made it his own. Genius.

[@TheGodParticle]

I had no idea that was the case, thanks for the info. cheers

[@johnkennethwiseman5460]

Norman Wisdom probably would have been a very good call. However gotta love Michael Crawford

[@Russ453hgf]

He used to have me in stitches..😊😂

[@Russ453hgf]

​@@johnkennethwiseman5460 he made it his own...

[@paullinford4510]

Ronnie Barker was first choice for Reggie Perrin before Leonard Rossiter, not Frank Spencer.

[@margaretshaw7343]

You should hear him sing. Amazing 🤩

[@gaynorpatterson2915]

He definitely blew me out of then water with “The Phantom”

[@MsFanmail]

frank spencer is a comedy genius

[@MichaelMrar-lh8ww]

What about John Cleese

[@DontForgetDressage2]

Michael is has this cute look on his face in this one that I love...

[@MichelleWaage]

Mickeal Crawford " Frank" , it is a great Actor. Thankyou, to bring me joy.

[@Instasamps]

His credit score is probably better than mine

[@susancorlett9768]

Love ❤ hapless Frank ,so funny and in away innocent 😄 🤣 😆 🥰♥️

[@stephenm6100]

rip geoffrey chater (the bank manager) passed away at 100. 16/10/2021

[@richlee509]

Good innings

[@MrSlitskirts]

Great show and scene. You can't help but empathise with "Frank' in this scene, typical Bank Manager against the ordinary man, etc. Not even a 'little capital'... or let him open an account.

[@OffGridInvestor]

Nowadays banks in the EU don't WANT you to have a savings account. Because they get 100% of their money for lending via the central bank and don't need the backing of ordinary people with money in their accounts or investments. It's a waste of office time for them. Crazy system.

[@mariabrent]

Just think of me as a little nut LMAO!

[@pspboy7]

LOL, not off hand, but I could ask the landlord :)

[@stephenguppy7882]

I remember going on a waiting list at the Building Society in the early 80s. You had to save a set amount a month and then wait to be called for 'the interview' where they decided whether or not they would lend you money. Interest rates were 15% and they really made you grovel. I worked 2 jobs to pay it off. 18 hour working days 5 days a week. Crazy times but still better than they are now.

[@_SnowJustice_]

wish i could watch the full episodes ...he is hilarious 😂 😂

[@michaelb1716]

£50,000 would be worth £515,000 in July 2023 according to the Bank of England inflation calculator. Poor old Frank was so close! 😂

[@devanmoran]

such a legend (:

[@northlincsfox243]

Happy Birthday 🎂 Geoffrey Chater. 100 years old today 😊

[@ShroudedFury]

Hahaha thhat part made me chuckle too lol.

[@1979LITTLEMISS]

Cool2BCeltic: The actor (yes, he's very good) is Geoffrey Chater (b.1921). According to Wikipedia he was also in the episode 'King of the Road'. He was also in an episode of Dad's Army called 'Round and Round went the Great Big Wheel'. Hope this is helpful.

[@robalexander8065]

He lived to be 100.

[@rolthesole]

He played " Pat Holroyd " in the British sci-fi film " the day the earth caught fire " 1961.

[@Cool2BCeltic]

@milo6117 That's a good one. But I like it where the bank manager says he'll have to put up some form of security like a house and asks its value. Frank then says he doesn't know but he could ask the landlord.

[@robert.257]

There's an episode where Betty says to Frank . My mum wanted me to marry someone else and Frank says who, Betty says no one in particular just someone else. Brilliant scripts and brilliant Actors and Acting.

[@garethglitter5932]

He thought I was a failure too!

[@manemustaine]

classic frank

[@user-fu1cj4fc7o]

Keep ur only fools, this twice as better

[@markparsons2179]

Fantastic

[@CraigMansfield]

Poor Frank 😂

[@kylewaddington1983]

Michael Cowford had great teeth

[@wvo5660]

Jeeeeez that long ago, but still like him

[@AnnetteMurphyger]

Poor Frank!

[@garydixon6315]

Ooh betty !

[@arrenbaker3044]

I have just subscribed

[@johnnyboy1586]

I know a person just like Frank

[@jameswalker7459]

Poor frank ...I know what he feels like everyone thinks he's a failure 😭,,,frank Ur not alone

[@Cool2BCeltic]

@1979LITTLEMISS He's asking Frank Spencer searching questions here about his financial situation. I also recognised him in Gandhi, asking General Dwyer searching questions about the Amritsar massacre.

[@SuzanneO707]

Prophetic and relevant these days.

[@GuillotineGirl6663]

Omj.. Ahahaha Aww :')

[@stephenm6100]

😀😀😀 frank is a hoot

[@faithnaidoo7647]

So true!!!Enjoyed every episode.

[@roseyk7677]

Frank would have been cancelled today... Genius actor, amazing comedian and wonderful singer... So underrated but clearly loved, and will always be remembered as a true legend... By me anyway... ❤️

[@nkt1]

Crawford has won umpteen awards, and been a household name in the UK for 50 years. To suggest he's underrated is ridiculous.

[@roseyk7677]

@@nkt1 🙄🙄🙄

[@shanewilliams503]

When you could actually laugh unlike the shite bbc put out today

[@littleredwitch]

Nowadays the bank manager would have had to be black!

[@johnsmith-rs2vk]

Ah , SPENCER !

[@brodeickmiller5344]

I wish could do amazing old school wish we do best that it could keep going thank you crack me up watching some hurmo be they

[@allanarnold3619]

They knew how to make comedy in those days

[@davidrountree9326]

He has a psychiatrist vouch for him Good God and he said he thought frank was a failure too , this is great comedy

[@freeagent8225]

I used to look like FS, so much so that I was known as Frank😅

[@Cool2BCeltic]

"Then go outside and grow in somebody else's bank" "General Dwyer, how does a child shot with a 3-0-3 Lee Enfield "apply" for help"

[@colindorrans9495]

Gandhi !

[@PopeLando]

@@colindorrans9495 Lived to 100. I see this just popped up in your recommends too

[@veritysprott1547]

Do I need 2 references to open a bank account?

[@davidcripps3011]

Still funny 🙂

[@alextoft9199]

No..... But I could ask the landlord 😉😅 You're only reference is a medical man who says your a failure! 🤣

[@garyproffitt5941]

And here comes a psychoanalyst with some mothers do ave em ~ 1:42 🤣👍

[@Perranporth]

You!

[@Faith01841]

Frank is so babygirl :(

[@PopeLando]

This has just popped up in a lot of people's recommends in 2022. Allowing us members of the "We know Geoffrey Chater lived to 100" Club to chime in on the comments.

[@myaccount2604]

👏👏👏

[@MassiveChetBakerFan]

Hennimore!!

[@carlt9265]

A reference off psychiatrist 🤣

[@user-ve6df1sn2s]

No body like him .to play it he was good

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

I don't know how they do these episodes in front of a live audience without cracking up. Or maybe they do and that's edited out. Anyway, funny stuff!

[@kevinfred10001]

I never heard before of needing referees to open a bank account.

[@peterowen9183]

Heh. This was the 1970s. The only way you could get a bank loan was to prove beyond all doubt that you didn't need one!

[@richlee509]

@@peterowen9183 same as now if you bank with hsbc. I have good credit and they will not give me a bank loan.

[@caravb5906]

In the 70s women and especially the working class, could not open a bank account with a signature from their father or male head of household. In addition if married, only the male was on signed documents to buy property or take out loans. If you look back, the seventies was a turning point for a lot of women.

[@littleredwitch]

My Mum wasn’t allowed to open a bank account without the approval of my father who had left her high and dry from one day to another. She found emergency work as a house cleaner and couldn’t bank her earnings. Hey salvation was the Post Office little savings book where every transaction was manually recorded. It was in France. Any other countries had that system?

[@Cool2BCeltic]

Who is that actor playing the bank manager? He's very good. Strange that in the early 70s it was still acceptable to smoke in the workplace.

[@andy73100]

His name was Geoffrey Chater - amazingly, he's still alive and about to turn 100. He played an MP in Blott on the Landscape during the 1980s.

[@Cool2BCeltic]

@@andy73100 I also noticed him in Gandhi, playing a barrister asking searching questions at the inquiry into the Amritsar Massacre "General Dwyer, how does a child shot with a 0.303 Lee Enfield 'apply' for help?"

[@mariaobeirne514]

Still smoking in the workplace in the early 90s. I sat opposite someone who smoked Rothmans.

[@joemcconnell2674]

April 2006 this smoking law came out in the UK.

[@breebw]

Jan 2022, ironically, this is what meeting with a bank manager for a mortgage has returned to.

[@sazzies4924]

🥰

[@Cool2BCeltic]

@rockchick80s That was a bit harsh. There are other imaginary comedy characters who are even more irksome, such as David Brent.

[@d.k.1394]

Funny

[@veritysprott1547]

Cecil Parkinson?

[@frankspencer6935]

I wet my trousers watching this.

[@ytnsanw]

Should have shown him his 'Vesuvius'........

[@mufc7476]

Early one morning!

[@irenedavo3768]

Watching January 2022

[@iliekovert7502]

still funny in 2022

[@veritysprott1547]

Did Cecil Parkinson invest in Premium Bonds?

[@jamiepoems]

I have a poem called rusty oak tree

[@josephineclay235]

😭

[@joemcconnell2674]

Man killed four people. His doctor couldn't understand why! He told the detective he had a great family life and was well liked by everyone. But then he did live nextdoor to Frank Spencer! That might explain it.

[@siredith8846]

2 referees to open a bank account?

[@StatsGam4er]

What episode/season is this clip from ?

[@artmallory970]

Series 2 Episode 5 - Father's clinic.

[@StatsGam4er]

@@artmallory970 thank you

[@colinwatkins2950]

i tried that once but it didnt work for me either ,but banks are like that if thay are robbed out of 5p thayre up in arms.

[@kevinfred10001]

What are premium bonds? I suppose something like lotto, a form of gambling.

[@peterowen9183]

It's better than lotto. It's a government-run scheme whereby you 'buy' an amount of premium bonds by investing the money with them. Every month there's a 'draw' (as if it were a raffle) and you might win a prize, anything from £10 to several thousand pounds. So it is a form of gambling, except the beauty of it is, you never lose your money. Everything you invest in premium bonds stays there, and you can take it back out whenever you want. And in the meantime you might win a prize!

[@johno4521]

Top prize is now a million..minimum £25

[@alberttanner408]

Uploads without Season Year and episode what intelligence from the BBC.

[@artmallory970]

Series 2 Ep. 5 - Father's Clinic

[@josephineclay235]

😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

[@eden4031]

two DR.referies lol

[@christopherhowells1954]

Go outside and grow in someone else’s bank!

[@highdownmartin]

Franks still funny and Tory bankers haven’t changed a bit

[@gavva2010]

my thoughts exactly!!

[@tucosalamanca5194]

What are we going to do about it?

[@kellyfinch5257]

when did he mention the baby wasn't born yet?

[@josephineclay235]

Ivehad400injectionsanditsnotthativehadmore😢

[@siredith8846]

1:03 that’s bullshit

[@fenceup07944931177]

Wasn't this made by the BBC. Why is it on BBC studios KZbin account? Are you selling programs made with the licence fee?

[@tjfSIM]

What in God’s name are you on about? It’s free to watch content on their KZbin channel, but of course they can sell programmes that are licensed to or produced by them if they so wish. Your licence fee entitles you to receive broadcast television - it doesn’t entitle you to free access to all of their material at any time. Buy the DVD if you want that.

[@andydroid2413]

@@tjfSIM the point is, the BBC studios a commercial organisation. Not the BBC is selling programs funded by the licence fee for profit.

[@tjfSIM]

@@andydroid2413 The licence fee only forms part of the BBC's revenue stream. If licence fee payers were covering all of the cost of making programmes across all the tv and radio channels, the fee would be a lot higher. The money they make from the licence fee is supplemented by their other commercial enterprises such as production services and media sales. What is the problem with that?

[@andydroid2413]

@@tjfSIM BBC studios are not accountable to the public unlike The BBC. That's why Graham Norton show is made by BBC studios not the BBC so they don't have to say how much they pay him. Netflicks create some amazing content for less.

[@tjfSIM]

@@andydroid2413 But equally, none of your licence fee goes to BBC studios - it is a self-funding enterprise, so why should they tell you how much he's paid?

[@charleigh195]

Soon to be banned for laughter.

[@stefanjaworek8344]

When comedy was actually funny.

[@josephineclay235]

😢😢😢😢

[@ijustdidahugeshit]

Rest in peace Michael Crawford

[@doppelganger2166]

He is still alive Wdym?

[@ijustdidahugeshit]

@@doppelganger2166 I saw you at the hospital today

[@doppelganger2166]

@@ijustdidahugeshit . . . .