BBC4 One Night In The 60's - 'Til Closing Time Do Us Part

Series 2 - Till Closing Time Us Do Part
As the evening draws in and Alf gets drunker, three celebrity faces arrive at the local. Whilst Alf struggles to remember their names, Kenny Lynch, Jimmy Tarbuck and Ray Barrett entertain the regulars with a few songs and jokes - at Garnett's expense, naturally!
First shown Monday 27th March 1967

[@johnsmith-rs2vk]

Our silver tops are all buying laptops , getting connected on -line and watching all their old favourites . BRAVO .

[@stevelee4952]

My old man ran a pub in Poplar around this time, The Iron Bridge Tavern, near the Blackwall Tunnel. Nights like this, when I was about 8, were regular. I ran the jellied I'll stall outside. Great times, proper working class nights, no presumption, no old bollocks.

[@davidpoole8840]

Well done mate people today should learn to have some fun and bugger all this woke crap😅

[@patrickfellows1204]

Comedy gold that will never be bettered.

[@gordonjohnson8432]

To Right mate.......To right....!

[@cherrytate7149]

How lovely to see this.... THE GOOD OLD DAYS IN ALL ITS GLORY.❤❤❤❤❤

[@johnsmith-rs2vk]

WHEN THE BOOZER WAS A BOOZER !

[@raywoodvine4958]

Iam 57.i would love to go to a pub now and have a good old time like this

[@alfiesgirluk]

Sadly that ship has sailed. Everybody drinks supermarket booze at home now.

[@johndearing9753]

Used to be a lovely pub in Derby called the Duke of Clarence that had a singsong round the piano every Friday night -sadly seemes to have succombed to COVID, now all boarde dup

[@DeanJuvenal]

People spent so much time in the pub because their home living conditions were so awful. Rachmanite landlords overcharging for hovels. Ooops, it’s all back again but the pubs have all shut down.

[@davidpoole8840]

I used to love my old local we all used to have such a laugh singing along to the jukebox and cracking jokes and I didn't mind being the clown and getting everyone laughing their heads off long for those old days

[@sharonedge716]

I miss these days so much when there was no Internet no mobile phones just people having a good time together you talked to people we have become so isolated from each other.

[@Edward1312]

A representation here of part of pub culture that's now sadly lost. A right old knees up with a sing song around the old piana

[@janeokeeffe5297]

Happy days

[@johnskelton3493]

I’m in my 70’s now and have had many a good night in the pub, exactly like that

[@johnsmith-rs2vk]

Yep , When the boozer was the boozer . No star wars machines .

[@paulacatcatballou3907]

Kenny Lynch Jimmy Tarbuck and a few other faces that I remember. A totally different planet back then #Freedom

[@woffus]

Kenny Lynch was a cool dude and had a great voice. RIP mate

[@bigtwit799]

Yes but the black guy was also very good.

[@johnsmith-rs2vk]

He always said he was a Tie coon !

[@jamesskeoch6562]

Proper PUBS when you could smoke,sing and ENJOY YOURSELF!!!!!

[@orthodoxblue7252]

Better days

[@briandelamere8468]

And no kids running around due to feckless single mothers

[@Mishima505]

RIP Una Stubbs, you’ll be sorely missed…

[@g7eit]

Why can’t the real world learn and be like this? To me, this is heaven.

[@johnsmith-rs2vk]

May be in the next life X

[@peterlewis6820]

Because freedom of speech has been crushed under boots

[@roberts5539]

@@peterlewis6820 ahh, the good old days when those with a good healthy protective layer of melatonin just had to take a joke or two from the poms without complaint.

[@kellyedey8573]

Your comment is racist, bloody priceless darling.

[@norituk9824]

If the left weren't so thick they would see what's in front of their eyes - the butt of the joke is Alf Garnett, not the black guy played by Kenny Lynch.

[@bigbird1954]

Brilliant ! Good old telly . Never to be equalled or beaten .

[@sidewaysid]

RIP Kenny Lynch and most of the cast ah ah ah I'm due soon, great stuff this, never be the same will it.

[@starbuck1977]

Una Stubbs was absolutely gorgeous

[@davidcresswell9694]

British comedy at its best.

[@steelneedles]

Kenny Lynch was a really good singer in his day. Loved to see Rita Webb too - always a very funny lady and an asset to British comedy.

[@michaelwilliams3232]

Don't forget Joan Sims!

[@steelneedles]

@@michaelwilliams3232 I loved Joan Sims though curiously enough not so much in this particular role. She was brilliant and a real star in the Carry On films. Her autobiography, which I read some years ago, is very good.

[@neilclark2245]

@@michaelwilliams3232 and Arthur Mullard, another stalwart

[@johnwilliams2479]

Met Lynch in 78 at Victor Lownes Play boy bunny party to celebrate 25 year's at Stocks Mansion, played a bit of piano with him very nice chap

[@gavinreid8937]

I wonder if Alfs interaction with Kenny inspired the usa version to have their alf meet sammy davis jnr.

[@conhawks]

hilarious, i hav'nt laughed so much in years, so glad this has survived, best

[@ewaoliver3647]

How refreshing. This was when the black and white integrated and had a laugh together.

[@grahamjordan1040]

Should still be shown on tv they were the days , I spoke to Una Stubbs in Kings Lynn many years ago she was officially opening a store such a lovely woman sadly gone.

[@DRAINPIPE57]

Pure raw down to earth Comedy with Alf Garnett and Jimmy Tarbuck

[@senianns9522]

I met Warren Mitchell on a flight from London to Jersey many years ago. He spoke 'perfectly well mannered English' he was an eloquent fellow. It really surprised me as I was totally expecting 'Alf Garnett'. Brilliant actor!

[@johnsmith-rs2vk]

He was also a very talented Shakespeare actor .

[@johnbrereton5229]

That was back in the day when actors played characters. Today they seem to insist the person playing the part is actually that person ??????

[@alexbernard8907]

This was the 20th century when the UK had talented actors and actresses, who always played characters totally different to them, and in those days an able bodied star would even play a cripple, like Raymond Burr, played Ironside a detective in a wheelchair, that wouldn't be allowed today, all you get these days are untalented entertainers and the so called comedy acts now, wouldn't know a funny situation if it stared them in the face,

[@Ray-xh6gb]

Jimmy tarbuck from liverpool

[@Ray-xh6gb]

Arthur Millard nasty to people knock he's wife about

[@granttalibard6193]

In The Black Lion pub in Plaistow in the East End there’s a lovely black and white photo of Kenny Lynch , Warren Mitchell and Bobby Moore taken in the pub many years ago . They were obviously all pals .

[@raywoodvine4958]

I was 2 years old when this was filmed. If I was old enough I would have paid to be an extra to be in this episode. Just to be involved with theses grate people and a good old sing song .bless you all

[@Ardass486]

Racist are you? Disgusting

[@brucejoseph8367]

Great entertainers every one of them!

[@andicampbell8621]

Una Stubbs was simply, gorgeous.

[@lanny1076]

this was long, very long before my time but if I could choose where I was, it would be right here at that very moment..how the world has changed and not for the better

[@steelneedles]

I'm afraid it was far from perfect then too, as I remember very well.

[@Ray-xh6gb]

I love Alf garnett

[@thomaspridmore106]

So sad all gone those were the days I remember them well

[@home2624]

Jimmy Tarbuck is still going strong at 82 years old. So sad to have lost all the others. The sixties were a great time to be alive.

[@thomaspridmore106]

The best

[@bigtwit799]

@@home2624 Are you sure?

[@dougreed2257]

@@bigtwit799 yes I agree with him😊, we're you there?

[@dougreed2257]

@@bigtwit799 sorry, I meant HER🤦‍♀️

[@davidcullen1956]

I used to play the banjo in a pub like that with my Dad who was playing the joanna.

[@barbaras6792]

Great entertainers all 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@user-se2xm5yp6u]

The good old days, we will never see them again.

[@johnsmith-rs2vk]

Watch out ! It comes off . Can you imagine such a comment today !

[@tonymcvann4504]

Classic 1960"s comedy!

[@markcarrington8380]

Una Stubbs is stunning

[@AB-kx4nc]

@The mysterious Miss X what a pathetic comment

[@philhewitt5069]

@@AB-kx4nc Why ? she was.

[@philhewitt5069]

@@AB-kx4nc Now, now, you just go and get yourself a saucer of Milk.

[@GrahamWoodward-ww1zf]

I was born in 61, life was so much more simpler and genuine then with real values !

[@davegadge1]

That’s Jimmy Tarbuck wow!

[@johnsmith-rs2vk]

Pissed out , but not pissed in ! The golden pub rule .

[@pujapete3665]

my dad just loved it when he said silly old moo.us kids used too repeat it alot also.

[@billsilver6429]

Only three channels back then. Try telling kids that today and they just won't believe it.

[@nicks4934]

Dandy Nicholls. Superb.

[@malcolmmarshall4371]

Today most people look at the phones or watch Tv in the pub

[@justinvardy2652]

I bet the drink taste alot better. Back then

[@toddy505]

Arthur Mullard and Rita Baker 😂

[@mrcockney-nutjob3832]

Rita Webb, did you know she has been gone for over 40 years now.

[@cotswoldcuckoo]

@@mrcockney-nutjob3832 Yes she played a lot of comedy parts, and a recurring role in Steptoe and son, but have a look at her in the anti hanging play called Three Clear Sundays when she plays the head of a crime ridden family, the youngest of whom through a series of misfortunes is sentenced to death.

[@mrcockney-nutjob3832]

@@cotswoldcuckoo Cheers I will.

[@brildidge9523]

Are you sure it wasn't Arthur Baker and Angelina MacTavish ??

[@tominnis8353]

Happy, happy days!

[@jasonclarke6983]

My fav episode love when they all out in the pub even gran

[@johnsmith-rs2vk]

When the boozer was a boozer !

[@johnsmith-rs2vk]

Old moo . Lend me 10 bob !

[@connieroberts5368]

Those were the days…….

[@brianlowe3529]

I love british comedy’s not like American

[@henryhilaire9413]

Great day's the kids these days don't know what they were missing

[@frankcann9481]

Days when we. could have a good.laugh..

[@johnking5174]

This was an Easter Bank Holiday special, first aired on Easter Monday 27th March 1967. It was filmed alongside Series 2, and aired a month after Series 2 ended.

[@johnking5174]

@nope not me Why?

[@philipjones4726]

Was filmed due to late scripts. Season 2 was.scheduled for 13 episodes but only 10 delivered. So this was made to count as 2

[@BooktownBoy]

Superb.

[@johnsmith-rs2vk]

Great stuff , I know , I 'm getting old .

[@johnsmith-rs2vk]

So many great comments . Thank you all .

[@deanmason2022]

Brilliant

[@georgedonnellan36]

Freedom of speech. Entertainment with live music sing along. They are all mad today....2022!!!

[@johnsmith-rs2vk]

Arthur Mullard would have made a great doorman .

[@TILTHENEXTTIME]

Who spotted Joan Sims as the old lady? She was only 37 when this was made!

[@stephenord3403]

What a cast, jeepers

[@terencebarrett2897]

Absolutely 👌 brilliant real true to life,skill art,real talent, wonderful "and when you think," everything as been crushed,bought up by big brother ,every kind of profession,skill ,art,,and now"you think where these artists' can now show there born talents to display to public, and find real fame of there art, it is now manufactured ,and it's crap

[@drpeterthompson5894]

EXCELLENT! 11/10

[@stephenord3403]

When pubs were pubs

[@alecjohnson5269]

IVE GOT COLLECTIONS OF ALL THESE INC STEPTOE AND SON SO NO SNOWFLAKE CAN STOP ME 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

[@mrcrazyjonpresents4312]

Great episode you see warren almost loose it when Tony Booth laughs for real at the mongle word

[@esseker6320]

Lose 👈.

[@Toastrackman]

People were thicker skinned back then, Kenny Lynch was famous and loved by many. To many snowflakes complaining nowadays 😏

[@suzyqualcast6269]

Uu fkn m o n g.... Or clappy pinned spazza...

[@AB-kx4nc]

"Get out of it", sounded like my old man.

[@Ray-xh6gb]

Alf garnett was a great actor I really liked the way he went on about issues itwas the script he WAL

[@noddyholder79]

Kenny Lynch RiP a true star

[@gavinreid8937]

Being All in The Family was based on TDUDP , I wonder if this inspired the famous Archie Bunker- Sammy Davis episode.

[@kingpininfo4506]

Kenny was on the cover of Band on the Run :)

[@jeffrey19771000]

kenny lynch.my first ever record was swinging on a star.lol

[@garyfinn8772]

You can still find this in the back streets of liverpool if you no were to look . Rose and crown for one scouse pub

[@marcaskew61]

Days before we lost everything by sticking our noses into our stupid mobile phones.

[@orthodoxblue7252]

What a time to be alive. Men were men and women were women. We all knew where we stood. And there was an order of things. RIP the REAL England.

[@andystoker6961]

Oh I hope that's intended as a joke

[@orthodoxblue7252]

@@andystoker6961 no, why?

[@orthodoxblue7252]

@@andystoker6961 no, I meant every word. Why would it be a joke?

[@turokforever007]

@@andystoker6961 (order of things) now we have people fighting over lies or just nothing. Not a life to live-a life wasted

[@johnsmith-rs2vk]

HEAR HEAR !

[@gurbai9730]

Fantastic

[@Paisly17]

Warren Mitchell was only 41 when he made this.

[@mohammaddavoudian7897]

Una Stubbs was gorgeous. So beautiful, talented and gracious.

[@johnsmith-rs2vk]

Very difficult to act a drunk . Bravo Alf !

[@bobmano66]

Ray Barrett was a well known actor here in Australia

[@cotswoldcuckoo]

He was in a series here in UK called the Troubleshooters ( not Troublemakers) and along with Kenneth J Warren and Rolf Harris was probably one of the most favourite Aussies on TV. Along with Skippy the Kangaroo.

[@beery52]

hi mate ray barrett was a pow of the japs in ww2

[@SkandalouzStyle]

What was it like down the pub in the 1950s and 60s before jukeboxes and DJs lol

[@MikeG-xy7yt]

Rising Sun, Sudbury Hill. Colin on the joanna. Brilliant. Early 1970’s.

[@stephenm6100]

rip kenny. 🙏🏻

[@AB-zn7di]

wonderful . a good find on youtube

[@johnsmith-rs2vk]

Oh Titter ye not ! RIP . Frankie .

[@trevorchambers1812]

Life really did use to be like this - until the workies all closed down. No wonder everybody's depressed and/or on drugs now. Kenny Lynch was a hell of a singer too. Nailed "Up on The Roof", sadly missed.

[@johnsmith-rs2vk]

I 'm going down the boooooooozer ! Old moo lend me ten bob .

[@steffanhoffmann8937]

Great 👍 upload and thanks. I'm from Kensington and Chelsea; in London originally. Pubs were full of this type, when I was a kid. Same all over UK. I lived in Kyiv one year and Odessa three, until Putin played on the borders; so I left March 2021. Ukraine was a man's world. Now I'm in Alanya region of the beautiful Med Sea climate. Man's world here also....better than bloody woke. Today October 2 it was 38c and 🌞 Ten hotter than last year. No rain here since March 10; hard to believe sure! Ciggies are about £1.25 for twenty. Same in Ukraine. Don't smoke but it's a good gauge. My last elec bill for September was £15. July and August was £28; as it's Aircon coz of the heat. No gas and no need. Great mod apt overlooking the Med Sea. I left after BREXIT. Not regretted it as there's plenty of expats here; and Scandinavian people. Gor blimey... my electric bill is about the same amount; as when this was broadcast.

[@terrygannon7254]

Good old pub humour.. sing in a pub now... you get kicked out

[@ushoys]

Quite right too

[@Toastrackman]

Cant beat a drunken knees up, wake the neighbourhood up with 'show me the way to go home' HIC CHUNDER 🤮😵‍💫

[@paulhaywood1615]

@@ushoys Bore off drone.

[@suzyqualcast6269]

The older blokes ie the returned ex WW2 soldiers, who got through and back, in one, did in their gentrified villages, back in the mid, late 70's - witnessed it.

[@Edward1312]

Lily Laguna reminds me of Lily Marlene!

[@jmc1000mickey]

How the BBC execs thought the working classes enjoyed themselves

[@montygemma]

Well that's not a bad portrayal of a backstreet East End pub in the 60's& 70's, from what I remember they were very much like that.

[@paulakhs]

Yeah right lol 😂

[@colindant3410]

@@paulakhs You've obviously never been to an East End 'Knees up'!

[@filbertthedilbert1]

Back when black and white tv was proper black and white and people used proper trays to carry proper drinks.

[@johnsmith-rs2vk]

GREAT HUMOUR .FORBIDDEN TODAY !

[@robertkincaid]

I wonder what Tony Booth Son in law did for a living Alf Garnett and that of Victor Meldrum reminds me of my late Dad always an axe to grind

[@johnsmith-rs2vk]

Don' t marry the one you love , marry the one who loves you .

[@bigtwit799]

ha ha Kenny was the most talented bloke in it and he barely gets a mention in the credits.

[@michaelwest6330]

A Johnson party at number 10

[@jrgboy]

RIP Una Stubbs

[@davidwarren7631]

Wow Dont make them Like THIS ANYMORE ??? LOVE XXX

[@dazgreen63]

Mary this London's a wonderful sight With the people all working all day and all night... sqwark!!!!

[@andyhyde6222]

reminds us how far we have come...from a time when racist names were laughed off

[@lefuedebout]

Tarbuck is taller than I thought he was!

[@Hypnobunny1]

Wasn’t Tony Booth the father in law of Tony Blair ? Loved the guy singing Easter parade with the great Dandy Nicols

[@prestcoldandy910]

yes cherry bair

[@missmuffet3874]

Father of Cherie and was also the husband of the late Patricia Phoenix (Corrie 's Elsie Tanner).

[@kiwitrainguy]

It's a small world.