The Giftie - 1988 - Television South (TVS) for Channel 4

What would happen if you could clone yourself? Two ordinary friends decide to try this with a new machine at work.Thinking this experiment has not worked the friends go home dejected.But further events prevail and a serious dose of mistaken identity ensues.Can the imposters be caught?

[@auteurAM]

A very underrated program. I looked it up after remembering it from the 80s. Good to see it here.

[@Trev359]

*Programme

[@sharron6975]

Richard O'Sullivan was great..... Wasn't he fellow eighties TV watchers?..... Really something he was... .. Hope that he is having a ball in the nursing home for entertainers, imagine the memories of them all.....

[@frankshailes3205]

I loved this, and think of it every time someone mentions the "to see ourselves as others see us" saying. Glorious. Thank you for preserving it.

[@janinefarnell1119]

Weird to hear that Robert Burns line in an English accent 😂

[@JJONNYREPP]

@@janinefarnell1119 The Giftie - 1988 - TSW - Television South West 320pm 14.7.22 the man who haunted himself... that was similar in scope.

[@simonhewins8096]

Thank you for uploading cuddlywotsit. I watched this programme when it aired in 1987. I recorded on VHS and watched it repeatedly for a couple of years before losing it. Rediscovering it youtube 30 years later is a fantastic self-gifted Christmas present.

[@cuddlywotsit]

Simon Hewins you’re welcome Simon! This is why I love KZbin, for finding those things from the past, lost on an old tape in the loft somewhere. Merry Christmas!

[@JJONNYREPP]

The Giftie - 1988 - TSW - Television South West 1311pm 14.7.22 and in keeping with mistaken identity... i would say it's a very very very very very tedious aside to the general run of tedium that one faces during one's daily grind. is there humour in such tediousness, though? probably... how much mileage did they get from this show? p.s i am glad they met up when they did, early on into proceedings, as, and you know me only too well, it would have been far too stressful on my old ticker or general lay about comfort for them to be allowed to drive themselves and the wife crazy... still; a decent idea and worthy of a decent sci-fi comedy/drama series... not having any conception of how ugly you are is probably something you all need to address.

[@Trev359]

Brilliant, I haven't seen this since it's original broadcast. It's just as good as I remember. So good to see it on here, it desrves more recognition.

[@1975EJL]

Echoing Simon Hewins... Thank you SO much, I never thought I'd get to see it again- amazing, I can't say it enough, but THANK YOU Cuddlywotsit!

[@cuddlywotsit]

Emjala Alajme you are more than welcome! Just glad there are some out there who remember it. Merry Christmas! 🙂🎄🙂

[@1975EJL]

And a very happy new year to you, thank you again!!!

[@ant4307]

After listening to the radio drama I begged my parents to watch this with me when I realised it was the same play. We all found it hilarious, and I'm delighted to have found it again as well. :) Thanks for the upload.

[@1975EJL]

@LOVE & N P C In my memory it was Christmas time.

[@JJONNYREPP]

@@ant4307 Dear Jonathan Sutcliffe, Following your recent application for the position of Document Controller (reference: Req/607804), I am writing to let you know that unfortunately

[@susancalne7774]

I was at school with Joanna van G . She was so beautiful. Her parents were much older than most of ours and famous actors.

[@ruthd7274]

I'd never come across this before. It's fantastic! Thank you for posting.

[@Ladyinhull]

As others have said, I never though I would ever see this again! Istill have a copy on VHS but nothing to play it on. This was one of my all time favourite plays. Thank you so much for sharing!

[@londonbabe2467]

Never heard of this programme before. One woman two men. Lucky girl.

[@janlipley2588]

Oh my goodness! Thank you so MUCH. I remember this from the late 80s. I Also echo Simon Hewins! I thought this was lost for good. I have thought about it off and on over the years, hoping to see it again. It is just as good as the first time. You are something else! Wonderful to see John Wells, Richard O'Sullivan and the girls do a really good job of surprising us at the end. I have run out of words. So entertaining!

[@MartysWhiteSuit]

I've heard this on the radio as a play a few times, but never the TV version. It was nice to see. Thanks.

[@karen-xr5nx]

Awesome! Very entertaining. I'm guessing it's a series of short stories??? Thanks for the UpL! POP!

[@JackLyttle]

TV Simply Wonderful

[@Jaspacat1965]

Great programme, but this us a TVS production, not TSW

[@davidmetcalf951]

I. Don’t remember this show yet It must have been shown around the same time as me and my girl

[@Goldi3loxrox]

What an utterly bizarre sitcom but strangely interesting to watch. The popping out of existence is a little freaky. Not going to lie.

[@dadodydo]

"A good photocopy"! Ha, ha!

[@leilarhymeswithsheila1344]

Brilliant!

[@jasondarcy4089]

This was a TVS programme for Channel 4 - not TSW

[@georgemcconnachie477]

Thank you for seeing never thaughti see it again.

[@arthurvasey]

Wouldn’t work as a stage play - how would you get one actor to play two roles on stage and have them interact?

[@StuartBusby]

was there EVER a more grey studio set !! weren't the late 80's drab

[@Trev359]

No they weren't.

[@susancalne7774]

Terrible clothes. Polyester and ‘ Pussy Bows’ Britain really not so good in those days for the less well off. Disastrous Falklands war. , Wagnerian voiced, Mrs Thatcher with her hand bag ‘ The Milk Snatcher’ canceling school milk in state schools.The rich got richer and the poor got poorer. It WAS the dawn of technology although I didn’t get a an affordable home computer for years.

[@markkirk_0158]

Great programme, vaguely remember it! But it's not a TSW programme, it's TVS

[@paulducharme60oo]

Well, that was a waste of about 3 hours and forty-seven seconds. (-;