Highlights from the 1972 Christmas Special, starring Warren Mitchell, Dandy Nichols, Una Stubbs and Anthony Booth.
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@johnruby1472 жыл бұрын
Remember my old Mum joining a Christmas Club in the 1970's , saving up for a Turkey , presents for my Sister and Me , going shopping and buying 3 days of food , sometimes 4 if Christmas was on a weekend . The milk man coming round at 1 on Christmas morning to deliver milk , AND it snowed , sometimes . Morcombe and Wise Christmas show , the Great Escape or the Italian job on tele in the afternoon , the smell of Dads cigars . Happy Days
@stephenmccormack21832 жыл бұрын
They don't make stuff anymore even the bits that aren't funny it just takes you back we had one of those silver Christmas trees as well simpler times
@501sqn32 жыл бұрын
You've summed up my 1970's Christmas 's perfectly 👍. Yes.... Harder but happier, safer days!
@lynnedavies58842 жыл бұрын
The messages from you all brings back so many memories to many to mention.
@rmstitanic8163 Жыл бұрын
Spot on comment. It really felt like Christmas back then. There was definitely a different feeling in the air. Simpler times, but hard times for our parents to make our Christmases great. Merry Christmas everyone! 🎄🎉🎈🎊✨
@davidedwards6807 Жыл бұрын
Couldt have put it better myself Beano Annual Xmas edition my favourite treat
@countryview2020 Жыл бұрын
There will never be comedy like this ever again, sadly. 😔
@martinepstein3332 Жыл бұрын
Great comedy of its time, a great landmark comedy
@smallfeet45815 ай бұрын
I didn't really like this prog , all he did was moan and say stupid stuff or so I thought at the time as I was young , it was ok at first but I tired of it and the house looked depressing , yes there were some good episodes but I mostly gave it a miss ,
@jonldn3 ай бұрын
@@smallfeet4581I agree I know the writing and performances were great but I never ever liked him
@elizabethlaybourne59332 жыл бұрын
That's when Christmases were proper Christmases, I was only 13 then but remember my mam baking well in advance, there was never any shortage of food even when there was no supermarkets like there is now. And one of your bigest things was what was the Christmas number one. Such happy times, wish Christmases were like that now .
@stevequinn14242 жыл бұрын
I remember Spike Milligan back in those days (1970s) complaining how awful Christmas were compared to back in the 50s. And back in the 50s people probably complained that Christmas was better in the 30s....and so on back into history. It was always better 30 years ago.
@williamf4544 Жыл бұрын
And a lot didnt have fridges or freezers back then either - i think it was the mid 70s when my mum first got a fridge and telephone about the same time i think
@lynnedavies5884 Жыл бұрын
@@stevequinn1424 This time is the worst ever .
@mauriceosullivan6832 Жыл бұрын
@@lynnedavies5884 they said the 1920s was the great depression,,but the 2020s is giving the 1920s a run for its money,,and we're only 2 years in 2020s.
@saturdayplayer2492 Жыл бұрын
Likewise. Christmas started when mum started mixing the Xmas cake. I'll never forget queuing at Marks and Sparks to get the chicken. Never turkey - too dry.
@cushyglen42642 жыл бұрын
Sadly all are dead. Warren Mitchell, Dandy Nichols, Una Stubbs, Anthony Booth. RIP.
@teeteringonthebrink.3058 ай бұрын
Bill Maynard too.
@johnrider5701Ай бұрын
You couldn't beat a 1970s Christmas.
@Bustygirl-dz1wi Жыл бұрын
My generation remembers una as aunt Sally in worzel gummidge RIP Una 1937 - 2021
@andersdottir1111 Жыл бұрын
Loved watching this even at 11 or 12- and my father would call my mother a ‘silly moo’ which would make me giggle.
@saturdayplayer24925 ай бұрын
Christmas was special then. Up early 3.00 am. Unwrap the presents then back to bed for a couple of hours. Beano annual and selection box. Tangerine in stocking, socks always. Big Christmas Dinner, Christmas pudding. Christmas tea with grandparents. Morecambe and Wise, Christmas night with the stars.
@VMM343 ай бұрын
Yes, Perfect! And I loved lining all my presents up under the tree after I'd unwrapped them, and lying on my back staring up through the branches at the Christmas lights. What beautiful Christmases we had
@geoffjoffy Жыл бұрын
So funny. I remember this being on when I was a kid.
@akheem75152 жыл бұрын
Una will be missed!😢❤️❤️❤️
@terrythekittieful2 жыл бұрын
Had a big crush on her, would have been 12 or 13 at the time. Eight months already?!
@Jeffybonbon Жыл бұрын
when life was simple
@lesleyhubble2976 Жыл бұрын
I was 12 in 1972, youth makes Christmas seem better. Her moaning reminds me of me 😂 I’ve got a 19 year old daughter, Amazon make it like Christmas every day for her. God I feel old 😂
@garethjudd58402 жыл бұрын
RIP Una.
@silvergtotwinturbo99842 жыл бұрын
Amazing that this was in 1972, telling us what they were doing and pre warning us too. In '52, sprayed food with DDT and got polio like results as they had a new vaccine for polio.
@jasonclarke6983 Жыл бұрын
now we got covid to !!
@trytellingthetruth.2068 Жыл бұрын
"My uncle Wilf used to say it was the government giving us all these diseases". Little did we know how right uncle Wilf was. RIP to all those that appeared on this show.
@stevelee4952 Жыл бұрын
One of the comedy greats. I was brought up in the east end of london in the 50s. I remember my dad and his brother dragging a turkey down our street pissed. The old man not the turkey. My mum had a go at them, so they went back down the pub. I miss the old man
@VMM343 ай бұрын
😂😂 brilliant 👍🏼
@owenbutcher19542 жыл бұрын
RIP UNA STUBBS.🙏✝️
@cheryldaniel-dt4qu4 ай бұрын
Loved .loved this ….when I was a young child…how true was he about politics and what they’ve done to this country..and he spoke about this in the 60 s. He said it so right DINInt heeeeeeee
@martinepstein3332 Жыл бұрын
Favourite line when discussing why Jesus was born in a stable. Said Elsie: Well it was Christmas, it is always busy at Christmas
@teeteringonthebrink.3058 ай бұрын
Yes, and I like how Alf gives a little nod before quickly realising the mistake; "You silly moo. How could it have been Christmas? He hadn't been bloody well born yet."
@metalman41412 жыл бұрын
How right she was …..Don’t drink the water.
@philipbonner64862 жыл бұрын
And very right
@adriangear1062 жыл бұрын
And poisoning the food
@shorelineboy Жыл бұрын
I've just hurt myself through laughing 😂. Oh this was such a brilliant,funny program
@rmstitanic81632 жыл бұрын
Love this show. Got both the original and the follow up series, Till Death, and In Sickness and in Health. These are the days when comedy was brilliant. Freedom of speech at its best. Alf would have a pop at anyone and everyone. These days of political correctness are bloody boring. You can't say this, and you can't say that, because you are bound to upset someone. Unless of course, if you happen to be black, or any other colour of skin, or gay, or trans, religious, etc, . Freedom of speech is still there! But not if you are a straight white person. And that's a fact! ..... Unfortunately, people don't get that the joke was on him for being so ignorant about things.
@rmstitanic8163 Жыл бұрын
@The Burbles Thank you. Just being honest.
@rmstitanic8163 Жыл бұрын
@The Burbles Thank you. Nice to know that there are still people around that that think the same. It is true. Life has become a mixed up world of two faced, bullshitters. The amount of things you can see on TV or screen (in the eyes of the so called modern person), is fine. Nudity, gay sex, racist black people, trans genders, etc etc etc. But put some real comedy on from the past, and it is bleeped, or cut to pieces, as though it is so bad. What a hypocritical world it is we live in. Fake! A good example! A certain queue jumper who came out live on his morning show. He had been married to a woman for years and has two daughters. Every one on his show gave him a pat on the back and hugs, and saying how brave he was. Had he said, I've been married all this time and have two daughters, and fancy another woman. Everyone would have jumped on him and his name would be dirt. But because he fancies other men, he is a hero. What a load of bollocks. Bring back the old days, when freedom of speech was real, and people were honest about what they really thought.
@Sjmby952 жыл бұрын
I once heard that the police never come out when Alf Garnet was on
@martinepstein3332 Жыл бұрын
Great comedy, great acting and great writing
@DrMoorehen2 жыл бұрын
Thanks i remembee this and recorded it on my new SL 52 cassette player!, My xmas presenr
@teresasmith73912 жыл бұрын
This programme is so hilarious 😂
@chriscollins17042 жыл бұрын
Well predicted
@Macca1000001 Жыл бұрын
It always struck me that Alf/Warren looked far younger 17 years later when the show was reprised.
@AlanJones-wz5ey2 жыл бұрын
Good times when we had freedom of speech!
@AlanJones-wz5ey2 жыл бұрын
@@Heisenberg-to4bq Yep a dead cert comment, how this stupid world has changed😌
@npc3po3012 жыл бұрын
@@AlanJones-wz5ey The world was never like this, which is why Alf rightly stood out as the over-exaggerated cartoon National that the politically-driven nation-hating family unit destroying writers wrote him as, todays society is rife with those who grew up watching the tv thinking what they were seeing was how it was, completely blind to the agenda behind these 'programmes'
@AlanJones-wz5ey2 жыл бұрын
@@npc3po301 The agenda my friend was to take the piss out of people like this. Trouble with this world to many people can’t wait to jump on anything that is trending, I. e. White privileged etc😂😂😂
@michaelmarron8441 Жыл бұрын
@@AlanJones-wz5ey The programme is still shown on freeview channels & youtube
@martinepstein3332 Жыл бұрын
But you can F and blind
@stanleywoodison8699 Жыл бұрын
Wonderful comedy acting and very funny script as well.
@paulgreen63022 жыл бұрын
Brilliant.
@vinnylane1693 Жыл бұрын
When life was life,. Wonderful series, well done to BBC for showing it all those years ago. If I could go back in time, I would jump at the chance , to live in those days. , and have drink with Alf and family , in his local.👍
@justinvardy2652 Жыл бұрын
Bloody good acting
@lesleyhubble2976 Жыл бұрын
The moaning woman, the silly moo was the David ike of her time. Lot of truths there
@smallfeet45815 ай бұрын
Script writers were ,
@TheWelwyn212 жыл бұрын
Una Stubbs and dandy Nichols were the best 2 in it
@sergiozammel82619 ай бұрын
The funny thing is, it was 1972 then, and now both ALF and the Silly Moo was right about some things ! LOL !
@keithnaylor1981 Жыл бұрын
Shame it’s incomplete but it does have one of the best lines ever written from Else.
@amandacerasale46792 жыл бұрын
I see Claude Greengrass from Heartbeat in this
@flybobbie14492 жыл бұрын
The Gaffer and Selwyn Froggitt.
@owenbutcher19542 жыл бұрын
PROPER TV.
@pinkmoon4211 Жыл бұрын
Class comedy
@MarcoNegrisEye2 жыл бұрын
Bet they're not laughing at old uncle wilf now?...
@gordonsmall9894 Жыл бұрын
10:59 be New year by the time she peels that spud
@mojofilter2285 Жыл бұрын
Bang on uncle wilf
@mauriceosullivan6832 Жыл бұрын
Una, stubbs,, was only 12 years younger than Warren Mitchell.
@voicevoice2053 Жыл бұрын
They are doing re-runs on 'That's Tv' channel currently. Although they are coming to an end now after weeks of broadcasting
@county88152 жыл бұрын
Brilliant comedy
@wearecity Жыл бұрын
I love how she's saying about how it wasn't as good as the old days. Every generation always says it was better back in the olden days. The truth is, if we were transported back there now, we couldn't cope. We'd be reaching for non existent phones, internet and other modern tech. Looking back to the 70's when I was a kid, no thank you, I prefer my current lifestyle.
@teeteringonthebrink.3058 ай бұрын
I think it's more to do with the fact we inevitably grow older and it's our youth that we actually miss. You mention todays technology and it's thanks to the internet that we are able to take a trip back in time, something previous generations didn't have. I do also think age and experience makes a person more cynical, depending how their life has panned out down the years.
@smallfeet45815 ай бұрын
@@teeteringonthebrink.305 I preferred olden days as life seemed easier , plenty jobs and wages you could get by on , families went walks together and peace was revered , but I know it wasn't so good for everyone
@teeteringonthebrink.3055 ай бұрын
@@smallfeet4581 I agree, life did seem easier and less complicated. There is a lot I miss about my youth especially some (but not all) of the people who are no longer in my life now, whether deceased or simply having lost contact with. We always say we'd like to back to the past, but then wouldn't we miss certain special people we have in our lives now, who were not around during our younger days because they had yet to come into this world? I know I would.
@justinvardy2652 Жыл бұрын
Merry Christmas i think i miss this one
@cannedmusic2 ай бұрын
interesting seeing Edith and Archie mark 1
@pamriley1326 Жыл бұрын
soo true....
@susansherlock6934 Жыл бұрын
RIP Una Stubbs...
@Leypath147 ай бұрын
9:45 Too true.
@justinvardy2652 Жыл бұрын
Have a drink its Christmas
@robinburn49742 жыл бұрын
The good old days before woke madness and chuffin pronouns
@pablo191362 ай бұрын
Makes sense now all about oil.
@Our.lad.co.Lynne9997 ай бұрын
And Robin Bustard😂😂
@brianjoyce9907 Жыл бұрын
Elsie's uncle Wilf was right.
@Lee-nh5bb Жыл бұрын
Jesus was English! 😆
@Our.lad.co.Lynne9997 ай бұрын
My dad used to say t trouble wi this country is t alcohol the footy chants would be rubbish without it. I can see the attraction they just go to chant offensive chants and have a laugh. I was wondering LEEDS - BROMPTON FC no longer exists it went in to receiveshihip not the premiership it was the village hobbyists anyway Dad had dozens of trophies I was satisfied with one I DON'T WANT A NOBEL PEACE PRIZE I DIDN'T INVENT DYNAMITE ANYWAY😂😂😂