UP Pomeii with Frankie Howerd - A collection of Odes

Frankie Howerd as Lurcio the Roman slave set back in 72 AD Pompeii. Always awash with voluptuous women, the program ran on BBC for only a few seasons. One of the funniest segments was with the Young Master (son of the Senator that Lurcio worked for)..who was forever falling in love, and was always writing "Odes". The Ode was always worded in sexual context with the last word obvious but never rhymed, leaving you to finish it! Here is a collection of Odes!

[@keithspottiswoode5594]

This always makes me laugh!...no one could deliver innuendo quite like frankie howerd. ...One of the greats. ..

[@andrewmatthews6861]

Keith Spottiswoode without doubt Keith

[@rogeredwarrddeshon5000]

That's an Italian suppository

[@JamesCartist]

Frankie's delivery was perfection.

[@thomascassidy8347]

Only fabulously superb fun,,,, we soooooo need this today more than ever!! Thank you x

[@simonsadler9360]

Yes , still in bed in cold Spain ,good to see him again , on her B/W TV ny gran hated it , but loved Tintin

[@SubjectRandom21]

The golden era of tv, never to be seen again.

[@rogeredwarrddeshon5000]

Canned by the same miserable sods that shut down the Carry On films.

[@meirwise1107]

R.I.P Frankie Howerd, the greatest of the English comedians.

[@davehallett3128]

Tony hancock

[@kevinlongman007]

His odes were always my favourite part of the show.

[@kat71580]

How I love Frankie Howerd......Oh...those Odes.....😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@rachelgeorge6455]

bless you frankie warm humourous funny man and along with rab c nesbitt looking at the camera superb ad lib lurcio the voices sadly missed a proper gentleman and scholar X

[@stellaashker1]

Thank you so much for this upload!! You've no idea how long I've wanted all the odes in one video.

[@rogeredwarrddeshon5000]

It was owed to us all

[@greypilgrim228]

this is great, thank you for uploading it! There used to be one full series on KZbin, but unfortunately its no longer around. When I watched it a while back, I thought, "I haven't laughed this hard in years!" So when recently I came to show a friend, I was disappointed to find it gone, very sad....BRING BACK LURCIO!!! UP POMPEII!!!!!

[@rogeredwarrddeshon5000]

Those pains in the gluteus the pc miseries have set about to destroy laughter. Their ancestors ran England from 1642 and by 1660 the peole had had enough.

[@SexPistolsRareities]

This has cheered me right up, thanks for posting, Its a shame the series got taken down. I used to howl with laughter every week watching this series.

[@martincook318]

After Watching this I haven't had such a good laugh Since I saw Tabitha in Bewitched getting one over the Camera Man and both of those shows were Great

[@muscleslam]

when i saw the advert for the new recent release of the film of the same name some months back,i smiled...i thought that it will nothing like the Pompeii that i knew on B.B.C. t.v.quite some years back....though looking dated, non the less it's timeless with the late Frankie Howard as sharp as ever....Thanks for posting...

[@gurbai9730]

8:59 nuff said

[@matelot95]

9:30 - the gorgeous Valerie Leon

[@Madeinwales]

Comedy's finest

[@juliereed3912]

Fabulous

[@1258-Eckhart]

That Joe Lycett needs to take a few leaves out of Frankie Howerd's book, particularly the chapter headed "Timing", which in Howerd's case is perfect.

[@PaulDavis-jb1bx]

Up Pompeii was one of the best and funniest TV comedies,mainly thanks to the brilliant Frankie Howerd on top form

[@rogeredwarrddeshon5000]

Kenneth Williams and Charles Hawtrey in 'Carry On Cleo' used this same gag.

[@tristanwilliams6931]

"Don't titter!"

[@jessiejames7492]

Brilliant british wit...not saying the funny bits, yet saying everything..

[@alextrenchard]

"twigged yet" :-)

[@rogeredwarrddeshon5000]

He should have gone poetic - "An ode - I might have knowed".

[@MichaelKingsfordGray]

A m'mutch younger N'Nurse Gladys!

[@MrGyges]

Don’t get that kind of quality these days. Ok, Shakespeare!, eat your heart out.

[@Robby334]

lovely jokes

[@gurbai9730]

8:59 nuff said

[@paulphilipempey1]

"Oh, no! No! And thrice no!"

[@johnhattersley2138]

Ahead of its time...

[@davehallett3128]

When you were typing pompeii did you stop to take a p

[@pahoboye]

must admit i thought it was tweeted, before i read your comment... but thought ..it couldnt possably be then thought must be twigged.

[@davehallett3128]

Could we get an english translation of your comment

[@marywilliams9858]

Twigged in Britain means caught on to something or understood.

[@kevinjackson6387]

Ohh errr mrs

[@vaderboy121]

greetings sitsons

[@thomasd2444]

3:00 In case you haven't twitted or tweeted ?

[@pingupangu1]

6:58 and 9:00 nuff said

[@kevinlongman007]

Nausueas lol

[@davehallett3128]

Two words in your comment and you spelled one of them wrong. What state are y all from

[@qevindee]

atrocious

[@iamgort70]

Pretty sad when you look back on it now, same jokes, over and over again..repeatedly modified......so banal at it's basics..but that was the time and that was the humour. Thanks God comedy moved forward...

[@pfarquharson1]

Every episode was a separate story and each Ode for that episode..

[@mrkimble2618]

That was the joke

[@delboyonline]

I'd much rather watch this than the crap they churn out these days!

[@michaelketley876]

Yes , two steps forward. Yards back

[@elleanorbaker585]

Try writing better

[@Feddergenetics]

ODE TO LURCIO …. “ A man can NEVER BE FREE when there’s a RULING CLASS …So slap your MASTER IN HIS FACE AND KICK HIM UP THE ….. “ The sender of the correct rhyme wins two free tickets 🎟