Up Pompeii - The Love Potion

[@rwolfson1935]

A fifty year old program and the most fun I've had in years!

[@-Loki--]

Tragic to think this type of humour is regarded as unacceptable today. It was harmless and never taken seriously.

[@deathofasalestactic]

it's unacceptable not because it's potentially harmful, it's unacceptable because it's cheesy and lame by todays standards. if you find it funny that's fine but I'd rather watch Curb Your Enthusiasm or Harry and Paul

[@stephenfox8685]

Actually, all over KZbin, people love this old kind of stuff. Even Roy Chubby Brown is being rediscovered (and regarded as amazing by Americans).

[@deathofasalestactic]

@@stephenfox8685 americans think anything british is classy haha. but in all seriousness, fair point :D

[@oldishandwoke-ish1181]

People used to complain about it back then, too...

[@jumpfortyfour9965]

no one could pull this off now days in 2022 frank was a gem

[@raistormrs]

because today, it's comment section would be full of people complaining about stuff like... "30 drachm? that's about $1300, how ridiculous..." and yes, i looked it up just to reply 🤪

[@TomFynn]

Because lots of woke activists would scream like the overgrown toddlers they are.

[@BluebirdFrank]

Feet up, cuppa coffee, and half an hour’s time travelling back to the wonderful yet much maligned seventies What a pick me up that was ( sounds like a good name for a show! 😊) - The brilliant Frankie Howard plus a wonderful supporting cast inc the gorgeous Elizabeth Larner and Lynda Baron - all just having fun and making us smile for a lost innocence When everyone says they don’t make stuff like this anymore they really mean it, and mores the pity 😔 RIP Frankie and co and thank god for you tube!

[@tonyatthebeach]

The original 70's, not 1970's

[@bathminisuppiah9104]

No American comedy can ever come anywhere near to this

[@robjones2408]

Frankie's mixture of camp innuendo and sly wit hasn't been matched in the five decades, since UP was first broadcast. Many comedy programmes from that period hasn't stood the test of time, but UP still remains very funny after these years.

[@terrythomas1329]

With the current "woke" brigade nothing will ever be this funny again.

[@terrybeechener5992]

camp innuendo?the guy was gay!

[@jeremyhaines4481]

This is 😂classic comedy

[@kevinstephenson4674]

Why can't they write stuff like that anymore? Brilliant. Frankie Howerd only had to do one of his 'Ooh, no missus' lines to crack me up.

[@moonstar4121]

People would get bored watching that for decades

[@franceskronenwett3539]

I used to watch this on telly every week and absolutely loved it, especially the Roman names of all the characters.

[@josweetlove1537]

Mrs. Slocum in this episode was so young !!

[@billyidle3458]

Watched them all when they were first broadcast and find them still hilarious. A lesson in comedy for all those present day unfunnies.

[@newcamnoddy]

Half time and change ends !! Priceless!! I miss Frankie's humour 😢

[@henrybyrd5402]

Lovely ladies in unusual roles. Eizabeth Larner (Guinevere in Camelot stage show 1964) Mollie Sugden (Are you being served) Georgina Moon (UFO), Lynda Baron (Open all hours) and Tricia Noble ( AKA pop singer Sally Ann Noble). See Sally Ann singing “accidents will happen0 on You tube.

[@jamesmcleesh2688]

The BEST of British Comedy. They don't make them like that anymore, unfortunately. R.I.P

[@donaldboughton8686]

The woke brigade and the feminists would have kittens if the BBC tried to make this now.

[@nigelh3253]

This is truly an excellent episode, with the corny gags - written by Talbot Rothwell, and brilliantly delivered by Howerd. The predictability of the material makes it even funnier, as we know what FH's reaction is going to be. Outstanding comedy!

[@susanmccormick6022]

@@donaldboughton8686 No self respecting kitty would deal with such miserable Grinch & grinchettes.

[@iwasglad122]

Linda Baron (1939 - 2022) RIP.

[@theresapierce3934]

The world has become a miserable place.

[@swaldron5558]

True, blame leftists and lesbians etc thugs destroying world of tv comedy.

[@tomatenpaprika6323]

wow, nurse gladys emmanuel at 34:16

[@majorberk4647]

Frankies asides to the camera are still unbeaten such a natural way to include the audience - frankie was the master of this , breaking the 4th wall - aching laughing at this one and whoops bagdad is worth a watch too 😂

[@AR-iu9jv]

You beat me to it I was going to say the same thing....and his interactions with the audience is priceless

[@nigelh3253]

Yes, wonderful asides indeed. And all praise to the director for the camera close-ups of Frankie as he delivers them - he's talking directly to his TV audience then - as you said, breaking the fourth wall. So effective!

[@Sjmby95]

All the best script writers are no longer with us 😢

[@chrismac2234]

Erm that would be Max Miller. He was the first, and where the technique came from. Unfortunately you cant watch him. He sadly only did theatre. He was known to frankie and those from his generation.

[@michaelburling]

The supporting cast were also great in remaining within the framework of the play. Not every actor or actress was capable of doing this and one or two incurred Frankie's wrath when they trod on his lines. Elizabeth Larner was a master at dealing with him.

[@sandpiperuk]

I remember these from 50 odd years ago. Absolutely hysterical .....

[@ElectronicazMusic]

Love it. We need more TV like this. ♥

[@robflynn509]

Brilliant comedy good ol' belly laughs sense of humour, did the world a load of good

[@jademelissataylor8077]

Great! One my favourites x

[@johnbunyan5834]

"No draws and four aways " . A reference to the old football coupons from Vernons and Littlewoods; when thousands of people filled them in and sent them off , trying to win a few pounds. Do they still exist ?

[@manfromnocky]

No but you can still do that same sort of thing at the bookies or online.

[@ozzie-sk9dh]

The master of low comedy RIP Frankie

[@sisloan]

Willie Rushton. Clever man.

[@brianduggan1432]

Nurse Gladys and Mrs slocombe

[@irenabevans3411]

Hysterically funny, haven't seen this in year's, so glad to see it on YT, laughed my socks off throughout

[@garyfenlon5769]

I think Frankie would have been quite happy with Prodigious chasing him about!!! There's a lot of it about!!!

[@Alanoffer]

I’m almost in tears watching dear old frankie , I miss this sort of comedy ,

[@jazmeenjake6585]

British classic comedies are the best. Goldies

[@kat71580]

How I love dear Francis, greatly missed.

[@karenblackadder1183]

Shakespeare's role of 'Narrator' put in comedy setting and played to perfection by Frankie Howard!!

[@stevewells5450]

The mercurial Frankie howerd total brilliance in looking at the camera including the audience with camp wit and saucy innuendo sooo funny godbless you Frankie for your great talent on screen RIP sir

[@budderbendy]

Trisha nobel such a attractive woman

[@Dragonblaster1]

In the film version, my favourite line was Ludicrus Sextus calling out to a concubine, "Hey there, orgy girl!" (for those who weren't around at the time, the Australian band The Seekers had a hit song "Georgy Girl" with the repeated hook, "Hey there, Georgy Girl".

[@Lurker1979]

Frankie Howerd is a natural. .

[@algie-t2w]

My goodness we even get Mrs Slocombe and Nurse Gladys!

[@algie-t2w]

Good old Talbot Rothwell who also gave us so many of the Carry On films.

[@billbowdren932]

This is pure comedy, it doesn't age.

[@tehf00n]

The master of the Fourth Wall.

[@dannywhite3538]

Up pompeii was a great programme of the 70s

[@brianrodney712]

It was a spin-off from an American musical by Stephen Sondheim, in which FH starred , called " A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum. " I remember seeing it in Manchester on its pre-West End run.

[@moonstar4121]

I don't like the hair style on the people and costumes but the shows funny

[@MsJazmeen]

woow! woow! and thrice woow !! the sooth sayer Senna. Lol Frankie Howerd: silly old bag! . RIP Frankie

[@kevinstephenson4674]

Even now if I see Jeanne Mockford in anything all.I can think of is Senna The Soothsayer.

[@vantheman1238]

This really is a cracking show. Frankie Howerd has that cosy evening in front of the fire and TV way about him.

[@1groundfog]

Agreed. He also makes dirty jokes sound clean. A comedian from the future.

[@brianrodney712]

All the " oos and aahs " carefully rehearsed.

[@1groundfog]

@@brianrodney712 Maybe it's that perfectionist streak that many of us can identify with...

[@brianrodney712]

@@1groundfog Often referred to as " art concealing art "

[@kevindarkstar]

Sad to think both lynda Baron and frankie Howard are no longer with us 😔

[@dropperknot]

Kevin Appleton No!! It isn't.

[@comonsensai]

Lynda Baron, Trisha Noble and the great Mollie Sugden.

[@michaelburling]

I think this must be the funniest episode of the entire series - Frankie was on excellent form with a great supporting cast and the most wonderful script.

[@nigelh3253]

Indeed a most excellent ep. The match with Talbot Rothwell's writing and Frankie's delivery is wonderful. And pleased that you raised the supporting cast - in a later LWT reincarnation they were gone, and the hole they left was obvious

[@michaelburling]

@@nigelh3253 Indeed - I worked at LWT and the idea of bringing it back was really doomed from the start. Frankie's heart wasn't in it and it showed.

[@nigelh3253]

@@michaelburling Thanks, thanks and again thanks for your inside knowledge! The ep 'The Love Potion' seems to reach a pinnacle, Frankie on top form (as said in other comments), brilliant support from cast, and an excellent natural flow throughout. Scriptwriting v v clever!

[@marywilliams9858]

Wouldn't you like to have a neighbour like him?

[@jackmonaghan8477]

I bet Frankie Howerd must have been secretly enjoying having that gladiator hitting on him.

[@barrywaterhouse6911]

Very funny man one of the Britain's best

[@glynbrain1083]

What Lynda Baron had to do before she became the respectable Nurse Gladys Emmanuel. Looks good.

[@n.ayisha]

so this is what Mrs Slocombe gets up to when the store's closed. naughty naughty.

[@flybobbie1449]

Well Romans loved pussies.

[@newcamnoddy]

The odes....when he says "ditties" pauses and says "get ready !"..you know his cheeky smile says it all !!

[@susanmccormick6022]

Was it a different actor playing the senator?

[@brianmorrison9168]

I watched this as a kid, so was excited when my parents got free tickets from the BBC to watch a show being recorded. Sadly the tickets arrived too late for us to use them, as we had intended stopping off in London on our way home from our summer holidays in Cornwall. We had left home about 2 weeks before the show date and found the tickets in the pile of mail when we arrived home. I was very annoyed .. it might even have been me who had applied for the tickets.

[@fluffybunny7840]

When I was younger I used love Frankie…I was to young to understand the double entendres…but all the same I found him hilarious The way he spoke directly into the camera was pure genius 😂

[@Revelian1982]

They don't make anything close to this quality anymore.

[@simonblossom]

Blimey ,nurse Gladys (Ambrosia) from open all hours was different back then

[@serberious]

+Has she ever???????

[@paulbradley705]

S o hot here

[@flybobbie1449]

1970 so only about 5 year later Open all hours.

[@MrMrh1958]

Classic stuff!😂

[@Beatlefan67]

I was a teen when this was on tv, with various stirrings in the trousers when one saw 'sights'. I didn't understand that FH was a homosexual then either.

[@jerrytugable]

Cracking up mate, nice one 😛

[@ian_b]

07:07 I thought The Naked Gun invented that joke... now I know better!

[@corbe1970ify]

Something else that's caught my eye was lynda baron looking young and rather sexy in 1970 but 3 to 4 years later she was a very plump mid aged nurse Gladys emmanuel in open all hours 🤔

[@cliffwheeler7357]

Lynda sadly passed away April 2022.

[@stephenphillip5656]

Lynda Baron was somewhat ah...padded out in "Open All Hours".

[@flybobbie1449]

@@stephenphillip5656 But was a bit chunky in interviews back then.

[@sanjaykapoor2556]

Globes of her rear...only he can deliver it...thanks for sharing

[@sandragailgoudelock1531]

So funny! A huge thank you for posting!

[@SpeccyMan]

Fantastically funny.

[@1groundfog]

It makes me think that good comedy requires perfection. The pilot seemed to miss the mark, ditto for the later film, but the two seasons had all the right elements executed to result in a classic...

[@LALakersNornIron]

Trisha Noble.....my goodness

[@stephenhowell5611]

Lynda Baron was fine, RIP.

[@ffotograffyddgohebwyr8308]

Good old british farce.Can't beat it.

[@CodetskiJaigobin101]

That was just hysterical, I couldn't stop laughing at the end.

[@shine01120]

27:14 every time he calls the wine Dinky Donks it just cracks me up 😂😂

[@1groundfog]

as he says it with gusto....

[@carolwalmsley3362]

Yes I can understand that it is so funny how he says it 😅.

[@andrew2552]

What a show, beats even eastenders for me.

[@vashna3799]

Tailor made for Frankie Howerd this farcical but funny sitcom.

[@Ana_crusis]

that's the point

[@MrDavey2010]

Max Adrian was a terrific actor.

[@brianrodney712]

He had roles in several of Ken Russell's cinema and tv movies.

[@carolwalmsley3362]

I thought he was the best one playing the master .

[@toxigenic]

27:45 It's Mrs. Slocombe!

[@Your.Uncle.AngMoh]

And Ambrosia is Nurse Gladys Emmanuel!

[@daic7274]

Ahh,the good ol days before people started to get offended. Brilliant comedy.

[@newcamnoddy]

No draws and four aways !! Priceless!!

[@kurtn4819]

"A funny thing happened on the way to the forum" was released in 1966. Up Pompeii - The Love Potion was released 1970. "The life of Brian" was released in 1979.

[@Digmen1]

I rememebr seeing some of thse whne I was young. But only short bits. While my dad was watching. I just saw Mrs Slocombe of Are you being served

[@Videx19]

I was too young to understand these in 1971. These are side ripping funny.

[@jenylogan1]

Lovely Patsy Anne Noble !

[@Nooziterp1]

The late Willie Rushton at 9:18. The late Mollie Sugden at 27:45.

[@imisstoronto3121]

I loved this show and I was so disappointed to learn it only had two seasons

[@stephenphillip5656]

Sometimes it's best to leave the stage with the audience wanting more. (Fawlty Towers anyone?) "Last of the Summer Wine" was a classic case of "flogged to death" IMHO. The original series' with Compo, Clegg & Blamire were excellent & it was a huge success for many years after that, but when Bill Owen (Compo) died, it was perhaps worth one more series. It just went on too long after that. My opinion only.

[@grantross2609]

@@stephenphillip5656 true up to a point.... seldom has a sitcom handled continuity of characters & storylines like this show

[@Toff234]

My all time favourite Frankie Howard

[@vicg5323]

Very funny. First time watching this program.

[@srothbardt]

Never seen this before. What a discovery.

[@N.N672]

funny to hear those accents some 50 years ago 😄

[@vegassims7]

Why does this scene remind me of Bill Cosby?

[@manoo422]

OMG.....was that nurse Gladys...??!!

[@corbe1970ify]

When erotica was staying out all night, frankie, oh yeah you know who with don't you, it'll be that boyfriend of hers prodigious, 👀 we call him prod for short 😂😂😂😂

[@SAMUK1424]

Pure Gold, Absolutely brilliant. Love British Old Classic Goldies. So Funny can't stop Laughing 😆 😁

[@EndivioRoquefort]

"What, you want 'er, do you?" Up there with "Don't tell him, Pike!"

[@geoffreycarson2311]

COMIC Genius 😮😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂I WANTED MADELYN SMITH 😈😈😈😈😈😉😉😉😉g

[@1960dave1960]

17:22 Now we know where Covid-19 originated......🦇

[@paulbradley705]

Love the babes, love the jokes.

[@vernturnquist6729]

This is a very weird episode of Yes Minister!

[@bathminisuppiah9104]

Fantastic comedy..

[@martinconnors6200]

I loved his wit. He was so funny and hilarious

[@krismccoy8581]

Wow...I use to love this porn when I was in my 20's about 40 years ago. I never thought I would see it again. I checked youtube about 10 years ago and didn't see it. I checked today and good golly wash. I'm in luck. Some of the words are over my head, but I figure out enough to laugh.

[@Gothtecdotcom]

Scrubber...

[@davewright8206]

superb ,talk of the school yard back in the day

[@AR-iu9jv]

The chemist guy reminds me of Moore Marriott

[@larryschreiner]

Perfect.

[@scottrooney8954]

Brilliant and so funny!!