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<blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 149962" data-attributes="member: 22">Oh, I&#039;m so glad you&#039;re enjoying it!I could have sworn there was only one series (and the film, which is great) but I just checked my DVD and of course, there&#039;s two -- I must have just devoured the whole thing so quickly that it felt like one.I know what you mean. It&#039;s a really interestingly uncertain era (in music too, funnily enough). I think I&#039;ve said this before, but with The Lovers and also the non-period Carry On films of the late 60s/early 70s, there&#039;s this feeling of the permissive society having happened somewhere else. The characters feel like they&#039;re missing out, that they should be swinging from the chandeliers and having orgies like the ones they read about in the Sunday papers, but instead, they&#039;re stuck in a suburban launderette watching their girlfriend&#039;s mother&#039;s washing go round. That sense of sexual frustration carries over into Beckinsale&#039;s and Wilcox&#039;s next two sitcoms, Rising Damp and Man About the House, which almost feel like sequels to The Lovers. In RD, it&#039;s Beckinsale&#039;s character Alan (a virgin) and Rigsby who are fascinated by the (supposed) sexual prowess and experience of Don Warrington, while on MATH, Mr Roper thinks Richard O&#039;Sullivan is having a great time shacked up with Jo and Chrissy upstairs, when in reality he isn&#039;t getting any either. And again, Wilcox is the unattainable object of desire. RD and MATH also add the perpetually frustrated middle-aged woman into the mix, with Miss Jones and Mildred.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="James from London, post: 149962, member: 22"] Oh, I'm so glad you're enjoying it! I could have sworn there was only one series (and the film, which is great) but I just checked my DVD and of course, there's two -- I must have just devoured the whole thing so quickly that it felt like one. I know what you mean. It's a really interestingly uncertain era (in music too, funnily enough). I think I've said this before, but with [I]The Lovers[/I] and also the non-period [I]Carry On[/I] films of the late 60s/early 70s, there's this feeling of the permissive society having happened somewhere else. The characters feel like they're missing out, that they should be swinging from the chandeliers and having orgies like the ones they read about in the Sunday papers, but instead, they're stuck in a suburban launderette watching their girlfriend's mother's washing go round. That sense of sexual frustration carries over into Beckinsale's and Wilcox's next two sitcoms, [I]Rising Damp[/I] and [I]Man About the House[/I], which almost feel like sequels to[I] The Lovers[/I]. In [I]RD[/I], it's Beckinsale's character Alan (a virgin) and Rigsby who are fascinated by the (supposed) sexual prowess and experience of Don Warrington, while on [I]MATH[/I], Mr Roper thinks Richard O'Sullivan is having a great time shacked up with Jo and Chrissy upstairs, when in reality he isn't getting any either. And again, Wilcox is the unattainable object of desire. [I]RD[/I] and [I]MATH[/I] also add the perpetually frustrated middle-aged woman into the mix, with Miss Jones and Mildred. [/QUOTE]

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