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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 151011" data-attributes="member: 23">Familiar faces are everywhere in Maggie And Her. Particularly British sitcom mainstays.A pre-Edith Carmen Silvera is new Headmistress Miss Prosser. Much as I'm enjoying her, Carol Gillies had won me over during her First Series appearances as previous Head Miss Cartwright. She had a wonderful presence and great facial expressions (her features, physique and voice were very masculine, which brought something quite unique).Carmen's future 'Allo 'Allo player Sam Kelly has appeared as Sid the milkman.Leslie Dwyer - still a couple of years away from being the grouchiest thing in Hi-De-Hi - appeared in The Good Old Days, in which Hester returned to her East End origins only to be depressed at how much things had changed.The same episode saw a return appearance for Anna Wing. And most exciting of all was that Bill Treacher was sitting next to her sharing not only the scene but the screen - almost half a dozen years before their wonderful clashes-in-law in EastEnders. You'd think it would be surreal - especially with him balancing Julia McKenzie on his knee for the entire duration - but it all seemed completely right.With each episode there is a moment or two that makes me wonder if a certain action is planned, improvised or accidental. Like in A Holiday For Two where teacher Dave was being led out of the classroom by Maggie while looking sideways and managed to walk into the thin side of an open door, his face colliding with it and an arm stretched out on either side. If it wasn't an accident it was incredibly well done, because it looked like it hurt (John Kane, playing Dave had a very Terry Scott like quality, and curiously a look on IMDb told me he began his TV career writing for Scott himself and would go on to write more).A number of scenes have laughter that sounds so natural it's hard to tell if it's coming from the characters or the actors who are enjoying some funny moments. The final episode of Series One saw Maggie's advert as a personal tutor being misconstrued and - long story short - she ended up giving Mike Lewin a bizarre massage treatment involving marmalade, grapes, coffee granules, salt and spaghetti while wearing pink marigolds. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Julia McKenzie appeared to almost lose it more than once during the course of the scene (most noticeably while slapping cooked spaghetti on his back). But it all worked to make the scene more engaging. There's nothing like an actor corpsing to let the audience feel that they're in on a little secret, and if that connection is used well it can enhance the scene in question, as it did here.</blockquote>

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