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<blockquote data-quote="Angela Channing" data-source="post: 382361" data-attributes="member: 33">I can&#039;t remember On The Buses in any detail but it was also quite common in sitcoms of that era for the husband to go out to work and would give he stay at home wife weekly housekeeping money in a way that looked a bit like giving a child pocket money which seems like a ludicrously patriarchal set up today but I can imagine it was how some households were run in the 1970s.He was also in a sitcom call Don&#039;t Drink The Water and in it the character he played was essentially Blakey in another setting. I think the character became so popular and iconic that writers just created variations of the same person because it was how the viewers wanted to see him.I hope you enjoy them. I&#039;ve seen the Are You Being Served film (I don&#039;t rate it but it has a few laughs in it), I&#039;ve seen at least one and possibly both of the Steptoe films but have no memory of it/them. I&#039;ve not seen the Dad&#039;s Army film, in fact I&#039;ve never watched a whole episode of the series, although I have seen clips of it on other T shows. My favourite films based on 1970s sitcoms are the first On The Buses one, Bless This House, Love Thy Neighbour and Please Sir.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Angela Channing, post: 382361, member: 33"] I can't remember [I]On The Buses[/I] in any detail but it was also quite common in sitcoms of that era for the husband to go out to work and would give he stay at home wife weekly housekeeping money in a way that looked a bit like giving a child pocket money which seems like a ludicrously patriarchal set up today but I can imagine it was how some households were run in the 1970s. He was also in a sitcom call [I]Don't Drink The Water[/I] and in it the character he played was essentially Blakey in another setting. I think the character became so popular and iconic that writers just created variations of the same person because it was how the viewers wanted to see him. I hope you enjoy them. I've seen the [I]Are You Being Served[/I] film (I don't rate it but it has a few laughs in it), I've seen at least one and possibly both of the Steptoe films but have no memory of it/them. I've not seen the Dad's Army film, in fact I've never watched a whole episode of the series, although I have seen clips of it on other T shows. My favourite films based on 1970s sitcoms are the first [I]On The Buses one, Bless This House, Love Thy Neighbour [/I]and [I]Please Sir[/I]. [/QUOTE]

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