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<blockquote data-quote="Angela Channing" data-source="post: 383623" data-attributes="member: 33"><p>I have little to no memory of watching the TV series so I&#039;ve watched this film as a standalone, uninfluenced by the TV series and I really enjoyed it. It&#039;s not Shakespeare and the production values aren&#039;t particularly high, although as you say there is a lot of location filming which I can&#039;t imagine was the case for the TV version, but it made me laugh and I found the silly storyline to be pretty good. It is typical 1970s British sitcom humour and that&#039;s not a bad thing. Clearly the cinema-going public loved it as according to the British Film Institute, it was the <a href="http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/1237381/index.html" target="_blank">highest grossing film at UK cinemas in 1971</a> which is quite remarkable as that year is considered by some to be <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/was-1971-really-the-best-year-for-film-q9998jbpj" target="_blank">one of the best ever for films</a>.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Angela Channing, post: 383623, member: 33"] I have little to no memory of watching the TV series so I've watched this film as a standalone, uninfluenced by the TV series and I really enjoyed it. It's not Shakespeare and the production values aren't particularly high, although as you say there is a lot of location filming which I can't imagine was the case for the TV version, but it made me laugh and I found the silly storyline to be pretty good. It is typical 1970s British sitcom humour and that's not a bad thing. Clearly the cinema-going public loved it as according to the British Film Institute, it was the [URL='http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/1237381/index.html']highest grossing film at UK cinemas in 1971[/URL] which is quite remarkable as that year is considered by some to be [URL='https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/was-1971-really-the-best-year-for-film-q9998jbpj']one of the best ever for films[/URL]. [/QUOTE]

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