Greetings Sitcom Clubbers! Gary is running the London Marathon - yes, really - in support of Alzheimer’s Society, who fund vital research and support people living with dementia. If you’re able to donate, we'll be hugely grateful - thank you! www.justgiving.com/page/gary-ro...
Also, our very own Tilt Araiza features as the Christmas Eve guest on the ever-superb Goon Pod!
Alas, no new Sitcom Club Christmas Show this year, but do enjoy our back catalogue of seasonal delights including our Peep Show-themed party and a festive On The Buses board game contest. www.podnose.com/the-sitcom-c...
@thesitcomclub.bsky.social Devastated to find out the location for Hope It Rains has been demolished. Found the last picture of it standing on streetview.
Please have a one minute silence for it on the next pod.
George And Mildred star Norman Eshley dies aged 80 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Brian Murphy had the best line in that One Foot in the Grave Christmas special, as Mr Foskett the unexpected guest they met on holiday years before: ‘The address you gave me doesn’t seem to exist.’
Bluesky has been just lovely today with its outpouring of affection for Brian Murphy.
When social media works.
It’s a sad day here. Our dear friend Brian Murphy has left us for the cinema in the sky. The world is a sadder place without this lovely man. We shall miss him terribly.
Gutted.
Brian Murphy gone.
A man responsible for one of the greatest - and under appreciated- characters in British comedy, George Roper.
Some actors capture an aspect of their historical moment. The combover, the knitwear, the wheedling and fussing - Brian Murphy was the absolute exemplar of a certain kind of postwar masculinity - the salaryman born slightly too early for the Permissive Society. RIP.
Brian Murphy, actor best known for George and Mildred, dies aged 92
R.I.P. Brian Murphy.
The cover of the Radio Times for January 3rd-9rd 1970, the one introducing Jon Pertwee as Doctor Who. However, I've photoshopped so it's announcing Roger Delgado as the Doctor. He's wearing an off-white, cotton suit with a red cravat. I used a picture of Hal Holbrook as Mark Twain for the body.
I've been doing it again.
Those ex-BBC microphones at the Scarsdale Working Men's Club and Institute are sh- (continued on page 202)
Joe Gladwin and Bill Maynard in the 1977 Christmas episode of Oh No It's Selwyn Froggitt.
Feliz Navidad! Tilt and Gary return for a festive outing (really – it’s outdoors) and discuss the 1977 Christmas (and final) edition of Bill Maynard’s YTV sitcom. sitcomclub.com/oh-no-its-se...
(Gary forgot to include the podcast release date, Friday 27th December)
Our all-new Sitcom Club Christmas podcast features a meandering look at the 1977 festive edition of Oh No, It's Selwyn Froggitt. Have a fabulous Christmas meanwhile. Magic, our Maurice!
Our ALL NEW Christmas podcast (to be released either before, during or just after Christmas, TBC) is also an OUTSIDE BROADCAST! (Photo: Broadcast Engineering Conservation Group)
Meanwhile, enjoy our selection box of past Christmas 'casts, including our mega 2015 party and our own take on Charles Dickens. sitcomclub.com?s=christmas
Well, blimey...if it isn't Christmas...which means (later this week) a NEW Sitcom Club podcast!
It was!
From the end credits of an episode of Are You Being Served?, John Inman has dropped his trousers and is bending over to display his red-spotted shorts.
Apologies Sitcom Clubbers, this was meant to be from my (Tilt) personal account.
Today, @andrewhickey.bsky.social and I introduced @goonpod.bsky.social to the musical sub-genre Singles On Columbia From 1967 That Go Weird In The Middle
Hi there, gang! Have you downloaded the recent Sitcom Club about two forgotten sitcoms? I fully endorse everything Gary and Tilt say and do!
