It's such a crying shame that gems like this get lost in the archives, while the BBC continues to churn out new rubbish, day in day out. Oh well, maybe their plans to (eventually) digitise their archives for the benefit of licence fee payers will mean that we can finally see this excellent series again.
***SPOILERS AHEAD***
I remember two episodes in particular from this series...
It must have been funny for it to have been so firmly etched on my memory for nearly 20 years. Can't wait for access to the BBC archives...
***SPOILERS AHEAD***
I remember two episodes in particular from this series...
- the sister who's an apprentice painter is somewhere in rural France (Lost In France plays as she dances through the meadows) and her painter tutor is desperately attempting to seduce her in ever more explicit ways, but she's so naive that she never realises, even when he shoves half a melon onto the end of his old boy in an attempt to prove his point (ahem) once and for all...
- the episode involving the sister who's a nun was the funniest by miles - Adrian Edmondson goes to the village shop where the little old lady insists on selling him a dirty magazine despite his protestations ("you young boys, you come in here, looking for a mag...") - fortunately this comes in handy as he uses it to distract a policeman's attention while he scales the convent wall (after giving the policeman the magazine and telling him that "I won't be going anywhere near the wall, let alone over it") - he then dresses as either Jesus or an angel (my memory fails me on this one) and hangs from a tree with fireworks exploding all around in an attempt to convince his sister to leave the convent...
It must have been funny for it to have been so firmly etched on my memory for nearly 20 years. Can't wait for access to the BBC archives...