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Reviews
Last of the Summer Wine (1973)
Wonderful show.
Several of listeners or watchers felt the series would not be as good without Compo. But this is not the case. We in Australia are seeing on UK TV, a pay channel, The new episodes from 2002 to 2004. BBC listeners are now seeing the new 2005 series.
Unfortunately UK TV does not have the rights to episodes from 1973 to 2001. It is the greatest show ever and Roy Clark is a genius, he also wrote "Keeping up Appearances" I have both DDVs from Amazon.A hope some of the old episodes will soon appear. There is a ready market out there.
The great strength of British sitcoms over American is the small number of episodes made each year. Let us hope Roy does not tire of the series.
The Hello Girls (1996)
Oh! for the automatic telephone exchange
We older persons who yearn for the good old days of the manual telephone exchange, when you turned a handle and a human person said "number please - I am sorry Misses Jones is visiting her sister this afternoon I will connect you there instead" will be rushing to embrace the computerised telephone exchange after one visit to the Hello Girls (ABC TV Mon. to Thur, 6.30 PM). It is full of Chrissy Cross( a Bra. and Corset manufacturers dream) plus a weird collection of female telephonists who look like Ally McBeal on a bad hair day.. They never appear to answer a single call but spend their switchboard shifts discussing male technicians and boy friends too dumb for the Seven & Nine's Super Quizzes
The program has no laugh track and if recorded before a live? studio audience, they are sitting there like stunned mullets too shell shocked to even giggle let alone laugh out loud. Oh Hugh ( ABC programmer) please find some David Croft productions old or new for this time slot.
Judge Judy (1996)
I am in love with Judge Judy
I have fallen madly in love with Judge Judy. She is the perfect woman, low maintenance- a black robe and an old white lace doily is all she wears. She can solve any family dispute in ten minutes flat, twenty minutes if the rightful ownership of a Harley Davidson is involved. What more could a man ask? I cannot see enough of her programs but I am too overcome to set the VCR to record them. Doug Anderson has not replied to my stamp addressed E-Mails to find out where "The Best of Judge Judy" videos may be obtained.
An Australian lawyer told Radio National's breakfast program (another of my obsessions) that if Judge Judy's type of justice came to Australia all the lawyers, judges and court staff would be out of a job! What a woman!
When I confessed to my wife about my obsession, she spent $280.00 of her and Medicare's money to send me to a leading psychiatrist. He was also a fan of Judge Judy and we spent the 45 minutes discussing her various cases. My wife was furious and demanded that Capital Ten replace Judge Judy with repeats of Roseanne or she would blow up their Goulburn translator building on Mount Grey. Please adjust your program schedule accordingly