Talk:The Likely Lads

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Wouldn't it be cool if this entry told us a little about the "situation" that created the "comedy" in this "situation comedy"? Were the lads workers on a failing railroad, members of a perpetually losing cricket team, a team of Arctic explorers, condom demonstrators? I've never seen the show, but public broadcasting in the US loves many British sitcoms, so a little more information might create interest in the lads, and who knows? Ortolan88

Well Yes, but i have never seen the likely lads (very few of them anyway) i sen acouple of whetwevr hapened. Bu ti dont know enough. - fonzy

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Shouldn't this article be merged with Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? Jem 14:03, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

To me the two shows are quite distinct and (IMHO) I think they should be left separate. Stonefield 20:11, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Its the same actors, the same characters, same writers, same stories but a few years apart. ie: a continuation of the same story. nearly every episode of (whatever) refers to the incidents or their friendship in the past. anyway a lot of the material is duplicated across both entries. Jem

Nope to merging. I've never seen the earlier series. So the two are distinct for me. Seen the later series a few times. Each should point to the other without actually merging. Marcus22 20:34, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

I don't think this should be merged. It would like merging Friends with Joey (TV series), or Frasier with Cheers Dark jedi requiem 22:00, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

its not a spin off show. its the same show but 6 years later. Frasier was a new "situation" with different supporting cast, Joey the same. Likely Lads was just a continuation of the same tv series with the same actors (sheila fearn (ie: terry's sister was also in both) writers, "situation", and actors. I don't really mind but its "not" a spin off show.Jem 10:29, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

I'm against. This is a very different series to it's sequel, even if it does share lead characters. The optimistic sixties shows contrasting sharply with it's world weary seventies sequel. I think both shows have such seperate importance in the history of British sitcom that they have earnt seperate threads. The original series gave sitcoms first real voice to provincial Britain for a start. Whereas WHTTLL set a new quality threshold IMHO - bingo99 18 November 2006 (UTC)

They should be kept separate. The main difference being the original series was shot in black and white and most of the episodes are lost. The second series was shot in colour and is available on DVD.

I don't think it really matters anymore as I've said above but for reference the BBC has just released a DVD combining the remaining episodes of The Likely Lads and the 2 What happened series and are selling em as one DVD and its er called "The Likely Lads" - Collection. So they obviously feel that as far as viewers/punters are concerned they would regard them as er 1 thing... http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000GY788W.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V39687193_.jpg Jem 14:07, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

That set is a combination of previously seperately released DVD's of the two different shows. The shows share lead characters in common, hence being packaged together for a later box set, that doesn't mean they're the same show bingo99 00:05, 4 December 2006 (UTC)