Pat Coombs

[Sleepin_Dragon]

Having accidentally stumbled into You're only young twice, i hadnt realised how utterly hilarious Pat was, can anyone suggest anything else with her in that may be worth me seeing. Just find her utterly hilarious, as do i find Peggy Mount. Pat struck me as someone that would be genuinely nice.

[jch]

How about "Don't Drink The Water", the spin off from On The Buses. She was funny in that too.

[AR77]

Having accidentally stumbled into You're only young twice, i hadnt realised how utterly hilarious Pat was, can anyone suggest anything else with her in that may be worth me seeing. Just find her utterly hilarious, as do i find Peggy Mount. Pat struck me as someone that would be genuinely nice.

She was genuinely very nice. Sadly not a great deal of her work has been released on DVD. She was great friends with Peggy Mount in real life and ironically they ended their days together in a nursing home.

[faginsgirl]

I remember this lady in those cream cake ads, they were on a lot, most breaks I think.

[faginsgirl]

Another blast from the past with Pat and some other great stars.

[billy farmer]

A TV Times feature about Pat Coombs from the May 29th - June 4th 1976 issue of TV Times.

[Edward G]

Agreed - they were a great team.

Having accidentally stumbled into You're only young twice, i hadnt realised how utterly hilarious Pat was, can anyone suggest anything else with her in that may be worth me seeing. Just find her utterly hilarious, as do i find Peggy Mount. Pat struck me as someone that would be genuinely nice.

[Rowdon]

She was a lovely presence in so much 1970s comedy. But I have to say (well, obviously I don't have to) that Don't Drink the Water was one of those comedies that would make you find something - anything - else to do during peak time TV; I may have Pat Coombs and Stephen Lewis to thank for the fact that I did homework. This Network clip was supposedly posted to sell the DVD, so the rest is either this mediocre or worse. Still, at least it supplied many of the jokes and situations exploited currently by Benidorm. Can I just say, as a Spanish resident, that Maria's language in this clip is pretty coarse!

[Dean Williams]

As a huge On The Buses fan I have to say I was dissapointed with Don't Drink The Water. A couple of OKish episdoes but not something I'm in a rush to revist, whereas I often rewatch OTB.

It's often the same where you have a funny character who works not alone but surrounded boy the right characters to bounce off. Blakey was funny because of his interaction with Butler and Harper. Without them he's a bit of a drip here and alough buoth he and Pat do their best there isn't that right dynamic.

About the best episode is in the second series where they buy a colour telelvisiont o watch Upstairs Downstairs, only to find it's been dubbed into Spanish for local broadcasts. Not exactly hilarious. Not really their fault though there material just isn't there. The scripts are pretty laugh-free.

Pat is one of those reliable actresses that it's always nice to see crop up in several sitcoms but although great I wouldn't put her on the same comedic level as Hattie Jacques, Joan sims, Irene Handl, Patricia Hayes, or Peggy Mount. She was mostly comic support although her starring turn in You're Only aYoung Twice shows she was very capable herself.

She's in the first On the Buses film of course as one of the new female bus drivers, that Stan blocks in her cab. He had a semi-regular role in the last two series of Till Death Us Do Part as Mrs. Carey, married to Hugh Lloyd as Mr CArey. The two crop up in a couple of later In Sickness and Health episodes too.

She had a starring role in the 60s in the Reg Varney sitcom Beggar My Neighbour as his wife. Only 7 episodes of the 23 survive unfortuantely but it would be nice to see them released. The two I have are very good.

[alan french]

Hi,
I remember Pat during the 1950's, not only on television, but also radio.

I did a few years ago hear her in an extract from a programme on digital radio's BBC 7. (Now BBC 4 Extra) She was with Arthur Askey. I think in the 50's she used to appear with Irene Handle a lot. She also had a character called Nola. I also believe she worked with Bob Monkhouse as well. I can also remember Bob Monkhouse sometimes might say something as a joke, and then quickly would say to the audience or person, that he did not mean it. There was a programme once which he did this. Pat, very nicely but effectively, told him that somehow she thought he did.

But the last time that I saw Pat, she was portraying a naive comic tragic figure in Eastenders. I think she was sorry to leave the show. I think she may have died some time after.

Alan French.

[didi-5]

Pat Coombs had one of those faces made for comedy and for laughter. I always liked her although, as fg says, in the 80s we would be more likely to recognize her from the cream cake adverts she did.

[Dean Williams]

Pat Coombs also turns up in a Hancock or two in the 50s, Erickson the Viking for a start. She also appeared in one of my favourite episodes of Bootsie & Snudge, in the Doctors' surgery, chatting away to Pat Hayes. The two often worked together.

[Johnallan]

Pat Coombs was also in the popular 1950s radio show Ray's A Laugh which I can just about remember. I seem to recall that most weeks her character would be insulted and she would come back with a one-line put down. Two I still have in mind are "I'd put you in your place but I never go down to sewers!" and " Why don't you go down to the cemetery and tell 'em you're ready!"
Great comedienne.

[Dean Williams]

Pat Coombs and Pat Hayes gossip away whilst Alfie Bass listens in... (Bootsie & Snudge, 1961)
Pat Coombs Hayes and Alfie Bass Bootsie.JPG

14 years later, Pat Coombs and Pat Hayes gossip away whilst Alfie Bass listens in... (Till Death Us Do Part, 1975)
Pat Coombs Hayes and Alfie Bass TDUDP.JPG

[Dean Williams]

Women...

[AndersRobinson]

Was astonished to read somewhere that she was a chainsmoker. Don't know why I should find it so surprising
I suppose that's why she was always so nicely slim