Richard Briers

[TimR]

Thanks very much for posting this - this series is a favorite and I have not seen this before.

[billy farmer]

A Radio Times listing from December 26th 1977.

[Timmy_Lea]

I liked him in the radio 4 comedy plays Two Pipe Problem with Stanley Baker as sleuths in a retirement home.

[cumberbatches_woman]

Yes i like Richard Briers too, he has what i call a calming effect, his voice and his manner are unmistakable, no matter what he is in he dominates the whole thing, Richard was fabulous in The Good Life, ive seen him one or two episodes of Midsomer Murders too, but i will always remember him in an episode of Mr Bean where he is sat trying to listen to the vicar in church, and Bean is distracting him somewhat, fabulous !!

[cumberbatches_woman]

makes me laugh everytime !!!

[billy farmer]

A TV Times article about Richard Briers from the December 21st 1985 - January 3rd 1986 issue of TV Times.

[harryfielder]

FOUND THIS ON e BAY.....

[Steve Crook]

FOUND THIS ON e BAY.....

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Well, it's got the signature of someone famous on it - and there aren't many items that come up for sale with your signature on them

Steve

[harryfielder]

[Jack Gurney]

He'll always be Tom Good to me, though he was just as great as Martin Brice, and his performance as the senile septagenarian in IF YOU SEE GOD TELL HIM was bleakly affecting.

He was also terrifying as a despotic general leading his own private army in a later MINDER episode.

[billy farmer]

A TV Times article about Richard Briers from the May 12th - 18th 1973 issue of TV Times.

[judylou]

The first time I saw Richard Briars was in the 1962 series "Brothers in Law"..... which makes me feel very old...!! Who else was in that series???

[Steve Crook]

The first time I saw Richard Briars was in the 1962 series "Brothers in Law"..... which makes me feel very old...!! Who else was in that series???

That's what the IMDb is for

Steve

[GRAEME]

He's in a new horror/comedy out this week:

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Cockneys vs Zombies

Mark Kermode gave it a big thumbs up!

[Rowdon]

Thanks for that Billy.
I saw (obviously not for the first time, but in some cases for the first time in 35 years) the first three series a year or so back, then they dropped off the radar ... So when I got about 5 minutes before the end of this doc, I had to stop, because they started talking about how it ended the only way it could have done etc. etc. ...
So I watched series 4. What a great series. I know everybody thinks that, but it really is a good one. It's rarely laugh out loud funny, but is consistently good humored and generates an enormous amount of family feeling/love/well-being without ever resorting to the "hugging and learning" scenes that blight so many series. Very few scenes are played to tug the heartstrings, and the ones that are often involve a pig or a goat which takes the edge off...

I can't normally stand Brian Sewell, but he's quite welcome here: pehaps because he's talking about 'low' culture, so he feels no threat of being out-intellekchewalized or whatever the word is.

Does anyone know why Felicity Kendall didn't take part?

[Windthrop]

Damn fine actor. Saw him as Vanya and in a revival of Home with Paul Eddington. Pity he has given up the theatre. Always expert in whatever he does

[Windyridge]

Damn fine actor. Saw him as Vanya and in a revival of Home with Paul Eddington. Pity he has given up the theatre. Always expert in whatever he does

I saw him last year in London Assurance at the NT.

[Windthrop]

I saw him last year in London Assurance at the NT.

Heard about that, imagine he was superb in that production with SRB in the lead !

[Rowdon]

with SRB in the lead !

Hmm ... Sir Richard Branson? No ... Can't be Sir Richard Burton; he's dead. And only a CBE .... hmm ... Shirley Reginald Bassey? I thought I was the only one who knew her middle name ... Got it! Richard Briers with a Second Richard Briers in the lead! A challenging but rewarding night for our hero!

[billy farmer]

Thanks for that Billy.
I saw (obviously not for the first time, but in some cases for the first time in 35 years) the first three series a year or so back, then they dropped off the radar ... So when I got about 5 minutes before the end of this doc, I had to stop, because they started talking about how it ended the only way it could have done etc. etc. ...
So I watched series 4. What a great series. I know everybody thinks that, but it really is a good one. It's rarely laugh out loud funny, but is consistently good humored and generates an enormous amount of family feeling/love/well-being without ever resorting to the "hugging and learning" scenes that blight so many series. Very few scenes are played to tug the heartstrings, and the ones that are often involve a pig or a goat which takes the edge off...

I can't normally stand Brian Sewell, but he's quite welcome here: pehaps because he's talking about 'low' culture, so he feels no threat of being out-intellekchewalized or whatever the word is.

Does anyone know why Felicity Kendall didn't take part?

Rowdon, i watched every single episode of The Good Life on DVD earlier this year, very enjoyable series, one of the best Comedies ever made, i have no idea why Felicity Kendal didn't take part in the above Documentary, perhaps she wasn't available at the time.