Rock & Chips (OFAH Prequel)

[souldriver]

Why BBC did you make this rubbish? What a waste of money this was, the biggest let down ever. Did any one else see it what did they think?

[rugeleyboy]

i found it to obvious introducing the characters but on the whole i loved it!...... it didnt have the feel of OFAH because it didnt have a laughter tape or studio audience?

will they be making anymore??

[MarkRae]

I enjoyed this much more than "Green Green Grass" - I always found Boycie and Marlene to be rather one-dimensional characters, although John Sullivan did his best to stretch them a bit...

I was always a huge fan of OFAH, though it really has been repeated ad nauseam on UK Gold / Dave or whatever it's called these days...

With Rock and Chips, though, he had much more interesting characters to work with, and the casting was superb. Clearly, there could never have been anyone else to play Freddie the Frog, and all the other actors played their roles to perfection.

Prequels don't always work - cf the abomination that was "First of the Summer Wine" - but this one really did, IMO.

[LoftyLottie]

Let's hope so, Rugely. I loved the subtle humour. If people were expecting something like OFAH they would have been disappointed!

I was totally in love with Adam Faith in 1960. I can remember going to see him in panto at Wimbledon Theatre and then queuing up for his autograph only to be disappointed that I towered about him. I was about 14! They played an Adam Faith track in the drama - Poor Me (January 1960)

http://www.youtube.co...next_from=PL&index=50

[looobylooo]

i watched it too and really quite enjoyed it.
loved the music, have always been a fan of 50s rock n roll.
id forgotten that rodneys dad was freddie the frog! so it all fell nicely into place for me.
i think it worked well as a one off because it wrapped things up well, giving us an insight of life before OFAH.

(i went to see a xmas special of ofah being filmed once years ago, it was brilliant - it was the peckham spring water one - remember that one? lol.
it was great seeing it being made, but, i must say it did take the 'magic' out of it everso slightly when i later watched it on tv, as i wanted to continue believing they really did live in nelson madella house and not just partitoned off rooms in a tv studio! lol ... oh and i came away with an actual bottle of the water they used in the show)

[ELVIS68]

It was ok, bit long winded, they should`ve had someone else playing Freddie though

[MarkRae]

How could they possibly have had anyone else playing Freddie...?

[ELVIS68]

He is Rodney, even when he`s playing Gary Sparrow!

[MarkRae]

<sigh>

[looobylooo]

exactly mark, i agree, cus remember that group photograph that ol rodders came across that time and he commented on how much one of the fellas in it looked like himself - not knowing he was looking at his own dad, freddie the frog.

[MarkRae]

I thought everyone knew that...

[carlton23]

My favourite part was when the cinema manager was holding her around the neck and couldn't`t control himself. Brings back memories of my first date back in the fifties in Bournemouth Gardens with a girl, and then having to walk her to the Bus Station, very, very embarrassing. Ah well, happy days

[smudge]

Oh, I didn't like the scenes of that dirty old man in the cinema office. Some parts of that reminded me of Richard Attenborough as John Christie in '10 Rillington Place', when he was sending his female victims off to sleeep!

Always sends shivers down my spine, even though it was a fantastic film.

[LoftyLottie]

Me neither Smudge. Fantastic scenes but they made me cringe!!!

[Sqad]

The cinema manager was fantastic and that sort of thing actually happened.

if the cinema had an upstairs, it was there that one would queue in the upstairs foyer, quite often outside the office of the manager. It was not unusual to see an usherette, exiting the office, adjusting her clothes.....LOL Of course I only now appreciate the significance of that....;-)

[smudge]

Trust you to have noticed that Sqad!

[smudge]

I remember great times at the flix - from Saturday morning pictures, to growing up & being old enough to watch 'over 18' films - altho' I was always being asked for identification, which is very annoying when your married!

[smudge]

*you're married

[Sqad]

smudge......in a couple of cinemas in Peterborough, the back two rows had double seats which were popular for courting (obsolete word) couples and with a raincoat draped over the two of you, all sorts of delectables went on beneath.

After the pictures we would go and get some fish and chips and stand outside the fish shop eating them.

If it was a particularly "heavy date" and you were trying to impress, then one would splash out on the "sit down" side of the fish shop, were you had bread and butter and a cup of tea.................reserved only for the "definates" though...LOL

[smudge]

Blimey Sqad, that really does bring back memories - I well remember the back row & being so 'in love'!

I also rememer watching a film called 'The Birds' with my then boyfriend (now Mr S). When we came out, he teased me & chased me down the road squawking like a bird & my hair pins were falling out all over the pavement. We ended up in the Wimpy bar for 'frothy' coffee & laughing our heads off - what fun!

[Sqad]

It was a Hitchcock Film smudge.

We would all meet at the Church Youth Club for table tennis and dances and on Sunday after chapel the same 12 of us (6 couples)would go to each house in turn, go into the front room, turn out the lights and "snog." The parents were not happy, but would live with it for the sake of "progress" At times the Church group would go to camp in the woods some 15miles away and when we got to the camp site, we would spill out like a disturbed ants nest and disappear into the fields, heading for the nearest hay stack.