I just bought a video* box set of series 1 & 2 from a charity shop for 75p.

All I've got to do now is link up my video recorder and hope there's no creases in the tape.

* Yes I know!

I bought series 1 and 2 recently. One of my favourites of the eighties.

I loathed it, but possibly I over-identified with the namesake main character.

Sadly as I get older I identify with him more...

"Language, Timothy!"...

I never tired of hearing that at school.

Quote: Tim Walker @ March 25 2010, 11:29 PM GMT

"Language, Timothy!"...

I never tired of hearing that at school.

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I bet!

I remember even as a lad thinking that Sorry! didn't quite work and still think that now. Yet, when I think about it, I liked Tim and his mum and dad as characters and it seemed to have good storylines in it. Hmmm, maybe I should stop thinking about it.

I still enjoy watching Sorry!. Yes it's a bit dated but still funny. Great theme tune.

Was there anything in the piece in Mitchell & Webb about David Mitchell playing Timothy Lumsden? If it was just made up for the programme I'd have expected a pay off later in the episode and there wasn't one.

As good as any place to post this I suppose.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/a289133/ronnie-corbett-to-star-in-new-sketch-show.html

Quote: Nil Putters @ November 22 2010, 1:55 PM GMT

As good as any place to post this I suppose.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/a289133/ronnie-corbett-to-star-in-new-sketch-show.html

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I wrote some sketches for this! Woo!

(They didn't use them mind you. Boo.)

Wish I'd had the time to go.

https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/the_one_ronnie/

Quote: Matthew Stott @ November 22 2010, 1:59 PM GMT

I wrote some sketches for this! Woo!

(They didn't use them mind you. Boo.)

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Bad luck, Ronnie is class.

Quote: Griff @ March 27 2011, 1:54 PM BST

Take out all the 'spotted dick' jokes and you'd have a Harold Pinter play.

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Or replace the spotted dick with soggy cornflakes.

I found Sorry! to be strangely compelling viewing when it was on. If I started watching it I wouldn't turn it off. This has always been the sign of a good sitcom for me. I'm not sure if Sorry! really was, or that I really liked it, more the fact I found it so odd and squirm making. We all like to squirm from time to time though, don't we. And I remember really marvelling at how bad an actor Corbett was, I think that was my main motivation for watching it. That and the cringe factor. Sorry! had a cringe factor of 9.

I have been meaning to buy this for so long. Tragi-comic in the truest sense.

to be aired on Gold

SITCOM: Sorry!
On: GOLD (110)
Date: Wednesday 9th April 2014 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 14:40 (40 minutes long)

For Love or Mummy. Series 1, episode 1.
Ronnie Corbett is Timothy Lumsden, the middle-aged bachelor librarian who still lives with his domineering mother. Timothy attempts to woo the pretty Annette.
(1981)

Starring: Ronnie Corbett, Barbara Lott, William Moore