The Likely Lads
- TV sitcom
- BBC Two
- 1964 - 1966
- 20 episodes (3 series)
Bob and Terry are two lads from the North East with contrasting desires and ambitions - except when it comes to chatting up girls. Stars James Bolam, Rodney Bewes, Bartlett Mullins, Donald McKillop, Sheila Fearn and Olive Milbourne
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Series 3, Episode 2 - Friends And Neighbours
Bob has a dilemma: he is dating 17 year-old Lorna Perrin and gets on well with her middle-class parents. Next door to the Perrins is a vile old man who wears braces and spits, staying there while the owner is in Canada. The problem is that the "vile" old man is Terry's grandad, and Bob has to choose sides - a class war quickly breaks out!
Notes
Repeated on BBC 1 on Tues 11/10/66 at 7:30pm with 12.1 million viewers.
This episode no longer exists in the archives. It is missing, believed wiped.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Saturday 11th June 1966
- Time
- 9:40pm
- Channel
- BBC Two
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
| James Bolam | Terry Collier |
| Rodney Bewes | Bob Ferris |
| Wilfrid Lawson | Grandad |
| Glenn Melvyn | Mr. Perrin |
| Noel Dyson | Mrs. Perrin |
| Angela Lovell | Lorna Perrin |
| Rita Ramano | Barmaid |
| Ray Golman | Customer in Pub |
| Steve Pokol | Customer in Pub |
| Dick Clement | Writer |
| Ian La Frenais | Writer |
| Dick Clement | Director |
| Dick Clement | Producer |
| Ronnie Hazlehurst | Composer |
| Alan Hunter-Craig | Production Designer |