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Post by bidiein on Oct 19, 2024 16:11:12 GMT
I finally got round to re-watching the classic BBC Comedy "The High Life" which is on I-Player. A gem from the 80s, it starred Forbes Masson and Alan Cumming as the campest flight attendants ever employed, with Siobhan Redmond as their colleague Shona Spurtle - known as Pol Pot in Pantyhose.
I was often compared to her at work...
It is perhaps a little dated and perhaps was never shown "over the border" but if you like Rab C, Still Game etc you can enjoy it as an early Scots comedy.
It was filmed in a full size training plane which makes the in flight scenes all the more authentic.
Oh, and the pilot thinks he is Spock.
As the boys would say - "oh dearie me".
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Post by goodhelenstar on Oct 19, 2024 16:46:28 GMT
Alan Cumming is a really good actor. I saw him a few years ago at the Edinburgh Festival in The Bacchae. He was just back in the UK after playing an American lawyer in The Good Wife, very convincingly. He minced down to the front of the stage wearing a gold lamé kilt, said 'I'm back' and brought the house down. Great stuff! He was also Emcee in Cabaret on stage, which sadly I didn't see.
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Post by bidiein on Oct 19, 2024 17:34:23 GMT
He is a very gifted actor.
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Post by Miranda on Oct 19, 2024 17:57:30 GMT
It was shown here, I remember watching it. But it did get hidden in the schedules.
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Post by bidiein on Oct 19, 2024 18:25:08 GMT
I think there was always a feeling that Scottish comedies might be too 'broad' for audiences outside our country. But Rab C had fans everywhere, even if the episodes had to be subtitled!
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Post by marion on Oct 20, 2024 8:42:12 GMT
This was on BBC4 recently and I meant to record it but for some reason didn’t. I think maybe the recorder played up or it didn’t have capacity to record with other things clashing.
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Post by bidiein on Oct 20, 2024 14:16:41 GMT
I have been binge watching today. It is LOL funny, imo.
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Post by bidiein on Oct 24, 2024 14:08:11 GMT
Just watched the last episode - sadly only 6 were made.
Pure dead brilliant, as we say up here!
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