Hugh and I [DVD]

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The picture and sound quality could benefit from a clean up but I suppose it's better to have this than nothing at all. The other 4 half hour episodes that are said to still survive are not on here and the remaining Christmas night with the stars short is nowhere to be seen. Episodes: Fully Incomprehensive; A Brace of Peasants; Here Comes the Bride; Royal Visit; A Fete Worse Than Death; A Dog’s Life; Putting On the Ritz; Love Thy Neighbour; Lost Property; Trad Fad Lloyd; Wedding Bells; April in Paris; Prison Visitor; The 19th Hole; Turn for the Nurse; Where There’s a Will; A Sink of Iniquity; Holding the Baby; The Root of All Evil and A Place in the Sun. This leads to the new sink being put on a removals lorry going to Leeds, and Hugh fusing the electricity in a number of houses and making a hole in a water pipe. How sad that so much of it is missing, a date that affected many shows of the time, including Doctor Who, let's hope some are found in the future, a few have surfaced over the years.

This hilarious sitcom sees the unlikely twosome encounter all sorts of scrapes and mishaps as bully boy Terry pursues wealth and glory, with the kind but dim-witted Hugh trailing along behind. The two lads became involved in many crackpot and fabulous “get rich quick” schemes, and constantly found themselves in hot water, with the bumptious, over-ambitious Terry leading the timid, fretful Hugh astray. On one side of the Scotts lived the Crispins – him a loudmouth and her a snob – and their daughter, Norma, an object of lust for the boys.Hugh prefers to go the same guest house they go to every year, whilst Terry is eager to broaden his horizons and go somewhere different for a change. He fails to sell a policy to both sets of neighbours, but the man he does sell a policy to is injured when Terry's sign falls on him, so is able to make a claim. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Thanks to his mother, they meet him at the very expensive Ritz restaurant where he and Hugh upset the posh air of the place. A slight correction to a comment above is that it's the sixth, not the ninth, episode of the first series which is AWOL from this release, (as it is from the BBC Library alas).

The surviving 25/30-minute episodes are indicated by their archive status, as are the two Christmas Night With the Stars specials. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Nostalgia Central covers the period 1950 to 1999 and contains some words and references which reflect the attitudes of those times and which may be considered culturally sensitive, offensive or inappropriate today.The site carries no advertising, and I rely on donations to help with running costs and to keep the site running for your entertainment and education. Indication as to the survival or otherwise of the two Christmas Night With the Stars from the lostshows. I have given five stars because it's good to see that someone's bothered to release it, many vintage sitcom's have yet to make it to DVD but it's only really worth 4 because it could have been so much better.

Also features Deryck Guyler as a ticket inspector, Fred Emney as Lord Popham, Judith Furse as his wife, Lady Popham, Frank Williams as an army officer, and John Junkin as a soldier. The opening episode is the weakest, but once past that HUGH AND I reveals itself as a thoroughly decent sitcom that genuinely raises a laugh - either through John Chapman's dialogue or the pitch-perfect antics of the leads: a blustering, know-it-all Terry Scott and his put upon lodger Hugh Lloyd.What you actually get over the three discs is series 1 episodes 1-8 (episode 9 is missing from the archives) and series 2 complete episodes 1-12. Terry intends on playing Charades, but confusion among the guests continuously scuppers his efforts. Lobelia Avenue, Tooting, was the home of Mrs Scott (Vi Stevens), her troublesome, unemployed son Terry (Terry Scott), and their lodger Hugh (Hugh Lloyd), a worker at a local aircraft factory. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. There's tension in the household when Hugh is offered a Whippet puppy by the Crispins, but Terry disallows this.