The second episode of the seventh and final run of 'Love Thy Neighbour' was penned by Brian Cooke, whose partner Johnnie Mortimer wrote the preceding instalment.
Barbie has become an agent for a mail order catalogue firm. Joan orders a new pram for her pregnant pal 'Elsie' ( Charlotte Howard ). When Bill gets wind of this, he wrongly assumes that Joan is the one in the family way, and rushes back to the Jubilee Social Club to give Eddie the good news. Eddie gets the wrong end of the stick and thinks Bill is confessing to having made Joan pregnant...
A nice episode, boasting a comic misunderstanding of the sort Cooke used to good effect in 'Father Dear Father'. Bill's joy at the thought of Eddie becoming a father again is rather touching. Charlotte Howard had played 'Double Decker Doris' in the previous season. It is interesting to note that in these later episodes, Jacko's stupidity overtakes the bigotry as the main source of the show's humour. Eddie confesses to not having had sex with Joan for the past two months. Bearing in mind that Kate Williams was gorgeous in those days ( check her out in 'Holiday On The Buses', if you don't believe me ), I find it hard to believe.
Funniest moment - Eddie making to thump Bill!
I took a second look at the first episode of 'The 70's'. Two things puzzle me. Firstly, where did the sequence showing people shopping by candlelight in supermarkets come from? There was no late-night shopping then, and even if there had been, I doubt whether shoppers would have been permitted to wheel trolleys around the aisles with burning candles attached. Think of the fire risk. With no C.C.T.V. cameras, dimly lit shops would have been a magnet for would-be shoplifters. Secondly, Sandbrook alleges that 'Jason King' was a milestone in 70's popular culture. In fact it was shunted off to a post-'News At Ten' slot soon after its 1972 debut. 'Van Der Valk' was more popular, but then he didn't smoke a pipe or have a Viva Zapata! moustache, did he?
Barbie has become an agent for a mail order catalogue firm. Joan orders a new pram for her pregnant pal 'Elsie' ( Charlotte Howard ). When Bill gets wind of this, he wrongly assumes that Joan is the one in the family way, and rushes back to the Jubilee Social Club to give Eddie the good news. Eddie gets the wrong end of the stick and thinks Bill is confessing to having made Joan pregnant...
A nice episode, boasting a comic misunderstanding of the sort Cooke used to good effect in 'Father Dear Father'. Bill's joy at the thought of Eddie becoming a father again is rather touching. Charlotte Howard had played 'Double Decker Doris' in the previous season. It is interesting to note that in these later episodes, Jacko's stupidity overtakes the bigotry as the main source of the show's humour. Eddie confesses to not having had sex with Joan for the past two months. Bearing in mind that Kate Williams was gorgeous in those days ( check her out in 'Holiday On The Buses', if you don't believe me ), I find it hard to believe.
Funniest moment - Eddie making to thump Bill!
I took a second look at the first episode of 'The 70's'. Two things puzzle me. Firstly, where did the sequence showing people shopping by candlelight in supermarkets come from? There was no late-night shopping then, and even if there had been, I doubt whether shoppers would have been permitted to wheel trolleys around the aisles with burning candles attached. Think of the fire risk. With no C.C.T.V. cameras, dimly lit shops would have been a magnet for would-be shoplifters. Secondly, Sandbrook alleges that 'Jason King' was a milestone in 70's popular culture. In fact it was shunted off to a post-'News At Ten' slot soon after its 1972 debut. 'Van Der Valk' was more popular, but then he didn't smoke a pipe or have a Viva Zapata! moustache, did he?
