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  • /watch?v=mB_gr4GCQHQ watch it's hilarious

  • Ha ha! I remember that bread and toothpaste cake too! It was hilarious! When Rita had a bite of the cake at the end of the show. Memories of my childhood!

  • Hugely depressing.

  • What's their accent here? Manc? Yorkshire? Can't see Johnny Briggs's dad here but remember he played a small part as Imperial officer in Star Wars.

  • @PugCuddler yorkshire

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  • the episode with the cake, was sooooo funny, how rita and her brother (name? i forget) replaced the eaten part of the cake with bread & toothpaste lol

  • @JustSomePerson888 That is about the only episode I remember - because it was so great! I'm very glad someone else remembers it too

  • @LCScampi - in our 1st year maths class at school, the teacher made a pupil that was talking in class stand up and do an impression of the theme tune for this, lol!

  • He's like a baby Norman Lovett.

  • Johnny's brother looks identical to Mark E Smith from The Fall.

  • By 'eck! Ah kin arly unnerstand a wud thiz are sane, like!

  • @mistofoles --- Wide oat yuck on sent trait then sunshine? Spur feckly clear to me.

  • we had 2 kids at school with big ears,we called them jonny briggs 1&2.lol

  • 'eeee, 'appen I'll just goo owt t' fly me whippets, while me Mam gets t' tea ready.'

    Not everyone north of the Watford Gap talks this way...

  • Wilde1978; You're a foul mouthed bastard.

  • My mother, who's a nurse…

  • This is when they were still making decent kids shows and not this crap they pass off for entertainment these days! Have you got any entire episodes?

  • Fucking hell. I've just watched the opening of Johnny Briggs and realised that dog is long dead, and now I'm depressed.

  • @Rulinator A sad story about Razzle, after Jonny Briggs he could not get any more acting jobs has he was typecast as Razzle. So with the money he made off Jonny Briggs he started living the high life strip clubs, gambling at the dog track, shagging high class poodles, all this took its toll and he was found dead in a south Yorkshire bedsit penniless in 1991. His real name was Rupert.

  • @WAYNE1977100 I can imagine. Riding in limos and snorting Bob Martins.

  • @WAYNE1977100 just made me cry

  • @Rulinator yer alright 'cos Ken Dodd's Dad's Dog is Dead as well!

  • It weren't me, it were Rita!

  • As a youngster this was my first insight into how Northern folk live.

    How bloody depressing!!!!

  • OMG this was my first insight into how "Northern folk" live. I remember watching this as a kid and thinking if my life was this fuc*** depressing i would end it quickly!

  • OMG this was my first insight into how "Northern folk" live. I remember watching this as a kid and thinking if my life was this fuc*** depressing i would end it quickly!

  • @bolakkbola i cant understand a word you have said............. did you go to school and learn how to write?

  • im 24 and remember this haha

  • My mum (whose a nurse) says if that you look at Razzle too long you'll go blind.

  • @MrAggtee genius comment

  • @aredredrose1 THANKS .. I think I might have hit my nadiar with that. Since submitting it my girlfriend has left me for a chippie and my parents have been killed in a bizarre gardening incident .....still musent gruuumble

  • yes briggs, always felt betrayed by him even at age 4. isaw through him. oh the therapy

  • didnt he have another brother on this with curly hair who looked a bit of a down syndrome?

  • @waster1976

    hahah

  • SHIT MAN AM I THAT OLD!!!!!

  • I'm turning 31 in September but I still faintly remember this program when I was a kid!

  • am 33 now , and if i saw johnny briggs now i call him a ginger cunt

  • @wilde1978 I guess that's because you've not grown up much since you were a kid.

  • The actor who plays Albert (guy eating biscuits) is my current drama teacher :P

  • @KeepHerGoing123 I hope his acting has improved .

  • @blobby1972 oh i'd say haha he's beyond eccentric. haha incredible teacher

  • I used to like this simply because the sister was supposed to be into bodybuilding.

  • Johnny Briggs!....my favorite!

    

  • That stupid effing woman's belt he put on so as ' to relax' ... I remember that. Most peculiar behaviour.

  • That stupid effing woman's belt he put on so as ' to relax' ... I remember that. Most peculiar behaviour.

  • This show always annoyed the crap out of me. They're all talkin' like they're from Halifax (which is fine, if you're actually from Halifax). Joan Eadington's books were set in Middlesbrough. and no one has a Teesside accent on here. No one.

  • I really miss coming back from school and checking out all my favourite shows from Children's BBC.

    Even the shows that were less well received were worth watching unlike today's standards.

    So sad that today will never be like anything what yesterday offered!

  • bloody northern people

  • This program used to depress the shit out of me...

  • @LandSlideFilmsUK me too i thought it was boring as hell - the last thing i wanted to watch as a kid was something so grimly realistic

  • @klmattydub ....I get ya..This was like watching a very much more depressing version of my own family life when i was a kid.

  • This programme is so broadly northern it's almost unrecognisable as english! :P

  • amazing, grew up on this :o

  • Yeah, but his sister were in Casualty .... wearing now't but a nurses uniform!

  • Fancy naming your dog after a porn mag

  • Johnny's brother - played by a young Mark E Smith - fact!

  • The birthday cake is def my fav episode!

  • @carolineburns Thats when he uses toothpaste on the cake?

  • this was shit, I always turned over when this came on

  • @mrmalade me too, Ulysses.........however

  • awe....such great memories., Love this show

  • 10 people have never gone down a slide with a dog

  • crack up

  • small,ginger head,dank yellow peg teeth....and Razzle!

  • Is that Munch from 2 pints of lager? lol Why haven't I noticed this before?

  • @gavinpow77 No. Munch was Lee Oakes. He's never been in this programme.

  • Big Country............is Jonny's Brother.

  • Used to watch this after a hard day down t'pit back when I was just a nipper.

  • 'ee bah gum. There's nowt like stereotypin' northerners 'oo all talk like this... 'appen.

  • I remember this when i was about 10,I thought it was the most boring programme in human creation...i'm still right.

  • @drees71 It was bloody awful.

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  • little bastards

  • My mother, who's a nurse....

  • lol@sloth82 and dantastic15

  • Razzles dead now :(

    Merry christmas everyone!!

  • Yeah Johnny! My dog is called Anal Antics 2, the buggering of Brenda Bravo! Not so big now are you!

  • the ONLY reason to learn how to play the trombone

  • Jonny Briggs's Sister = HOT (if your a certain age) ... and grew up with the image of her burnt into your mind ..... not saying that I'm fixated or 'owt..... but Jonny Briggs's sister, pwhorrrra!

  • Hey, Jonny Briggs' da' was a commander on the first Death Star - bad ass man!!

  • @strade100 Yeah Chief Bast. :D

  • God, even the theme tune was unmistakenly northern.

    Not even Corrie has tried the "missing slice of birthday cake replaced with bread and toothpaste" story line!

  • @solay78 shit i remember that lol classic

  • Not sure what I would think of it now but I went through a stage of really enjoying this program. As I remember it the acting was pretty good. The layout of the house in this clip including the yard at the back and the dog looks identical to my grandad and nana's old place in Barrow-in-Furness. The stairs were near perpendicular to the ground it was that small.

  • as i remember it, Humphrey grew mushrooms in the basement.

  • i never liked this when i was young,but its still better than any kids programme these days.

  • Eeeeeh, owwwwa Jonneh!

  • Set in my home town of Middlesbrough, this is not how I lived I swear.

    Now excuse me while I go and walk Razzle, I have to be home for me tea or our Mam will kill me.

  • awe I so loved this. Great theme tune. Ive met Sue Devaney and she is lovely.

  • YORKSHURE YORKSURE!!!

  • <3 Razzle!

  • instead of tryna dissect the programme i just enjoy the memory and the times man those wer the days, who remembers all them saturday morning shows, swear there was one in some sort of fun fair or sum shit, been tryna find them on here but just cant find them. the itv 1s wer me!lol

  • that's quite a threat, 'Dont tell mum about me getting a book about rabbits out of the library, or I'll tell her you ate all the biscuits.'

  • I hated this program so much. The kid was so annoying. Wonder what the "actors" are doing these days

  • i went to college with johnnys real life younger brother in barnsley bout 12 years ago. ill find out for you wot johhny is doing!!! his brother was called Wil. last time i heard bout Wil he had injured himself trying to scale leeds town hall when he was pissed. He had eight brothers or something. great days!!

  • used to switch over when this came on.. even as a kid it offended me just how shit it was

  • mam! mam! our razzle's fallen in t' pond!!

  • This was boring in the 80s. It is still boring. This was one of the worst programmes of my childhood. I still watched it, even though it was crap.

  • @dialyt55 yeah I felt like killing myself when this came on

  • Johnny Briggs = Mike Baldwin

  • Always good to name your pet after low-brow pornography.

  • @djjoff Yes, I have a cat called "fiesta"

  • I forgot these were Smoggies!

  • fuck me the actings bad, but still fucking great

  • Haha I used to work with Johnny Briggs at O2.

  • Moronic.

  • Wow, I must be a real Youtube geek. I trawl through the backlog of comments to read my own remarks that I'd posted (and forgotten about) months, or even years ago!

  • the other lad was in Juliet bravo and he got high on glue sniffing - solvent solution

  • Oh the northen accent...how it is loved.

  • I forgot what proper crap this were, our Razzle.

  • By 'eck, t'was grim up North.

    Put keckle on.

  • @97channel By 'enry, it stiww IS kak dahn sahf. Black wife's eye.

  • @97channel Lol ! :D

  • The best thing about this show was and is the theme tune, I never get tired of hearing that opening LLLLLOOOOOOONNNNNGGGG note of the troumbone which never seem to end. Times less.

  • That Johnny kid was a fucking shit actor wasn't he.

  • He seems to get younger as I get older!

  • Really crap programme...and fancy naming your dog after a jazz-mag.

  • Jonny's brother reminds me slightly of my brother's mate Damien. He was a funny bloke.

  • What is that horrid false accent Johnny ties to affect - it's not Liverpudlian, Lancastrian, Mersey, Mancunian, Peak District or Cumbrian, Nor is it Yorkshire or Geordie. It's horrrid. Is it just his own personal whiney yelp? He's most annoyingly false at 0:40 - Is anyone hoooaiiomme? Is it particular to somewhere like Bradford? It's like the utterance of some mixed gender beast fromn hell.

  • @pna71 Middlesborough.

  • What is that horrid false accent Johnny ties to affect - it's not Liverpudlian, Lancastrian, Mersey, Mancunian, Peak District or Cumbrian, Nor is it Yorkshire or Geordie. It's horrrid. Is it just his own personal whiney yelp? He's most annoyingly false at 0:40 - Is anyone hoooaiiomme? Is it particular to somewhere like Bradford? It's like the utterance of some mixed gender beast fromn hell.

  • Theme music = Time to go upstairs and play on my zx spectrum

  • @sloth82 Did you have the gray one with the tape deck, or the black one with the disc drive? I had the gray one, that you could copy game tapes on a double tape deck by recording the game tape onto a blank tape. The blank tape, just sounded like white noise when you played it back, but when you put it into the computer you got the copyed game. I used to get a weekly mag with a free game tape attached for £1.40. My favourite was Paperboy. Anyone remember that?

  • His older brother is a complete wanker

  • This show should have had subtitles, they dont speak like that anymore thank god.

  • @womblediehard They do actually, haven't you heard the Dingles on Emmerdale? Lol.

  • The sister was in Dinnerladies i think.

  • @TheMarstersMind

    Yes she was (one of the office workers always asking for toast), she also played a paramedic in Casulty before Dinnerladies

  • YAY! The gold belt!

  • A mate of mine reckons he knows a mate of the guy who played johnny. Apparently he gets really wound up when people hum the theme tune to him

  • He thinks he's so big, naming his dog after a down market porn mag. My hamster is called Teen Fisters 7, beat that Johnny

  • @sloth82  I Once had a kitten called Shit Nun 2: Shat In The Habit.

  • I always thought he'd make it big in Holywood.

  • great stuff, nice and simple, better than the fucking sensory assault the kids watch nowadays. No wonder they all have the attention span of a potato

  • Fancy naming the dog after a porn mag!

  • Fancy naming the dog after a porn mag!

  • Never liked this, northern shite lol

  • Have to admit... I never watched this. I didn't like the theme tune (Now it brings back memories but back then, euch)... The tune made me think of grey summer days going out with a coat on... and it sounds slightly classical and alsmo made me think of the nightmare of sitting in a friend's living room bored to tears whilst their gran was over for a cup of tea and it was raining outside. Seemed a bit like a soap and I've never been a fan of TV soaps.

  • I detect alot of hostility towards northerners on here.

  • Classic stuff, nostalgia ftw

  • I loved this pish x

  • Razzle was the only competent actor in it!

  • @cottonwhiskersuk and even he was a bit wooden!

  • This was like the news to me back then the day of the week it was on. I'd remember coming home from school and thinking what's on. Fuck... Today's shit. Jonny Briggs and the rest. then bloody homework and P.E. The next day. Fuuucking hell..!

  • Razzle LOL I always wondered why I've wanted a Jack Russell now I know! He he

  • my dad use to be mystified why I use to watch this after school - he'd pop in whilst making my tea and say, "why you watching this depressing crap for?"

  • Always made me feel better about my own shit childhood!!

  • This programme used to depress the hell out of me after I got in from school. Miserable locations and dull characters and storyline.

  • 0:47 It's Shaggy from Scooby Doo!

  • Cracking programme. Albert was a nutter though - The Tiger's EX-TRAVA-GAAANNNZZZAAAA!!

  • What a load of rubbish. I would have had a go on his sister, mind

  • Yup, The only good thing about this was his sister looked like a right dirty bitch.

  • I hated this so depressing

  • Why does he put that belt on?? is he a little bum bandit?

  • I though it was "my muther" who's a nurse....?

  • gold belt bit gay

  • my sister...whos a nurse.....

  • What exactly was it with him and that gold belt?

  • Albert reminds me of Pete Doherty !

  • what a lerd of erld crap our albert

  • This always made me think of Mike Baldwin from Coronation Street as his real name is the same as the show's title

  • Not sure why I got a thumbs down but hey, the sister of johnny briggs was brill in this n sort of remember the mum, age creeps up on us lol.

  • i watched this but even then, I was aware of the pants acting. werent kevin websters dad in it johnny's dad lol

  • No, it was Kevin Webster's sister who was in this. The actor you are thinking about, Leslie Schofield was actually Pat's Husband from Eastenders, he also came back a few years later as Mel Healy's dad. He did appear in a few episodes of Coronation Street though.

  • my mum whose a nurse wot a load of shite

  • I Fucking HATED this program!

  • Mee too lol

  • HAHAHAHHHAAHHH AAAAHAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA FUCKING TWAT HE WAS...his dad is class though well funny in the smoking rom now...well funny he is

  • so did I... it was such a drag down. WHy am i watching this?? to remind myself what grainy 80's crap telly this was lol

    so shit i remember it, probably more than the better stuff that was on!

  • I hated this program!

    They always showed it the Autumn and it made after school suck!

    As I was from the south I just couldn't relate with the characters!

  • Grr, fucking Southern Shandy drinkers! Hate anything North of the bloody |Watford Gap!

  • fuck jonny briggs. tosser

  • I used to work with the lad who played Jonny Briggs at O2!

  • me2,dodgyspark2857

  • This show single handedly stereotyped every Southerner's view of England north of Crewe and south of Carlisle.