The Good Life: Royal Variety Performance 1978 (Part 3 of 5)

*When I'm 65*

This special feature was produced at the time of the 1978 Royal Variety Performance. It consisted of a number of linked sketches, together with 'behind the scenes' segments from the Performance. George Cole appeared in one of the sketches as a bank manager.

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• The
• Good
• Life
• Richard
• Briers
• Felicity
• Kendal
• Penelope
• Keith
• Paul
• Eddington

[ej159]

In hindsight the irony of those figures is spectacular.

The Good Life was great. Why isn't there television of this calibre made any longer?

[dharmaseed]

Tom : You dash out of the sauna, roll about in the nude, and then Jerry gives you a bashing with a birch twig.

Margo: He most certtainly does not!

Jerry; Oh, damn.

[laureah21]

Worth a lot more the 100 000!

[andysim232]

i would have bought that house for £70.000. if only I had a time machine.

[blueleadguitar]

@ej159 because they simply don't have the talent to make programmes like this! So called 'comedians' these days have to resort to swearing and jokes about sex to get a laugh! I love programmes like this, I grew up watching Morcambe and Wise, Rising Damp, Good Life, etc thank god for Youtube and dvd's/videos. Otherwise there'd be no comedy left to watch.

[bryemycaz]

@salmon96 and of Course Alistair and George appered together in the St Trinians films.

[SeventiesMania]

@dmpcornwall Scarily, yes, if I were to transport myself to 1978 and met Penny Keith, I so would...

[SeventiesMania]

Long live late 1970s leisurewear! Where did they get that rig out, Lillywhites?

I can't quite make out the logo on Jerry's top, it  looks a bit like Fred Perry with a bit of sticky tape used to obscure the obvious product placement. Though later on in the show, Jerry is clearly seen in a Lacoste cap.

[mssusanlaw]

Sounds like a reverse mortgage! With houses in Surbiton going for ten times that now, it would havve been a good risk. Of course, they are still alive....

[321womble]

Actually it is a really good idea in terms of risk and reward to the bank, better investments then the ones they've been making over the past couple of years.

[therealcaldini]

Haha - in retrospect the bank missed a trick there!