There’s not really much I can tell you about it. The show was, if I remember correctly, a British-Australian co-production and centred around two loser-type characters. It was pretty over the top, but occasionally funny, but I can’t for the life of me remember what it was called. The name was something like “The [blank] and [blank] Show”, and one of the names was Woodrow… Woodrey… Woodward… something like that. Anyone?
id it have two brothers as the main characters? One[[a Bob Hoskins type] was a dentist[?] and the other was some kinda’ loser. Their mother was a scatterbrain. You jogged my memory a bit, unfortunately not enough to remember the title. Does bbcamerica.com archive all their stuff? Might be a place to start, if so. Bon chance
I don’t think it was that, Quiltguy154. I don’t think they were brothers and I definitely don’t remember a mother. And neither of them looked like Bob Hoskins.
Could it be the Lano and Woodley (sp?) show?
One of them is tall and skinny, the other is fairly short and squat? Lots of slapstick and corny-but-funny jokes?
That’s it! Thanks, Kayeby!
That was Mother and Son with the icomparable Ruth Cracknell (sadly deceased) and Garry McDonald- who was played Norman Gunston in the 70’s (not that that will mean anything to those Dopers not from Oz). the Dentist type was Henri Szeps (name drop: I went to school with Henri’s son, we were on reasonable -acquaintance- terms, not really friends).
the shows was superb and well worth finding if you can for it’s oft hilarious treatment of senility and how those who suffer from it aren’t always suffering (the mother used to play up thesenility to get her own way, but was often completely off the planet- and then the show was, intentionally, very touching and some of the best TV I’ve ever seen!).
But, that’s not the show you guys are looking for!
The Adventures of Lano and Woodley was greatly under-appreciated. These guys are rooted in really old comedy traditions and do them terribly well. Pratfalls, slapstick and vaudeville all get a go and are presented wonderfully. If the much criticised The Easter Story was on every week I would watch it. Father Ricky, the Easter Bunny, spotty socks, speech impediments,the…new…rock…mass, Colin and Frank in dresses, Frank as Jesus…now that’s entertainment.