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Keeping Up Appearances (1990)
One of my favorites but only problem is......
Patricia Routledge should have did another 5 years on this program instead of thinking she had bigger and better things to do.........it turns out she never topped this one.
She did have another tv program and it was ok but you always think about Hyacinth and Richard Bucket and the rest of the family.
Now many of them are gone (Rest in Peace Clive Swift) and many years ago several other greats (Geoffrey Hughes as "Onslow") and both that played her sister Rose that seemed to like married men (Mary Millar and Shirley Stelfox)
And her wacky father played by George Webb.
And many of the recurring characters fit in perfectly
And British tv programs always tended to make only 10 programs each year so the total number rarely gets as high as you see on most American tv programs.
In fact I would have like 15 years of this program and that way closer to 150 episodes so I wouldn't just watch the same 44 over and over.
I imagine by now Patricia Routledge is friends with the Queen since they are both over 90 and part of British history.
Glad that Roy Clarke got "Last of the Summer Wine" to ;last 31 years and 295 episodes.
Just wish Patricia Routledge would have continued this program and just did other work during the off-season since they had plenty of time for that.
Wanted: Dead or Alive: The Hostage (1959)
Always fun to watch
Seeing great actors like Lee Van Cleef and the character actors on these shows and movies that most people can't even name.
More talent than 10 added together in todays movies and TV shows.
That one scene towards the end where Steve McQueen jump and flies through the air wrapping his legs around Van Cleef to knock him to the ground since his hands were tied behind him sure looked real and not stunt men.
And of course McQueen was a pip squeak back then and Van Cleef towered over him but it actually looked perfect and I can't imagine those two doing that over and over to get it right.
Funny how Hollywood has always worked........Lee Van Cleef was the better actor than McQueen but it always depends on who are handed the best parts and told by Hollywood who THEY say is the best.
Now we get a tiny Tom Cruise flying through the air catching bullets in his teeth and smiling at the same time.......and getting a half billion dollars doing that.
Thank God for the classic actors like Lee Van Cleef and Charles Bronson......and that we still get to watch them on TV.