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Have you seen Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)?
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"...You must have been absolutely perished, stood-standing there at that bus stop...waiting for that bus...I mean, your Walter's teeth were still chattering when he took them out..."
Edward Malin, Madge Hindle, Hylda Baker and Jimmy Jewel.
Nearest and Dearest Christmas special, 'The Ghost of Picklers Past' - First broadcast Boxing Day 1969.
The series ran for 45 episodes (+ a feature film) from 1968-73.
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) Karel Reisz
January 5th 2022
Up the Junction | Peter Collinson | 1968
Hylda Baker, Suzy Kendall, Adrienne Posta
Oliver! (1968)
“We must have civil words, Bill, civil words!”
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning | Karel Reisz | 1960
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning | Karel Reisz | 1960
Albert Finney, Hylda Baker
Our House (ABC, 1960 - 1962)
“The housing shortage. You, Simon and a few others got together and bought this house between you, is that it?”
Created by Norman Hudis, the writer behind the first six Carry On films, Our House was a modestly successful sitcom that ran on ABC for two years. Reuniting with early Carry On stars Hattie Jacques, Norman Rossington, Joan Sims and Charles Hawtrey, Hudis’ premise was a disparate group of strangers pooling their money to buy a large house together - with shenanigans to follow.
Joining Hattie and crew were a mix of actors; the young Trader Faulkner and Leigh Madison as a pair of besotted newlyweds, Frank Pettingell and Ida de la Haye as an older couple, and Frederick Peisley as a bank clerk obsessed with order and spreadsheets. The format seems to have been a mix of episodes in which the entire gang is caught up in some outlandish scheme, and stories that relied on one or two plots involving specific characters (allowing the others to take holidays or freeing them for other work). Sadly, like much TV of it’s era, the show is poorly represented in the archives: of a total of 39 episodes made, only three are known to exist.
Those three episodes are all from the first series, which ran for 55 minutes (including commercial breaks) on Sunday afternoons - back when that was actually a fairly decent slot in the schedules. There seems to have been a shake-up between first and second series, as the running time dropped to 45 minutes and various members of the cast (including Joan Sims and Trader Faulkner) bowed out. Evidently ABC lost some confidence in the show, and much of the second series was not shown across the entire ITV network, but only in select regions.
What does survive shows a series that, whilst really quite dated, is also genuinely quite funny. The humour is never cruel or unkind, and rather than relying on tensions between the house-mates to move the plot along, more often than not the series stresses their mutual affection for one another and their camaraderie. This feels unusual, even for a show from this era; comedy is very often about disappointments and negativity (consider Hancock, which was contemporaneous, or Steptoe And Son, which was just around the corner). The characters in Our House still face adversities and problems, but they do so together, and with a smile. It’s… Nice.
The cast equip themselves well, and everyone has their moment to shine, but younger actors like Faulkner and Madison, and non-comics like Pettingell could never really hope to steal the limelight from more experienced comedy stars like Jacques, Hawtrey and Sims. It’s those three that shine, and who get most of the big laughs. The earliest surviving episode - the second to be transmitted - is really just a showcase for Hawtrey to play multiple members of the same family. This includes a maiden aunt, Wilhelmina, and Hawtrey is at his very best here, giggling and flirting with Peisley and trying whisky for the first time (“It’s wonderful!”).
In short, this is a lot of fun - if you like this sort of thing. As I say, it’s quite dated and gentle, and the longer format for a sitcom feels unusual. But sometimes it’s nice just to see something… Nice?
