6 years after the highly popular Likely Lads finished and Bob and Terry were back for a sequel that was even better than the original. Bob has moved up in the worlld: good career, car, engaged to Thelma, new house. Terry meanwhile has spent 5 or 6 years in the army( the last of the original series show him joiining up) and has returned to civvy street with a mysterious leg injury and no job. Both men accidentally meet up in a train compartment when the lights go off and after a few minutes realise who each other is.
Strangers On A Train was a great way to reintroduce The Likely Lads as ti shows how Bob and Terry have drifted apart and how society has changed since Terry joined up. While Terry thinks everyone has been having a swinging time while he was away, the only things that have changed in their circle of friends is Bob getting engaged and Cloughy opening a newsagents and BBC 2 starting, although Terry is quick to remind Bob this had opened before he joined the army.
There are some great scenes through the episode such as Terry being chatted up by a gay steward on the train, Terry unexpectedly appearing at the end to Thelma's digust at Newcastle station when Bob misses the train, and Terry tactlessly slagging off Thelma in front of Bob, referring to her as opening a perfume factory on her backside
All in all, a great way to bring back The Likely Lads for the seventies and in later episofes we see how Terry struggles to move with the times and hold down a job, while Bob beomes a fully fledged member of the lower lower middle middle to quote Terry. Fittingly Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads won a Bafta in 1974.
Strangers On A Train was a great way to reintroduce The Likely Lads as ti shows how Bob and Terry have drifted apart and how society has changed since Terry joined up. While Terry thinks everyone has been having a swinging time while he was away, the only things that have changed in their circle of friends is Bob getting engaged and Cloughy opening a newsagents and BBC 2 starting, although Terry is quick to remind Bob this had opened before he joined the army.
There are some great scenes through the episode such as Terry being chatted up by a gay steward on the train, Terry unexpectedly appearing at the end to Thelma's digust at Newcastle station when Bob misses the train, and Terry tactlessly slagging off Thelma in front of Bob, referring to her as opening a perfume factory on her backside
All in all, a great way to bring back The Likely Lads for the seventies and in later episofes we see how Terry struggles to move with the times and hold down a job, while Bob beomes a fully fledged member of the lower lower middle middle to quote Terry. Fittingly Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads won a Bafta in 1974.
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