Just discovered...
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I started watching them again from the start recently, and the second or third episode was just Fletch and Godber in their cell talking through the night. No-one else at all. Incredible writing to pull that off, and so soon into a new show too.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
Gave my brother in law the dvd set for xmas a couple of years back (it must have been around 2005 - I've been in France for 4 years this year!) and spent one of the best christmas days ever watching them one after the other... I remember that episode and you're right, the writing's top-notch. But the acting... I'd have listened to the pair of them reading the phone book... I was all the more astonished the first time I heard Barker talking in his "real" voice - a very middle class English chap stylee - he really "became" Fletch... a timeless classic :) If the dvds hadn't been shrink wrapped I'd have knocked off a quick copy before I handed them over ;)
Cheers,
Wilber."I was fortunate to be raised among men, in the old sense of the word. I learned to hunt and shoot, and I learned to appreciate fine guns." - Ted Yost
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digital man wrote:
Besides, my wife doesn't laugh at anything.
:( I'd find that hard to cope with!
Ah, yes, perhaps a teency clarification: she doesn't tend to laugh out loud unless it is rip-roaringly hilarious or very, very witty.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me
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