Ed

A brilliant series. The best British sitcom ever made (with the possible exception of "Porridge", also written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais).The black-and-white Sixties episodes, with the Likely Lads growing up in the industrial North, are balanced against the colour Seventies episodes, which portray the sense of loss they both feel from the changes that have wiped away much of the world they'd grown up in.These are two working class lads, divided by Bob's aspirations to join the middle class, as personified by prissy librarian Thelma, superbly played by Brigit Forsyth. A fabulous cast, and a fabulous script.Inexplicably, two episodes have been left off the track listing for series 2 of "Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads": the 13th episode, "The Shape of Things to Come", and the 1974 Christmas Special.