The Likely Lads

Feb 1, 1976

1h 30m

★ 6.1

Emotion blazes across the big screen as Bob and Terry knock down the frontiers of human knowledge and Newcastle ale.

Overview

With the destruction of their previous neighbourhood has inevitably come the destruction of the lads’ favoured watering hole The Fat Ox. Again, it’s Bob rather than Terry who is visibly distressed by this. Upset and much the worse for free alcohol, Bob then storms into the library to seek sympathy from Thelma - who is, predictably, unimpressed. So when Thelma finds out that Terry has been getting semi-serious with glamorous Finnish shop assistant Chris, she takes it upon herself to try and pair them off for good via planning first a dinner party and then that mainstay of 70s comedy, a camping expedition. Of course, things don’t go quite according to plan and before you can say ‘I can see the way this is going’ we are set up for japes, larks and embarrassing incidents aplenty, which culminate in the lads getting rather fed up with their partners’ attempts to inflict the rugged outdoor lifestyle upon them and trying to hitch up and drive off with the girls still asleep in the caravan.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

EMI Films

Anglo-EMI

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Cast

Terry

James Bolam

Bob

Rodney Bewes

Thelma

Brigit Forsyth

Christina

Mary Tamm

Audrey

Sheila Fearn

Laura

Zena Walker

Tommy

Alun Armstrong

Iris

Judy Buxton

Glenys

Vicki Michelle

Alice

Michelle Newell

Sandy

Penny Irving

Edith

Susan Tracy

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The Likely Lads

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