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The Likely Lads

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The Likely Lads	comment	The Likely Lads was a black and white Britcom that ran from 1964 to 1966 on The BBC. It followed the escapades of two young working-class men Oop North, Terry Collier (who was proud of his roots) and Bob Ferris (who wanted to better himself and become middle-class). It was created by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, and starred James Bolam as Terry and Rodney Bewes as Bob.However, what most people remember now is Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, a colour revival that ran from 1973 to 1974, still written by Clement and La Frenais. In this show, Bob had succeeded in becoming middle-class and was engaged to the very middle-class Thelma, when Terry suddenly reappeared (he'd joined the Army at the end of the original series), throwing his life into confusion. As was common practice for many British sitcoms of the time, a spin-off movie followed in 1976.In 2004, it came 23rd in Britains Best Sitcom.
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The Likely Lads / int_171b1206	type	Men Can't Keep House
The Likely Lads / int_171b1206	comment	Men Can't Keep House: Neither Bob nor Terry are much good around the house, although Terry definitely wins the prize here for attempting to use a toaster to defrost pork chops.
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The Likely Lads / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
The Likely Lads / int_1ba17583	comment	The Ghost: Lots of characters. In particular, there was Deirdre Birchwood, a former girlfriend of Bob's who was often mentioned, but never seen — although there mere mention of her always annoyed Thelma. Also falling into this category were Frank Clark (Bob's original choice for best man, until Terry returned), Nigel "Little Hutch" Hutchinson (a sex-mad friend of Terry's who frequently had a racing tip for him), Terry's sister Linda, his estranged wife Jutta (she was to have appeared in "End of an Era" but the scenes with her in were cut after being filmed, although she is credited as being played by April Walker in the credits), and the Lawsons and the Jeffcotes, Bob and Thelma's next-door neighbours on either side.
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The Likely Lads / int_1bf94a24	type	The Movie
The Likely Lads / int_1bf94a24	comment	The Movie: As was common for sitcoms at the time, a movie was made; it was released in cinemas in 1976. Just called The Likely Lads, it also counts as the show's Vacation Episode (they go caravanning), in addition to being the last instalment of the lads' adventures. The page image is the movie DVD cover.
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The Likely Lads / int_1dfbbf31	type	Heterosexual Life-Partners
The Likely Lads / int_1dfbbf31	comment	Heterosexual Life-Partners: Bob and Terry. Not that they weren't such in the original series, but even more so here.
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The Likely Lads / int_1e159001	type	Diagonal Billing
The Likely Lads / int_1e159001	comment	Diagonal Billing: A variation — to avoid animosity over billing, Rodney Bewes and James Bolam were alternated in the opening credits, so that one week Bewes was billed first and the following week Bolam was. In the closing credits the billing was reversed, with whoever had been billed second in the opening credits being billed first. A more straightforward example can be found on posters for The Movie — and the DVD cover which can be seen at the top of this page.
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The Likely Lads / int_231e8193	type	Mistaken Identity
The Likely Lads / int_231e8193	comment	Mistaken Identity: At play in "Birthday Boy" when Thelma sends two of her friends to collect Terry from the pub to take him to the Surprise Party she and Bob have planned for him. Unfortunately, they've never met him and so end up bringing a complete stranger back instead.
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The Likely Lads / int_245f44c	type	Appointment Television
The Likely Lads / int_245f44c	comment	Appointment Television: "No Hiding Place", where Bob and Terry desperately try to avoid Spoilers for an international football match which took place the previous night but is not being shown on TV until the following evening. Their efforts are eventually revealed to have been All for Nothing, as the match was called off due to a flooded pitch.
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The Likely Lads / int_28b08686	type	A Party, Also Known as an Orgy
The Likely Lads / int_28b08686	comment	A Party, Also Known as an Orgy: The fancy dress party that Bob and Thelma go to in the Christmas episode turns out to be one of these. Bob is more enthusiastic about this than Thelma; he claims that her accusations of him getting a bit too friendly with the woman dressed up as Joan of Arc are a case of Mistaken for Cheating, but it turns out that Thelma's right to be suspicious.
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The Likely Lads / int_2d7ef923	type	Mistaken for Cheating
The Likely Lads / int_2d7ef923	comment	Mistaken for Cheating: Zigzagged. Thelma often thinks that Bob's cheating on her — but it's with some justification, as he clearly intends to commit adultery more than once, but never actually manages to do so (the most notable examples are at the party they go to in the Christmas special, and in The Movie when he gets into bed with a young lady but is interrupted before he can have sex with her). That said, in quite a few cases Bob is actually blameless and is merely a victim of circumstances (as witness the events of "Affairs and Relations" in which Thelma thinks he's having an affair with Beryl, her father's secretary, whereas it is in fact her father who's having an affair with her, or at least trying to). In return, Bob sometimes thinks Thelma's cheating on him.
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The Likely Lads / int_332005d9	type	Third Wheel
The Likely Lads / int_332005d9	comment	Third Wheel: Terry. Although an alternative way of looking at it would be to see Thelma as this with regards to Bob and Terry's lifelong friendship.
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The Likely Lads / int_39f27cae	type	Bedmate Reveal
The Likely Lads / int_39f27cae	comment	Bedmate Reveal: Thelma is shocked to wake up in bed with Terry (whom she had mistaken for Bob) in "Home Is the Hero".
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The Likely Lads / int_42008602	type	Story Arc
The Likely Lads / int_42008602	comment	Story Arc: At play in the first series of Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, with early episodes focusing on Terry's return to civilian life following his discharge from the Army, and later episodes focusing on the planning for Bob and Thelma's wedding. Partially averted with the second series, in which the episodes are mostly self-contained, although there is a four-episode storyline concerning Bob and Thelma's brief separation.
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The Likely Lads / int_43dc74d0	type	Sensitive Guy and Manly Man
The Likely Lads / int_43dc74d0	comment	Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: the wannabe-middle class Bob and the resolutely working class Terry.
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The Likely Lads / int_480789a	comment	Stag Party: A somewhat downplayed example, as Bob wants to have a quiet night in rather than the usual booze-up — although he still ends up getting arrested for drunken behaviour after foolishly combining whisky and sleeping pills when he goes to the launderette.
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The Likely Lads / int_494a4104	type	Naked People Trapped Outside
The Likely Lads / int_494a4104	comment	Naked People Trapped Outside: Not fully naked, but in The Movie Terry and Bob both end up outside the B&B without their trousers on after trying to get it with (respectively) the landlady and her daughter; unable to go back in and get them, they drive back to Newcastle where they are unable to explain their trouserless state to Thelma and Audrey (Terry's sister). The image of the pair without trousers can be seen on some of the movie posters.
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The Likely Lads / int_53224e46	type	Bookends
The Likely Lads / int_53224e46	comment	Bookends: The original series ended with Bob joining the Army, and Terry joining up to keep him company — only for Bob to fail the medical, leaving Terry to embark on a military career alone. The Movie ends with Terry signing up for the Merchant Navy, and Bob coming on board for a last drink together before his ship sets sail — only for Terry change his mind and end up ashore, while Bob goes to sea. Also, The Movie — which concluded the saga of Bob and Terry — was simply called The Likely Lads, just like the original black and white show.
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The Likely Lads / int_565106b3	type	Women Are Wiser
The Likely Lads / int_565106b3	comment	Women Are Wiser: Most of the time, Thelma lives up to this.
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The Likely Lads / int_5f207a1a	type	Courtroom Episode
The Likely Lads / int_5f207a1a	comment	Courtroom Episode: "Conduct Unbecoming".
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The Likely Lads / int_60fb097	type	Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat
The Likely Lads / int_60fb097	comment	Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat: Both lads fall afoul of this trope in "The Great Race" when they challenge each other to a bicycle race to Berwick-upon-Tweed (which is just over sixty miles from Newcastle), only to find that neither of them are as fit as they thought they were, leading to both of them going to great lengths to cheat their way to victory.
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The Likely Lads / int_622d4676	type	Mistaken for Suicidal
The Likely Lads / int_622d4676	comment	Mistaken for Suicidal: When Thelma goes back to the house to check on Bob (having previously left him over a Mistaken for Cheating incident), she catches him with his head in the oven. Thinking he was trying to kill himself, she's overcome with remorse. Turns out, he was trying to clean it.
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The Likely Lads / int_62907b90	type	Bottle Episode
The Likely Lads / int_62907b90	comment	Bottle Episode: "Boys' Night In" is the closest to this; in addition to Bob and Terry, the only other characters to feature in the episode are two police officers.
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The Likely Lads / int_629de9ad	type	'70s Hair
The Likely Lads / int_629de9ad	comment	'70s Hair: Both main characters have noticeably longer hair than in the original series, although in both cases it appears that they've more or less kept the same styles as they had in The '60s and just grown their hair longer. In the Christmas special, Bob's got a beard too — although he's shaved it off by the time of The Movie.
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The Likely Lads / int_664bc28f	type	British Brevity
The Likely Lads / int_664bc28f	comment	British Brevity: Somewhat averted by British standards, as the show ran to two series of 13 episodes plus a Christmas special, giving us 27 episodes over two years.
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The Likely Lads / int_680f950	type	Gilligan Cut
The Likely Lads / int_680f950	comment	Gilligan Cut: In "The Old Magic":
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The Likely Lads / int_6a993504	type	Audio Adaptation
The Likely Lads / int_6a993504	comment	Audio Adaptation: Sixteen of the episodes were adapted for radio and broadcast over two series in 1967 and 1968, with (most of) the original television cast reprising their roles.
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The Likely Lads / int_6b27162d	type	The Remake
The Likely Lads / int_6b27162d	comment	The Remake: In 2002 Ant and Dec starred in a remake of "No Hiding Place" under the title A Tribute To The Likely Lads. Rodney Bewes made a Remake Cameo as the newspaper vendor.
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The Likely Lads / int_6ef9d3fe	type	Christmas Episode
The Likely Lads / int_6ef9d3fe	comment	Christmas Episode: The last-ever TV episode, entitled The Likely Lads: A Special Christmas Edition and broadcast in 1974 — in which Terry, having passed his driving test and got a job as a minicab driver, drives Bob and Thelma to a fancy-dress party. Hilarity Ensues.
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The Likely Lads / int_72852a93	type	Henpecked Husband
The Likely Lads / int_72852a93	comment	Henpecked Husband: Bob, who's actually a henpecked fiance before the wedding.
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The Likely Lads / int_751bd286	type	Is This Thing Still On?
The Likely Lads / int_751bd286	comment	Is This Thing Still On?: In The Movie, Bob and Thelma have an argument in the back of Terry's employer's van. Unfortunately, the van as a PA system which has been left on, broadcasting their argument across the nightbourhood. Terry loses his job as a result.
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The Likely Lads / int_76db0ef5	type	Slobs Versus Snobs
The Likely Lads / int_76db0ef5	comment	Slobs Versus Snobs: Thelma (middle class) vs. Terry (working class), with Bob caught in the middle. Also at play between Thelma's parents — her mother is a very prim and proper middle-class type while her father, despite the fact that he runs his own company, is proud of his working-class origins.
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The Likely Lads / int_798a9e41	type	Auto Erotica
The Likely Lads / int_798a9e41	comment	Auto Erotica. Attempted by Bob ... with someone other than Thelma.
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The Likely Lads / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
The Likely Lads / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: Happens a few times. We first see the newly-demobbed Terry on a train playing with two children. Since we have just heard Bob saying he's not heard from Terry for five years, one might assume that he now has a family of his own, but it is quickly revealed they are not his — he's just been keeping them occupied while their mother, who is in the same carriage as Terry, went to the toilet. The Christmas episode opens with Thelma hastily writing out a list of Christmas presents that she and Bob need to buy, in addition to fretting over their Christmas card list and worrying about which parties they're going to attend. Then Bob points out that it's September.
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The Likely Lads / int_94d295c0	type	The Precious, Precious Car
The Likely Lads / int_94d295c0	comment	The Precious, Precious Car: A Running Gag in The Movie sees Bob's brand-new Vauxhall Chevette being subjected to many indignities — almost as many as Bob and Terry themselves, in fact.
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The Likely Lads / int_985e118a	type	Odd Couple
The Likely Lads / int_985e118a	comment	Odd Couple: The two main characters — even more so when Terry moves in with Bob after Thelma leaves him.
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The Likely Lads / int_98b5f82b	type	Basement-Dweller
The Likely Lads / int_98b5f82b	comment	Basement-Dweller: Initially, both lads live with their parents; in Bob's case, this ends when he and Thelma get married, with it being stated that the only reason they don't move into their new house together beforehand is out of fear for what the neighbours might think about an unmarried couple living together, although both characters make it clear that they have an active sex life prior to the wedding. With Terry, it's justifiable in the first series as he's just come home after leaving the Army. He moves into Bob and Thelma's place when they're on their honeymoon, and later shares the place with Bob for a while when Thelma goes back to live with her mother.
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The Likely Lads / int_99b2613a	type	Oop North
The Likely Lads / int_99b2613a	comment	Oop North: Unlike the original series, this one was filmed on location in the North-East. The film used a number of locations in and around Newcastle and the surrounding countryside, although some location shots were done in the London area (likely done for expediency as the film was made at EMI's Elstree Studios, located in Borehamwood, just north of London). Only Terry has anything like a realistic Geordie accent, and not nearly as strong as one would expect from his character; James Bolam was actually born in Sunderland, where the accent, though sometimes confused with Geordie, is subtly different. Other characters, including Bob and members of Terry's immediate family, mostly speak in generic Northern accents (a sort of mild Yorkshire; Rodney Bewes, who played Bob, was in fact from Yorkshire and used his own accent).
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The Likely Lads / int_9cbf01d6	comment	Stay in the Kitchen: Bob seems to take this attitude — although she has a job of her own, Thelma does all of the cooking and housework. When she moves out and Terry moves in, the latter ends up doing all of the domestic tasks. Or trying to, at any rate.
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The Likely Lads / int_a1a1491e	type	Homage
The Likely Lads / int_a1a1491e	comment	Homage: in the episode where Bob is driving newly-returned Terry around Newcastle to show him how things have changed in the last five years, they stop outside a multi-storey car park which remains in the centre of shot for a long time. This is a key location in the Newcastle-set gangster movie Get Carter note in which Michael Caine throws Bryan Mosley off the top; it's a long way down , which had been released in cinemas two years earlier.
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The Likely Lads / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Thelma appeared in one episode of The Likely Lads in which she was one of two young ladies who went on a double date with Bob and Terry. For Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, she was retconned as having been Bob's childhood sweetheart and was now a regular character; she and Bob were by now engaged, and their wedding happened at the end of the first series.
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The Likely Lads / int_a8aba532	comment	Football Hooligan: Terry is arrested for being one of these in "One for the Road".
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The Likely Lads / int_aa4cbf9a	comment	My Local: Of all the pubs the lads liked going to, their favourite was the Black Horse. Closely followed by the Fat Ox (which got demolished at the start of The Movie), the Wheatsheaf, etc, etc.
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The Likely Lads / int_aa9fcfed	comment	Embarrassing Middle Name: Bob's full name is revealed as Robert Andrew Scarborough Ferris — which is at least less embarrassing than Terry's guesses at what the S might stand for (Stalin, Sarajevo, Sands-of-Iwo-Jima...) It's still pretty embarrassing to explain; it's because he was conceived there note although this is contradicted by the opening flashback sequence of The Movie, which states that both of the lads were conceived in Newcastle ... during the same air raid.
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The Likely Lads / int_ac4ac8e5	comment	There are also lots of references to movies. As well having most episode titles named after movies (see above under Idiosyncratic Episode Naming), the script frequently features jokes about popular films — such as Terry's dig at Bob that his new middle-class friends include "Bob and Carol, and Ted and Alice", a reference to the 1969 film of that name.
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The Likely Lads / int_ae1c0901	comment	The Blind Leading the Blind: Bob takes relationship advice from Terry, whose romantic history is somewhat unsuccessful.
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The Likely Lads / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Some scenes appear to be slightly contrived to show Thelma (Brigid Forsyth) undressing, or wearing a very short-cut slip, or on one memorable occasion leaning out of a window in a virtually see-through nightie.
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The Likely Lads / int_b2280b66	comment	Retcon: In the original series, Bob didn't have a steady girlfriend (although he was constantly seeking one). As of the colour revival, Thelma is stated to have been his childhood sweetheart, although she was only shown once in the original series (as one of the two young ladies Bob and Terry went on a double date with).
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The Likely Lads / int_b688bbfc	comment	Pregnancy Scare: Thelma's sister Susan has one of these in "Heart To Heart":
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The Likely Lads / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: A type 1 example occurs in "Brief Encounter", when Bob and Terry unknowingly date the same girl.
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The Likely Lads / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: When Bob wakes up befuddled in the police station after his non-stag-party and asks what happened, Terry tells him they had an encounter with a strange doctor in a police box. There are also lots of references to movies. As well having most episode titles named after movies (see above under Idiosyncratic Episode Naming), the script frequently features jokes about popular films — such as Terry's dig at Bob that his new middle-class friends include "Bob and Carol, and Ted and Alice", a reference to the 1969 film of that name.
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The Likely Lads / int_cdad4b25	type	Toxic Friend Influence
The Likely Lads / int_cdad4b25	comment	Toxic Friend Influence: Terry to Bob, from Thelma's perspective at least. Dialogue indicates that Terry was even seen as being this when he was at school.
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The Likely Lads / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
The Likely Lads / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: Thelma in "Storm in a Tea Chest", when she makes Bob throw all of his treasured childhood possessions away, while hanging onto all of her own.
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The Likely Lads / int_d6b5f05f	type	Friendship Moment
The Likely Lads / int_d6b5f05f	comment	Friendship Moment: Terry and Thelma have a few of these, especially in the second series.
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The Likely Lads / int_dc2912f	comment	Armoured Closet Gay: Bob implies this about Terry in "No Hiding Place".
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The Likely Lads / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
The Likely Lads / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: At play in "One for the Road", in which Bob and Terry are both arrested for completely different offences (respectively, drink-driving and football hooliganism) and end up in the same police cell.
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The Likely Lads / int_deecc9eb	type	Awful Wedded Life
The Likely Lads / int_deecc9eb	comment	Awful Wedded Life: Bob and Thelma's marriage is rarely a happy one, with him often being Mistaken for Cheating (and justifiably so at times — although he never actually commits adultery, it's not for want of trying). They separate during the second series but are reconciled, only for them to separate again in the film, and they are not reconciled by the time it ends, with Bob inadvertently sailing to the Middle East. As there were no follow-ups due to Rodney Bewes and James Bolam having fallen out, we'll never know what happened after that. Terry's marriage to Jutta, whom he met while serving with the British Army in West Germany, did not last beyond England's ill-fated match against West Germany in the 1970 World Cup note the two sides met in the quarter-final; England (the reigning World Champions at the time) took a 2-0 lead, only for West Germany to draw level before getting a winner in extra time , although it took several years for the divorce to go through.
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The Likely Lads / int_df582b0b	type	Continuity Snarl
The Likely Lads / int_df582b0b	comment	Continuity Snarl: A minor case — it is often stated that Terry was in the Army for five years, even though there was actually a seven-year gap between 1966 (the last episode of the black and white series, in which he joined the Army) and 1973 (the first episode of the colour revival, in which he returned to civilian life). A possible work-around comes in the form of the radio series, which aired from 1967 to 1968 and also concluded with Terry joining the Army, which gives a five-year gap. Another example is Terry's marriage to Jutta, which he says lasted for two years even though he also says that they got married in 1969 and the marriage more or less ended the following summer as a result of England being defeated by West Germany in the 1970 World Cup (although it took a while for the divorce to go through).
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The Likely Lads / int_f2ced7b8	comment	Surprise Party: Bob and Thelma organises one for Terry in "Birthday Boy", although things do not go according to plan.
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The Likely Lads / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: Averted, what with this being a BBC show, but the Beeb did sneak in some of its own; as was the case with a few other BBC shows, whenever a character is shown reading a magazine, it's always the Radio Times (the listings guide published by the Beeb).
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