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At last it's back!

posted 18 years ago by bob_yarwood
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At last this marvellous series is being repeated, on ITV3 April 2007. The cast is superb, the stories charming, and those sumptuous costumes! I have been waiting for this since it was put on the first time - I feel like "The Watcher"!

It is very like a series of books written (and set) in the 1950s by Beverley Nichols, the first in the series being called "Merry Hall". It is the same kind of small-village comedy with bitter feuds carried on under a cloak of respectability and politeness. I expect however that I the only one left alive who remembers it.

[–] fairbairn 18 years ago

Blissful isn't it? This is how an adaptation should be, pure gold, I can't get enough.

Thanks for the Beverley Nichols tip....

Come and see the violence in the system!...Help help, I'm being repressed!

[–] fairbairn 18 years ago

Check your PM box Bob, and thanks again!

Normally I don't usually meet people...Unless I already know them."

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[–] offramp_tavanipupu 18 years ago

I am watching it on ITV3 - even though M & P is a C4 programme. It is followed by The Two Ronnies - which was made by the Beeb.

Mapp and Lucia is brilliant; the casting really couldn't be better, and it is all character-driven; there aren't many jokes.

[–] egham1 18 years ago

It must have been about 10 years that I noticed that this was to be shown on the Granada Channel on Sky Satellite TV. I got a chap I worked with to record the first episode and ordered Sky so that I could watch the rest of it! We've got the books (and the excellent Tom Holt follow ups - quite expensive now but you might find them on Ebay) and the DVDs (we took the videos to the Charity shop) but still take a peek when we're doing nothing and they're on TV. THE greatest comic drama series ever.
I shall check out Beverley Nicholls.

[–] edward-miller-1 18 years ago

So, I'm guessing that you're all in the British Isles. I'm you're American cousin Ed in Florida, but I was living in New York when I first saw M & L on our Public Television station. I fell in love with them immediately, and when they showed them again, I recorded them on VHS. Over the years I literally wore out my tapes. And this was only the first season of M & L; I had no idea there were more episodes until the mid-90s, when Public Television in Florida showed Series Two. By that time I had read all the Benson books, and since then I bought both series in boxed VHS sets, and two years ago the complete sets on DVDs. My life is a better place, thanks to "Mapp and Lucia"!

"If ah irritate you, jes think how ah irritate mahself."

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[–] chuffnobbler 17 years ago

I am watching videoes that I bought froma charity shop. I like to think they're yours, Egham-1. It's the wittiest, most sarcastic series I have seen for many years, and I ache with laughter. Watched the "organ repair" episode last night. The bishop running away from Lucia, and Mrs Wyse giving her MBE another airing. Love it.