The Likely Lads

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.

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  James Bolam

  Terry
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  Rodney Bewes

  Bob
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  Mary Tamm

  Christina
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  Sheila Fearn

  Audrey
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  Zena Walker

  Laura
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  Alun Armstrong

  Tommy
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  Vicki Michelle

  Glenys
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  Michelle Newell

  Alice
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  Penny Irving

  Sandy
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  Edward Wilson

  Les