Chance In A Million

[racingsnake]

Anyone remember this TV sitcom ???

 

[graham]

yes.

 

[Limestone_Cowboy]

no

 

[paul]

Yes.

 

[ttxela]

yes

 

[racingsnake]

Excellent thats more than I thought
Limestone cowboy you don't know what you missed.
I have all three series if you would like to borrow them

 

[Limestone_Cowboy]

When was it on as I'm only wee youngster, and what was it about?

 

[racingsnake]

Was on in 1984

Tom Chance is trouble in human form, someone for whom life is one long uninterrupted litany of misfortunes. He must have run over a dozen black cats and smashed as many mirrors, so dogged is he by coincidental bad luck. As a result of one of his confusions, Tom meets Alison Little, a shy and retiring librarian, and right from the start she too becomes embroiled in his catalogue of disasters, returning home from their first meeting dressed only in her underwear. (This turns out to be portentous, for under her timid, mannered surface she is a simmering cauldron of desire.) The pair become engaged (in the second series), much to the despair of Alison's parents, and married (in the last), in Tom's usual disastrous circumstances: the wedding day begins with the bride and groom in jail, no best man, bridesmaids or guests, and the in-laws and the cake trapped in a sewer.


Kind of an 80'S farce

PM me your address if you want them, if you are under 30 I doubt you will find them that funny

 

[Limestone_Cowboy]

Thanks for the offer Racingsnake, I'm only 27 so was probably about 3 when it aired. I think I'll pass on watching it although it sounds quite amusing.
Cheers anyway

 

[racingsnake]

Okay dokey

 

[mrodoc]

You neglected to mention that the two stars are the much lauded and now well known actors Simon Callow and Brenda Blethyn. I might be interested in seeing them again!

 

[paul]

And Tom Chance (played by Simon Callow) had the enviable ability to down a pint and then speak while burping immediately after!

 

[Clarie]

Thanks for the offer Racingsnake, I'm only 27 so was probably about 3 when it aired.

Snap.

And they say there are no young cavers about nowadays...

 

[Brains]

I have no recollection of it, and am noyt young by any description... :-[

 

[jasonbirder]

What a legendary series...I thought I was the only person that remembered them...
I've never seen them repeated on any of the satellite channels...worse luck!

 

[Ship-badger]

I remember it. I thought it was great at the time.

 

[racingsnake]

MRODOC

PM me you address  and I will send you them . They are on Several CD'S Quality not that bad considering. I would like them back so if you will pay the postage they are yours for the borrowing

 

[gus horsley]

I can't recall it but I can remember Adam Adamant from some time before it, a wanky premise if ever there was one - Victorian sleuth accidentally incarcerated in a fridge for 100 years and thawed out by a mid-sixties dollybird (not mid-sixties in age) called Miss Jones who wants him to slip her one but he's too much of a gentleman, the prat.  A bit like Randall and Hopkirk (not-as-deceased-as-I'd-like-them-to-be), the original series.  Come to think of it, there were some really shite programmes around at that time.  Jason King was another contender.

But you'd be hard pushed to beat Mr Ed for quality entertainment.

 

[emgee]

I can't recall it but I can remember Adam Adamant from some time before it, a wanky premise if ever there was one - Victorian sleuth accidentally incarcerated in a fridge for 100 years and thawed out by a mid-sixties dollybird (not mid-sixties in age) called Miss Jones who wants him to slip her one but he's too much of a gentleman, the prat.  A bit like Randall and Hopkirk (not-as-deceased-as-I'd-like-them-to-be), the original series.  Come to think of it, there were some really shite programmes around at that time.  Jason King was another contender.

But you'd be hard pushed to beat Mr Ed for quality entertainment.

Didn't seem terribly believable to me. The Flying Nun on the other hand.

 

[gus horsley]

Don't remember the Flying Nun either, but me and my dad used to drool over I Dream Of Jeannie, an American offering that wasn't quite in the league of Mr Ed for storyline but had a skimpily-clad lass in it.  Mind you we were easily impressed in those days - a mate at school fell in love with Marina off Supercar.