Hugh and I [DVD]

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It is very noisy and smoke comes into the living room every time it is started, so Terry decides they should paint a white line at 2am to stop it being parked there. One evening whilst Terry and his mother are away at a dinner party over at the Wormwolds, he invites Norma's Jazz group, the Tooting Trad Type over, so they can practise in the living room. I have given five stars because it's good to see that someone's bothered to release it, many vintage sitcom's have yet to make it to DVD but it's only really worth 4 because it could have been so much better. When Hugh is suffering from a terrible toothache, the entire household and neighbours rally round him for assistance.

It's a shame that at least the two existing episodes from later series that the BBC hold* haven't been included, (3/7; Escort Duty and 5/3; It Never Rains, along with the extant 1964 Christmas Night With The Stars sketch), but well done Simply for getting these twenty episodes out. The guest cast includes several marvellous appearances from Fred Emney, along with Julian Orchard, Patsy Smart, Deryck Guyler and Peggy Ann Wood.I love watching this and other 1960s sitcoms as I wasn't born when they were originally transmitted. Despite Hugh's protestations about going to the dentist, Terry is determined to drag him to the dentist's chair.

Getting up at 5am and wandering around on cold moors quickly loses its appeal, and it doesn't help that there are army manoeuvres there, so they head south to Brighton.Subsequently it transmitted after 'Coal Comfort' which was originally scheduled to be shown following this episode. All episodes from the first, fifth and sixth series were 30 minutes, while episodes from the other series were 25 minutes long.