ESP Blue
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Surgical Appliances ?
Rising Damp
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cityontheup
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The boxing episode was funny as hell, watching rigsby riding a punch hahah
1961_vintage
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Top article - thanks for sharing.Bump. Leonard Rossiter, one of our very finest comic actors died 40 years ago.
I learned a great deal about his career from this excellent Guardian article and wanted to share it.
‘It was hard not to stare at him all the time’: inside the remarkable rise and shocking loss of Leonard Rossiter
Best known for sitcoms Rising Damp and The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, the actor died 40 years ago during a performance of Loot, aged 57. Co-stars, colleagues and friends remember a brilliant, singular and demanding manwww.theguardian.com
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What about a Waltz
Eaststander1
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Brilliant comedy , probably my favourite ...... the mix of quality characters is absolutely spot on, and there's a laugh a minute with 'shifty', skinflint landlord 'Rigsby' ..... this consistently hilarious comedy/sitcom is undoubtedly amongst the very best that we've ever produced on these shores, if not THE best!
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Eaststander1
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Couldn't agree more .... you sum it up perfectly there.Rising Damp ....... sheer brilliance ..... any comedy/sitcom is only as good as it's characters , and this programme was about as good as sitcoms get ..... timeless too , they are still as funny today as they ever were ....... this was 'argueably' THE best sitcom of all time.
Leonard Rossiter , of course , deserves special mention as 'Rigsby' , his 'one-liners' were hilarious ..... but the blend of the other characters in the show was sheer poetry.
Was a crying shame that Richard Beckinsale met with such an untimely death at just 31 years of age , due to a heart attack.
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He was a lot better than very very good at squash...
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Loved the episode where Rigsby and Miss Jones arrange a blind date with each other and she says how will I recognise you, perhaps carrying a newspaper like the telegraph ? Rigsby said, The telegraph, you couldn't make it the Mirror could you!?
Kippaxpete
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Ironic when you consider the right wing views held by Rossiter who was a life-long Tory.
40 years ago. Jesus that's hard to believe.