Right folks enough of the doom gloom and bitching!

[max_tranmere]

That's right, he was heavily typecast from then on. Actors face a dilemma: keep
doing what you're doing for as long as you can as it brings in the big bucks, but
risk being type-cast forever, or quit after a year or two, try and get different
roles and hope you can keep getting them - there's a possibility you won't
get enough work therefore it may have been advisable to stay with what you
were doing and just endure the inevitable type-casting that is bound to come
later in life.

You are right that Harry H Corbett was a stage actor, he was described as
"England's Marlon Brando": hugely respected and most of the acting fraternity
would tune in and watch him when he was on. On the documentary I saw people
were saying there is a good chance no one would have taken him seriously as
a Shakespearian stage actor later because he was so associated with Harold
Steptoe - rather like how George Cole will always be thought of as Arthur
Daley, for example, or William Shatner as Captain Kirk. Imagine Corbett on
stage later in life doing Hamlet, he is in a serious scene, and someone in the
audience yells out: "Harroooollldddd!!!", and the whole theatre laughs...

[blurk99]

Porridge - pure genius

[Cuntybollocks]

Agreed!!

[Gentleman]

One too many s's can make a word of difference it seems!

Never knew about the legal stuff especially as it was a great piece of drama.

[Arginald Valleywater]

Open All Hours.

[Essex Lad]

Arginald Valleywater wrote:

> Open All Hours.

New series being made Still Open All Hours

[Essex Lad]

The full story is told at the end here

[Arginald Valleywater]

Ditto Porridge. So many talented actors in one show.

[Dave Wells]

Auf Weidersehen Pet - brilliantly written and acted.

[Essex Lad]

Dave Wells wrote:

> Auf Weidersehen Pet - brilliantly written and acted.
>
Wasn't that a drama? I think the thread refers to sitcoms...