Blamire

[mikey1965uk]

I thought that Foggy often loses his nerve rather than always stands his ground.

Loads of examples of him standing his ground. One especially comes to mind when he first comes back home. He's in the pub and has a confrontation with Little Big Malcolm and although he loses he certainly wasn't scared, not even slightly.

 

[WellyMan]

Loads of examples of him standing his ground. One especially comes to mind when he first comes back home. He's in the pub and has a confrontation with Little Big Malcolm and although he loses he certainly wasn't scared, not even slightly.

Yes, there are times that he stands his ground, but IIRC other times he's all mouth and trousers so loses his nerve about something and gets someone else to do it. But then my memory is not good so maybe I'm misremembering.

Should also mention that he doesn't like to stand his round in the pub, that's when bravery deserts him

 

[mikey1965uk]

Yes, there are times that he stands his ground, but IIRC other times he's all mouth and trousers so loses his nerve about something and gets someone else to do it. But then my memory is not good so maybe I'm misremembering.

Should also mention that he doesn't like to stand his round in the pub, that's when bravery deserts him

No you're not misremembering. Nora, Ivy and others come to mind hahaha

 

[Don]

I think the Blamire episodes always had a bit of grunge to them which I liked, A touch of pessimism. I think Getting Sam home had the same type of feel too. Bleak humor was more abundant.
In my opinion, once Brian Wilde came on board, the show’s writing slowly starting sailing along gentler streams until it eventually became a little bit over run with slapstick.

 

[wstol]

I think the Blamire episodes always had a bit of grunge to them which I liked, A touch of pessimism. I think Getting Sam home had the same type of feel too. Bleak humor was more abundant.
In my opinion, once Brian Wilde came on board, the show’s writing slowly starting sailing along gentler streams until it eventually became a little bit over run with slapstick.

Yes - when Series 4 came out, the show was much gentler, and set the tone and basis for many years to come.

 

[captain clutterbuck]

It's been said before but as series progressed the "shouty" era disappeared which I feel was a great improvement as I personally found it really disturbing and annoying a gentle comedy is no place for balling and shouting if I wanted that I could go into pretty much every pub in the UK [pet hate!!]