Little & Large Xmas special 1980. Extraordinary.

[Glebe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C6_6n7o7PI

Probably old news

[jenna appleseed]

Stolen from Slurp Sloo & Tops comic/magazine

[jenna appleseed]

Probably already posted but it appeared on Curious British Telly's twitter



I'm now hoping against hope for the total lack of existence of Syd&Eddie slash.

[Mr Banlon]

Is that the Windsor Davies cupboard behind them ?

[jenna appleseed]

Is that the Windsor Davies cupboard behind them ?

probably. (in the twitter comments people suggested the other act were next door and the bolt was to keep The Krankies out.)

[Alberon]

Probably already posted but it appeared on Curious British Telly's twitter



I'm now hoping against hope for the total lack of existence of Syd&Eddie slash.

The laws of the internet say there must be such a thing. But I'm not going to search for it.

I think that photo has been posted before, but nothing wrong with putting it up again. It's one of many shots where it makes Syd's glasses look like those joke ones with eyes drawn on them.

[Ballad of Ballard Berkley]

Quite the bulge in Eddie's trousers, there. Does Syd have genitals? It seems unlikely.

[dissolute ocelot]

The laws of the internet say there must be such a thing. But I'm not going to search for it.

A minute on Archive Of Our Own isn't turning anything up. I did find quite a bit of Russian Little Britain fanfic but no idea how explicit it is.

[gilbertharding]

Speaking of which...

Stolen from Slurp Sloo & Tops comic/magazine

What's going on with Syd's crotch there?

[Jackson K Pollock]

I've actually just finished watching the last two series myself over the last couple of months and - completely coincidentally - it was often perfectly in sync with the BBC4 repeats of Top of the Pops. I saw The Railway Children one Friday night and had absolutely no memory of them whatsoever, then a couple of days later they popped up on my L&L rewatch and I thought "ah, they must be doing the rounds this week" before realizing that no, I'm just wasting my adulthood wallowing in murky early-90s nostalgia. When Danni Minogue popped up in an episode for a song *and* a sketch, I was practically Father Jack "is that gobshite never off the air"-ing to myself.

Anyway, if I'd had the time/inclination/patience, I wish I'd kept a list of the handful of genuinely good sketches they had. Not much of an obituary, I realize, but I honestly think that over the 70-odd episodes they made, there's easily enough material for a really great 20 minute special.

The last ever episode is a bit of a curiosity for a train carriage sketch where they're discussing Britain's imminent arrival into the EU, although it's hard to gather any real political perspective or viewpoint from the time as the whole exercise is mainly just an excuse for

Spoiler alert

Eddie to wheel out a load of dodgy accents, naturally

[close]

.

The sheer amount of blacking up is just incredible. Seriously - almost every single episode. I genuinely had to stop watching the show on the big TV after a while for fear of my wife walking in. Different times, I suppose, but yikes...

I wish I'd made a note of the episode (one of the first of the 1990 series, I think), but there was one absolutely belting sketch that had me laughing almost all the way through - a take-off of the Michael J. Fox ad where the hot neighbour comes round to borrow some Pepsi. Swap the light-footed Fox for Eddie plunging through the roof of a car he's attempting to leapfrog over and you know you're onto a winner. Not to mention the AMAZING twist ending:

Spoiler alert

Syd gets the girl!

[close]

I found the mega mixes largely interminable, to be honest, and by the last season they were pretty much starting and ending the show with them, but the one thing you can say is that Eddie genuinely gave it his all in every single thing he did. And Syd was... also there...

Could only really make it through a couple of the late 70s eps, as - being born in 1980 - the overall aesthetic/nostalgia value just wasn't there for me and it really was too bleak to bare after a while. That said, I never tired of the "on location" skits where members of the public would consistently outshine Syd (and often be about as good as Eddie). If I had a show on prime time BBC/ITV I'd probably be wary of making it clear that almost literally anyone could do it as well as me, but these boys obviously had no ego.

It's a shame we never got a communal watch-along going, a la Derek, but I'm just about to make a start on the 1989 series if anyone's interested?

Oh, and spam (of this here parish) has also just written a terrific 5,000-word opus on the final series on his Patreon page which is well worth checking out if you're signed up to that (and I think it'll be available for free in a couple of weeks even if you're not).

Thanks so much to the CABber who hooked me up with these, not to mention everyone else who's contributed to this thread over the last - eek - 9 years! It's a flipping fascinating document and I can't wait to work my way backwards to the Roy "Spook!" Jay appearance over the next several months!

[Gradual Decline]

Some very welcome Ian 'Zippy' Lees news: https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/news/19186305.magician-binman-woolston-resident-ian-zippy-lees/

Like most of us, Ian has been hit quite hard by the pandemic. Glad to see he's on the up.

Gutted to have missed this, though: https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/news/17000726.warrington-entertainer-ian-zippy-lees-stars-big-family-cooking-showdown/

I wonder how wacky his twin brother, Mark ' ' Lees is?: https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/familycookingshowdown2/lees/

[Glebe]

First two links are broken for me, but glad to hear the disturbing Zippy man is doing well! You'll be telling us Debi Jones has her own prime time show next (first guest: Gary Gizmo)!

[Tony Yeboah]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBme5qljiAo The lads pop up on the Christmas 1981 edition of Junior Kickstart

[pigamus]

https://spam.wordpress.com/2021/09/05/little-and-large-the-final-series/

He suffers so you don't have to

[Indomitable Spirit]

https://spam.wordpress.com/2021/09/05/little-and-large-the-final-series/

He suffers so you don't have to

some fantastic avatars in there for anyone fancying a bit of a change

I'm having this one...

[DrGreggles]

[Glebe]

some fantastic avatars in there for anyone fancying a bit of a change

I'm having this one...

Oh fuck me straight to the last post that made you LOL thread!

[kalowski]

Syd as Chuck Berry (blacked up, and looking like a sleep paralysis demon)

Utter genius.

[Pavlov`s Dog`s Dad`s Dead]

Utter genius.

Agreed.

Syd runs on the spot while Eddie thrusts a Cumberland finger at us

Every so often this afternoon, that phrase a Cumberland finger has floated back into my awareness and made me grin broadly.

[Replies From View]

Probably already posted but it appeared on Curious British Telly's twitter



I'm now hoping against hope for the total lack of existence of Syd&Eddie slash.

Syd's glasses are so thick they prevent any skin beneath them from becoming tanned.



Grotesque.

[Video Game Fan 2000]

https://spam.wordpress.com/2021/09/05/little-and-large-the-final-series/

He suffers so you don't have to

This was like getting free therapy for childhood trauma.

L&L final series was my generations equivalent to Elsagate youtube videos.

[Glebe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5PHmkSfPbM#t=1m17s

[Gurke and Hare]

I'd forgotten that House Party had people from The Bill turning up in character. Weird.

[The Bumlord]

Haven't checked in here for a while and I'm faced with this abomination.


That said, there's nothing 'little' about Syd there!














I mean his cock.

[kalowski]

That's no way to talk about Eddie!

[Glebe]

This week's finale is very exciting for me, with a bat and spooky skull, and the legend LITTLE AND LARGE'S MONSTER MEGA MIX

As an (almost) Halloween treat, could some kind soul please upload the Monster Mega Mix to YouTube or that, for I much desire to see it. Just for Syd in action as Freddy alone. And you can't go wrong with an L&L Mega Mix in any case.

[Gurke and Hare]

This Youtube clip has a roundup near the start of the next day's BBC1, including a bit from our boys which is an absolute clunker even by their standards.

[robhug]

If there was a channel that just repeated exactly what was on 40 years ago, I'd most probably watch it the most out of all the myriad of channels available now.

dead, nonce, nonce, dead, dementia, dead, fuckin ell still alive, etc

[Ballad of Ballard Berkley]

I would genuinely love to watch Barry Norman's "sometimes sexy and often violent" overview of '70s cinema. Please repeat that, BBC Four. Cheers.

[Lisa Jesusandmarychain]

The very first episode of " Hi-De-hi!" being flagged at the start, there.