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This is the first of two programmes examining television situation comedy series. It deals with the BBC's "The Likely Lads" and its follow-up series "Whatever Happened To The Likely ...Lads?" It looks at the comic strategies, themes of social class and sexuality and changes between the two series, using extracts from both.
This is the first of two programmes examining television situation comedy series. It deals with the BBC's "The Likely Lads" and its follow-up series "Whatever Happened To The Likely ...Lads?" It looks at the comic strategies, themes of social class and sexuality and changes between the two series, using extracts from both.
| Module code and title: | U203, Popular culture |
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| Item code: | U203; 09 |
| Recording date: | 25-01-1982 |
| Original broadcast channel: | ntx |
| Published: | 1982 |
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| Duration: | 00:44:54 |
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| Producer: | Victor Lockwood |
| Contributors: | John Clarke; Janet Woollacott |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Comic strategy; Distancing; Economic circularity; Identification; Jokes; Sex; Situation comedy; Social class |
| Master spool number: | 6HT/73902 |
| Production number: | FOUP089N |
| Videofinder number: | 1230 |
| Available to public: | no |
