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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 94934" data-attributes="member: 23"><p>And that's pretty much it. The final episode to feature Hylda Baker was enjoyable enough of a fashion. Her wheelchair was even worked into the comedy of the plot. The story itself, by the way, was lifted from <em>Nearest And Dearest. </em>If I remember correctly this is an amalgam of an episode with a French visitor and one where they looked after a young relative. It was al very familiar- right down to the scripts. Every word felt like it had previously been spoken on<em> Nearest And Dearest</em>. It wasn't as good as the episodes it blatantly ripped off... but it wasn't bad either. </p><p></p><p>Then came the Nellie-less final episode, which was just mind-bogglingly dire. Not only did Nellie not appear, but Alf, another relative of Jack Douglas's Stanley turned up played by Douglas himself. Which was of course Douglas's annoying twitchy characterisation. Then Stanley was quickly written out for it to become the Alf show. Frankly it was painful to watch. </p><p></p><p>With Baker having suddenly disappeared, I imagine the writers and actors were under pressure. But the episode just felt like Jack Douglas mucking about doing bad, unfunny physical comedy. It had "let me just try this" written all over it. Kind of like watching a rehearsal where someone has a go at something that doesn't quite work well enough to make it in. The most unforgivable thing was it resembled nothing of what the show was originally set up to be. If the final episode proves anything, it's that the powers that be did the right thing by cutting the series short rather than allowing it to become The Alf Show. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>According to some dialogue in one of the last two episodes, Bertha is actually Gilbert's sister. OK then. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I meant to write "Gilbert" of course. Walter is the <em>Nearest And Dearest </em>character that Gilbert is substituting. And boy, was Walter sorely missed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 94934, member: 23"] And that's pretty much it. The final episode to feature Hylda Baker was enjoyable enough of a fashion. Her wheelchair was even worked into the comedy of the plot. The story itself, by the way, was lifted from [I]Nearest And Dearest. [/I]If I remember correctly this is an amalgam of an episode with a French visitor and one where they looked after a young relative. It was al very familiar- right down to the scripts. Every word felt like it had previously been spoken on[I] Nearest And Dearest[/I]. It wasn't as good as the episodes it blatantly ripped off... but it wasn't bad either. Then came the Nellie-less final episode, which was just mind-bogglingly dire. Not only did Nellie not appear, but Alf, another relative of Jack Douglas's Stanley turned up played by Douglas himself. Which was of course Douglas's annoying twitchy characterisation. Then Stanley was quickly written out for it to become the Alf show. Frankly it was painful to watch. With Baker having suddenly disappeared, I imagine the writers and actors were under pressure. But the episode just felt like Jack Douglas mucking about doing bad, unfunny physical comedy. It had "let me just try this" written all over it. Kind of like watching a rehearsal where someone has a go at something that doesn't quite work well enough to make it in. The most unforgivable thing was it resembled nothing of what the show was originally set up to be. If the final episode proves anything, it's that the powers that be did the right thing by cutting the series short rather than allowing it to become The Alf Show. According to some dialogue in one of the last two episodes, Bertha is actually Gilbert's sister. OK then. I meant to write "Gilbert" of course. Walter is the [I]Nearest And Dearest [/I]character that Gilbert is substituting. And boy, was Walter sorely missed. [/QUOTE]
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