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    Posted: November 12 2017 at 10:20
...stand head and shoulders above the rest?
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Points: 65266 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 13 2017 at 00:05
"May I ask what you expected to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window?  Sydney Opera House perhaps?  The Hanging Gardens of Babylon?  Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically ..."


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Points: 2689 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 13 2017 at 05:24
Great writing, great cast, and strictly limited itself to six episodes in 1975, followed four years later by another six.
It didn't outstay its welcome.

Afterwards, of course, John Cleese was back with the Pythons for "Life Of Brian" etc.
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Points: 34055 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 13 2017 at 05:38
it dident go one episode too long it stopped and then it was over. And that was al it needed to deliver its charm. Not like certain sit-coms that goes on too long
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Points: 65266 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 13 2017 at 05:57
^ It did seem to benefit from a short run but I always felt twelve episodes was a bit short--  one more season would've been great to see.
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Originally posted by condor condor wrote:

...stand head and shoulders above the rest?
 
It doesn't, "Only Fools and Horses" beats it in a lot of polls.
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