I have loved this series since the 1980's, and I still love it. ^_^
(I hope PBS re-airs the rest of it at some point. They have now gone through
the first half of it three times that I know of in the past six months, and are
presently going through it a fourth time. They keep on not proceeding with
the rest of it. I've seen all of it before, but not recently [recently I've
only seen the first several episodes over and over ^_~]. I think that PBS
is trying REALLY hard to get us to buy the DVD boxed set [well, I probably
will, sometime! ^_^]. I saw it first on PBS in the mid-1980's when it first
came to America, then a few years later on A&E [Arts and Entertainment Network]
[they used to show really great stuff and a lot of it English...now they seem
to mostly show both fact and fiction crime shows...sigh...I mean, that stuff's
okay too sometimes, but...sigh...and long ago they started having the same
typical usual commercials as most other channels...I miss the days when they
only had a few commercials (for [1] The New Yorker and [2] Rubbermaid
["don't you wish everything was made like Rubbermaid"] and [3] Black and Decker...
maybe a few others occasionally, but those were the main three, for a while!)
and their commercials were always a little off the beaten path, and their channel
had its own unique style (this was in, for instance, 1989 and 1990...ahhh...good old times! ^_^)].)
More recently, I have been enjoying Judi Dench's performance as Matty in
Cranford (on Masterpiece, the show-formerly-known-as Masterpiece Theatre).
She's still good. ^_^
Re-watching A Fine Romance these days, I can't help thinking that she
and Michael Williams were adorable together. ^_^ (I just wish he was
still alive. ~_~ [Is Richard Warwick gone too? ~_~ He was so cute
when he was young/youngish! ^_^])
Judi Dench, Michael Williams, Richard Warwick, Susan Penhaligon...
the perfect party of four...they all played with/off each other
brilliantly. ^_^
Cute moments include:
Phil pretending to be French (really well) and Mike trying to copy him (really badly). ^_~
Helen (on the phone with Laura): "I swear on Grumpy's grave..."
Phil (mouthing, looking puzzled): "Grumpy's grave???" ^_~
Mike, upside down at the dentist's office, reciting the beginning of
"The Charge of the Light Brigade" (to distract Laura from her intense
fear of having dental work done): "Half a league, half a league, half
a league onward...into the valley of death..." (then gets up and says,
to the nurse, something like, "I suppose you wonder what I'm doing" ^_~
[and the nurse said "No" ^_~])
Later in the same episode, housesitting for Phil and Helen...Mike is
"in the mood", Laura isn't, Laura doesn't know that she was all over
Mike after the visit to the dentist...
Mike: "We should have come here straight from the dentist."
Laura: "What's that supposed to mean?"
^_~
When he was putting her to bed when she was "under the influence" of the
drugs from the dentist...
Mike: "Do you want to go anywhere before you go to bed?"
Laura: "Torquay."
Mike: "Not tonight."
Laura: "I know a dog with a wooden leg in Torquay."
(a little later) "His name was Harold."
Mike: "The dog."
Laura: "Yes. Harold Dog." (laughs)
^_~
When Phil was talking about how Helen used to be such an attractive secretary
(she had nice legs and a nice smile) and Helen says, so all that she was, then,
was a nice smile and a pair of legs...
Phil: "No, you were a very good typist, too."
Helen (indignantly, to Mike and Laura): "Too, you hear the too?"
^_~
Trying on dresses:
The saleslady, grandly, about Laura: "Here Madam is, doesn't
Madam look lovely?"
Laura: "Fat, Madam looks fat."
^_~
Judi Dench forever (dame of comedy, not just drama and Shakespeare! ^_~)
(If you haven't seen As Time Goes By [a different British situation
comedy series, or "Britcom" as PBS calls those, made later when
she was older, about getting back together with a lost love
(not Michael Williams...Geoffrey Palmer...but he's nice too! ^_^)],
well, that one's another must-see...also been shown [all the way through,
I think!] many times on PBS. ^_^ [I love the song "As Time Goes By" because
of that show...oh, and also, of course, the song "A Fine Romance" because
of that show! ^_^])
=^____^=
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