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Most TV programes last Series in general have gone down the swanny I


Feel as the writers have run out of ideas or other thing's have got in the way but not with In Sickness And In Health. The last 6 episodes of ISAIH were truly brilliant and excellently wrote I feel.

Admitted there was some characters not in it - byut it all came together so well I reckon ... it'd of been great to see Una Stubbs return just once more as Rita I think too to at least have some kind of ill fated attempt to share in her Dad's "money". Warren Mitchell is an acting genius I think who was top drawer in his day in acting terms as Alf Garnett!

I admitt he was raceist in quite a few aspects but not more so than in other comedy's of the late 70s/80s early 90s which still had rascist comments (just ISAIH had more than say Only Fools and Horses etc.

Sadly - it's a shame such genius of the character of Alf Garnett, taking away the rascist elements (which I don't approve of), but I just love his witt full stop bar this, everyone just knew an "Alf Garnett" and probably still do!

Though as I say it did have many rascist elements/lines etc I can not dispute and approve of - Warren was so so funny in general in this excluding this and taking away the rascist bit's Alf could give Victor Meldrew a run for his money day.

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One foot in the grave and In Sickness did co-exist for a few years. Alf was a character that people have followed since the 1960s. Victor was a person dealing with life in a curmudgeonly state of his life.

Its that man again!!

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