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‘It was hard not to stare at him all the time’: inside the remarkable rise and shocking loss of Leonard Rossiter

Best known for sitcoms Rising Damp and The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, the actor died 40 years ago during a performance of Loot, aged 57. Co-stars, colleagues and friends remember a brilliant, singular and demanding man

The Guardian - UK · Oct 4, 2024

40 years of comedy classic Auf Wiedersehen, Pet: ‘The producers thought it was too crude, too manly’

It’s four decades since the comedy drama detailing the exploits of British migrant workers in Germany – burst on to our screens. As they stage a live show, its writers and stars let us in on how they constructed a classic

The Guardian - UK · Apr 27, 2024

The Oral History of 'Super Mario Bros.' (1993): "Nobody Was Happy About It"

Thirty years after 'Super Mario Bros.' was released, Inverse speaks to eight of the people involved in the doomed production to find out exactly what happened.

Inverse · Apr 3, 2023

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50 years of a North East television classic - Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads?

At 8.30pm on Tuesday, January 9, 1973, BBC1 unveiled a new comedy series set on Tyneside called Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads? It would be a huge success

Chronicle Live · Jan 9, 2023

A TV Likely Lad standing on Newcastle United's Gallowgate End terraces

Fifty years ago, actor Rodney Bewes and writer Ian La Frenais toured Tyneside looking for possible outside locations - including St James' Park - for a new TV sitcom, Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads?

Chronicle Live · Jul 25, 2022

The Auf Wiedersehen, Pet boys were finally back in town 20 years ago

Auf Wiedersehen, Pet - starring Jimmy Nail, Tim Healy and Kevin Whatley - returned to our TV screens with a new series on April 28, 2002 after a break of 16 years

Chronicle Live · Apr 27, 2022

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