What Ever Happened to the Likely Lads
What Ever Happened to the Likely Lads? was a British sitcom shown between January 1973 and December 1974, the sequel to The Likely Lads. It was written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais
The show followed the friendship of two working-class young men, Terry Collier and Bob Ferris, in the northeast of England in the 1970s. The humour derived mostly from the tension between Terry's cynical, down-to-earth personality and Bob's ambitions to join the middle class.
Since the end of the The Likely Lads, Bob had become a businessman and was engaged to his boss's daughter, Thelma. Terry, meanwhile, had spent time in the Army, an experience that he felt gave him moral superiority over Bob. As the title suggested, this series played on a feeling of nostalgia for the days of the lads' innocent youth.
The word 'likely' in the title, in some northern English dialects, means 'likeable'.
In 2004, British Garage/Punk Rock revivalists The Libertines included a song named after the show on their second album, simply called The Libertines.
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