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The phrase "nearest and dearest" often evokes a sense of warmth, family, and close relationships. It's a term that brings to mind the people we hold closest to our hearts—our family, friends, and loved ones. However, in the context of British television, "Nearest and Dearest" takes on a different meaning, referring to a classic sitcom that captured the hearts of many.
"Nearest and Dearest" was a British television sitcom that aired from 1968 to 1973. The show starred Hylda Baker and Jimmy Jewel as Nellie and Eli Pledge, siblings who inherit their father's pickle business in Colne, Lancashire. The series was known for its humor derived from the characters' squabbles, malapropisms, and the unique dynamics of a family-run business.
The premise of the show was simple yet effective: Nellie, a hard-working spinster, and Eli, a womanizing slacker, must run the family business together to inherit their father's fortune. This setup led to comedic situations and memorable catchphrases that are still recognized by fans of classic British comedy.
Despite the on-screen chemistry between Baker and Jewel, it was widely reported that the two did not get along off-screen, adding a layer of intrigue to the show's history. Their tumultuous relationship is often cited as one of the most toxic in British sitcom history.
"Nearest and Dearest" also serves as a cultural touchstone, reflecting the era's social norms and the changing landscape of British comedy. It's a show that, while rooted in the 1960s and 70s, continues to find new audiences who appreciate its wit and charm.
For those who grew up watching "Nearest and Dearest," the show remains a nostalgic reminder of a bygone era of television. And for newcomers, it offers a glimpse into the rich tapestry of British humor and the timeless appeal of family dynamics in storytelling.
Whether you're revisiting the series or discovering it for the first time, "Nearest and Dearest" stands as a testament to the enduring nature of well-crafted comedy and the universal themes of family and ambition. It's a piece of television history that continues to be nearest and dearest to many viewers' hearts.
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"Nearest and Dearest" was a British television sitcom that aired from 1968 to 1973. The show starred Hylda Baker and Jimmy Jewel as Nellie and Eli Pledge, siblings who inherit their father's pickle business in Colne, Lancashire. The series was known for its humor derived from the characters' squabbles, malapropisms, and the unique dynamics of a family-run business.
The premise of the show was simple yet effective: Nellie, a hard-working spinster, and Eli, a womanizing slacker, must run the family business together to inherit their father's fortune. This setup led to comedic situations and memorable catchphrases that are still recognized by fans of classic British comedy.
Despite the on-screen chemistry between Baker and Jewel, it was widely reported that the two did not get along off-screen, adding a layer of intrigue to the show's history. Their tumultuous relationship is often cited as one of the most toxic in British sitcom history.
"Nearest and Dearest" also serves as a cultural touchstone, reflecting the era's social norms and the changing landscape of British comedy. It's a show that, while rooted in the 1960s and 70s, continues to find new audiences who appreciate its wit and charm.
For those who grew up watching "Nearest and Dearest," the show remains a nostalgic reminder of a bygone era of television. And for newcomers, it offers a glimpse into the rich tapestry of British humor and the timeless appeal of family dynamics in storytelling.
Whether you're revisiting the series or discovering it for the first time, "Nearest and Dearest" stands as a testament to the enduring nature of well-crafted comedy and the universal themes of family and ambition. It's a piece of television history that continues to be nearest and dearest to many viewers' hearts.
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00:00You
00:30You
01:00Oh
01:20No, no, it's all right come in
01:24She's playing bingo at church all so I just came in to see if it were all clear, you know, let's go in here. Shall we?
01:36Come on in Ernest
01:39Got the house to ourselves
01:41He won't be back until the pub shop. Do you think it wise Ellen? It is rather late. Oh
01:46Shut up. We're both over the age of content
01:50Let's go in the parlor
01:52Take your coat off love I put music on
02:04Sorry birthday me mind were on other things is to them and many of them
02:22I
02:33Knew soon as I saw you climbing the stairs on the all-night bus. I said she's just my type
02:42Say all those years a
02:45Missioneering in South Africa. Well, someone had to spread the word to our lesson lightning present in Angola
02:52After all, they are human beings just like you and I oh, yes, I know
02:56I mean, we've got one of the pickle factory
02:59He's just like all the other labs, you know
03:01Makes his brew and ask fish and chips for his dinner. If he wasn't called that you wouldn't know he was a foreigner
03:10I'm glad your factories integrated. Oh, yes. We had a new boiler last year
03:15I when I fancy you back after all these years it took my breath away when I saw you walk into that church hall I
03:24Took one look at you
03:27And then my heart
03:30stood still
03:33Eddie may I ask you something personal, of course
03:39Upstairs
03:44Oh
03:49You know, you're a lovely move
03:53But I shan't be able to dance with you if you stand right out there I
03:58Shall be able to dance with you if I come in there
04:07If I get me close I'll be behind you
04:10I
04:12Think I better go against another drink. There's another bottle in kitchen. Are you trying to get me to do it?
04:17That's the general idea. I don't think I should if I have too much to drink. I lose all control
04:30Don't don't let it go off the boil
04:32Oh
04:39What are you doing in here, oh
04:41Hello, miss pledge. You're real. I asked me to come back here for a bit
04:49Disappointed
04:53I'm not you're going to let you carry on your carry-on tricks here
04:56You know if our Eli wants to pleasure himself, well, he must go somewhere else. I'm sure I don't know what you mean
05:03Sure, you do
05:05That's the Cobden. I mean they don't call you backyard Bertha for nothing
05:10And you didn't get that bust playing tiddlywinks
05:15Way to get yours Johnson's tripe shop
05:19Go to this house. You're mad mad. You're Eli's the only boy I've ever been with
05:24Oh
05:26You want me to open my mouth and tell your mother about you on the footballers team's outing
05:33What about me on the football teams outing? Well, I wouldn't know but they haven't won a match since
05:41Yeah, fill in the house with his fancy women just when I'm expecting a gentleman friend
05:47Oh
05:53Let battle commence
05:54Here get that down. Yeah, you take your time and then he won't be back for another hour
05:59I'm gonna throw some codfish face. Oh, what's a misery guts?
06:03She makes she makes Lord's Day Observer Society look like a bunch of hippies. Here's a kiss
06:10What the hell's that for
06:12You filthy beast where'd you come from never mind that it's no use looking around for your target for tonight. She's gone
06:21I'm entitled to bring a girl back here. If I want all I want is a bit of love. I'm only human human
06:27He was to know a tomcat. You should have let him be and I've sent you to the vets. I
06:33Can please myself what I do in me own house
06:36You're half an ounce. I'm not having you turn this house into a nice of it. Don't refuse
06:42You mean repute never mind what I mean add enough of that during the war. You might have had enough of it during war
06:47I was stuck out in Burma
06:51Burma
06:53Cardona more like
06:55Well, you've got your ideas
06:57but why don't you hang a bead curtain outside your bedroom door and I've done with it and fill the house with the effluvia of
07:03cheap scent and
07:05burning jockstraps
07:09You mean justice
07:13Where the hell's Bertha gone
07:16Come in darling
07:19File Bertha you've changed
07:24Very old friend of mine, you know, you've heard me refer to him very often. He's been in Africa, you know
07:28And this is my brother Eli and this is mr. N. Shaw
07:33Come in will you
07:36You remember me telling you about my brother, you know Eli he and after he'd been away came back
07:43It's a prodigal
07:45Forgive me barging in like this, but I was under the impression that your sister and I were alone in the house
07:50Ah, I I
07:53Nothing like that. Oh, don't mind me. I'm a man of the world. I am I believe in live and let live
07:57I mean, I don't mind if you sling my bird out the back door
08:00While you knit back here for a bit of the other with your gigolo
08:04Mr. N. Shaw is a missionary. Oh, you're the one that she's always on about the missionary. If he's my calling
08:09You'll have your work cut out in cold
08:13He's on holiday. He's been
08:15Do you know on safari or something out with the natives in?
08:19Where was it? Oh, that's right. I'm Gora
08:24Excuse my brother. He's not seen the light. Oh the spark is there in us all it just needs lighting
08:33You need a flame thrower frame
08:36Steady on Nellie. I did carry a banner for the St. Woburg's Church
08:41There must be some good in him got the biggest bellybutton in corn to prove it
08:46That it goes through me. I'll never forget that wit as long as I live he made that banner himself, you know
08:52There he were all scholars walking here and the vicar on the left of him and the mother's Union on the right
08:59I can see it now that banner
09:01Christ the King on the front and Burnley foot cup on the back
09:10Might I have a word about your sister
09:12What about it?
09:13Well for some time past I've been contemplating marrying her and I've been trying to pluck up my courage to ask
09:19You'll need plenty of that won't you?
09:22What do you think speaking as her brother? Will she have me?
09:26Not a cat in house. Yeah, are you sure? No, she's often said to me
09:29She says I'm not the marrying kind to set in a way. Oh, dear. Then it's pointless. Oh, I wouldn't even mention it
09:34No, no, of course not. Oh, what a pity. I was so looking forward to taking her back to Africa with me
09:39Oh, that's the way the cookie crumbles as the Americans say, isn't it? I mean better to have loved and lost and never
09:46Come I was hoping to marry her by special license and take her back with me when I return next week
09:51However, if you say there's no hope, oh, I wouldn't say that. I mean she's got a deep affection for you
09:56In fact, I'd definitely say you were in there with a chance. Yes, but you said never mind what I said
10:00I mean love will find a way especially for people who want to take people back to Africa with another you get it loud
10:05I'll send her in
10:11Your earns on the verge again
10:13I
10:20Said you wanted to have a word with me. Oh, indeed. I do
10:23How should I put this up? It's uh, well, uh, that is a what did I wanted to say was I accept?
10:32I've been rehearsing all day next week. It'll be different. She's going to Africa
10:37Africa you turn left at Liverpool
10:39I
10:41Well, we'll have the whole house to ourselves. We'll have a right back and early and bulk up. Oi bring your own booze
10:48Yes, I wanted you to be the first to know Ernest and I and blighted our trough
10:57When's when's the wedding? Oh on Saturday morning special license. Yeah, very good. When do you sail?
11:05By bus
11:09To Africa no, press that in for our honeymoon
11:13But when do you go to Africa? Oh, we're not I've talked him out of it
11:16I need is going to stay with me and the factory and you
11:34Just
11:43Think
11:44Tomorrow at this time. I'll be mrs. Henshaw. I never thought I'd see the day. No, neither did I I wonder
11:51Do you think I should wear a veil?
11:55That's enough of that
11:57Getting a bit cheeky into your Walter
11:59The doctors put him on them sulfur tablets again. Oh, hey, well, don't give him any tomorrow
12:05I don't want him breathing sulfur over everybody while he's giving me away
12:11Will you be all right
12:14Are you sure Walter? Hey
12:18tomorrow tomorrow
12:20in the church
12:22The vicar will say to you
12:24Who give it this woman?
12:27You say I do I do you say
12:35Do you think it's too much for him
12:39It'll be all right so long as you don't walk him too fast down file
12:44Where is your intended then? Oh, he's gone out with our airline the lads, you know
12:48It's gone to have a bachelor drink at the spread Eagle doesn't sound like your earnest to me. Oh, they'll get nowhere with him
12:54He doesn't drink, you know, it's a total abstrainer
13:00Get this down you three parts
13:05Drink well, you won't get any of this brewery. I'll tell you
13:09Besides, it's your last night of freedom. He's got to have a bit of a thrash empty lads
13:12I wonder if I'm doing the right thing. Oh, definitely the bitters dead rough in this pub
13:18I mean tomorrow's not
13:20Am I
13:22Are any of us
13:25I've been asking myself. Am I doing the right thing?
13:31Comes to all of us, you know, I
13:33Asked myself the same thing, you know on my bachelor and I've been married 27 year now. You did the right thing after all
13:42No, I bloody didn't
13:51Same again
13:54We're not having any more are we? Oh, I even you started just enough to wake it up. So
13:59Are you all right?
14:01I do feel a little queasy
14:04Perhaps I should have a breath of fresh air. Ah, well, there is fresh air to call his grange of a sand
14:10I'll just step outside for a moment. Would you like one of us to go with you? No, thank you. I I'm perfectly capable of manual
14:16Oh
14:20It's passed out
14:23Only one thing to do in there. What's that? So please be ready for it was flat
14:31What sort of husband do you think you'll make then oh that man is a prince among men
14:39He left me all those years ago because my duty was with my dad and his duty was elsewhere
14:46All those years in the steaming swamps. We'd never thought for another woman
14:52Only the monkeys for company and a lock of my hair
14:56Hanging in a locket from the end of his tent pole
15:04Well, I didn't think it would happen but it has and
15:10Nelly
15:11Yeah, you'll not mind me asking will you well if you don't I shan't know shall I
15:18You're all right on you
15:23You know, um, are you all right?
15:28Of course I'm all right
15:30There's nothing wrong then
15:32What are you trying to incinerate?
15:35Oh
15:38So quick hasn't it quick well in a rush
15:42Only sometimes when folk get married in a rush, well, it just makes you think
15:48Are you trying to suggest I'm in the club
15:58Just because you let your Walter make a fool out of you may God forgive you Nelly pledge
16:03I love you. No, I'm entitled to wear white. I've kept myself pure. I never suggested. Otherwise
16:09I'm like a jar of pledges pickles
16:13untouched by human and
16:33Oh
16:36Well, let's have a look at you then hey, hey, hey, how do you look like a bug-eyed penguin?
16:51Look they're not for wearing the for carrying weird gloves
16:56I've got to put left on
16:59I have you got your flowers flowers. Yeah, I thought I was you know, you're not a bloody bride
17:08But your butt no, but no clogging hey, yeah one for you and one for you
17:16Now then put them in your book. No. Yeah, there's no but no's in these coats. Hang on
17:24What you doing making a bottle
17:28Them suits are gonna go back tomorrow. Hey, where should I put me flower?
17:35Are you asking me to the box of pins on sideboard? Oh, they all know what to do
17:41Don't you it's just people on the right now people aren't left
17:46Well, that's where you put him if he has hey
17:49And and Sarah open show don't put her next to Frida all cut. Why not? She ran off with her husband, did she?
17:57Come on let's go
18:02Bloody old Fred Astaire and Gigi
18:07Hey
18:09Go on get off. Hey and don't remember get them in sheets back. There's a deposit on them
18:15I'll go with them. Um, no, you must go out back. We don't want you taking short in front of
18:21I
18:25Wonder if they had this trouble with Princess Margaret
18:35It's still a bonnie woman Nellie not bad a not quite ready for it Mackey on
18:42To tell you the truth that I never saw that salty way
18:46And I'll tell you something too so much and I thought I'm to chance at all
18:52Hope you'll be very happy. Well, thank you. Eli
18:57Hey, do you think I'll be all right, how does to me and all right after
19:08You know
19:11You know with him, you know with him being, you know in the jungle
19:19Sight a sound, you know of a white woman all those years, you know
19:25What's he going to do when he sees me stood standing there in the ship?
19:33Catch next boat back to Africa
19:36It's all right for you, I'm the one that's got to face all that pent-up emulsion
19:42Nelly I'll bet if truth were known
19:46He's just as nervous as you are
19:48Oh
20:02Thank goodness you've come. Well, you look rough
20:05Oh, it's the black and tan, you know, you're not used to it. No, no, it's not the alcohol
20:10I couldn't sleep for thinking about it. Hey you fruity old geezer
20:15It's
20:17No use it's no use he lied it wouldn't work out
20:20Well, is there something on your mind? I'm afraid there is I I can't go through with it. The wedding is off
20:27Oh, well, I'll just go and talk
20:29You what it's all off. I'm not marrying
20:34You're joking. I only wish I were believe me it's all for the best. Oh, it's not time
20:39I'm not fond of where you understand that but I realize now that I'm destined to plow alone
20:44Just you're just a minute. Yeah, you can't back out now. We've our phone good way to boil them on our side boy. I
20:52Must well, you've left it a bit late. Oh, she'll get over it better a moment of unhappiness than a lifetime of regret
20:58I don't have hell you're gonna tell her. Well, I thought actually it might come better for you. Yeah me
21:05Tell her I'll write right
21:09Oh
21:39We are gathered here together
22:01Just a minute mustn't join us together. I'm not marrying him, you know, I'm living with him already
22:09It's not in there
22:11You see should be easy, but it's not you see if nobody to join me to you see
22:15But what you must do is join me to him you see because he's me brother
22:19You mean there's been a slight hitch? Yes cock
22:23Right room is like being stricken with a very rare tropical disease really what is it yellow fever?
22:30Oh
22:41That's that then in Tim have have a good cry on my shoulder
22:45I will like is like my mother said they wouldn't have money in the world worth crying about
22:51Anyway, I've got some a tow to be what I've got a sideboard full of wedding presents
22:56Even if I have to send them back. I will have Adam once won't
23:01And you've still got me out your love. Oh god help me
23:06Come on, let's get this lot home. Hey, you're not gonna still have to do it. Yeah, of course
23:12We somebody's got to get shit of all that boy time
23:17You're supposed to be on my ride
23:25I
23:55Oh
24:25You
24:55You
25:25You
25:55You
26:00Nelly
26:03Nelly no, it's all right come in
26:10She's playing bingo at church all so I just came in to see if it were all clear, you know, let's go in here shall we
26:18Come on in Ernest
26:21I've got the house to ourselves. He won't be back until the pub shop. Do you think it wise Ellen?
26:27It is rather late Oh shuttle. We're both over the age of content
26:33Let's go in the parlor take your coat off love. I'll put music on
26:38Hey
26:47Sorry birthday me mind were on other things is to them and many of them
27:07Well
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