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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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00:00nearest and dearest wish you were here p584 stroke 11 part 1 take 1
00:30Oh
00:51Shut up you big girls blows you're on holiday now
00:53Enjoy yourself. I think I felt something go about five weeks ago. Well, they can't go back for it now
01:06Now this is it
01:12We can't stop there. Why not? It's not bloody licensed
01:20Peg
01:24Oh
01:31Welcome to number 10 downing Street
01:34Stop morning. You've done nothing else but moan ever since we got on the train
01:38Hi, I don't know
01:41If I'd have known it was a car in a train, I wouldn't have had then five parts before we got on
01:48Yeah, well I only added a sweet sherry but by the time we got to Preston it was telling on me as well
01:54What did you do when we went through that tunnel?
01:59I didn't do out. Well, you were wincing when you went in but you were smiling when he came
02:07Why do we have to come to Blackpool for his holidays, why do we go to Majorca?
02:11You're lucky to be going anywhere
02:14After spending all our holiday money if it wasn't for me paying for you
02:18You wouldn't be having an holiday at all. What did it try and save up a joint wakes me colony club
02:23Yeah, and he do it all out at Christmas
02:25Well, I wanted to go on a cruise to canaries
02:27The only canary you saw was that flaming budgerigar in there bar up the red lion
02:33Anyway, I will go in for a farewell drink. I will go in on a cruise. Well drink going on a cruise. Oh
02:4028 ships must have gone set off sailing while you were sat sitting something in that boat
02:47And then you finished up cruising down our backyard on your hands and knees singing
02:52For those in peril on the sea
02:56Do not sing that I didn't even know new words
03:00Think on I'm paying for this lot to behave yourself
03:11It's all right in it, hey
03:13Reminds me of Buckingham Palace
03:15Queen doesn't have a room like this. No, but the century just standing outside
03:23Where's my room mrs. Rob bottom
03:29You're both in here both in here what in that bed I can't be lay lying all night beside him touching
03:38Why ever not well, I mean wouldn't be polite
03:42You're not newly beds. Are you we're not wed. Never mind newly
03:48Well, if you're not you can get out had enough of that sort to carry on with the TUC conference
03:53Well, no, you don't understand you see we're not man and his wife you see we're man and his sister
04:00See his father was my father and my father was his father
04:04And so was my mother, too
04:10Well, can't you see the family
04:13reassemblance
04:15No, you see she were born when me father were on short time
04:22Brother and sister
04:26I'm a young widow myself. I
04:30Think I've got just the room for you. Mr. Pledge. You'll be all right in here. Won't you miss pledge charming? Thank you very god
04:46Thank you very much, oh well, it's a bit better intake is that the sea over there
04:53Although it's the flooded car park. I
04:56Think you'll be very comfortable in this bed. Mr. Pledge. Yeah, it's interior sprung
05:03Gives get off never makes a sound
05:13I'm home used to keep money in different envelopes. She had envelope for this envelope for that
05:18He's yet to write out fisted ideas on it
05:22What are you doing that's for presents and that's for
05:27enjoyment donkey rides on the sands and
05:30playing on the slot machine and sliding down on the mat and
05:34that's for pots of teas on the sands and that's for the
05:39lodgings money to be paid at the end of the week and
05:43that's for
05:45Eli spending money. Oh, thank you very much. I'm Ellie
05:49How much there's 10 in there 10 quid no 10 shillings
05:57Enjoy yourself
05:59Enjoy myself 10 Bob
06:01They don't sell strengths one at a time in Blackpool, you know
06:05You can't have your cake and eat it if you want to storm the holiday money
06:10You could have had cockles instead of shrimps. Oh
06:13Cockle
06:16Blue let's control yourself. You'll be having a structure. No
06:22You're me. You're a female Shiloh a female Shiloh
06:28I'm not a female Shiloh. No. Well, what you using my mother's old brassier for for a shopping back then
06:36Did you speak or was that didn't your dinner repeating
06:43Oh you mean all right bag 10 lousy stinking shillings, that's what she'd give me I don't know
06:53Then Bob it's 20 quid here. Hey never you give me money footlock
07:02She obviously can't be trusted with money I think this will be safer with me for the time being
07:13I really as usual is being a bit of it. You're going out. Are you?
07:24No, actually now we're just coming in
07:26But you're right in I just writing to our Lillian Walton saying how nice it was to be away from mithering relations and
07:34ponging bicklers
07:36And to see a few fresh faces
07:38What you mean like these two Oh No spring and port wine
07:50What are you doing here I should have told you she's got him a job as a lifeguard
07:55You must know Walter and me's on our second honeymoon did you not take first down Walter
08:02I
08:05Need to get there now you want
08:10You're on the moon
08:12He's laughing he's a god
08:16We came here in
08:181945 because I was a war bride
08:21Same lodging same room same furniture same sheets
08:26We've come here again to try and recapture the moment
08:30Did you recapture it I
08:35Don't care what you say it all started here for Walter and me about look of him. It's gonna finish here at all
08:42Well, we must be off now while tides out I've got him a telescope to see shit don't get sanding it Walter
08:50I
08:55Have a good time. Have a good time. What's on stem 10 lousy stinking shillings. Oh, don't wait up for me
09:02I might go out tonight. I might come a few rocks at seagulls. I might even pull plug out at swimming pool
09:08I might even put a penny under a blackpool tram
09:1110 lousy shillings. I can have a good time on that
09:14Money isn't everything money is the evil of all root
09:20What are you gonna do
09:22The best things in life are free. I'm going to walk down the promenade and take in the effluvia of the sea
09:30What's the seagulls?
09:33Singing their little songs and dropping their little messages
09:36And I shall be stood standing at the end of the pier and I shall be happy because I am taking in God's greener
09:45knickers
09:48And the same to you
09:50That won't get you anywhere
09:52That money isn't everything
09:54But what does the Bible say while the rich man is trying to push his camel through the eye of a needle the poor man?
10:02Without a penny is always welcome in the kingdom of heaven. Well, they won't be very bloody. Welcome at Yates's wine Lodge
10:17Oh
10:47Sandra Sandra, it was fate that brought us together. I know as you were different from all those other girls
10:58When I saw you standing in the Chamber of Horrors
11:02There I was
11:04Noshing me hamburger
11:06Looking at dr. Crippin with a mustard running down my sleeve
11:10Something like this only happens
11:12Well once in a lifetime. I
11:15Thought that I you were different to all the other girls I could tell you things that I couldn't tell them
11:19I mean like I've
11:21Got no money left. I've spent it all I've skimmed
11:26But what do we don't money for when we've got what we've got?
11:29Blackpool belongs to us
11:32With all its simple pleasures
11:34Look at those miles and miles of golden sand that the Creator created for us to create on
11:41And tonight under the stars it'll be like from here to it
11:48Yes
11:52On that beach, I'll make you mine
11:58Me coach goes at half-past ten
12:10I
12:12I
12:14I
12:38Thought we'd lost our Walter then when the wind blew his deck chair into the sea with a minute
12:45Hi, bye. Oh our Lily was brave swimming in after him. It's a good thing. He had his rubber ring on
12:52Hey, that is a long time back at digs getting him out of his wet clothes. Ain't she? Yes. Yes. I wonder if they're in the room
13:01What did she say
13:04Recapturing the moment I
13:07Wouldn't think so not after him standing in that cold water for so long
13:12I
13:15Will soon know if they have you know, I can tell by the look on her face
13:24No, they haven't
13:27Hey, all right Walter Oh
13:31It's all right, he's getting up again
13:42And it's healthy though, it's brought a bit of color to his cheeks
13:45I say it's brought a bit of color to your cheeks
13:50Pity, it's duck egg blue
13:56From next door in Chippy
13:59She comes on cheap day trip, you know cracks on she stays that grand hotel
14:04Makes a change don't it a change
14:06I'm not going in that sea after she's been in
14:14Bunk up and they've arrived from Madame Tussauds. Oh
14:19What are you doing here?
14:21They've been coming here ever since Reginald Dixon had a mouth organ. I
14:26Thought you were doing it posh staying at some big old tell this all the days seen as how it might be the last
14:32We were only we got thrown out why he started it all
14:37Who's having us dinner and he sent the wine back because it didn't have head on it
14:44Sure
14:45You were just as bad. All I did this head waiter. He says to me. He said what is your pleasure, sir?
14:53And I told him
14:56I
14:58Knew they took us out now. We can't find anywhere to stay
15:03Wherever we go to all for it. I wouldn't mind but with plenty of money
15:13Put your money that's not funny is it? No, they're my lads. I'll find some way waiting there you little heads
15:25Where'd you spend last night you two tell a circus at monkey house at zoo
15:30We slept on beach you must have got some sand on you. Ah, well, it's shifting sand
15:37They got clogs on
15:40It's very kind of you like a lot of stop here
15:43I hope you don't get into trouble with landlady if she finds out they're mad about landlady
15:49You just give it money for rent. I'll take care of that lady
15:53Hey, I'm still hungry lie and took a doubt else I can't go in our knowledge case for hotels
16:00You've had six tins already
16:03been pineapple chunks
16:07Use your pineapple junk I I have six ginger cold baked bean
16:14What the hell are you grumbling about for five quid a night? What do you want wild strawberries with sugar on them?
16:23Come on
16:26Yes, come in come in come in
16:31Are you I thought I'd have an early night like yes. Well, I thought I'd bring you some coconuts and biscuits
16:37Thank you very much. Yes, I've sugared it. Have you?
16:42It's a bit stuffy near now, ain't it? All right got a bit warm, ain't it?
16:47Get off
16:51You know ever since mr. Robot and fell off the North Pier I've always wanted to meet a man with healthy prospects
17:03No indigestion, well, you know where to find me when you want me
17:10A
17:15Funny woman
17:17Hey, come on who was smoking
17:20He sure when she plunked us in them right on me pineapple chunks
17:28Hey, come on George I think we left it too late
17:34I
17:44Wouldn't give kiss a life with a bicycle pump
17:47Artificial respiration, come on. Oh
17:50No, I'm too tired
18:04Oh
18:07Couples in every doorway talk about Blackpool by night. They may well have the hallucinations
18:16They'd enjoy it picture. Yeah when I got there it's a change pictures. What was it? Is he asleep?
18:26There's a French picture what a French picture
18:31Yes, it was called an arm at
18:39Well to cut it short it means a man and a woman
18:46Well, it were a French man and a woman
18:50What did they do well she didn't have time to do any knitting for a start
18:55I
18:58Do carry on going that he's French. I don't know why they allow it
19:03What actually happened, you know
19:10You know
19:12Do you know
19:17Well, imagine that
19:19There's a man and a woman
19:23Like you and Walter
19:27No, not like you want to really not not because I mean these were French, you know
19:32Well, you'd only just met her and before you could read the words at the bottom. They were in bed
19:39Are you sure he's asleep
19:42He's only part of me a bit of wind
19:45Go on about this French man and woman drop some stitches drop more than a few stitches big time this were over
19:54Yes, well, that's it you see I don't know that's when this fella next to me started
19:59No, not that
20:01He shouted at me said stop to touching me shouted
20:05You have done nothing but touch ever since that fall on the film took his vest off. I
20:10Said if more people tut-tut aid when fellows took their vest off there be less of that going on
20:40I
21:10I
21:40Oh
22:00God these corsets of mine nearly choking me
22:04I
22:14Should go now if I were you
22:16Can't be too careful in a strange house
22:20Yes, oh just a minute I just wanted to get rid of him for a minute, you know, so I could talk to you
22:26I mean, I know it's your second honeymoon
22:30if if you have any trouble with him just
22:33Knock on the wall
22:49Then
22:55Where the hell's he gone
23:02Oh
23:06Sorry
23:20Mr. Page
23:27Come on Walter lover get into bed
23:33I pledge what are you after? No what you got?
23:38Guardian angels overhead look after me while I'm in bed
23:43Two angels at my head and two at my feet. I'm long to stand by me while I sleep
24:02Are you gonna get out? Where's your mate?
24:10First reserve
24:13How dare you incinerate
24:15Have been with me for years. I'm not going to have this sort of carry on
24:19I wouldn't care but they're not even paying for it. Don't worry. They'll pay
24:22Oh
24:31You'll get your rent you don't think for a minute I'd stop here with a landlady who thinks I've been having nightly
24:40rendezvous with my two oldest picklers
24:42I
24:47Don't get your bowels in an uproar now
24:52She'll get her rent don't you worry
25:01Ten ten showing
25:12I hope you're satisfied. Oh
25:15Listen Nellie, what do we need with money?
25:18Put in the fresh air and you said to yourself money is the evil of all roots
25:24What else did you say? You said your poor man is always welcome in the kingdom of heaven
25:32Yeah, well, I'm sure we're welcome
25:34But it's too bloody far to go there tonight
25:42You
25:44You
25:46You
26:09Nearest and dearest wish you were here p5 8 4 stroke 11 part 1 take 1
26:16You
26:46Oh
27:00Shut up you big girls blows you're on holiday now
27:04But I think the folks doesn't go about five weeks ago, well, they can't go back for it now
27:08Oh
27:15This is it
27:20We can't say why not it's not bloody licensed
27:29Peg
27:39Welcome to number 10 Downing Street
27:43Stop morning. You've done nothing else but more never since we got on the train. I
27:48Don't know
27:50If I'd have known it was a car in a train. I wonder about then five parts before we got on
27:57Yeah, well I only added a sweet sherry but by the time we got to Preston it was telling on me as well
28:02What did you do when we went through that tunnel?
28:05I
28:08Didn't do out. Well, you were wincing when you went in but you were smiling when he came
28:16Why do we have to come to Blackpool for his holidays, why do we go to Majorca?
28:20You're lucky to be going anywhere
28:22After spending all our holiday money if it wasn't for me paying for you
28:26You wouldn't be having an holiday at all. What did it try and save up a joint wakes week holiday club?
28:32Yeah, and he do it all out at Christmas
28:34Well, I wanted to go on a cruise to canaries
28:36The only canary you saw was that flaming budgerigar in there bar up the red lion
28:42Anyway, I will go in for a farewell drink. I will go in
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