- 2 months ago
First broadcast 6th February 1973.
Terry, now back home again, looks up some of his old flames. His lack of success with them makes him self-pitying and Bob smug.
James Bolam - Terry Collier
Rodney Bewes - Bob Ferris
Brigit Forsyth - Thelma
Margaret Nolan - Jackie
Sandra Bryant - Glenys
Norman Mitchell - George, Pub Owner
Pamela Conway - Gloria, Barmaid (as Lorna Wilde)
Terry, now back home again, looks up some of his old flames. His lack of success with them makes him self-pitying and Bob smug.
James Bolam - Terry Collier
Rodney Bewes - Bob Ferris
Brigit Forsyth - Thelma
Margaret Nolan - Jackie
Sandra Bryant - Glenys
Norman Mitchell - George, Pub Owner
Pamela Conway - Gloria, Barmaid (as Lorna Wilde)
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00:00Oh, what happened to you, whatever happened to me, and what became of the people we used to be?
00:16Tomorrow's almost over, the day went by so fast, it's the only thing to look forward to, the past.
00:30Oh, is that Margaret? Margaret Bishop? It is? Well, it's Terry Collier here. Collier.
00:38Oh, well, we did once go out with each other, because I've got your number written down, and I promise to ring you back.
00:43When? Um, it was January. January the 17th, 1967.
00:50Well, I ran as soon as I could. It's just that I've been in the army for the last five years, it wasn't always easy to get a line in the jungle.
00:57Well, Collier. Well, the thing is, I was wondering if you'd like to go out one night, and...
01:03You what?
01:06Well, it wasn't me.
01:09Well, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, it was just a joke, I...
01:13Well, there's no need to take that attitude.
01:16Aren't you, madam?
01:17Oh, dear me.
01:23Hmm.
01:36Oh, is that Teresa Palmer?
01:39Oh, doesn't she?
01:40Well, I'm an old friend of hers, you don't know where I could get in touch with her, do you?
01:45The Convent of the Sacred Heart?
01:49What is she, a nun or something?
01:52She is a nun?
01:54Are you sure we're talking about the same Teresa Palmer, because the one I knew was a right little...
02:00Oh, I'm sorry, Mrs. Palmer.
02:02No, no, no, no offence, it was just a joke, I...
02:07No, no, no message.
02:11Hallelujah.
02:14Ah, Morag McLean.
02:16Yeah, I know she's married.
02:19Janice Armstrong.
02:20Yeah, we're getting out there.
02:23June.
02:24Oh, June.
02:26Hang on, hang on.
02:28June was busting out all over.
02:30Oh, is that June?
02:40Oh, doesn't she?
02:41Who did she marry?
02:43Never.
02:45Poor soul.
02:47Well, who is she speaking, please?
02:50Oh, really?
02:51Oh, this is Terry Collier.
02:54Ah, well, I've been away for a few years, you see, and I've been in the army, yeah.
02:57I've been in military hospital most of the time.
03:01Oh, no, no, no, I'm fine now, fine now, a fiddle's a fiddle.
03:04Apart from...
03:06Oh, I never talk about it.
03:08Er, Collier.
03:10Well, tallish, hair brownish, eyes bluish, physique wiry.
03:19There's a steely glint to the eye and a dangerous half-smile plays around my lips.
03:25What about the tattoo on your left buttock?
03:28And your wooden leg, and the steel plate in your brain, and your collapsible elbows.
03:33Shut up, man, I'm cracking it here.
03:35Er, um, I'm sorry, are you still there?
03:38I can't remember your name.
03:41Ah, Linda, of course, of course.
03:43And, er, you're not married or anything, are you, eh?
03:46Who is it?
03:47June Craig's younger sister.
03:50So, er, look, Linda, um, what are you doing this weekend?
03:54Er, thought we might, er, get together and, er, talk over old times.
03:58Oh, don't.
03:59Er, just hang on a minute, will you, Linda?
04:00I think it's New York on the other line.
04:02What's the matter?
04:03Just before you sweep this young lady off her feet,
04:05before you, er, sweep her off her feet with your dangerous half-smile and your steely glint,
04:09there's one thing you ought to know.
04:11Last Sunday was Linda Craig's twelfth birthday.
04:15What?
04:17Honestly?
04:19Honestly.
04:20But I've already...
04:21Oh, what am I going to say?
04:22Well, tell her New York needs you, or, er,
04:25or you've got to go to Paris to get your wooden leg French-polished.
04:29Well, Linda, er, well, the thing is,
04:32I really only rang up to say hello to the family,
04:34and to wish you a happy birthday, so I...
04:37Pardon?
04:37Pardon?
04:39Are you sure she's only twelve?
04:44Yes!
04:45Definitely!
04:46Must be these comprehensive schools.
04:49No luck, then.
04:50No.
04:51Five married, three moved, one insult and a nun.
04:54A nun?
04:54Teresa Palmer.
04:56Hallelujah.
04:57And she used to...
04:58I know, I know.
05:00Frequently.
05:01Still working your way through a 1967 address book, can't help.
05:05That's all I've got.
05:06That's me only contact with the past, that.
05:08That's where my life stopped, here, suddenly.
05:11It was cut off, thanks to someone not a million miles away.
05:15Five years, these'll all be out of date, ma'am.
05:17So I'm finding out.
05:18Ten calls and not a nibble.
05:20Ingrid Wybrew?
05:21Married.
05:22Maggie Bishop?
05:23Married and with child.
05:25Nancy Ridley?
05:26Moved to Shrewsbury.
05:27Where's Shrewsbury?
05:28League Division Three, about six from the bottom.
05:32Jocelyn Jane.
05:33She was a nice girl, you were dead keen on her.
05:35I know, she was a canny to ask that.
05:37She's married and all.
05:39Lives near Burrick.
05:40Couple of kids.
05:41Husband's a corn merchant.
05:43Really?
05:44Aye, old Audrey keeps in touch.
05:46She says they seem to be very happy.
05:48And I suppose they're never short a millet.
05:50Her sister's single.
05:52I've got her number.
05:52Well, give it here, give it here.
05:54You need a lot of change.
05:55Why?
05:56It's Melbourne 4211.
05:58Oh, very, very amusing.
06:01Give us me book right here.
06:01No, no, hang on, hang on, hang on.
06:04Even if I do trace anybody, I've got nothing in common with them.
06:07I've got no links with the girls up here now.
06:10Glenys Roberts, May the 5th, 1967.
06:13You took her to see The Sound of Music.
06:14Yeah, she left at the intermission.
06:16Didn't feel well.
06:18And you didn't go with her?
06:19You what?
06:20Front circle seats, 15 bob a time.
06:23And I had to queue for them in the rain a week before.
06:26Well, it's a link, though.
06:27That film's still showing.
06:28You could ring her up and take her to the second half.
06:31She's not on the phone.
06:33That's the trouble most of the girls we knew weren't on the telephone.
06:36And I'm not traipsing the streets, knocking at doors on spec.
06:39That's really picking the key to box 13.
06:42True.
06:43Time hasn't been kind to some of the girls around here.
06:46Whereas fellas these days seem to keep younger.
06:48I mean, I'm definitely better looking than I was five years ago.
06:51Better haircut, better clothes, a bit more style.
06:54True, true.
06:56And after you've been back a while and get yourself adjusted, you might be the same.
07:01What do you mean?
07:02What's the matter with my hair and me clothes?
07:04Well, you just look so dated.
07:06Certainly if you meet a girl from five years ago, she'll have no difficulty recognising you.
07:10It's as if time stood still, appearance-wise.
07:13I've been in the forces, haven't I?
07:15You can hardly expect me to come out looking like Jethro Tull.
07:19Well, maybe you should give yourself a week to adjust.
07:21Get yourself some decent gear, then start ringing round.
07:24By the time I get a yes, I'll have hair down to me navel.
07:27Have you tried them all?
07:28And these.
07:291965, have you got all your diaries?
07:33The Sunday Times might serialise them one day.
07:37Terry Collier, Diaries and Letters, Volume 1.
07:40A fascinating insight into the artist's formative years.
07:43His struggle from Park Secondary Modern to Ellison's Electrical Apprentice Shop.
07:47You never can tell.
07:49If somebody in the future got a look at them, it could give them a whole clue as to a way of life.
07:54Oh, definitely, definitely.
07:56They capture the whole texture of life up here in the turbulence of the mid-sixties.
08:01The excitement of our lifestyle.
08:03Monday, March the 5th.
08:05Had to walk home.
08:07Had a puncture near the lead factory.
08:09Got soaked.
08:10Met Sheila for a drink at a ship.
08:13She's leaving me for a welder at Swan Hunter's.
08:16Riveting, isn't it?
08:18I couldn't care less.
08:20Went home, made some tea, watched Come Dancing.
08:23Think I've got a cold coming on.
08:26Eek.
08:26What times to have been alive in.
08:28I did have a cold and all.
08:30I was in bed for a week.
08:33I don't know.
08:34Eek, look at this, look at this.
08:35September the 27th, 1967.
08:38Blackpool Illuminations.
08:39Supporters Club outing.
08:41You weren't on that.
08:42Wasn't I?
08:43No, you had an abscess.
08:44Oh, that's right.
08:45From learning to play the harmonica.
08:47It was a good day, though.
08:50We stopped at Kendall for a pint and a pasty.
08:52George Murray fell off the pier.
08:54Got the back seat and the coach coming.
08:57Hello, hello.
08:58What is it?
08:59I've given this girl two stars.
09:01Which girl?
09:02Well, it's no name, just a telephone number, an eyebrow pencil and two stars.
09:06Well, that's nothing to get excited about.
09:09Depends how many stars you had in your system.
09:11Seven.
09:12Seven.
09:13It was seven.
09:14That was the British standard.
09:16Seven.
09:17One was kissing with mouth closed.
09:19Two was kissing with mouth open.
09:21Three was upstairs outside.
09:23I didn't belong to the British standard.
09:25I wasn't governed by their rules.
09:27In my system, there was only three stars.
09:30Then you got two of them.
09:31In a bus.
09:33Well, bring her up.
09:33Bring her up.
09:35Yeah.
09:37After five years.
09:38It's got to be worth a try.
09:40Oh, I might, I might.
09:41A bit later on when I've supped a few more.
09:44When the alcohol started stirring the old loins.
09:46Haven't another?
09:47No, you're all right.
09:48I've got to be off in a minute.
09:49Off?
09:50Off where?
09:51I'm due at Thelma's.
09:52I told you I was going round there tonight.
09:54My God, she's possessive.
09:56She's nothing of the sort.
09:58You're leaving me, in other words.
10:00In other words, yes.
10:02You're leaving me.
10:03Alone.
10:03Alone with a book of useless addresses and a list of unobtainable numbers.
10:08Well, ring up two stars.
10:11What's the point, man?
10:13Well, she must have been a right slag if she gave you two stars in the back of a coach
10:16coming from Blackpool Illuminations.
10:19She'll never remember me.
10:20Of course she will.
10:21How could she forget a night like that?
10:23The lights and the candy floss and Reg Dixon at his organ.
10:28Then coming home with you, passing across the Pennines.
10:32Of course she'll remember.
10:33See ya.
10:33Ah, cheers, mate.
10:34Good luck.
10:36Yeah.
10:38Another pint of special love, please.
10:45Don't we know each other for a few years back?
10:49Don't think so, Pat.
10:51Are you sure?
10:52Her name's Collier.
10:54Terry Collier.
10:55I've been away in the forces, sir.
10:57On a secret mission.
11:00Vietnam.
11:00North Vietnam.
11:05Never been to North Vietnam.
11:08Been to me yoga.
11:09Oh, well, maybe we went to school together.
11:14No.
11:16I think I'd have remembered someone of, er, your bill.
11:25By, that's an asset, isn't it, eh?
11:27Isn't it, isn't it?
11:28Pardon, sir?
11:29I say, that's an asset since I was here last.
11:31Eee, look at that.
11:32Look at that.
11:34Ah, she's a big lass, though.
11:36I could fancy her, eh?
11:37Don't you?
11:38Don't you?
11:39Yes, sir.
11:40That's why I married her.
11:44Hello, Pam.
11:45It's Thelma here.
11:46How are you, love?
11:48Yes.
11:48Yes, he's fine.
11:49He's with me now.
11:50He sends his love.
11:52Yes, I will.
11:53Listen, Pam.
11:54Are you still going out with Maurice?
11:56Or are you not?
11:59Did he?
12:00Did he?
12:02Oh, well, you're well out of it, aren't you, pet?
12:04Listen, Pam.
12:05The reason that I'm ringing is
12:07a friend of Bob's has just come back from abroad
12:09and I thought it would be nice
12:10if the four of us went out one night.
12:13Terry.
12:14Terry Collier.
12:16Oh.
12:17Oh, you remember him, do you?
12:21Oh, well, never mind.
12:22It was just a thought.
12:23Tell you what, pet,
12:24I'll come round and have a coffee sometime, shall I?
12:26Right.
12:27Bye.
12:29All right, love.
12:30You did your best.
12:30Come and sit down.
12:32Oh, frankly, Bob,
12:32I'm not all that keen on fixing up
12:34one of my friends with Terry.
12:36I mean, he can be a bit coarse.
12:38Oh, never mind.
12:38He'll just have to fend for himself.
12:41He'll be down to ringing up two stars by now, anyway.
12:43Oh, who's this?
12:45Oh, just a number.
12:46A number in eyebrow pencil.
12:48Two stars?
12:50You remember.
12:50When we were kids,
12:51we had this adolescent sexual scale.
12:54One star was kissing with mouth closed.
12:57Two stars was with mouth open.
12:59Three stars was upstairs outside.
13:01Four stars was up...
13:02Upstairs outside?
13:04What does that mean,
13:06on the bedroom windowsill?
13:09Don't be naive, pet.
13:11Four was with ladder
13:12and five was without.
13:13Is that it?
13:14No, dearest.
13:16Four was...
13:16Oh, I know what four stars was.
13:19And five, six and seven.
13:21When we were 16,
13:22it was what you were always complaining
13:23about never getting.
13:25You all lied anyway, you boys.
13:28Subtract three from what you said you'd got
13:29and you'd get a true picture.
13:31Oh, yeah.
13:31I said you can't do that with Terry.
13:33There's only three stars in his system.
13:35He never had our finesse.
13:37No, nor did the girls
13:39you went out with.
13:42Oh, excuse me, pet.
13:47Hello?
13:48Yes, this is 21717.
13:52I'm sorry.
13:55Some madman says,
13:57do I remember Blackpool Illumination,
13:59September 1965?
14:00I'll get you for this, Collier!
14:08I'm surprised you've got a nerve
14:10to come round here.
14:11I'm surprised you don't feel
14:12any sense of embarrassment
14:13after last night.
14:14All I feel after last night
14:15is the sense of having
14:16done a few too many.
14:17Working up enough Dutch courage
14:19to ring up old numbers
14:20from the past.
14:20Oh, come on, boy, man.
14:22It was a joke.
14:23I only did it for a joke.
14:25I thought I'd give them a ring
14:26and give them a good laugh
14:27over the late-night cup of cocoa.
14:30Thelma said it was a joke,
14:33didn't she?
14:34Thelma's attitude
14:35was very strange.
14:36She went very pale
14:37and developed a twitch
14:38in her left ear.
14:41I had to give her
14:42some of her mother's
14:43salvo letterly.
14:44Was that wise,
14:45on top of cocoa?
14:47She doesn't think
14:48she was on that trip,
14:49but she can't be certain.
14:51What with her passing
14:52of the time.
14:53The egg, gin and lime
14:53she had at the window gardens.
14:55How did you know that?
14:56She was there.
14:56That was her number
14:57in your book, wasn't it?
14:58That proves it.
14:59Oh, my God.
15:00Oh, don't take on
15:01like that, man.
15:02To think that
15:03you're the skeleton
15:04in my lovely
15:04bride-to-be's cupboard.
15:06I'm not that thin.
15:07Wiry I may be,
15:08but I'm not a skeleton.
15:10You don't care, do you?
15:11No shame,
15:12no regrets.
15:12It doesn't concern you
15:14that you've driven a wedge
15:14between Thelma and me.
15:16Take more than a wedge
15:16to prise you two apart.
15:19Betrayed.
15:20Betrayed
15:20by the two people
15:21closest to me
15:22in all the world.
15:23Betrayed in the backseat
15:24of a bus from Blackpool.
15:25Of course you weren't.
15:28Two stars.
15:29How can I live with that?
15:30Oh, come on, Bob.
15:31You know how I exaggerate.
15:32It was probably only one.
15:34On a three-star scale?
15:36One's still a 33% success rate,
15:39isn't it?
15:39Oh, Bob, Bob,
15:40it was years ago.
15:41We were children.
15:43Children carried away
15:44by the day out
15:45and the drinks
15:46and the sing-song.
15:47Children can get very emotional
15:49after 14 pints
15:50and a chorus of
15:51Bladen races.
15:5433%?
15:55We weren't as bad
15:56as some of the others.
15:56We might have had the backseat
15:58but we kept a sense
15:58of dignity and modesty.
16:01Eileen Hogg
16:02was in the luggage rack
16:03with the accordionist.
16:07And all the time
16:08I was sick in bed.
16:10You took advantage
16:11of my abscess.
16:12I didn't take advantage
16:13at all.
16:14You weren't going out
16:15with Thelma at the time.
16:16You were having
16:16one of your off periods.
16:17You haven't always
16:19been going out
16:19with Thelma, you know.
16:21It just seems that way.
16:24It was years ago, man.
16:26It was kids,
16:27not grown-ups,
16:28just a bunch
16:29of juvenile scruffs,
16:30not sophisticated adults
16:32like what we are now.
16:34It was still a shock.
16:36You want this
16:36over later, Lee?
16:37I've always been vulnerable
16:39to things like this.
16:39That's always been my trouble.
16:41Too soft.
16:42Too trusting.
16:44Too loving.
16:45God, preserve us.
16:48What are all these?
16:49You've been looking
16:49at your diaries, have you?
16:50Yes, I have.
16:51I've been looking
16:52for some note
16:53I might have made,
16:53some note I might have made
16:54hinting at my suspicions.
16:56How trusting of you?
16:57It was justified.
16:58There's a note here somewhere.
17:00There's a note
17:00I made at the time.
17:02Just after that trip,
17:04Terry came round
17:04wearing his new hipsters
17:06and a smug face.
17:08He knows something.
17:10Don't ever stand up
17:11in a court of law.
17:13I shall never be able
17:14to get on a bus again
17:15without feeling
17:16shudders of doubt.
17:17Oh, it's a bad thing,
17:18that, shudders of doubt.
17:20I think she could have told me.
17:22Don't you?
17:23Sometime after we're engaged,
17:24I think she could have told me,
17:25or better still,
17:26years ago,
17:27just after it happened,
17:29I think she could have told me.
17:30I would have understood.
17:32I would have been mature
17:33and forgiving
17:34and adult about it.
17:36I would have gone round
17:36to your house,
17:38taken back your Christmas box,
17:39kicked your head in,
17:40and all have been forgiven.
17:44If only everyone
17:45could be that reasonable.
17:47Let's have a look at your diary.
17:48No, get off.
17:49It's private, isn't it?
17:50This is a record
17:51of private thoughts and feelings.
17:52It's not for other people's eyes.
17:54It's personal.
17:54I only want to glance
17:55at the addresses section.
17:57I don't want to read
17:57your private feelings.
17:58If I show you girls' addresses,
18:00I'm betraying their confidence,
18:01aren't I?
18:02They didn't give me their numbers
18:03so they could fall
18:04into your grubby grasp.
18:06I've got some integrity.
18:07How may, man?
18:08How may?
18:09They'll all be the same
18:10as mine anyway.
18:13Yes, there they all are.
18:16The same old, tired names.
18:19Dear me.
18:23Hell's teeth.
18:25What is it?
18:26I mean, who is it?
18:27How many stars in your system?
18:29I told you, seven.
18:32Well, you're giving
18:32Wendy Thwaites eight.
18:35Let's have a look at that.
18:36Let's have a look at that.
18:37One, two, three, four, five, six,
18:39seven, eight.
18:41That must mean you got
18:41all the way there
18:42and went back to the start again.
18:44One more time, Ferris,
18:46the human dynamo.
18:48No, no, it didn't mean that.
18:50I know what it means now.
18:51You gave yourself
18:52a bonus point, did you?
18:54E for effort.
18:57Please.
18:58She was the first.
19:00That's why I awarded her
19:03another star.
19:04Oh, I see.
19:05Like a sort of
19:05commemorative medal.
19:08Don't joke about it.
19:10It meant something.
19:11It might have been
19:11a long time ago,
19:12but it meant something.
19:13She meant something.
19:15Wendy Thwaites?
19:16Yes.
19:16Are you sure?
19:17Heavens, yes.
19:18It wasn't such a common occurrence
19:19in those days
19:19you could forget it.
19:20No, I didn't mean that.
19:21I meant Wendy.
19:23I didn't think anybody...
19:24I did.
19:25Well, that staggers me.
19:29That really does.
19:31Wendy Thwaites.
19:33I mean, she was...
19:34She had such a repressed upbringing.
19:37All the family
19:37were devout Methodists.
19:38Her mother used to stand
19:39on the street corner
19:40and hand out leaflets
19:41about the end of the world.
19:42And her father
19:43was a Sunderland supporter,
19:44so it was hardly
19:45a house of gaiety and merriment.
19:47Well, I suppose
19:48she was expressing
19:49her rebellion,
19:50something like that.
19:52I thought her only expression
19:53was ballroom dancing.
19:54I thought the only thing
19:55she ever wanted
19:55from a man
19:56was a gay Gordon.
19:57But I did rather
19:58catch her off her guard.
19:59What happened?
20:00I had to pick her up one night
20:02after a competition.
20:04She won.
20:04She won the competition.
20:05She was all radiant
20:06and elated with success.
20:08Success?
20:09She'd just become
20:10the 1966
20:11Cooperative Society
20:13Regional Subdivision
20:15Paso Doble Champion.
20:17My God.
20:18Tomorrow the world.
20:19Which promised a chance
20:20at the Northeastern Eliminators.
20:22Well, you can see
20:23how all that could turn
20:24a young girl's head.
20:25Too much, too soon.
20:27Well, I swear
20:28it did rather turn her head.
20:30Flushed with victory
20:31and baby sham
20:32and the sash
20:33and the cup
20:33and the primitive rhythms
20:35of Ernie Blenkinsop's
20:36Afro-Cubans.
20:38A star was born.
20:40Anyway, she came home with me.
20:42My mother was away at the time.
20:44I don't think Wendy
20:44really knew where she was.
20:45I think half her mind
20:47was on the quarterfinals
20:48and the other half
20:49was in the Argentine home
20:50of the Paso Doble.
20:51It was all very fumbling
20:53and immature.
20:54You know what those
20:54dresses are like.
20:55And so.
20:56Pink true
20:57with a satin bodice.
20:58Very fetching.
20:59And I didn't know
21:00much about it myself
21:01because I'd had a few
21:01in the Empress Ballroom
21:02Contiki Lounge
21:03and things were a bit blurred.
21:06But it happened all right
21:07when I woke up
21:08the next morning.
21:10My bed was full of sequins.
21:14Wendy Thwaites.
21:15Who would have thought it?
21:18You never said anything
21:19about it at the time.
21:20Oh, no, of course I didn't.
21:21Out of respect for her.
21:23And the good name
21:24of Ballroom Dancing.
21:26She was very distraught.
21:27She was in a bad way
21:28for a few days
21:29thinking of giving it up.
21:30But she'd only just started.
21:32I meant the dancing.
21:34Oh, I was going to say.
21:36Still, you might have
21:37given us a hint.
21:39I mean,
21:39keeping it to yourself like that.
21:41We're not all like you.
21:42We'll all shout our sexual conquest
21:44from the rooftops.
21:45If you had the money
21:46you'd take out
21:47peak time ads on the telly.
21:48That is unkind.
21:51The reason for this
21:52depressing situation
21:53is my lack of sexual conquest.
21:55Wendy Thwaites,
21:56where are you
21:57now that I need you?
21:59She's still around.
22:00She's with the
22:01Ada Bissell formation team.
22:03You should join.
22:04After a while
22:05you might twirl your way
22:05into her affections.
22:08Jackie Norris.
22:10She was a fair-looking girl.
22:12Jackie Norris.
22:14Aye, she had some form.
22:15Did you go up with her long?
22:17Once or twice, I think.
22:17Nothing very heavy.
22:19I think I did.
22:20Bring her up.
22:22Ah, what's the use, man?
22:23It's a futile exercise.
22:25Any way who needs it.
22:27No sweat.
22:28She'd in half have a pair on her.
22:32Where's the phone?
22:34Hang on a minute.
22:35Hang on, hang on.
22:36I'll do it.
22:36I'll do it.
22:37You?
22:37Yeah, your success rate
22:38isn't very high, is it?
22:39Phone ten, one none.
22:41Look and learn.
22:42Go on, then, Casanova.
22:44Her brother was Les Norris,
22:47wasn't he?
22:48Well-known cyclist and potholer.
22:50That's right.
22:51Tall boy with a stoop.
22:53That'll be the pothole in it.
22:55It's ringing.
22:56Or the cycling.
22:59Oh, hello.
23:00Is Jackie there, please?
23:03Yes, of course it is.
23:04How could I ever forget that husky, sexy voice?
23:08Ha, ha, ha.
23:10Oh, and this is Terry.
23:12Terry Collier.
23:13I don't expect you remember me.
23:17That's right.
23:18Of Bob and Terry fame.
23:21Ha, ha, ha, ha.
23:23You do remember.
23:25She says, how could she ever forget?
23:26Well, I have.
23:27Oh, well, I've been abroad.
23:28I've been abroad, actually.
23:30In the army.
23:31I'm not at liberty to disclose where.
23:34The Official Secrets Act, you know.
23:35Uh, Jackie, let me ask you three questions.
23:39Are you married?
23:41Engaged?
23:43You free to go out one night?
23:47I'll ring you tomorrow.
23:49I'll look forward to it, Jackie.
23:53Bye.
23:56Great pullers are born, not made.
24:00She's late.
24:02She's late!
24:03Oh, that'll be the traffic.
24:04Yes, an owned car.
24:06That's a change from the old days.
24:07She'll be driving you home tonight.
24:09Hey, that's a thought.
24:10Might have to fight her off the doorstep.
24:12Oh, she's not expecting too much.
24:14I'm not giving her three stars on her first date.
24:17Didn't her brother used to cycle down potholes or something?
24:22Yeah, something like that.
24:25Well, let her in, let her in.
24:26Before his knees collapse.
24:29I still can't remember her, you know.
24:30Oh, I've got a fairly vivid impression of her.
24:32It just stops at her throat.
24:37There you are then, Jackie.
24:39Do you remember?
24:41Remember those two?
24:42The dynamic duo?
24:43How could I ever forget?
24:45At least, how could I forget him?
24:48Hello, Terry, love.
24:50How are you?
24:51Oh, it's marvellous to see you again.
24:56Oh, and you, Bob.
24:57Tom had just told me about the engagement.
24:59Congratulations.
25:00Oh, yeah, I think there's been a slight misunders.
25:02Why'd you join the army, love?
25:04Was it to forget about me?
25:05Uh, Jackie?
25:06Yes, Bob?
25:07Don't interrupt, Bob, darling.
25:09It's obviously quite an occasion for Jackie, seeing Terry again.
25:13Do you know, when you rang and brought it all back to me, I had to look up my old diaries
25:17and letters and things.
25:18Look what I found.
25:19Oh.
25:19Just look at those clothes.
25:23September the 27th, 1967.
25:26At least.
25:2727th?
25:27September.
25:28Yes, well, sit down, Jackie.
25:29Sit, sit down.
25:30Make yourself at home.
25:31That's all ancient history now, isn't it?
25:32All the past.
25:33Who wants, Sherry?
25:33I was in Blackpool at the time.
25:35So was I, on an outing.
25:37The Spanish or Cyprus?
25:38That's right.
25:39Supporters' Club.
25:40You pretended you were ill, didn't you, Pess?
25:42I was ill, I was.
25:43I had an abscess.
25:46An abscess?
25:47Yes.
25:48And we sneaked off to the country for the day.
25:50Oh, it was very romantic.
25:52Oh, I see.
25:53Abscess made the art grow fonder, did it?
25:56Very good.
25:56That's very witty, Bob.
25:58Did he take his harmonica with him?
26:00He did, but he didn't play up much that day.
26:02Yes, now listen, it's vodka or zinzana.
26:04I think you should know, Jackie, dear,
26:06that your memory's got a little confused over the years.
26:08There's beer in the fridge if no-one wants Sherry.
26:10Terry isn't Terry.
26:11Terry's Bob.
26:12Terry over here's Terry.
26:14That, the object of your nostalgic affection,
26:16that isn't Terry, that's Bob.
26:19Oh, is it?
26:19Yes.
26:20I always did get the two confused.
26:22Still, what's an eme-eme?
26:24Well, that happens to be my Bob,
26:25even though he is deceitful and unfaithful
26:28and goes sneaking off to the Cheviots
26:29with a Jackie Norris.
26:30Thelma.
26:31Oh, look, Thelma.
26:33Wasn't exactly the passion of a lifetime, you know.
26:35It was only a quick snog behind the blacksmiths
26:37on a rainy day in Woola.
26:39Yes, now, this poor tall stout and, uh...
26:41Oh, he was never that serious about me, anyway.
26:44He was always too hung up with that Wendy Thwaites.
26:49Wendy Thwaites?
26:51Don't look at me.
26:59That was nice.
27:00That was nice, just cutting out like that,
27:02leaving me to cope,
27:03leaving me to cope with the Wendy Thwaites revelations.
27:05There's a bunch.
27:06It's your own fault, mate.
27:07Don't come whining to me.
27:09You're always acting the injured innocent, aren't you?
27:12Too trusting, too loving,
27:14and you've been putting it about more than anybody.
27:16I have always been faithful to Thelma.
27:20In principle.
27:21In principle.
27:22You've made an art of infidelity, you have.
27:25And now your pastor's catching up with you.
27:26I wish mine would.
27:31Is it Terry Collier?
27:33Yes.
27:35Glenys.
27:36Glenys Roberts.
27:38Glenys!
27:39Yeah, I've been seeing you since I was taking Alexander Music.
27:42Of course, of course.
27:44You feeling better?
27:44Yeah.
27:48Yes, thanks.
27:49I heard you were back.
27:50Would you like a little, uh...
27:51No, no, no, no, I'll work it, temporary-like.
27:53Ah.
27:54Perhaps later.
27:56Oh, certainly, certainly.
27:58We could, uh, talk over old times, eh?
28:01Oh, happy days.
28:02Weren't they just...
28:03I've got such fond memories.
28:05Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
28:06Bob!
28:07Glenys!
28:07Oh, Bob, how wonderful to see you!
28:10I'll swing for him.
28:15I will.
28:16I'll bloody swing for him.
28:18Oh, what happened to you?
28:22Whatever happened to me?
28:25What became the people we used to be?
28:33Oh, what happened to you?
28:37Whatever happened to me?
28:39What became the people we used to be?
28:48Oh, what happened to you?
28:51Whatever happened to me?
28:55What became the people we used to be?
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