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The Likely Lads was a
hit British sitcom created and written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. Twenty episodes were made and broadcast in all,
over three seasons, by the BBC between December 1964 and July 1966. However, only eight of these shows have survived intact. This was followed by a successful sequel series, in colour, entitled Whatever Happened
to the Likely Lads? that was broadcast between January 1973 and December 1974 and in 1976; a spin-off movie. The show followed the close friendship of two working-class young men, Terry Collier (James Bolam) and
Bob Ferris (Rodney Bewes), in the northeast of England in the mid 1960s. After growing up at school and Scouts together, Bob
and Terry are found working in the same electrical factory, Ellison's, alongside the older, wiser duo of Cloughie and Jack.
The show's gritty yet verbose humour derived mostly from the tensions between Terry's cynical 'everyman' personality and Bob's
ambitions to better himself and progress to the middle class.
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