A Likely Lad

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The only thing to look forward to… is the past", goes the lyric of the title song of the TV series. Terry "I haven't got much time for the Irish or the Welsh, and the Scots are worse than the Koreans". Proselytised as being a literary man and the unofficial poet laureate of the streets, it is rather disappointing that the author couldn't be bothered to write his own life story but rather chunter and boast of his past misdeeds, and have Steve Spence scrape together his hazed recollections.

A Likely Lad by Peter Doherty, Simon Spence | Waterstones A Likely Lad by Peter Doherty, Simon Spence | Waterstones

One of the most notable continuity points about the show is that Terry served in the Army for "five years". However, there was a real-life gap of seven years between the end of the original series in 1966 and the sequel in 1973. Also, there are numerous references in the 1970s show to the Lads' shared adventures in 1967, plus citations of that year as the time when Terry was last in town. From the audience's point of view, Terry was last heard in the radio series, broadcast during 1967 and 1968. Taken all together, it suggests Terry's army service lasted for the five years from 1968 (i.e., the end of the radio series) to 1973.In 2002, the episode "No Hiding Place" was remade by Ginger Productions for ITV, featuring Declan Donnelly as Bob and Ant McPartlin as Terry, and Rodney Bewes in a cameo role. Reception was lukewarm: most critics agreed that, on paper, the pair were perfectly cast, but that they seemed too young to play Bob and Terry at that point in their lives. [4] Stage version [ edit ] In 1976 a feature-length film was released, written by Clement and La Frenais, which was directed by Michael Tuchner. By this time, Terry had moved to a high-rise flat and also has a Finnish girlfriend called Christina ("Chris"), played by Mary Tamm. Both Mary Tamm and James Bolam's wife Susan Jameson appeared in Doctor Who with Tom Baker Doherty said of his ghost-written book, 'the publishers cut all the best bits out.' For a man who has had more drugs than hot dinners, it's a marvel he remembers anything at all. You couldn't have cast anything on Tyneside - there weren't enough Geordie actors then," they recall.

Pete Doherty says he hasn’t read his own memoir and was

The lads' workmate from the 1960s series, Cloughie (played by Bartlett Mullins), does not appear, but it is mentioned in the first episode that he now runs a newsagents.When I got to the Meadows, they found all the bits in my baggage, plus what I’d hidden inside the lining of my jeans – they really knew their stuff. It was a different vibe than UK rehab – a mix of absolutely loaded trust-fund kids and people trying to avoid federal convictions by doing rehab. After two weeks, Kate was supposed to come and visit me and take me to the Grand Canyon in a helicopter, and I got the right hump when she didn’t show up. In the end I did a runner. In May 2011, The Tynemouth Priory Theatre, in Tynemouth, were granted the rights to become the first non-professional company to stage the production. It became one of the theatre's most attended productions, selling out well in advance for all performances. Terry was played by Brendan Egan and Bob by Stu Bowman. Terry, newly demobbed from the army, finds it hard to adjust to all the changes that have occurred in Newcastle during his time in the army.