The Splosh UK Forum

Who'll take a letter now Mr Jones?

I'm free!

I might have started a John Inman thread but I wasn't free.

He was a genius in panto - best frocks in the business!

What a great actor, I grew up watching the show, it was well funny. Hel'll be sadly missed.

regards

Andy

Being out of the UK, I tend to miss a lot of the news in showbiz.

Am I right in guessing John has made his last camp innuendo?

Phantom

Being an American I only know his work on the series "Are You Being
Served" and "Are You Being Served Again" the sequeal series. Loved
his character.

I was sad when I heard about his passing and he will be missed.

Well, Devo, you are nearly one up on us! The "Again" series was never shown in the UK. I believe it was made either in the US or Australia. Over here he did some terribe sitcom on ITV which didn't work, but was best known for being a brilliant pantomime dame.

Ok. he wasn't exactly a Splosh! god but he was a master of innuendo and nothing wrong with that.

^ There was an Australian series (in which Inman played Mr Humphries again) but "Are You Being Served Again?" was just an alternative title for "Grace & Favour", that series where the old cast ran a B&B.[/i]

I never watched AYBS myself, but for a short while they did show the Take a Letter show over here, so I'd saw him on that and recognized hhis character if I happened to be flipping ast an AYBS eppy.

never knew he did panto - though that's hardly surprising.

I was less than 10 when are you being served was on TV, so I didn't understand it.

messyslime wrote:^ There was an Australian series (in which Inman played Mr Humphries again) but "Are You Being Served Again?" was just an alternative title for "Grace & Favour", that series where the old cast ran a B&B.[/i]

Thanks for that. Genuinely didn't know. Grace and Favour was pretty dreadful - though it did feature a girl falling into some alleged cow manure, as I recall.

although not about the great man directly
this thread maid me wonder wether post eastenders wendy richards may return to comedy
if maybe in slightly different roles

I saw John Inman in a Paul Raymond production of "Let's Get Laid" at the Windmill Theatre in 1974; he played in the same style as in "Are you being served". It was directed by Victor Spinetti (and further down the cast list was Jack Haig, a real slapstick comedy star if I remember correctly).

Good old Jack Haig...best known in later life for being Monsieur LeClerc (or however it was spelt) in Allo, Allo. However he was Wacky Jacky in a big check suiit for many years before that. I met him once in his Crossroads days when he was thinking of retiring and his wife said, "We want to relax more but people remember Wacky Jacky and keep asking him to come back and do things." Then came Allo Allo.

The most amusing fact I think to come out of the John Inman eulogies, I think, is that the young trendy Mr Lucas was (and is) only two years younger than middle bald, big-eared manager Mr Rumbold!