The first series to be made by prolific writing partners Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, 'The Likely Lads' chronicled the misadventures of best friends Bob (Rodney Bewes) and Terry (James Bolam), as they navigated life and love in a northern town in the 1960s. The series ran for three series (and one Christmas special) from 1964 to 1966. One of a wave of innovative new working class sitcoms in the 1960s, the series was the first top 20 comedy hit for BBC Two. In the early 1970s, the series was revived as the even more successful 'Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads', picking up on Bob and Terry seven years later and looking at how their lives had drifted apart in the intervening years. The show rose to become the second most watched television programme in Britain, running to 26 episodes, plus another Christmas special. All 38 surviving episodes of the two series are presented here together on DVD for the first time, alongside audio recordings of 10 'lost' episodes from the 1960s, that were never archived by the BBC.
