Nice, thats a series i'll have to look out for. I got the James Bond boxset so now i'm going to plan for a Alan Partridge style James Bond marathon in the near future!

Personally, i would class it as a James Bond film especially as the rights to that film are now owned by the company that owns all the others too. It's not included in the box set though

Well, opinions on James Bond vary wildly... to me, it starts and ends with Sean Connery, so "Never say never again" fits the bill nicely

And it had Rowan Atkinson in it...

Bond: "Got to get rid of some free radicals..."
Moneypenny: "Oh, do be careful, James..."



Back on topic, I rather like "George and the Dragon", too, still think it wasn't the best Sid James in it, he seemed to be going through the motions a bit, but I just love the cast as a whole, especially John Le Mesurier, one of my favourite character actors ever.

Just finished reading his biography, "Do You Think That's Wise?", btw... poor John, all he ever wanted was a quiet life of moderate excess, and women made it a misery... what a bad luck.

Quite like Keith Marsh, too, been seeing him lately in "Love Thy Neighbours" as well, and, btw, I still have the impression that Jeremy Clarkson manages to be more offensive in a single Top Gear show than this series has ever been through its whole run...

And Peggy Mount is... well, Peggy Mount

Well, where Vince Powell is involved, recycling is never too far away... he might not have written the whole of the "Bless This House" episode in question, but maybe some of his ideas were used there...

There's one plot he re-used at least three times, almost word by word, and that's only to the best of my own knowledge, first in BTH, the season 2 episode "A Rolls By Any Other Name", then in "A Sharp Intake of Breath" (S04 E01, "Wheels"), with David Jason, and then in "Mind Your Language", don't remember the specific episode.

That's a writer who clearly trusted the viewing public with having a very short memory...

P.S. I just checked those episodes you quote from G&D and BTH... the beginnings are indeed absolutely identical, not just a few words, the pillows in bed gag, the biblical references (they begat in those days)... can't be a coincidence, can it?