Bless This House

With Sid James(of Carry on fame) as the dad of this household you are guaranteed to get a laugh from this tv series. If you in any way like any of the old programmes like On the buses,George & Mildred,Love thy neighbour and lots more about at approx the same time then you will certainly like this show......

Typical 70s sitcom here...the ones of which todays comedians look down on...The modern so called comedy...Not Going Out,,,In Betweeners...etc...should watch this and see how it's done.

Sid James is the sun here with everybody else in his comedy gravity. Nobody could have kept this show fresh for 5 years and had it not been for his untimely death we would have seen a lot more...even the spin off movie was great.

ITV cannot do sitcom anymore..but this along with Man About The House..George and Mildred..Nearest and Dearest shows that they could in their day.

Such a shame that he never got the Knighthood he deserved...this was his show , he made it his as he did with the Carry On genre.

All the crew understood he was the cog and worked around him perfectly. much missed and a true comedy genius.

"Bless This House" was never going to be the sort of sitcom where there would be any depth to the writing or any attention to characterization. It is Sid James who makes this comedy worth seeing as he does his usual. He plays a rather harassed husband and father to a wife and two children who usually know how to worm their way into his good books. The result being that Sid is financially worse off! In most episodes, he is being nagged about this, that and other and after having a hard day at work. The series lasted from 1971 until 1976. The best episodes are from '71 up to '73. There wasn't much location shooting and the sets were fairly basic.

March 2022

Well here i am finally getting round to watching the entire series on dvd, i had never caught any of these before, but i have watched the film many times and love that.

Not quite as good as the film for me, but consistantly very good and genuinely funny many times, more than i can say about a couple of the other series i had watched recently from the same era, such as please sir and fenn street gang.

Sid James and Sally Geeson were both excellent, one of the earlier episodes involving paintings was the pick of the episodes for me(i cant remember the title).

Recommended

8 out of 10.

Sid James from the long running carry on franchise ( 1958- 1978); stars as Sid Abbott an everyday family man with more of his fairshare of everyday problems a rebellious teenage son played by Robin Stewart, an environmentally inclined daughter played by Sally Geeson daughter of the nepotism family ' Geeson's', and a loving supportive wife Jean played by Diana Coupland.

The series focuses upon realistic family everyday situations that persons who were alive back in the 1970s would've encountered on a daily basis, unlike the verbose ' till death do Us part', this sitcom focus upon domestic everyday matters as opposed to political socio economic matters.

Charming, good matured and entertaining what more could you ask for from a sitcom from the ( 1970s). Sid James plays a character unlike his charactuire persona adopted for the carry ons he has the star quality to carry the problem.

Overall: a very good watch with some lessons about life and human nature.