James Bolam credited as playing...
Terry Collier
- Terry Collier: Oh Chris, I can't stand saying goodbye like this.
- Christina: You really mean that?
- Terry Collier: Yeah - you finish packing, I'm going to the pub.
- Bob: In the chocolate box of life the top layer's already gone. And someone's pinched the orange creme from the bottom.
- Terry Collier: Bloody hell.
- Bob: When it comes to women you're hardly Omar Sharif.
- Terry Collier: If Omar Sharif lived in Gateshead I doubt he'd be Omar Sharif.
- Terry Collier: Back in time for a drink, watch the box this afternoon - that's what a weekend should be - sport, sleep, slippers and sex.
- Bob: Not necessarily in that order.
- Bob: These streets are ugly, but they have a kind of beauty.
- Terry Collier: Working class sentiment is the indulgence of working peopled created through football and rock-and-roll or people like you who moved out to the elm lodge housing estate at the earliest opportunity.
- Bob: Well I didn't want my kids growing up in these streets.
- Bob: Nobody cares, nobody's moved by the occasion.
- Terry Collier: Residents are, moved to a highrise.
- Bob: Of course you always had an irresistible sexual magnetism.
- Terry Collier: True but its not just that.
- Bob: What is it then, I'm dying to know!
- Terry Collier: Well once I've got them up here, there's no way they're going to risk leavin this dodgy area after dark.
- Fireman: We've got better things to do with taxpayers money.
- Bob: I'm sorry, when I get to the top I just lost me nerve.
- Terry Collier: Keeps your hand in doesn't it, better than polishing your bell up all afternoon.
- Bob: Mind you my wife isn't really with me.
- Terry Collier: In town though.
- Bob: Out of sight, out of mind.
- Terry Collier: Good thinking Bob.
- Terry Collier: [to young couple kissing passionately in lift] It's young Marsha isn't it, shouldn't you be in bed?
- Marsha: We'd rather be but dad's in, that's why we're in the lift.