Sunnyside Farm

You cant remember much? Well i can, this was a funny as hell series which usually involved Phil getting covered in sh** in one way of another. He looked great as the cockney Londoner turned farmer who looked so out of place on the series, it just looked right. Mark Addy was great as his mate and work partner on the farm. If you ain't seen it, you got to. Try and find a copy or see if this gets replayed on UK gold. If you are a Phil Daniels fan watch just what he can do with comedy in the main role. Too bad he hasn't been in any more, it was great. It was always the highlight of my Friday night. I remember this to be on BBC two around about 8.30-9.ish in the evening and was always worth the wait. To tell you the truth, this character was more like Jimmy from "Quadrophenia" giving up his life from London and moving out to the countryside to get away from the crap of busy London. Well you guys look at his character, does he look like the jimmy character he was in Quad? You decide.

The word has it that this programme was commissioned when another production fell through, with only three months notice.

I could have sworn it made it to a second series, but who am I to argue.

The gist of the plot was two brothers inherited a farm, one, the 'cleverer' of the pair was overcome with dismay, at the utter futility of the situation.

He fantasised about having an affair with the 'woman next door' - a pretty if not especially bright 'townie' who's moved from the city with her husband and children (Oberon & Titania) The second brother (by far the more stupid) is content with his lot.

To that extent, it's a thinly veiled remake of the classic 1960's sitcom 'Steptoe and Son'.

In my estimation this should have been ranked alongside 'Father Ted' but the mandarins at the BBC thought otherwise, nd it was quietly 'put out to grass'

Very difficult to find this, but can be found quite easily since 2013. I have begged the BBC to release this on DVD. No reply. This is crazy humor and today i think would suit more people as i think it was ahead of its time. Many scenes are just unique and quite special in the way they were captured. A harsh sense of humor is needed at times to appreciate the crass comments, but i think the cast went on to their own things after this and to abandon this without thought was a mistake, i was looking forward to a second series but alas, never happened, if you get a chance and enjoy heavy comedy with outrageous politically incorrect moments then this is for you

Raymond and Ken Sunnyside live in a dilapidated old farmhouse and are beholden to their Barbour wearing Tory scum landlord, Mr Letchworth. Ken (Mark Addy) is a little on the dim side (to say the least) and his brother Raymond (Phil Daniels) is a belligerent little git whom you just can't help but warm to. In fact, he's rather like Victor Meldrew in that respect, only a lot ruder and more down-at-heel.

This peculiar little sit-com focuses on the many mis-haps of the scruffy twosome and is the sort of thing that you might expect from Monty Python or the Kids in the Hall, had either of those surreal comedy teams decided to do a sit-com. It doesn't seem to care about making the masses laugh and most would find it just plain nonsensical. But there are some truly bizarre situations that made me laugh out loud and brilliant central performances from Daniels and Kitchen (Addy and the often hilariously surreal Matt Lucas are also wonderfully memorable).

I'd love to say more about this show but it's been so long since I've seen it that most of it is a bit of a blur now (no pun intended - for those in the know). Also, having been a complete flop and utterly slated in the press, it's never been released on video or DVD. In fact, my main reason for commenting on it is to put straight the user who referred to Phil Daniels' accent as 'mockney'. I really take exception to this as Daniels was born and raised in London and was using his own accent. Anybody who's heard Blur's 'Parklife' will be aware of that. Also, I never got the impression that he or any of the other actors in this unusual comedy seemed ill at ease in their roles. It's not as if they're jobbing actors who grab what they can and spend the rest of their time on the dole. I like to think they chose to do 'Sunnyside Farm' because they recognised something totally original when they saw it.

But I do remember that I thought this was funny and should definitely be made available, and I normally hate that cockney guy.

This And Glam Metal Detectives needs a DVD release.

I wish I could remember more of this but unfortunately I didn't record any episodes.

I'm sure this could hold it's own against the total dross we now in the UK have instead of comedy (excluding Peep Show, TV Burp & Entertainment Now)

WAKE UP BBC! If The High Life can get a DVD release.

Why not this?