Dexy Question

[mudshark]

While driving to the office Monday I played the 1993 CD of a 1982 BBC radio concert by one of the 5 best bands evert to come from the UK (Soft Machine, PIL, The Beatles, The Clash and Dexy's, cast in stone). Wonderful rendition of Respect. But that's not what this is about. My meandering mind took me back to the 90s. On the SBC5 channel in Singapore they showed a comedy series which I think featured a painter who was forever doing the walls of some woman's apartment, or something like that. It must have been kinda funny because I watched it quite a bit (they showed Man Behaving Badly right before or after, which I really liked as well). I'm pretty sure the episodes began with a Dexy's song. I recognized the voice etc., but not the song. I'm sure I must have asked the mighty Teabag over a couple of pints of Guinness and I'm sure he gave me the answers and burnt me discs of everything Kevin & Co. had ever recorded plus some stuff they didn't even know they had recorded (that's Teabag in a nutshell). But this is a long time ago and of course I don't remember anything. So: what was the show, what was the song and is it on any of Dexy's albums?

[Tom Waits For No One]

The show was called 'Brush Stokes' and the song was 'Because Of You'
Available on this https://www.discogs.com/master/333049-D ... ht-Runners

[mudshark]

Thank you Tom. I actually know that song. I somehow thought it was another song on that show.
Brush Strokes. it's not on Netflix or nothing. Maybe I can score a VHS tape at a yard sale.

[Mike Boom]

[ChrisB]

The theme tune was, by far, the best thing about the programme.

[Lord Rother]

...one of the 5 best bands evert to come from the UK - Dexy's, cast in stone).

Not something I was expecting to read when I got up this morning.

[naughty boy]

It's actually an interesting and nicely diverse little list - they're all archetypical British bands who had some commercial success but were still 'full flavoured', they weren't pressured by external demands, stayed true to themselves...

[Minnie the Minx]

A favourite.

[The Slider]

The theme tune was, by far, the best thing about the programme.

Oh, I don't know.
It was a bit mainstream BBC, but Karl Howman was great as Jacko, and Kim Thomson, who was the original Lesley, set my pulse racing.
As it happens she is still sizzling at 58: http://www.officialkimthomson.co.uk/

[Rorschach]

The theme tune was, by far, the best thing about the programme.

Oh, I don't know.
It was a bit mainstream BBC, but Karl Howman was great as Jacko, and Kim Thomson, who was the original Lesley, set my pulse racing.
As it happens she is still sizzling at 58: http://www.officialkimthomson.co.uk/

I seem to remember enjoying it at the time but then I saw the first couple of minutes of the video Mike Boom posted. Fuck me, that's awful. Did we really think it admirable to play at being irrepressibly cheeky and irresistibly charming, whilst actually being a vacuous, sexist twat?
And that script. About as sharp as mallet.

[Brickyard Jack]

The theme tune was, by far, the best thing about the programme.

Oh, I don't know.
It was a bit mainstream BBC, but Karl Howman was great as Jacko, and Kim Thomson, who was the original Lesley, set my pulse racing.
As it happens she is still sizzling at 58: http://www.officialkimthomson.co.uk/

I seem to remember enjoying it at the time but then I saw the first couple of minutes of the video Mike Boom posted. Fuck me, that's awful. Did we really think it admirable to play at being irrepressibly cheeky and irresistibly charming, whilst actually being a vacuous, sexist twat?
And that script. About as sharp as mallet.

It was written by Esmonde and Larbey who wrote a bunch of “classic” sitcoms - The Good Life being the biggest, but you have heard of most of them. Larbey on his own also wrote the Judi Dench vehicles As time goes by and A fine romance.

[Rorschach]

I used to love The Goode Life.
Remind me not to rewatch any of it.

[Brickyard Jack]

:o

I used to love The Goode Life.
Remind me not to rewatch any of it.

The Good Life had 28 episodes, Brush Strokes had 40.

[ChrisB]

Oh, I don't know.
It was a bit mainstream BBC, but Karl Howman was great as Jacko, and Kim Thomson, who was the original Lesley, set my pulse racing.
As it happens she is still sizzling at 58: http://www.officialkimthomson.co.uk/

I seem to remember enjoying it at the time but then I saw the first couple of minutes of the video Mike Boom posted. Fuck me, that's awful. Did we really think it admirable to play at being irrepressibly cheeky and irresistibly charming, whilst actually being a vacuous, sexist twat?
And that script. About as sharp as mallet.

It was written by Esmonde and Larbey who wrote a bunch of “classic” sitcoms - The Good Life being the biggest, but you have heard of most of them. Larbey on his own also wrote the Judi Dench vehicles As time goes by and A fine romance.

Collaborations
The Dick Emery Show (1963)
Spare a Copper (1965)
Room at the Bottom (1966)
Please Sir! (1968–1972)
The Fenn Street Gang (1971–1973)
Cosmo And Thingy (1972)
Bowler (1973)
Football Crazy (1974)
Get Some In! (1975–1978)
The Good Life (1975–1978)
The Other One (1977–1979)
Three Piece Suite (1977)
Feet First (1979)
Just Liz (1980)
Don't Rock The Boat (1982)
Now And Then (1983)
Ever Decreasing Circles (1984–1989)
Brush Strokes (1986–1991)
Double First (1988)
Hope It Rains (1991)
Mulberry (1992–1993)
Down To Earth (1995)
Larbey without Esmonde
A Fine Romance (1981–1984)
The Curious Case of Santa Claus (1982)
Age-Old Friends (1989), based on Larbey's play A Month of Sundays, first presented at The Nuffield Theatre in 1985 and winner of the London Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy of 1986[7]
On the Up (1990–1992)
As Time Goes By (1992–2005)
My Good Friend (1995)

Some good, some bad, some ugly

[Lord Rother]

Ever Decreasing Circles stands out on that list (for me). Richard Briers, Peter Egan and Penelope Wilton were excellent. As were the couple (Howard and Hilda) who always wore the same jumpers (if memory serves).

(I didn't know they wrote Please Sir! - although we didn't actually watch that in my house, too anarchic and too many people with long hair for my Dad I suspect.)

[Brickyard Jack]

As time goes by ran for THIRTEEN YEARS! Blimey.