Paul Eddington: Last News

BBC show to discuss her time on the popular vintage show.Flaunting her youthful appearance four decades after The Good Life, Felicity tells Graham that she loved acting drunk when she played Barbara on the iconic sitcom.She refers to her screen husband Tom, played by Richard Briers, and their neighbours, Penelope Keith's Margo and Paul Eddington's Jerry, as she shares stories from her time on the show.She says: "I love acting p****d and we thought it would be very funny if we became as drunk as Jerry and Tom."The head of the BBC said Barbara and Margot can't get drunk because they are so loved by the audience."We fought really hard to do it and eventually we did that scene.

The Good Life – Bowles had turned down the role taken in that series by Paul Eddington – this was his moment, and he seized it with relish. Thereafter, he appeared sporadically on the West End stage as an authentic leading player, and initiated, often as a co-deviser, or “original idea” supplier, a string of major television serials including Only When I Laugh (1979-82), in which he starred with James Bolam and Christopher Strauli as one of three troublesome hospital patients under the supervision of Richard Wilson’s irascible doctor; The Irish RM (1983-85), in which he played a tetchily disposed army major serving as a resident magistrate in Northern Ireland (“Bowles Saves Channel 4” ran one headline after it opened to rave reviews and large viewing figures); and Perfect Scoundrels (1990-92), with Bowles and Bryan Murray playing likable conmen, latter-day Robin Hoods choosing only deserving victims.