The likely lads entente cordiale

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The Likely Lads was a British TV sitcom created and written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais,.

Twenty episodes were broadcast by the BBC, over three series, between 16 December 1964 and 23 July 1966. The sitcom was set in Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England.

The show followed the friendship of two working class men in their early 20s, Terry Collier (James Bolam) and Bob Ferris (Rodney Bewes).

After growing up, going to school and the Scouts together, Bob and Terry are now working in the same factory, Ellison's Electrical, alongside the older, wiser duo of Cloughie and Jack.

The show's gritty yet verbose humour derived largely from the tensions between Terry's cynical, every-man, working class personality and Bob's ambition to better himself and move to the middle class.

As Bob and Terry were two average working class lads growing