Today I've managed to watch three complete seasons of Rising Damp while "computing". They don't make 'em like that any longer. On season 4 now! #LeonardRossiter #RisingDamp #RichardBeckinsale

Forty-six years ago today, the permissive society was living in London cinemas… #RisingDamp #1980s #film #films #JosephMcGrath #LeonardRossiter #FrancesDeLaTour #DonWarrington #ChristopherStrauli #DenholmElliott #CarrieJones #comedy

A perfect mix of Ultravox’s “Vienna” and Rising Damp nostalgia 🎶🐈
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TV Times, 1-7 April 1978 featured Leonard Rossiter and Frances de la Tour on the cover, promoting the comedy Rising Damp. #RisingDamp

This week @jakeyapp.bsky.social joined @robertcheath.bsky.social and Guy Walker to talk about #RisingDamp

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We're back with series 5 on Wednesday. @robertcheath.bsky.social and Guy Walker will be joined by @jakeyapp.bsky.social to chat all things #RisingDamp

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The cast of Rising Damp

September 1974 saw the broadcast of the very first episode of the 1st series of "Rising Damp". The funniest sitcom ever to appear on ITV. From left: Frances de la Tour, Leonard Rossiter, Richard Beckinsale, Don Warrington. #RisingDamp

Miss Jones is looking rough. #eurovision #risingdamp

Oh boy, I loved Rising Damp. Leonard Rossiter was a genius! #RisingDamp

Rising Damp – A Celebration & The Complete Scripts Another of my sporadic double reviews here. This time featuring the classic UK sitcom Rising Damp set in the 1970s. One is a celebration of the series, by Richard Webber, the other the complete scr…

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Forty-five years ago today, the permissive society was living in London cinemas… #RisingDamp #1980s #film #films #comedy #JosephMcGrath #LeonardRossiter #FrancesDeLaTour #DonWarrington #ChristopherStrauli #DenholmElliott

Unai Emery is getting more like Leonard Rossiter every time I see him.

#Villa #Spurs #FACup #RisingDamp

I’ve never watched …

#thetraitors
#gavinandstacey
#bridgerton
#succession
#notmalpeople
#tedlasso

… and many others

I have, however, just watched the entire back catalogue of #steptoeandson and #risingdamp

Leonard Rossiter was an absolute genius #RisingDamp

Code: Damp: An Esoteric Guide to British Sitcoms - Repeater Books An alternative occult and esoteric history of England told through one of its most popular cultural forms: the comedy sitcom. Code: Damp is a sometimes-comedic field report that charts an esoteric code hidden within the twin poles of 1970s sitcoms Rising Damp and The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin. Outlining how past cultural patterns condensate and repeat through technology, time is shown to be a damp condensation seeping through the centuries and out onto the telly. Interspersed with the author’s own photographs, prints, Holsten Pils cans, local newspaper entries and carrier bags, as well as a whole host of other characters, the work seems an antiquarian’s conceit that takes time travel as a metaphoric methodology. This is not media studies; more an allegory of all reality as (tele)visual recorded history, excavating the strata of haunted technology from which the fragile band of code comprising our sense of time is briefly emitted. Drawing connections between incidents of ancient and popular culture, from Mark E. Smith’s lyric— “They say damp records the past”—to Rising Damp’s (meta)physical structure of decay, the book finds damp’s temporal power manifest in everything from alchemy, mysticism, and parish folklore to pulp, Time Team, darts, the local newspaper and, of course, the sitcom. Merging the vast with the parochial, the occult with the comedic, Code: Damp tunes into the weird demands of damp as a time-traveling material at the intersections of comedy, myth and technology, taking all three as serious resources to better (dis)orient the ground we stand on.

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An esoteric guide to British sitcoms influenced by the occult and The Fall?? TAKE MY MONEY

#books #bookstodon #risingDamp #sitcoms

Cover of the book Code Damp, a book about British sitcoms, with Leonard Rossiter on the cover

With its focus on the 1970s career of Leonard Rossiter and its mordant metaphysics of the moist, Sophie-Sleigh Johnson's Code: Damp might just be the most original book yet to emerge from @repeaterbooks.bsky.social

#RisingDamp and the Golden Age of the #BritishSitcom

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#OnThisDay 3 December 1992 📺TV Listings
After 14 years and 7 series, it's the last ever case for RUMPOLE OF THE BAILEY.
Edina tries an immersion tank in #AbsolutelyFabulous.
#BrianCox in topical drama THE BIG BATTALIONS.
Repeats of #RisingDamp and #OneFootInTheGrave.

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#leeds #risingdamp #rigsby #vienna #ultravox #lufc

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Apart from its brilliance in every element of comedy, #risingdamp was important to a teenager in an almost wholly white monocultural space. Don Warrington (along with Tony Osoba in Porridge) presented a view of black men inaccessible anywhere else.

I'm grateful to them.