What happens when you cross LoM with '70' sitcoms?
What happens when you cross Life on Mars with 1970's sitcoms?
NB - Updated 06-03-2006 - (I've added a couple more)
I thought I would post these today as it seems very quite in lifein1973 at the moment. I promise I'll stop doing so many posts when the ideas dry up!
LoM 70's Sitcom Crossovers
Rising Camp
Annie goes under cover in a seedy boarding house for Manchester students while investigating student drug dealing. She spends the whole series trying to thwart the advances of the residents - dopey long haired medical student Alan, Philip the hansom son of an African Chief and creepy landlord Rigsby. Hilarity ensues when the drugs Annie finds are actually the ones the vet prescribed for Vienna the cat's constipation.
The Dud Life
Sam and Gene decide to give up the city and go all self-sufficient in suburban Hyde. They end up living next door to the Superintendent and his snobby wife. Lots of punch ups occur in the pig-pen over Gene's tradition approach to farming and Sam's new fangled ideas.
Raymond's Nest
Ray moves into a flat with his two birds Trudy and Wilma, but the catch is he has to pretend to be gay so the landlord will rent him the room. Laughs abound as Ray has to constantly hide his heterosexuality. Chris makes a cameo appearance in one episode when Ray invites him round. While trying to clean up some tea Ray accidentally spilt down Chris's trousers, in walks the landlord who assumes they are a couple.
Gene and Mildred
Gene is married to Mildred - a sexy, brash, buxom and confident older woman who wears the trousers at home. In one episode Gene invites Sam round for dinner, but Mildred and Gene have a big fight before Sam turns up. Poor Sam then has to contend with the atmosphere while both Gene and Mildred play off each other using Sam. Mildred comes on to him - favouring him over Gene by offering him all the best cuts of meat, leaning over to pour the gravy in her low cut top and pinching his bum when she gets the opportunity. Gene gets very jealous - but not in the way she thinks! However, the tension is soon resolved after dinner when they put the telly on and Sam freaks out claming it's talking to him.
Update 06-03-2006 - I've got a couple more!
What Ever Happened to The Unlikely Lads:-
Old mates Ray and Chris meet up again a decade after they shared a flat in swinging '60's Manchester. Chris is now happily settled down with his new partner Sam - and has become quite respectable. A bitter Ray spends the whole series trying to get Chris to relive their bachelor glory days of the '60's while trying to pull Chris away from Sam's influence.
Slurridge:-
Gene and Chris go undercover in Strangeways Prison. They end up sharing a cell (Gene get's the top bunk) and Chris begins to see Gene as a father figure as the old experienced hand guides him through prison life. Gene get's to use all those swear words the BBC script writers invented to get by the watershed - like naff off and scroat (wait - he's already used that one!). Lots of farcal situations arise as poor young, naive Chris keeps dropping the soap in the shower with hilarious consequences.
Litton co-stars as Mr. McKay.
I had thought of turning these into fics, but I think the ideas are better on their own.
Can anyone else think of any more?
Originally posted in lifein1973 What happens when you cross LoM with '70' sitcoms?
NB - Updated 06-03-2006 - (I've added a couple more)
I thought I would post these today as it seems very quite in lifein1973 at the moment. I promise I'll stop doing so many posts when the ideas dry up!
LoM 70's Sitcom Crossovers
Rising Camp
Annie goes under cover in a seedy boarding house for Manchester students while investigating student drug dealing. She spends the whole series trying to thwart the advances of the residents - dopey long haired medical student Alan, Philip the hansom son of an African Chief and creepy landlord Rigsby. Hilarity ensues when the drugs Annie finds are actually the ones the vet prescribed for Vienna the cat's constipation.
The Dud Life
Sam and Gene decide to give up the city and go all self-sufficient in suburban Hyde. They end up living next door to the Superintendent and his snobby wife. Lots of punch ups occur in the pig-pen over Gene's tradition approach to farming and Sam's new fangled ideas.
Raymond's Nest
Ray moves into a flat with his two birds Trudy and Wilma, but the catch is he has to pretend to be gay so the landlord will rent him the room. Laughs abound as Ray has to constantly hide his heterosexuality. Chris makes a cameo appearance in one episode when Ray invites him round. While trying to clean up some tea Ray accidentally spilt down Chris's trousers, in walks the landlord who assumes they are a couple.
Gene and Mildred
Gene is married to Mildred - a sexy, brash, buxom and confident older woman who wears the trousers at home. In one episode Gene invites Sam round for dinner, but Mildred and Gene have a big fight before Sam turns up. Poor Sam then has to contend with the atmosphere while both Gene and Mildred play off each other using Sam. Mildred comes on to him - favouring him over Gene by offering him all the best cuts of meat, leaning over to pour the gravy in her low cut top and pinching his bum when she gets the opportunity. Gene gets very jealous - but not in the way she thinks! However, the tension is soon resolved after dinner when they put the telly on and Sam freaks out claming it's talking to him.
Update 06-03-2006 - I've got a couple more!
What Ever Happened to The Unlikely Lads:-
Old mates Ray and Chris meet up again a decade after they shared a flat in swinging '60's Manchester. Chris is now happily settled down with his new partner Sam - and has become quite respectable. A bitter Ray spends the whole series trying to get Chris to relive their bachelor glory days of the '60's while trying to pull Chris away from Sam's influence.
Slurridge:-
Gene and Chris go undercover in Strangeways Prison. They end up sharing a cell (Gene get's the top bunk) and Chris begins to see Gene as a father figure as the old experienced hand guides him through prison life. Gene get's to use all those swear words the BBC script writers invented to get by the watershed - like naff off and scroat (wait - he's already used that one!). Lots of farcal situations arise as poor young, naive Chris keeps dropping the soap in the shower with hilarious consequences.
Litton co-stars as Mr. McKay.
I had thought of turning these into fics, but I think the ideas are better on their own.
Can anyone else think of any more?
Originally posted in lifein1973 What happens when you cross LoM with '70' sitcoms?