Over the course of 20 episodes, our folk heroes and Geordie partners in crime, Bob Ferris and Terry Collier, extolled the rights and wrongs of everything from beer and birds to Newcastle United and nightlife. Terry "To tell you the truth I don't much like anyone outside this town. And there aren't many families down our street that I can stand".

A LIKELY LAD | Kirkus Reviews A LIKELY LAD | Kirkus Reviews

We gave it a bit of Newcastle pride perhaps. I think when you see the bridges, the art galleries, the coffee bars and the social life and the quays, I think it's progressed a bit - and I hope we all have." Don't quote me - Famous banter... Terry "I haven't got much time for the Irish or the Welsh, and the Scots are worse than the Koreans". The Likely Lads is one of the most enduring shows in television history. Frequently repeated and often hailed as a classic, it gave the North East a voice for the first time when it was originally screened in 1964.

verifyErrors }}{{ message }}{{ /verifyErrors }}{{

A Likely Lad by Peter Doherty | Hachette UK A Likely Lad by Peter Doherty | Hachette UK

When Kate found out I hadn’t finished the treatment, she told me point-blank that that was it, there was no way we could see each other now. I said, yeah, but you were supposed to come and get me in a helicopter for a day trip to the Grand Canyon. The split was all over the press. Kate was quoted in the Mirror saying, “I wish I’d never met him. He’s a user in every sense of the word.” Everything was falling apart. Doherty’s latest release was the acclaimed collaborative album with French producer and songwriter Frédéric Lo, ‘The Fantasy Life of Poetry & Crime’.Smooth talking TERRY persuades him that a small chain of pubs would be a good idea -with TERRY as overall Manager? He'd find plenty to moan about, but he'd see what the city had achieved architecturally and culturally, and he'd be proud," says his creator Ian La Frenais. In fact none of the main actors in The Likely Lads was a Geordie. Rodney Bewes was born and bred in Yorkshire, James Bolam was a Sunderland lad, and Brigit Forsyth came from Edinburgh. La Frenais believes that Bob and Thelma with their aspirations and attempts at self-improvement would also have embraced the new North East. There had been times in the past when photos had been taken off my phone and used in the press, so after the “High As a Kate” thing Kate turned against me. She said, if you didn’t sell the photos, how did they get in the papers? And I couldn’t say. I just presumed a friend of mine must have done it.