Thank you! I am hoping they keep uploading long enough to get to those last months, which were very much trying to revert to the early days of the show, only even coarser, apparently (enough to drive away the creator and the woman who played Don's aunt [she was no longer acting on the show but was working on scripts/stories]).
I really wish more of the early days could be found. Do you know if they have ever spoken about what was found? There are some moments in the bridging episode which are not in the 1000th episode special, including a shocking scene where a self-loathing Don has gone cruising and the father of some young man he hit on follows him home and knocks the hell out of him.
That rough edge is what hooks me more on the early episodes. I was absolutely shocked that the opening episodes had a new arrival so disgusted by his full-term pregnant wife not wanting to have sex that he bed the shopkeeper's daughter. And another scene where Alf grabs Vera, groping and harassing, as Vera and his wife Lucille just pass it off as no big deal. (it's even odder to watch knowing Vera is repeatedly raped through the show's run)
By color the show is much cozier and a little too comedy-focused. It's watchable, but I have to admit one of the main reasons I get through is all the guys in their tight trousers (or less...).
There was an episode where Don told his female law partner that he's homosexual, and he has his damn shirt half-open, chest hair on show. I know that was the style at the time but I kept having to remind myself he wasn't trying to hit on her.
(I think the guy who played Don must have had a contract about never being in his underwear - they saved that for Dudley...).
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