15/11/1986 Unnatural Causes: Hidden Talents - ITV 

glamdolly20 only her agent and a few friends knew. Nobody on this show did. Nor even did her husband Tony Booth who she married a week before her death. The programme is The Unforgettable Pat Phoenix. It's on here somewhere. Will find it. Here it is ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-26WPErlsLvM.html

glamdolly20 😢, I believe it was.

A total goddess! Such an energy ❤ RIP Pat.

@@LeopardprintBet Amen, love this lady. I so wish it had been a better script, this didn't do her justice IMO.

James Stanger Great! What other episodes have you got?

Sounds fine at this end.

@@CuriousBritishTelly glad to hear that .

I'm glad it's not just me. I can't fathom out what's going on and there's nowt wrong with my hearing......

To low to hear, so i put on ear plugs and it was still hard to make out the words. The background noise was loud but the words .. not intelligible.

@@ruth7965 Same here, sadly. iI have good hearing but the audio here was very muffled.

Good call - I didn't know Tom Bell was in that old movie, sweet to think they reunited for this, her last ever role.

I would love to see that sitcom, it was the last TV project where Pat was still healthy. I find this drama very sad - she is a dying woman playing a dying woman. I would rather see Pat at her feisty, glamorous best - sparkling, the way we all remember her.

Ditto - would love to see Constant Hot Water - heard so much about it, as I have this drama. Pat Phoenix will never be forgotten.

@@glamdolly30 I watched Constant Hot Water as it was broadcast - it was panned by the critics, but I remember laughing out loud as Pat's character Phyllis feigned a collapse onto a chaise longe at one point. It had it's moments and as Pat told Terry Wogan on his show, it was beating Dynasty in the ratings!

I really want to see constant hot water

Phoenix * apologize for the miss spelling , my eyes are scheduled for cataract surgery . Please forgive me .

@@joannewatts9892 I had cataract surgery. It's brilliant - you'll be amazed! 😊😊

My mum called her the Elizabeth Taylor of the working class northwest

@@LouiseGroenewald-hj2vo 💜😹

Bad sounding movie with blured music in background!

I remembered the Warnincks advert. It used to get on my wick at the time.

Jonathan Bridge There was a lot of buzz, hiss and background interference on the previous one. I've managed to edit most of that out now with this version.

Thank you for going to the trouble to improve the sound quality, as this is the great Pat Phoenix' last ever role it's an important upload.

stephen white No, just this one. The Prunella Scales episode is up on RU-vid though. And the Nigel Kneale scripted episode is out on DVD later this year!

Ladies night is on RU-vid

Nothing worth having can be got without any effort or commitment.

@@bojack40 Tell that to the producers of this formless twaddle...

I suppose he was sparked out by that punch 😏

There is that I guess. But as a huge Pat Phoenix fan, I wish she had gone out with a bang not a whimper. It's funny because in the Pat Phoenix documentary (available on RU-vid) Pat's agent talks about this role in hushed tones as if it was so wonderful, just because Lynda La Plante wrote it. Well I don't care who wrote it - it was utter rubbish, has dated badly and the role of sad, bedridden old dear with dodgy sons simply didn't give the magnificent Pat much to get her teeth into! Thank goodness we can enjoy her Coronation Street performances - she was superb as Elsie Tanner right to the end when she got in a black cab heading off to a new life in Portugal with her lover.

Lovely comment! Pat's a bit before my time too. I watched Corrie as a child with my Mum, so knew her as Elsie Tanner from that. I was 17 when she died (too young, at just 62), in 1986 and I immediately went out and bought the most recent of her two autobiographies 'Love, Curiosity, Freckles and Doubt'. It's a great read - I was a huge fan after that and bought the first autobiography 'All My Burning Bridges' which is terrific too. You can get them very cheap, second hand on Amazon. If you're looking for a great book to entertain you on dark Winter's nights you could do a lot worse. (Incidentally I also recommend my own, new book 'Reality Rehab' if you're a fan of the fun, camp and kitsch which I've a feeling you are you'll also find it on Amazon plug plug!) Diana Dors is another of my obsessions - actress from that era fascinate me, they were women, not girls, and proud to be so - always picked themselves up and got on with it, whatever knocks life threw at the, The actress heroine of Reality Rehab is based on those kinds of amazing women! Good luck with your career I think it must be wonderful to be able to sing and entertain people like that - a tough career but a magical one, good for you! X

Tom Bell played a hard bitten copper in Prime Suspect (1990) and a cool ex con in out (1978). Dunno about the same role as a bumbling idiot??? Another Great northern actor...

@@BurtonRdForever Same meat, different gravy!

Wish You Were Here? Good film. Emily Lloyd was great.

It happens to us all no matter what you do

That's something Albert would've said for sure