Just realised that the Centurion who locks them all up is the same guy who plays Lurkio's master in the second series. I suppose that is what is called acting because you'd barely believe it was the same person.
"They gave him a suspended sentence......they hung him!" At the very height of his powers, nobody before or since has matched Frankie's brilliant mixture of innuendoes and one-liners.
" Ooooooohhhh she's got me all mask about face" Classic British comedy from a classic British comedian, and look where we are now, today's comedy doesn't shine like this.
I Love the Monty Python film 'The Life of Brian' but they borrowed quite a lot from 'Up Pompeii', when John Cleese's Centurian Guard catches Brian painting graffiti is very similar to Lurchio getting caught with the 'Free the Slaves' pamphlets here (14:45) and Terry Gilliam's Jail keeper is almost identical to the guard in this episode (17:28)
Great uploads, thanks a lot! Any chance you could also put up series 2, if you have it? and the one remaining episode of series one, " The senator and the asp"?
I'm not being rude but I never understood why Willie Rushton was a celebrity. Was he an actor or comedian? I remember him on a load of panel shows at the time.