#So Barbara's married! To a dreamer loafer pretty boy type! He's not good enough for her. But then nobody is really good enough for Barbara

[mariocki]

The Brothers: The Newly Weds (3.2, BBC, 1974)

"They're late."

"A little."

"Nearly an hour!"

"It doesn't matter, it's Sunday."

"Well, I like people to be on time - when they're not, it means they keep other people waiting."

"Yes, Edward, but I think you were born with an alarm clock in your head; not everybody's like that."

#the brothers #classic tv #BBC #1974 #Jean Anderson #Patrick o'connell #richard easton #Robin chadwick #jennifer wilson #Hilary tindall #Julia goodman #gabrielle drake #Derek benfield #Gillian mccutcheon #Jonathan newth #Malcolm stoddard #Roderick Graham #N. J. Crisp #So Barbara's married! To a dreamer loafer pretty boy type! He's not good enough for her. But then nobody is really good enough for Barbara #Meanwhile the Jill Julie David triangle is beginning to ramp up into one of the most significant (and frustrating) plot strands #Of this series. Not that I'm saying it's badly written or handled or anything; I'm sure it's very realistic. It's just frustrating because #There's so little nuance that it makes David look ridiculous: Jill is utterly lovely and Julie is pure evil. Or maybe I'm projecting...