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The Optimist.

  • 09-06-2009 1:36pm
    #1
    darkdubh
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    This was a British comedy series from the early 80s.It followed the weekly adventures of a guy who was sort of innocent and always failing in life.The strange thing about it was it was virtually silent.The lead guy looked kind of like Tim Brooke Taylor from the Goodies but i cant be sure if it was him .


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  • #2
    gipi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,140 ✭✭✭gipi


    It was Enn Reitel who played the lead in The Optimist - he looks a bit like T-B-T though!


  • #3
    Hangdogroad
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    Apparently most of series two is missing from the archives. If anyone has it recorded on VHS dont throw away the tapes


  • #4
    branie2
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    It was very good


  • #5
    George White
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,374 ✭✭✭George White


    Enn Reitel is someone who is one of the great nearly men of British telly.
    He was the lead in numerous sitcoms, all of which are forgotten - Misfits, the New Adventures of Lucky Jim, Mog, the Optimist. He also was one of the original choices to play Del Boy, and he would have been a very diffeent Del to David Jason, but he was too busy and the rest is history.
    He's still working and now a big voiceover talent and has been for years, one of the key Spitting Image voices, but he now lives in LA, and has done voices on tons of cartoons and video games. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0718572/


  • #6
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    The missing master tapes have been found and its due to be released on DVD.


    https://youtu.be/14QLK0r3lrU




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