Ulitzer95 12,654 Posted March 7, 2022 2 minutes ago, Gisooo said: Oh my goodness, this is so sad. I loved her on Come outside as Auntie Mabel with her dog 'Pippin'. RIP Lynda Baron Is Auntie Mabel a big star in post-Communist Albania then? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
prussianblue 1,038 Posted March 7, 2022 2 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said: Is Auntie Mabel a big star in post-Communist Albania then? I'm picturing TV schedules full of Come Outside and Norman Wisdom films. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toast 16,145 Posted March 7, 2022 Sad news. I have no knowledge of "Come Outside", but Lynda Baron turned up in almost everything over her long career. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gisooo 3,373 Posted March 7, 2022 1 minute ago, Ulitzer95 said: Is Auntie Mabel a big star in post-Communist Albania then? Apart from me no one else knows her here. Come Outside has been my childhood Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bibliogryphon 9,588 Posted March 7, 2022 I had to Wrack my brains to think of anything else she had been in Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TQR 14,400 Posted March 7, 2022 NOOOOO! Not Auntie Mabel!! 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GEMINEYE 206 Posted March 7, 2022 8 minutes ago, Bibliogryphon said: I had to Wrack my brains to think of anything else she had been in Also played Jane Beale's mother in Eastenders more recently 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,478 Posted March 7, 2022 14 minutes ago, Bibliogryphon said: I had to Wrack my brains to think of anything else she had been in She were grand in that and all. Sad news. One of those actresses who was wonderfully entertaining, even when the programme perhaps wasn't. Was great to see her show up in stuff like Father Brown in the last decade, too. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Watcher 319 Posted March 7, 2022 2 hours ago, The Old Crem said: Sad news but I did suspect she might have been Ill after she left Still Open all Hours and barely worked afterwards. Many thought she was not happy with the scripts and she refused to be an older admirer for Granville so Stephanie Cole had that role. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RoverAndOut 4,746 Posted March 7, 2022 Loving all the fond memories of 'Come Outside', a very fondly remembered show for me too. The one that sticks out is where she wondered where the water went after it went down the plughole and she ended up in a sewer. One of those lovely ladies who brightened up any show she was on, a really sad loss. If I was artistically minded, I'd be drawing a polka dot plane flying up towards the pearly gates, but I'm not, so I won't. Go well, Auntie Mabel. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TheKeysOfMarinus 390 Posted March 7, 2022 For those keeping score (no one), Lynda Baron's death closes the book on regular cast members for Oh No It's Selwyn Froggitt (1974 - 1978). 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Handrejka 1,904 Posted March 7, 2022 Is she the first person who was on Celebrity Catchphrase to have died? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RoverAndOut 4,746 Posted March 7, 2022 7 minutes ago, Handrejka said: Is she the first person who was on Celebrity Catchphrase to have died? A quick glance at the cast list on imdb suggests you are right, although I haven't heard of a couple of the 'celebrities' so I've no idea if they're alive or not... 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dead Wait 1,148 Posted March 17, 2022 Peter Bowles (To the Manor Born) https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/17978383/peter-bowles-dead-to-the-manor-born-cancer/ 1 8 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,538 Posted March 17, 2022 Absolute wipeout for late 70s/early 80s Britcoms at the moment. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 8,618 Posted March 17, 2022 36 minutes ago, Dead Wait said: Peter Bowles (To the Manor Born) https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/17978383/peter-bowles-dead-to-the-manor-born-cancer/ The clues were there... 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bibliogryphon 9,588 Posted March 17, 2022 3 minutes ago, time said: The clues were there... First of that group to go though.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,538 Posted March 17, 2022 Still think it's mad that the Indian doctor in Only When I Laugh used to be in a band with Freddie Mercury. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bibliogryphon 9,588 Posted March 17, 2022 1 hour ago, Dead Wait said: Peter Bowles (To the Manor Born) https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/17978383/peter-bowles-dead-to-the-manor-born-cancer/ William Gaunt needs to be wary now as Penelope Keith outlives another of her on screen husbands Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy 1,689 Posted March 17, 2022 (edited) Get this guy into Mollie Sugden, away from this shite thread. edit: ta Edited March 17, 2022 by harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bibliogryphon 9,588 Posted March 17, 2022 After a brief trawl of IMDB and Wikipedia I can find only two surviving actors who have played an onscreen husband to Penelope Keith they are William Gaunt (Next of Kin) and Christopher Villiers (Sweet Sixteen) Very often she plays widows or spinsters Mark your cards 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Handrejka 1,904 Posted March 17, 2022 Weirdly I was listening to The British Sitcom History Podcast on To The Manor Born when I heard the news. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RoverAndOut 4,746 Posted April 11, 2022 4 hours ago, Gisooo said: Irish actress Melanie Clark Pullen (Wiki) dead at 46, after a battle with cancer. She was known for her performance on EastEnders, Inspector George Gently and Catherine Cookson Forgive me, but is this the correct thread? None of those programmes are in any way sitcoms... 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gisooo 3,373 Posted April 11, 2022 1 hour ago, RoverAndOut said: Forgive me, but is this the correct thread? None of those programmes are in any way sitcoms... Sorry my mistake 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
