In terms of time capsules this is right on the money and it may well have been subtitled The Way We Lived Then. The Huggetts were clearly intended as an EveryFamily and if they were a fifth-rate carbon of Noel Coward's Gibbons in This Happy Breed at least they ripped off the best. Speaking of THB it was nice to see Amy Veness and Alison Leggatt in virtually identical roles to the ones they played in Coward's masterpiece. It was interesting as well to see the ones that seemed promising at the time - Peter Hammond, John Blythe, Jayne Hylton - but who fell by the wayside whilst inexplicably and against the run of play acting jokes like Jimmy Hanley were able to make a decent living with no talent and no charisma. Nice nostalgic romp.
Review of Here Come the Huggetts
