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Rising Damp - The Best Of
Rising Damp - The Best Of
Stars: Leonard Rossiter, Richard Beckinsale, Frances De La Tour, Don WarringtonDirector: Ronnie Baxter
Summary: Eric Chappell's wildly popular and hilarious comedy RISING DAMP stars Leonard Rossiter as Mr. Rigsby, the mean, bigoted, and boastful landlord of a decrepit boarding house. It charts Rigsby's constant romantic failure with Miss Jones (Frances De La Tour) and barely-disguised disgust for his 'lesser' tenants, students Alan and Philip. The show's four-year run earned it a huge following, even though the show only produced 28 episodes. This is a compilation of some of the best and includes Charisma, A Perfect Gentleman, For the Man Who Has Everything, Stage Struck, and Come on In, the Water's Lovely.
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First broadcast in 1974, the ITV bedsitland sitcom Rising Dampwas an instant and enduring success. It starred Leonard Rossiter as the miserly and lovelorn landlord Rigsby who is constantly needling young lodger Alan (Richard Beckinsale), a science student whose long hair and earrings are symptomatic to Rigsby of the parlous effeminacy of the modern age. He's also in love with Frances De La Tour's dowdy spinster Miss Jones, though his tentative advances are forever rebuffed. She in turn carries a torch for Philip (Don Warrington), the elegant son of an African chief who also resides at Rigsby Towers.
Some aspects of Rising Damphave not aged well, principally Rigsby's stream of racist jibes at Philip. Although these were doubtless well-meant and supposed to illustrate Rigsby's foolish bigotry, you suspect that that was a convenient cover for audiences in the 1970s to enjoy racist humour. However, Rossiter's Rigsby--stuttering, stammering, bent perpetually over backwards--remains a great comic creation, embodying all the festering prejudices, small-mindedness and self-delusion of the lower middle class Little Englander. --David Stubbs
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