The Small, Intircate Life of Gerald C Potter

[martc]

Is a rather twee 1970's sitcom currently being aired by BBC7. It revolves around a married couple of authors - the wife is successful and level headed and the husband (Gerald C Potter, played by Ian Charmicheal) is a muddle headed fool who gets into all sorts of scrapes and much hilarity ensues (see also Terry and June, Ever Decreasing Circles etc etc ad naseum).Any how, a fortnight ago our hero lost his car and climbed into and drove away some one elses (resulting in much hilarity being ensued). His car was described as very common and blue it also had a boot (wherein he found some shopping which wasn't his, again much hilarity ensued). And now to my point it was revealed that Gerald's car's Reg No was FHC 88J. Could some one please check with Swansea and see what it was/is?I am naive enough to think that in the 1970's the BBC was not paranoid enough to have to make up a number. Having said that in the early 70's 2 digit numbers were often given to Moby Flicks or Grunters rather than cars. Whats the chances of it being a Cortina or Viva?

[Father Ted]

Checked on DVLA's site and autotrader vehicle check and its coming up as no details.

[MrRegieRitmo]

Is a rather twee 1970's sitcom currently being aired by BBC7. It revolves around a married couple of authors - the wife is successful and level headed and the husband (Gerald C Potter, played by Ian Charmicheal) is a muddle headed fool who gets into all sorts of scrapes and much hilarity ensues (see also Terry and June, Ever Decreasing Circles etc etc ad naseum).Any how, a fortnight ago our hero lost his car and climbed into and drove away some one elses (resulting in much hilarity being ensued). His car was described as very common and blue it also had a boot (wherein he found some shopping which wasn't his, again much hilarity ensued). And now to my point it was revealed that Gerald's car's Reg No was FHC 88J. Could some one please check with Swansea and see what it was/is?I am naive enough to think that in the 1970's the BBC was not paranoid enough to have to make up a number. Having said that in the early 70's 2 digit numbers were often given to Moby Flicks or Grunters rather than cars. Whats the chances of it being a Cortina or Viva?

Couldn't you tell what the car was when you watched the show?

[pogweasel]

Have you not quite grasped the concept of Radio there Reg. It's like telly, but without the pictures. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_7

[MrRegieRitmo]

Radio wasn't mentioned & I'm not familiar with BBC7, thought it was one of the thousands of BBC 'digi' channels on Freeview!

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I thought that too reg! Ah well. These younguns with their fancy stereograms, its crazy man.

[MrRegieRitmo]

His car was described as very common and blue it also had a boot. And now to my point it was revealed that Gerald's car's Reg No was FHC 88J. Could some one please check with Swansea and see what it was/is?

Although I have to admit this bit puzzled me - I was thinking 'hasn't this bloke got eyes??'

[martc]

They do say that the pictures on radio are better.

 

When I wrote the original post I toyed with the idea of typing BBC Radio 7 but as this is not it's name (why oh why BBC?) I stuck with the proper nomenclature as I thought the correspondents on ths forum were all hip and trendy and down with the new fangled digital wireless, daddio.

 

Back to Gerald - it's a shame the BBC used a "false" number I'll just have to use my imagination.