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The Likely Lads (1964–1966) — comedy on BBC Two

The answer: Concluded July 23, 1966.
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Genre
Comedy
Network / streamer
BBC Two
Premiered
December 16, 1964
Ended
July 23, 1966
Runtime
~30 min per episode
3seasons
20episodes

About The Likely Lads

The Likely Lads is an English sitcom created and written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, and produced by Dick Clement. 
Twenty episodes were broadcast by the BBC, in three series, between 16 December 1964 and 23 July 1966.

The show followed the friendship of two working class young men, Terry Collier (James Bolam) and Bob Ferris (Rodney Bewes), in Newcastle upon Tyne in the mid 1960s.

After growing up at school and in the Scouts together, Bob and Terry are working in the same factory, Ellison's Electrical, alongside the older, wiser duo of Cloughie and Jack. The show's gritty yet verbose humour derived largely from the tensions between Terry's cynical, everyman, working class personality and Bob's ambition to better himself and move to the middle class.

Bob and Terry were two average working class lads growing up in the industrial North East, whose hobbies were beer, football and girls. They were "canny", which is to say street-wise, yet they stumbled into one scrape after another as they struggled to enjoy the Swinging Sixties on their meagre incomes.

At the end of the third and final series in 1966, a depressed and bored Bob attempted to join the Army but was rejected because of his flat feet. Terry, who decided at the last minute to enlist to keep Bob company, was accepted A1 and shipped away for three years.

The Likely Lads episode schedule

20 aired

Aired · 20

DateEp.Title
July 23, 1966 S3·E8 Goodbye to All That
July 16, 1966 S3·E7 Love and Marriage
July 9, 1966 S3·E6 Anchors Aweigh
July 2, 1966 S3·E5 The Razor's Edge
June 25, 1966 S3·E4 Brief Encounter
June 18, 1966 S3·E3 Rocker
June 11, 1966 S3·E2 Friends and Neighbours
June 4, 1966 S3·E1 Outward Bound
July 21, 1965 S2·E6 Where Have All the Flowers Gone
July 14, 1965 S2·E5 Far-Away Places
July 7, 1965 S2·E4 Last of the Big Spenders
June 30, 1965 S2·E3 Talk of the Town
June 23, 1965 S2·E2 A Star is Born
June 16, 1965 S2·E1 Baby,It's Cold Outside
January 20, 1965 S1·E6 The Suitor
January 13, 1965 S1·E5 Chance of a Lifetime
January 6, 1965 S1·E4 The Other Side of the Fence
December 30, 1964 S1·E3 Older Women Are More Experienced
December 23, 1964 S1·E2 Double Date
December 16, 1964 S1·E1 Entente Cordiale

The Likely Lads cast