Unbelievably Just Good Friends is actually the same bloke, that gave us one of the best TV comedy shows Only Fools and Horses, it's one that I have taken until now to bother to watch it at all.
Surprisingly John Sullivan actually wrote the shows signature song, which even more unlikely is sung by the shows lead actor Paul Nicholas.
Two families one of which is "The Pinners" Less Pinner is the bloke who has built up a pile in a scrap metal business, Rita Pinner with a voice akin to a "screech owl" sons Clifford perpetually confused and accident prone, and Vincent the smart Alec proprietor of a turf accountants.
The second family is the Warrenders, Norman is a nice amiable easy going bloke, but a veritable doormat to his overbearing spouse, Daphne Warrender is the archetypal harridan overbearing, obnoxious and thoroughly egocentric. The daughter is "Lady Penelope" a reference to the character, in the TV series which I think was Thunderbirds, the stuck up pompous and somewhat snooty character, and a carbon copy of her mum.
The couple Penny and Vincent have a relationship akin to a ride, on the Big Dipper at Blackpool without any of the fun and excitement, for an otherwise grownup woman, Penny invariably shows all of the maturity of a spoil brat. While Vincent behaves like a kid, who wants all of the candy in the sweet shop, along with being the archetypal Jack the lad.
I had no expectations of Just Good Friends and it hasn't disappointed, it's most certainly not up to to standards of Only Fools and Horses, but for all that it's not too bad, a rather amiable and unpretentious comedy, about the ups and downs of human relationships.
