Opening Night
- Episode aired Jan 14, 2001
- 25m
IMDb RATING
8.3/10
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First Night at the club has a series of hiccups.First Night at the club has a series of hiccups.First Night at the club has a series of hiccups.
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Tony Skipp
- Delivery Man
- (as Tony Skip)
Paddy McGuinness
- Paddy
- (as Patrick McGuinness)
Toni Baker
- Half a Shilling Folk Band
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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- Quotes
Kenny Senior: I think it's really great the way you keep up that Irish accent when you're not on the telly.
Roy Walker: Well I am Irish you know.
Kenny Senior: Are you?
Roy Walker: Aye.
Kenny Senior: Oh, I thought you were just pissing around like that Gerry Adams.
- ConnectionsReferences Ironside (1967)
Featured review
That's how to start a series!
Brian is stressed that The Phoenix Club isn't quite ready for its opening night, the builders haven't finished, the bingo machine is missing and the bouncers are having problems, but a new fruit machine has arrived and Half a Schilling are set to provide the musical entertainment.
From that very first scene where Potter arrives to Yazz's The Only way is up, you just knew this was going to be something special, and it was.
It is an out and out side splitter, the one liners, the gags, the appearance of Roy Walker, Ray Von, everything Peter Kay touches is golden, surely one of the most memorable debut episodes of any show.
This is exactly what clubs were like at the time, back then I was working in a working men's club, and this is exactly what they were like, they got the visuals spot on, the sounds, the faces, and of course the demand for the torture that is bingo.
10/10.
From that very first scene where Potter arrives to Yazz's The Only way is up, you just knew this was going to be something special, and it was.
It is an out and out side splitter, the one liners, the gags, the appearance of Roy Walker, Ray Von, everything Peter Kay touches is golden, surely one of the most memorable debut episodes of any show.
This is exactly what clubs were like at the time, back then I was working in a working men's club, and this is exactly what they were like, they got the visuals spot on, the sounds, the faces, and of course the demand for the torture that is bingo.
10/10.
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