History Trivia / TheLikelyLads

* DawsonCasting: James Bolam (born in 1935) and Rodney Bewes (born in 1937) were both older than their characters, who are both explicitly stated to have been born in 1944.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Jutta, Terry's estranged German wife, was due to appear in the last episode of the first series ("End of an Era", in which Bob and Thelma get married), but after filming her first scene, the writers decided against having both male characters married and so shelved the idea. Despite this, April Walker (the actress who played Jutta) remains on the end credits for that episode.
** Plans for a third series were put on hold as a result of the Creator/RonnieBarker vehicle ''Seven of One'', a 1973 series in which Barker appeared in seven different situations from different writers, each of which was a try-out for a possible series. Creator/TheBBC decided that they liked the one written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, and it went on to become ''Series/{{Porridge}}''.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Jutte, Terry's estranged German wife, was due to appear in the last episode of the first series ("End of an Era", in which Bob and Thelma get married), but after filming her first scene, the writers decided against having both male characters married and so shelved the idea. Despite this, April Walker (the actress who played Jutte) remains on the end credits for that episode.

* {{Homage}}: in the episode where Bob is driving newly-returned Terry around Newcastle to show him how things have changed in the last five years, they stop outside a multi-storey car park which remains in the centre of shot for a long time. This is the iconic location which is central to the Newcastle-set gangster movie ''Film/GetCarter'' [[note]] in which Creator/MichaelCaine throws the villain off the top; it's a long way down [[/note]], which had been released in cinemas two years earlier.

* BFITV100: #69.