Famous Accringtonian - Rigsby

[Bob Dobson]

Listening to the wirless a few weeks ago, I heard a discussion about the TV sitcom 'Rising Damp'
Rigsby said something detrimental about the coloured chap who rented one of his rooms and the young chap (Richard Beckinsale ?) said ,"Come on now, we're all brothers" To which Rigsby said "He's not my brother. I've got a brother and he lives in Accrington" (Audience laughter)

I haven't made this up. I cannot believe that I didn't hear anything about it when the programme was one TV first time round. I shall try to catch any repeats.

If anybody knows him - let me know and I'll make sure he gets in the next edition of 'Men of Mark'. I don't know which school he went to, but it weren't t'Grammar Schoo'.

[garinda]

Now you've posted that it does ring a bell.

There are lots of clips on YouTube, if you can bother to go through them all for anymore clues.

http://www.youtube.com/results?searc...p+&search_type=

Sadly doing a search for 'Rigsby's brother from Accrington' didn't bring anything up.

[Bonnyboy]

Apparently his brother was a shoplifter called Ron ( read the shoplifting bit elsewhere ) - Rupert Rigsby

[JEFF]

Rigsby mentioned his 'brother in Accrington' in the first episode of Rising Damp

[MargaretR]

So it wasn't a real brother then - and the script writer was 'sending up' our town.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by margaret@rothwell5.f

So it wasn't a real brother then - and the script writer was 'sending up' our town.

It had a script writer???

I thought it was one of the first fly-on-the-wall documentaries.