HOWARD'S WAY From Start - Drama Channel

[mum2jakie]

Starting today - Howard's Way is showing every week day at 2pm on the Drama Channel.

That theme tune takes me right back to the eighties and Sunday evenings!!! I grew up in the Midlands so had no idea about half of the terms but loved it!

[TennisWithDeborah]

Polly is one of my favourites. Along with Sir John.

Leo bores me but that’s not a criticism of the actor at all. All the character seems to do is mooch around after Abby and get bossed about by Avril.

I do like the casting of Lynn and Leo - they really could be siblings.

Love the fizz between Jan and Ken - only realised recently that the actors are married, which would explain it.

Vanessa is as wooden as one of Jack’s boats and has zero chemistry with any of the cast. And that stiff hair - ugggh.

[january123]

Blimey, Polly doesn't hang around!

[january123]

Love how Sir John is always wheeled out at the drop of a hat to discuss "funding subsidiaries".

[70isaLimitNotaTarget]

Was Kate O'Mara a really big deal at that time?

Yes !
Glossy , flicked hair
The cheekbones
The voice
And the quirked eyebrow with the knowing smile

She always had the look of Want It - Have It

[TennisWithDeborah]

Kate was fresh from Dynasty so a big name I supppse. I agree with the pp who said that she resembles Leo’s ex, Amanda!

Good to see healthy looking models.

The admiral and Kate were married irl.

[saveforthat]

Kate O'mara was also in Triangle. A series about a north sea ferry. They should repeat that next.

[TangledBlue]

I didn't see Howards' Way the first time round (it's a bit before my time), but I'm watching it on UKTV Play and I'm now a big fan. Series five was a bit boring, but series six is pretty great so far, particularly this moment:

'I heard a voice from heaven saying...' 'Hello, Ken Masters' 😂

Was Kate O'Mara a really big deal at that time? I know her name and I know she was in Dynasty, I just wondered why they made her the central character in series five and why she gets a special mention in the opening titles ('Kate O'Mara as Laura Wilde', when none of the other character names are listed). I don't like her character and I don't buy her as a sex symbol (she looks a bit corpse like in series five, but better in series six).

[dew141]

I must admit to liking Ken. He's treated like a buffoon by most of the others but always comes back smiling sporting his white trousers.

Poor Ken, he's still getting the creepy music. He really rocks those white trousers (a phrase I never thought I'd say) and I'm strangely mesmerised by how he can make his bottom lip look so large and succulent.

I'm also finding 'dahling' Kate very annoying, along with crusty Sir "I don't have to keep any bank business confidential" John. And Jan breathlessly whirling through another fashion event with the models trailing acres of superfluous material in their wake.

[RaraRachael]

I can't remember how it ended.
I must admit to liking Ken. He's treated like a buffoon by most of the others but always comes back smiling sporting his white trousers.
I'm hoping that ghastly old goat Sir Edward is going to shuffle off soon. Pity he doesn't take Jan's awful mother with him. She was so ridiculous in that recent episode when she was talking to Jack like he was a naughty schoolboy then did a silly sort of scream at the end.

[january123]

Do we know when to expect the grand finale?!

[TennisWithDeborah]

A reboot would be great!

[mum2jakie]

The script definitely seemed to be heading towards a reconciliation for Jan and Tom but presumably Maurice Colbourne's sudden death led to lots of last minute changes to the plot.

[PrincessFiorimonde]

I've been enjoying it in a sort of God-why-are-they-all-so-tetchy-with-each-other way.

Didn't watch it in the 80s. I'd assumed the final series would finish with Jan and Tom back together, but I see that's not to be.

Love the idea of a remake by Jester Productions!

[mum2jakie]

@saveforthat

Mmm Jester productions? Methinks this is an April Fool.

😂😆😂

[january123]

@saveforthat

Mmm Jester productions? Methinks this is an April Fool.

😂🤦‍♀️

[saveforthat]

Mmm Jester productions? Methinks this is an April Fool.

[january123]

@mum2jakie

@january123 Oh 😳. Can't quite believe that!! The 1980s are well and truly back in town!! Wonder if it will be like a modern day El Dorado - so bad, it was good 😊

The mind boggles!!
Bet it will be sooo bad it will be good!
Bound to wheel out Ken and Jan as the linchpins, but can't be many original characters still alive so guessing it will be children/grandchildren.

Please God Abby has disappeared off with her 6th husband into deepest darkest USA

Far too invested

[mum2jakie]

@january123 Oh 😳. Can't quite believe that!! The 1980s are well and truly back in town!! Wonder if it will be like a modern day El Dorado - so bad, it was good 😊

[january123]

OMG!!

[mum2jakie]

Yeah series five isn't particularly gripping me so far...and they haven't had to rewrite Tom Howards' absence in the bit I'm up to yet. He was young to die so suddenly in real life though.

[RaraRachael]

(Leo's 5 minute wife)! 😅Great description.

I had a quick look ahead and it appears that Series 6 doesn't start immediately so let's hope they finish it off. We need to complete our fix of consortiums and dodgy business dealings.

[january123]

@diddl

Didn't Maurice Colbourne who played Tom Howard die during the filming of S5?

Appears so, about half way through the series I suddenly realised he wasn't there

[diddl]

Didn't Maurice Colbourne who played Tom Howard die during the filming of S5?

[january123]

S5 is dull as dull.

Uncanny likeness between Laura Wilde and Amanda (Leo's 5 minute wife)!

[RaraRachael]

Did the producers seriously think we'd be interested in all this courtroom stuff? It's tedious beyond belief. I'd rather be watching Ken prancing around in his skintight white trousers or Tom in his action slacks.