Ethel and Ernest

I was mesmerised by it. It struck chords with DH and I all over the place. Wish I'd taped it now. Definitely a keeper.

We're still wiping our eyes. Utterly brilliant piece of social history.

Wonderful, the best thing on TV this Christmas if not this year. A classic, like the snowman. Brilliant!

I bought the original book a long time ago and found it enchanting. Really looked forward to seeing the film and it didn't disappoint - I did record it and will watch it again for sure. What a treat!!

It was excellent. Very memorable and poignant

Poignant and . It's a shame Ethel and Ernest didn't live long enough to know what a success he became.

I thought it was excellent. So glad I watched it.

Wonderful story with beautifully crafted characters. So moving. (Thrilled to recognise the staircase in the park very near where we live!)

Wonderful! Memories indeed!

We watched, laughed and felt sad with the family. So glad I realised it was on and recorded it. Brought back memories of my dad, just like Ernest.

I didn't really fancy watching this but tuned in a little way through. I thought it was lovely - funny and touching without being mawkish. And what a wonderful tribute to the quiet decency of Raymond Briggs' parents and thousands like them.

Hear Hear Eloethan - a fine tribute to many parents of that era - including mine.

Eloethan I did the same it was lovely I ll watch from the beginning on my iPad so simple but so true to life Did he stay with the mentally ill wife i ll have to google it all

Yes it was absolutely lovely and so true to the simple life which seems to have gone now.

How many of us remember the Anderson shelter in the garden? We had one, but I don't remember a Morrison type indoors.

I loved it . Sad that my parents weren`t like Ethel and Ernest with the quiet devotion they had to each other. What a wonderful Dad and Husband Ernest was . Ethel was like a lot of women of the time when keeping up appearances were everything . I must google Raymonds wife , I wonder if he stayed with her ?

I did enjoy this. Sad though.
I've read about the Morrison shelters, not seen one. But my Dad wrote about their Anderson one in his diary, guess what he was baling the water out. 'Rather like baling out the sea' he said.

This was SO lovely. I think Raymond did stay with his wife f77ms She died not long after his mum and dad I think. Apologies if I have got that wrong!

I also thought that it was a wonderful example of animation at its best. It would be good to see more of this. No pow/zap and stereotypical in-your-face images that characterise many animations.

Have you ever noticed that all female characters in Disney have huge eyes and lashes?

About the Anderson Shelter - we had one - actually three, because we moved three times, and the last one was newly built for us; we were over-run with black beetles for the first few nights we stayed there, it was in the height of the blitz and we were in London. I can still hear the crack of these being squashed (in newspaper) and the feel of them as they crawled over us. Another of ours was at the end of the garden; we lived in a flat in a house the top flat being occupied by a strange spinster, who decided in the middle of an air-raid to walk down the garden to join us in the shelter (something she had never done before) with a candle! Our first one was a couple of yards from the outside toilet which was useful, but crowded, two families. Our friends had a Morrison, not sure if they ever used it, for me it was claustrophobic.

Loved it. Was as entranced as the children are when absorbed in something, a rareity for me.

Telly didn't interest or hold my attention this Christmas . But Ethel and Earnest was wonderful - it was amusing , known , cringy and sad all at the same time .
I always like the art work that Raymond Briggs does.

This was absolutely lovely, I did so enjoy the gentleness of it. And it brought back memories. Altogether delightful.

It really was the best thing on over Christmas. Shame they didn't give it a better slot.