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Porgy
Joined: 27 Jun 2007
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Location: Greater London
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Splottboy
Joined: 14 Aug 2009
Posts: 301
Location: Sunny North Wales
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 Posted Fri Nov 6, 2009 5:32 pm |
Saw Michael Benntine live in the Brighton theatre, with Mike and Bernie Williams, in 1967.
Was hilarious!!!! Very complicated character...
"I've got a good mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it." Groucho Marx. |
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Crapaud
Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 1408
Location: Glasgow UK
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Posted Sat Nov 7, 2009 12:20 am |
I'd bring back The Great Egg Race. | Wiki wrote: | | ... The programme originally set two teams the task of building machines capable of transporting a chicken's egg safely down a table top race track, but different tasks were introduced later most involving the safe handling of raw eggs. |
From a time when science shows were presented by the eccentrics of academia like Heinz Wolff and Melvyn Pike (?).
I couldn't find any of the original series on You Tube, but there was The Great Egg Race: the play, from 1995:
Veni Vélo Vici |
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DavidBelcher
Joined: 26 Jul 2007
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Location: Winchester
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Posted Sat Nov 7, 2009 10:25 am |
Ah, The Great Egg Race - a quality slice of childhood telly which fascinated me. Heinz Wolff has a building on the main Brunel University campus named after him, y'know. Quite right too!
David
"I'm not a man, I'm a machine; chisel me down until I am clean" |
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DavidBelcher
Joined: 26 Jul 2007
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Location: Winchester
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Posted Sat Nov 7, 2009 10:29 am |
| Crapaud wrote: | | From a time when science shows were presented by the eccentrics of academia like Heinz Wolff and Melvyn Pike (?). |
That'll be Magnus Pyke - lots of hand waving involved as I recall. Pyke controversially suggested, so the story goes (he worked on a Ministry of Food advisory panel) that wartime food shortages could be partially solved by turning hospitals' surplus stocks of donated blood into black pudding!
David
"I'm not a man, I'm a machine; chisel me down until I am clean" |
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Crapaud
Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 1408
Location: Glasgow UK
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dmclite
Joined: 14 Dec 2008
Posts: 1438
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Posted Sat Nov 7, 2009 10:32 pm |
Rent-a-ghost.
Mental.
FCN 1
I don't mean to brag, I don't mean to boast but I'm intercontinental when I eat french toast. |
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Porgy
Joined: 27 Jun 2007
Posts: 2024
Location: Greater London
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dmclite
Joined: 14 Dec 2008
Posts: 1438
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Porgy
Joined: 27 Jun 2007
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Location: Greater London
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dmclite
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shouldbeinbed
Joined: 16 Sep 2009
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Posted Mon Nov 9, 2009 4:48 pm |
anyone mentioned Police Squad yet
FCN 7 & 9 |
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jc4lab
Joined: 08 Jun 2004
Posts: 638
Location: United Kingdom
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Posted Mon Nov 9, 2009 4:55 pm |
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea..Garrisons Guerillas..Four Feather Falls..Best Puppet ever
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trig1
Joined: 01 Mar 2008
Posts: 86
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Posted Mon Nov 9, 2009 5:05 pm |
Button Moon!!
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LorneC
Joined: 02 Sep 2006
Posts: 147
Location: United Kingdom
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Finbar Saunders
Joined: 02 Sep 2008
Posts: 192
Location: Thanet, Kent
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Posted Tue Nov 10, 2009 1:50 pm |
I liked Hawaii Five-O and The Six Million Dollar Man, but I'm sure I'd find them rubbish now.
From more recent TV I thought the Wire was great and wished it was longer than 5 seasons.
Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a moron. GEORGE CARLIN |
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Angus444
Joined: 06 Jul 2009
Posts: 97
Location: Angus
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Posted Tue Nov 10, 2009 7:53 pm |
The original Reggie Perrin progs, with Leonard Rossiter.
Great!
Super!!
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tebbit
Joined: 12 Nov 2008
Posts: 129
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Posted Tue Nov 10, 2009 9:00 pm |
Chorlton and the Wheelies - hello there little old lady
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Dangermouse
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Duckula
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Angus444
Joined: 06 Jul 2009
Posts: 97
Location: Angus
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Posted Wed Nov 11, 2009 9:34 am |
Does anyone remember a programme called ' Adventure Weekly'. Im sure the signature tune was played on a mouth organ..........also........can anyone tell me the name of a kids prog from the 70's, in which a bed-ridden boy living in a lighthouse (?) finds himself surrounded by giant stones......something about his dreams, and/or his drawings in a sketch pad which come true while he sleeps.......(honest folks, I've not been smoking old inner tubes....)
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DavidBelcher
Joined: 26 Jul 2007
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Location: Winchester
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