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One for the oldies
Name the Character, programme name and catchphrase please ..
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His catchphrase was something like " My name is Harry Worth. I don't know why, but there it is ".
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Hello my darlings
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Jake the Peg?
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I never got Harry Worth’s humour, he used to infuriate me but my Dad loved him.
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I think the programme was called Here's Harry.
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That was Charlie Drake, my gran couldn't stand him...........but her real pet hate used to say "Eye thang yew"
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That was Charlie Drake.
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Harry Worth
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Correct, Gran couldn't stand him......said he was too daft to laugh at!
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Another top comedian ,can you name him and his three Co stars in his most famous TV programme?
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Eric Sykes.
His co star ( wife ) was Hatty Jaques who was married to John Le Mesurier.
I can't remember the name of the guy with glasses
His co star ( wife ) was Hatty Jaques who was married to John Le Mesurier.
I can't remember the name of the guy with glasses
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I used to tHink he was hung like an elephant when he did that.conyoviejo wrote: ↑Sun May 30, 2021 8:46 pmName the Character, programme name and catchphrase please ..
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Of course
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I watched the plank again the other day. Still comedy goldconyoviejo wrote: ↑Sun May 30, 2021 9:21 pmAnother top comedian ,can you name him and his three Co stars in his most famous TV programme?
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Nonayforever wrote: ↑Sun May 30, 2021 9:28 pmEric Sykes.
I can't remember the name of the guy with glasses
Richard Wattis or Deryck Guyler.
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Re: Eric Sykes.
Derek Guyler was a regular. Played a bobby I think.
Derek Guyler was a regular. Played a bobby I think.
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True story.
Charlie to a showgirl, “ what do you say to a little f*#k”?
Showgirl, “hello, little f*#k”
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Hatty Jaques played his twin sister. Sykes is being shown on Forces TV, it hasn't aged well.Nonayforever wrote: ↑Sun May 30, 2021 9:28 pmEric Sykes.
His co star ( wife ) was Hatty Jaques who was married to John Le Mesurier.
I can't remember the name of the guy with glasses
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Harry Worth's fictional address was 52 Acacia Avenue, Woodbridge and that famous picture of him appearing to levitate by a shop window was done on St Anne's Square in Manchester.
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As primary age kids and having watched the programme, we mimicked that pose/illusion on our way home from school and if you got just the right sort of shop window you could actually make it work!!Silkyskills1 wrote: ↑Sun May 30, 2021 9:56 pmHarry Worth's fictional address was 52 Acacia Avenue, Woodbridge and that famous picture of him appearing to levitate by a shop window was done on St Anne's Square in Manchester.
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I remember Charlie Drake falling through a window in a sketch on live tv. That was it! He unfortunately knocked himself out. It seemed an age before before the producers decide that they would have to close down the empty set. I suppose they were trying to revive him off camera. No explanation was given as to what had happened. You just had to wait until the day after tomorrow to read about in the papers.
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Mr Pastry - what was that all about ? Just never saw the funny side of it at all.
Eric Sykes was also part of a collaboration with the Goons which was my dad's favourite
and I followed suit.
Eric Sykes was also part of a collaboration with the Goons which was my dad's favourite
and I followed suit.
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Harry Worth
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Name the elephant and the programme .Still makes me laugh ..
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Do try and keep up.
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Blue Peter & Lulu pooping (or weeing) on the floor
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Deadpan Humour....dermotdermot wrote: ↑Sun May 30, 2021 10:27 pmI thought the same. I never understood the humour of Arthur Haynes as well although I did see him in ‘Doctor in Clover’ recently and thought him to be quite funny after all.
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His programme was called 'The Worker'.
Flat cap, blue bib and brace.
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It is indeed. Occasionally flip Forces TV on as there's almost never anything on the other channels on a weekend morning. Confused me momentarily the other day to see Deryck Guyler as a policeman as he was a train inspector the week before but I guess they have the same recurring actors in different roles. It hasn't aged well as you say but it doesn't require much attention early morning and is an easy watch.
Another one with Guyler was Please Sir where he was school caretaker. What strikes me most about that show was the 'schoolkids' were all in their 20's/30's. A couple of them looked older than John Alderton who was supposed to be their teacher.
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Definitely age-specific though.conyoviejo wrote: ↑Sun May 30, 2021 8:46 pmName the Character, programme name and catchphrase please ..
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Around twenty years ago now whilst waiting at the doorway until a colleague had finished a phone call in his refurbished office, I realised that the new partitioning would work perfectly for doing a 'Harry Worth'. The colleague began laughing so hard that he dropped the phone and a couple of other people collapsed in laughter too, but the ten or a dozen 'younger' people in the outer office simply looked at us and each other in silence, with expressions which suggested they thought it was perhaps time to break out the strait jackets.
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Suprised this hasn't come up yet
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Dick Emery was the forerunner of so many sketch shows,some fantastic characters.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5fl2irFk4qE
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5fl2irFk4qE
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Not forgetting Stanley Baxter - 'Once a Year' on New Year's Eve
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When Anne Bancroft was cast as Mrs Robinson opposite Dustin Hoffmann in the Graduate he was only 6 years younger yet she was playing a woman in her 40's and him a 20 year old.BenWickes wrote: ↑Mon May 31, 2021 6:48 amIt is indeed. Occasionally flip Forces TV on as there's almost never anything on the other channels on a weekend morning. Confused me momentarily the other day to see Deryck Guyler as a policeman as he was a train inspector the week before but I guess they have the same recurring actors in different roles. It hasn't aged well as you say but it doesn't require much attention early morning and is an easy watch.
Another one with Guyler was Please Sir where he was school caretaker. What strikes me most about that show was the 'schoolkids' were all in their 20's/30's. A couple of them looked older than John Alderton who was supposed to be their teacher.
Jenny Agutter and Sally Thomsett in the Railway Children in their 20's playing a 12 and 10 year old respectively ...
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So, who lived at 23 Railway Cuttings, East Cheam then?Silkyskills1 wrote: ↑Sun May 30, 2021 9:56 pmHarry Worth's fictional address was 52 Acacia Avenue, Woodbridge and that famous picture of him appearing to levitate by a shop window was done on St Anne's Square in Manchester.
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I presume you are referring the The Plank, with Tommy Cooper. There were a whole host of stars in that programme with small parts.conyoviejo wrote: ↑Sun May 30, 2021 9:21 pmAnother top comedian ,can you name him and his three Co stars in his most famous TV programme?
His TV series with Hattie Jacques and Deryk Guyler should have been much better with such quality actors.
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What's this one. Name the stars and what was their address and the name of the horse.
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Yes. And what a host of stars he had too - Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jacques and one we probably forget, Bill Kerr. That was the radio programme.
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The horse was Hercules I think. They lived somewhere round Shepherd's Bush. I could look it up but I'll let others have a go!
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Wasn't Albert Wifred Bramble without looking it up?
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Mess!Funkydrummer wrote: ↑Sun May 30, 2021 10:38 pmMr Pastry - what was that all about ? Just never saw the funny side of it at all.
Eric Sykes was also part of a collaboration with the Goons which was my dad's favourite
and I followed suit.