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One for the oldies
Posted: Sun May 30, 2021 8:46 pm
by conyoviejo
Name the Character, programme name and catchphrase please ..
Feel free to add other characters on the thread
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Re: One for the oldies
Posted: Sun May 30, 2021 8:48 pm
by todclaret
Harry Worth
Re: One for the oldies
Posted: Sun May 30, 2021 8:50 pm
by lakedistrictclaret
His catchphrase was something like " My name is Harry Worth. I don't know why, but there it is ".
Re: One for the oldies
Posted: Sun May 30, 2021 9:03 pm
by Claret Till I Die
Hello my darlings
Re: One for the oldies
Posted: Sun May 30, 2021 9:06 pm
by Sproggy
Jake the Peg?
Re: One for the oldies
Posted: Sun May 30, 2021 9:07 pm
by CleggHall
I never got Harry Worth’s humour, he used to infuriate me but my Dad loved him.
Re: One for the oldies
Posted: Sun May 30, 2021 9:09 pm
by spadesclaret
I think the programme was called Here's Harry.
Re: One for the oldies
Posted: Sun May 30, 2021 9:09 pm
by rob63
That was Charlie Drake, my gran couldn't stand him...........but her real pet hate used to say "Eye thang yew"
Re: One for the oldies
Posted: Sun May 30, 2021 9:10 pm
by lakedistrictclaret
Re: One for the oldies
Posted: Sun May 30, 2021 9:11 pm
by lakedistrictclaret
rob63 wrote: ↑Sun May 30, 2021 9:09 pm
.....but her real pet hate used to say "Eye thang yew"
Arthur Askey
Re: One for the oldies
Posted: Sun May 30, 2021 9:11 pm
by rob63
CleggHall wrote: ↑Sun May 30, 2021 9:07 pm
I never got Harry Worth’s humour, he used to infuriate me but my Dad loved him.
Mine too, he was an acquired taste. Have you seen Count Arthur Strong? Spitting image but for the 'tache.
Re: One for the oldies
Posted: Sun May 30, 2021 9:14 pm
by todclaret
Harry Worth
Re: One for the oldies
Posted: Sun May 30, 2021 9:14 pm
by rob63
Correct, Gran couldn't stand him......said he was too daft to laugh at!
Re: One for the oldies
Posted: Sun May 30, 2021 9:21 pm
by jjclaret
rob63 wrote: ↑Sun May 30, 2021 9:14 pm
Correct, Gran couldn't stand him......said he was too daft to laugh at!
Hello Playmates
Re: One for the oldies
Posted: Sun May 30, 2021 9:21 pm
by conyoviejo
Another top comedian ,can you name him and his three Co stars in his most famous TV programme?
Re: One for the oldies
Posted: Sun May 30, 2021 9:28 pm
by Nonayforever
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
Re: One for the oldies
Posted: Sun May 30, 2021 9:30 pm
by andyh
conyoviejo wrote: ↑Sun May 30, 2021 8:46 pm
Name the Character, programme name and catchphrase please ..
Feel free to add other characters on the thread
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I used to tHink he was hung like an elephant when he did that.
Re: One for the oldies
Posted: Sun May 30, 2021 9:31 pm
by Claret Till I Die
Re: One for the oldies
Posted: Sun May 30, 2021 9:32 pm
by Claret Till I Die
conyoviejo wrote: ↑Sun May 30, 2021 9:21 pm
Another top comedian ,can you name him and his three Co stars in his most famous TV programme?
I watched the plank again the other day. Still comedy gold
Re: One for the oldies
Posted: Sun May 30, 2021 9:38 pm
by claretfern
Nonayforever wrote: ↑Sun May 30, 2021 9:28 pm
Eric Sykes.
I can't remember the name of the guy with glasses
Richard Wattis or Deryck Guyler.
Re: One for the oldies
Posted: Sun May 30, 2021 9:40 pm
by minnieclaret
Re: Eric Sykes.
Derek Guyler was a regular. Played a bobby I think.
Re: One for the oldies
Posted: Sun May 30, 2021 9:43 pm
by minnieclaret
True story.
Charlie to a showgirl, “ what do you say to a little f*#k”?
Showgirl, “hello, little f*#k”
Re: One for the oldies
Posted: Sun May 30, 2021 9:49 pm
by cbx750
Nonayforever wrote: ↑Sun May 30, 2021 9:28 pm
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
Hatty Jaques played his twin sister. Sykes is being shown on Forces TV, it hasn't aged well.
Re: One for the oldies
Posted: Sun May 30, 2021 9:56 pm
by Silkyskills1
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.
Re: One for the oldies
Posted: Sun May 30, 2021 10:12 pm
by Dark Cloud
Silkyskills1 wrote: ↑Sun May 30, 2021 9:56 pm
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.
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!!
Re: One for the oldies
Posted: Sun May 30, 2021 10:27 pm
by dermotdermot
CleggHall wrote: ↑Sun May 30, 2021 9:07 pm
I never got Harry Worth’s humour, he used to infuriate me but my Dad loved him.
I 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.
Re: One for the oldies
Posted: Sun May 30, 2021 10:36 pm
by dermotdermot
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.
Re: One for the oldies
Posted: Sun May 30, 2021 10:38 pm
by Funkydrummer
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.
Re: One for the oldies
Posted: Sun May 30, 2021 10:40 pm
by Cirrus_Minor
Harry Worth
Re: One for the oldies
Posted: Sun May 30, 2021 10:43 pm
by conyoviejo
Name the elephant and the programme .Still makes me laugh ..
Re: One for the oldies
Posted: Sun May 30, 2021 10:44 pm
by dermotdermot
Re: One for the oldies
Posted: Sun May 30, 2021 10:47 pm
by Bosscat
Blue Peter & Lulu pooping (or weeing) on the floor
Re: One for the oldies
Posted: Sun May 30, 2021 11:27 pm
by tim_noone
dermotdermot wrote: ↑Sun May 30, 2021 10:27 pm
I 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.
Deadpan Humour....
Re: One for the oldies
Posted: Sun May 30, 2021 11:33 pm
by tim_noone
jjclaret wrote: ↑Sun May 30, 2021 9:21 pm
Hello Playmates
Wasnt that Jimmy savile?
Re: One for the oldies
Posted: Sun May 30, 2021 11:38 pm
by gawthorpe_view
His programme was called 'The Worker'.
Flat cap, blue bib and brace.
Re: One for the oldies
Posted: Mon May 31, 2021 6:48 am
by BenWickes
cbx750 wrote: ↑Sun May 30, 2021 9:49 pm
Hatty Jaques played his twin sister. Sykes is being shown on Forces TV, it hasn't aged well.
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.
Re: One for the oldies
Posted: Mon May 31, 2021 8:15 am
by AfloatinClaret
conyoviejo wrote: ↑Sun May 30, 2021 8:46 pm
Name the Character, programme name and catchphrase please ..
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Definitely age-specific though.
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.
Re: One for the oldies
Posted: Mon May 31, 2021 9:33 am
by JohnMac
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Suprised this hasn't come up yet
Re: One for the oldies
Posted: Mon May 31, 2021 9:38 am
by bfcjg
Dick Emery was the forerunner of so many sketch shows,some fantastic characters.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5fl2irFk4qE
Re: One for the oldies
Posted: Mon May 31, 2021 9:55 am
by JohnMac
Not forgetting Stanley Baxter - 'Once a Year' on New Year's Eve
Re: One for the oldies
Posted: Mon May 31, 2021 10:09 am
by conyoviejo
JohnMac wrote: ↑Mon May 31, 2021 9:33 am
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Suprised this hasn't come up yet
Jimmy Clitheroe,used to love his radio programme.
Re: One for the oldies
Posted: Mon May 31, 2021 10:18 am
by Bosscat
BenWickes wrote: ↑Mon May 31, 2021 6:48 am
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.
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.
Jenny Agutter and Sally Thomsett in the Railway Children in their 20's playing a 12 and 10 year old respectively ...
Re: One for the oldies
Posted: Mon May 31, 2021 10:47 am
by Hipper
Silkyskills1 wrote: ↑Sun May 30, 2021 9:56 pm
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.
So, who lived at 23 Railway Cuttings, East Cheam then?
Re: One for the oldies
Posted: Mon May 31, 2021 10:50 am
by lakedistrictclaret
Hipper wrote: ↑Mon May 31, 2021 10:47 am
So, who lived at 23 Railway Cuttings, East Cheam then?
Tony Hancock
Re: One for the oldies
Posted: Mon May 31, 2021 10:52 am
by Hipper
conyoviejo wrote: ↑Sun May 30, 2021 9:21 pm
Another top comedian ,can you name him and his three Co stars in his most famous TV programme?
I presume you are referring the The Plank, with Tommy Cooper. There were a whole host of stars in that programme with small parts.
His TV series with Hattie Jacques and Deryk Guyler should have been much better with such quality actors.
Re: One for the oldies
Posted: Mon May 31, 2021 10:58 am
by Bosscat
What's this one. Name the stars and what was their address and the name of the horse.
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Re: One for the oldies
Posted: Mon May 31, 2021 10:58 am
by Hipper
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.
Re: One for the oldies
Posted: Mon May 31, 2021 11:00 am
by Hipper
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!
Re: One for the oldies
Posted: Mon May 31, 2021 11:01 am
by BenWickes
Wasn't Albert Wifred Bramble without looking it up?
Re: One for the oldies
Posted: Mon May 31, 2021 11:04 am
by IanMcL
Funkydrummer wrote: ↑Sun May 30, 2021 10:38 pm
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.
Mess!