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Re: One for the oldies

Post by IanMcL » Mon May 31, 2021 11:09 am

BenWickes wrote:
Mon May 31, 2021 11:01 am
Wasn't Albert Wifred Bramble without looking it up?
I think you are wrong. Wasn't it somebody Vardy? :D
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Re: One for the oldies

Post by Vino blanco » Mon May 31, 2021 11:13 am

Some mothers do 'av em.

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Re: One for the oldies

Post by Vino blanco » Mon May 31, 2021 11:15 am

Steptoe and Son lived at Oil Drum Lane, Shepherds Bush. The well known theme tune was Old Ned.

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Re: One for the oldies

Post by Vino blanco » Mon May 31, 2021 11:25 am

Can you hear me mother? A catchphrase for the oldies.

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Re: One for the oldies

Post by Silkyskills1 » Mon May 31, 2021 11:30 am

As a kid I used to love listening to Al Read on the radio. His style of instantly repeating very quickly what he had just said was imitated years later on Coronation Street by actor John Savident(Fred Elliot).

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Re: One for the oldies

Post by Vino blanco » Mon May 31, 2021 11:37 am

Another catchphrase from the 50s: "aye aye, thats yer lot" (when be finished his act).

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Re: One for the oldies

Post by Vino blanco » Mon May 31, 2021 11:41 am

I think it was Henry Wilfred Bramble, Ben.

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Re: One for the oldies

Post by conyoviejo » Mon May 31, 2021 11:44 am

Vino blanco wrote:
Mon May 31, 2021 11:15 am
Steptoe and Son lived at Oil Drum Lane, Shepherds Bush. The well known theme tune was Old Ned.
26A .. :D

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Re: One for the oldies

Post by mikeS » Mon May 31, 2021 12:48 pm

And for corporal punishment fans there was Wacko starring moustachioed Jimmy Edwards thrashing cheeky young whippersnappers.

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Re: One for the oldies

Post by claretblue » Mon May 31, 2021 2:04 pm

JohnMac wrote:
Mon May 31, 2021 9:33 am
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Suprised this hasn't come up yet :D
I've been listening to all his series on YouTube John

- really enjoyed them and found them quite amusing!

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Re: One for the oldies

Post by worf » Mon May 31, 2021 2:21 pm

Vino blanco wrote:
Mon May 31, 2021 11:25 am
Can you hear me mother? A catchphrase for the oldies.
Sandy Powell
His producers/him asked if they could take my auntie on tour with the show after hearing her sing in Colne.
Grandma told them no as she was only 14!

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Re: One for the oldies

Post by Dazzler » Mon May 31, 2021 2:24 pm

JohnMac wrote:
Mon May 31, 2021 9:33 am
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Suprised this hasn't come up yet :D
Jimmy Clitheroe ?

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Re: One for the oldies

Post by Clarets4me » Mon May 31, 2021 3:43 pm

Bosscat wrote:
Mon May 31, 2021 10:18 am
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 ...
I remember Sally Thomsett once being interviewed, " Jenny and I must have looked quite a sight, casually smoking and drinking glasses of wine between takes, dressed as children " ....

Lionel Jeffries played Dick van Dyke's father in " Chitty Chitty Bang Bang ", despite actually being six months younger !

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Re: One for the oldies

Post by Clarets4me » Mon May 31, 2021 3:49 pm

Vino blanco wrote:
Mon May 31, 2021 11:37 am
Another catchphrase from the 50s: "aye aye, thats yer lot" (when be finished his act).
Jimmy Wheeler .... Eric Morecambe uses the line early in the " Andre Previn " sketch !

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Re: One for the oldies

Post by Clarets4me » Mon May 31, 2021 3:54 pm

AfloatinClaret wrote:
Mon May 31, 2021 8:15 am
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.
In a similar vein, I was paying for fuel at the garage on Trafalgar Street a few years ago, when the Ambulance station was still on Trafalgar.

As I approached the till, an ambulance went screaming past with lights flashing & sirens blaring, so I said " He's not going to sell much Ice Cream going at that speed ! " .... the young lass serving me almost collapsed laughing ! I couldn't believe she's never heard it before, I saw it on " M&W " c.1973, and I'll bet it wasn't new then !! :lol:

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Re: One for the oldies

Post by Bosscat » Mon May 31, 2021 4:51 pm

Clarets4me wrote:
Mon May 31, 2021 3:43 pm
I remember Sally Thomsett once being interviewed, " Jenny and I must have looked quite a sight, casually smoking and drinking glasses of wine between takes, dressed as children " ....

Lionel Jeffries played Dick van Dyke's father in " Chitty Chitty Bang Bang ", despite actually being six months younger !
Casting Sean Connery as Harrison Fords Dad and he was only 5 or 6 years older...

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Re: One for the oldies

Post by appleton » Mon May 31, 2021 6:07 pm

Who said Woodbridge couldn't play football?

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Re: One for the oldies

Post by Taffy on the wing » Mon May 31, 2021 6:27 pm

rob63 wrote:
Sun May 30, 2021 9:09 pm
That was Charlie Drake, my gran couldn't stand him...........but her real pet hate used to say "Eye thang yew"
I'd forgotten about Charlie Drake.....it was bliss..

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Re: One for the oldies

Post by International class » Mon May 31, 2021 6:27 pm

Hilda Baker comedy and acting genius.

Can’t remember the name of the show, but phrases that come to mind.

Have you been Walter?
She knows you know (spoken to a bloke dressed up as woman)
I must get a little hand on this watch.

Her brother in one of the series, the chain smoking Jimmy Jewel.

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Re: One for the oldies

Post by Taffy on the wing » Mon May 31, 2021 6:32 pm

Bosscat wrote:
Mon May 31, 2021 10:18 am
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 ...
Sexy was Anne Bancroft!

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Re: One for the oldies

Post by Bosscat » Mon May 31, 2021 6:33 pm

Taffy on the wing wrote:
Mon May 31, 2021 6:32 pm
Sexy was Anne Bancroft!
You ain't wrong Taffy 👍

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Re: One for the oldies

Post by spadesclaret » Mon May 31, 2021 6:41 pm

International class wrote:
Mon May 31, 2021 6:27 pm
Hilda Baker comedy and acting genius.

Can’t remember the name of the show, but phrases that come to mind.

Have you been Walter?
She knows you know (spoken to a bloke dressed up as woman)
I must get a little hand on this watch.

Her brother in one of the series, the chain smoking Jimmy Jewel.
Our Eli.

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Re: One for the oldies

Post by Taffy on the wing » Mon May 31, 2021 6:44 pm

What about this mob...
Names (characters) and for a bonus what was megs husband called./Users/Gavin/Desktop/Unknown-2.jpeg
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Re: One for the oldies

Post by Taffy on the wing » Mon May 31, 2021 6:44 pm

didn't work...dang.
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Re: One for the oldies

Post by AfloatinClaret » Mon May 31, 2021 7:02 pm

Anyone remember "Some mothers do av 'em"? The catchphrase, not the TV show of that name; he might even have been a Claret?

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Re: One for the oldies

Post by Vino blanco » Mon May 31, 2021 7:33 pm

Some mothers do av em was the catchphrase of Jimmy Clitheroe.
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Re: One for the oldies

Post by Hipper » Tue Jun 01, 2021 7:52 am

Recognise this fellow, from the fifties?

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Re: One for the oldies

Post by Bosscat » Tue Jun 01, 2021 8:03 am

Bilko's commanding officer ... can't remember his name.

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Re: One for the oldies

Post by Im_not_Robbie_Blake » Tue Jun 01, 2021 9:01 am

"Choochy face" - what Bernie Winters used to call brother Mike

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Re: One for the oldies

Post by Clarets4me » Tue Jun 01, 2021 11:29 am

Im_not_Robbie_Blake wrote:
Tue Jun 01, 2021 9:01 am
"Choochy face" - what Bernie Winters used to call brother Mike
Eric Morecambe being interviewed .... " What do you think you and Ernie would be if you weren't Comedians ? " .... " Mike & Bernie Winters " came the reply !!
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Re: One for the oldies

Post by Silkyskills1 » Tue Jun 01, 2021 12:02 pm

Bosscat wrote:
Tue Jun 01, 2021 8:03 am
Bilko's commanding officer ... can't remember his name.
Paul Ford played Colonel John T Hall. And there was Maurice Gosfield playing Private Doberman.

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Re: One for the oldies

Post by Silkyskills1 » Tue Jun 01, 2021 12:10 pm

Another classic from the mid 60's 'Round The Horne. Wonderful characters like Julian and Sandy, Rambling Syd Rumpo and J Peasmold Gruntfuttock played by Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddock and others. A great 30 minutes on a Sunday back then

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Re: One for the oldies

Post by Clarets4me » Tue Jun 01, 2021 12:20 pm

Silkyskills1 wrote:
Tue Jun 01, 2021 12:02 pm
Paul Ford played Colonel John T Hall. And there was Maurice Gosfield playing Private Doberman.
Maurice Gosfield also voiced " Benny the Ball " for the Top-Cat TV Cartoon series ....
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Re: One for the oldies

Post by Silkyskills1 » Tue Jun 01, 2021 12:50 pm

Clarets4me wrote:
Tue Jun 01, 2021 12:20 pm
Maurice Gosfield also voiced " Benny the Ball " for the Top-Cat TV Cartoon series ....
Yet another great TV programme. With Inspector Dibble, a name that has become by-word for police.

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Re: One for the oldies

Post by Bosscat » Tue Jun 01, 2021 1:00 pm

Silkyskills1 wrote:
Tue Jun 01, 2021 12:50 pm
Yet another great TV programme. With Inspector Dibble, a name that has become by-word for police.
Wow he made through the ranks eventually then ... he was just plain old "Officer Dibble" in the early cartoons 🤭🤭🤭

Sorry Silkyskills couldn't resist 🙄
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Re: One for the oldies

Post by Bosscat » Tue Jun 01, 2021 1:22 pm

"The Frost Report" introduced "The 2 Ronnies" & John Cleese etc

Classic sketches include

https://youtu.be/ppv97S3ih14

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Re: One for the oldies

Post by Silkyskills1 » Tue Jun 01, 2021 2:19 pm

Bosscat wrote:
Tue Jun 01, 2021 1:00 pm
Wow he made through the ranks eventually then ... he was just plain old "Officer Dibble" in the early cartoons 🤭🤭🤭

Sorry Silkyskills couldn't resist 🙄
My mistake. As I was posting that I couldn't get Officer Krupky out of my head, a character in West Side Story.

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Re: One for the oldies

Post by mkmel » Tue Jun 01, 2021 2:21 pm

Taffy on the wing wrote:
Mon May 31, 2021 6:32 pm
Sexy was Anne Bancroft!
Anne Bancroft was married to Comedy Director/Actor Mel Brooks

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Re: One for the oldies

Post by Taffy on the wing » Tue Jun 01, 2021 4:06 pm

I know.

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Re: One for the oldies

Post by mkmel » Tue Jun 01, 2021 4:09 pm

I know too
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Re: One for the oldies

Post by Taffy on the wing » Tue Jun 01, 2021 4:11 pm

On the Buses......has that been mentioned.

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Re: One for the oldies

Post by Codger » Tue Jun 01, 2021 4:16 pm

I think they lived on Oil Drum Lane....or something similar.

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Re: One for the oldies

Post by Codger » Tue Jun 01, 2021 4:18 pm

Ah, hang on , I'll catch up shortly :(

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Re: One for the oldies

Post by HahaYeah » Tue Jun 01, 2021 4:21 pm

Wilf Bramble was quite a different character in real life.

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Re: One for the oldies

Post by IanMcL » Tue Jun 01, 2021 4:55 pm

Anyone watch the Army Game?

Then there was the spin off of Bootsy and Snudge.

Alfie Bass plus a few others who became very well known.

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Re: One for the oldies

Post by mkmel » Tue Jun 01, 2021 4:59 pm

When I was a young lad I got Alfie Bass' autograph when out in London with my Mum and Dad

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Re: One for the oldies

Post by Bosscat » Tue Jun 01, 2021 5:45 pm

Taffy on the wing wrote:
Tue Jun 01, 2021 4:11 pm
On the Buses......has that been mentioned.
😂😂😂 with very good reason .... "I'm gonna get you Butler"
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Re: One for the oldies

Post by Silkyskills1 » Tue Jun 01, 2021 7:21 pm

IanMcL wrote:
Tue Jun 01, 2021 4:55 pm
Anyone watch the Army Game?

Then there was the spin off of Bootsy and Snudge.

Alfie Bass plus a few others who became very well known.
As you say, Alfie Bass, Bill Fraserburgh as Snudge, Michael Medwin and Bernard Breslaw(I only aaasked).

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Re: One for the oldies

Post by rob63 » Wed Jun 02, 2021 3:19 pm

International class wrote:
Mon May 31, 2021 6:27 pm
Hilda Baker comedy and acting genius.

Can’t remember the name of the show, but phrases that come to mind.

Have you been Walter?
She knows you know (spoken to a bloke dressed up as woman)
I must get a little hand on this watch.

Her brother in one of the series, the chain smoking Jimmy Jewel.
Pledges Pickles........supposedly in Colne!

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Re: One for the oldies

Post by Hipper » Wed Jun 02, 2021 5:50 pm

mkmel wrote:
Tue Jun 01, 2021 4:59 pm
When I was a young lad I got Alfie Bass' autograph when out in London with my Mum and Dad
In the early 1980s I met him in Borehamwood whilst sitting in a van in a car park having a cup of tea. He just came over to have a chat with us. I presumed at the time he lived in the area but of course he may have been there because of all the film studios.

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