The Mausoleum Club Forum

Having watched this particular episode only yesterday, I can confirm it's the original ATV version.

It was originally Deryck Guyler, but I think Brian Wilde may have done the later ones.

spflog1 wrote:
Jan Francis & Paul Nicholas - Cadbury's Wispa

Mel Smith and Peter Cook did one for Wispa too.

Which has just reminded me of the series of Holsten Pils ads from around the same time, with Griff Rhys Jones edited into scenes from classic films.

Sue Johnston and Ricky Tomlinson in The Royle Family (Jim and Barb) and Brookside (Bobby & Sheila Grant).

What about the "Cornflakes" scene in The Young Ones - Bomb. WOMAN: "It seems very strange that an expert on comedy should be advertising tents on the back of a cornflakes packet!" LITTLE GIRL: "I wish I'd had time for a crap before we started!" Another is the Young Ones' joke where all the junk pou...

Doctor At Large ran for just one series of 29 episodes. Series 1 of its successor, Doctor In Charge, ran to 27.

Simon36 wrote:but not at all between 1975 and 1981. So maybe Bolam blocked them for a bit...

Could well be the case, as this corresponds almost exactly with the run of When The Boat Comes In.

Kevin O'Grady, as portrayed by Spike Milligan in Curry and Chips also appeared a few times in Till Death Us Do Part. Johnny Speight recycled a fair bit of the character's dialogue in at least one of the episodes as well.

Richard Baker in 'Monty Python.' Peter Woods as well (Light Entertainment War). Lulu and Ringo Starr also appear in an episode, albeit briefly, right at the end of the show and neither speak any lines. If we're counting sketch shows then, there was a Rivron/Brint sketch in French and Saunders which...

It was Hugh Scully. The clip can be seen in the last ever edition of Nationwide, available in the usual place.

Neil Morrisey is band member Disco Biscuit in tonight's example ~iw Who also starred in Hunting Venus, an ITV comedy-drama about a reforming 80s band. In around 1990-ish BBC2 showed a series made up of sitcom pilots (a la Comedy Playhouse / Seven Of One etc.) one of which starred Trevor Eve as the ...

Not sure if this is one of those already mentioned, but I recall there being a round involving a magnetic board containing tiles with the titles of songs on them which the contestants had to arrange into the correct order then press a buzzer when they were finished. I mostly remember this because of...

As a child I always thought that when a song appeared on the radio, it was the actual artist in the studio performing "live", like on Top of the Pops.

It never occurred to me that they just played the record, when I found out I was taken aback as I thought records were just for "ordinary" people.

I think some of the jokes and visual messages in Fawlty Towers will suffer from lack of picture? The only thing I remember about the LP I borrowed from our local library back in the 80s was that it had a voice-over dubbed onto it by Manuel, explaining an act of violence Basil had just subjected him...

The part of Moxey in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet was originally written specifically for the percussionist Ray Cooper, a friend of Clement & La Frenais who had expressed an interest in doing a spot of screen acting (which explains why Moxey is something of a peripheral character in series 1). In the end, C...

I've posted this before. In an episode of Coronation Street Stan Ogden switches off the TV when the theme music to Word In Action come on. (Presumably he'd been enjoying the previous programme). ~iw Similarly, Len Fairclough was once seen watching an episode of The Krypton Factor, which was the one...

nobody else bought them apart from a handful of ITV companies If you count ITN, then fifty per cent of ITV companies at the time bought them - although admittedly not always for every studio. Granada, Yorkshire, HTV, ATV, Anglia, Thames, LWT and ITN all had them at some point or other, and I think ...

The vocal sections of Mountain's "Nantucket Sleighride" are completely different to the instrumental bit used as the theme to Weekend World.

People ending telephone conversations by simply replacing the receiver, without so much as a "bye", "thanks", "Cheers, then" etc. - in the real world this would be seen as quite rude yet it seems to be considered acceptable on the telly and in films, regardless of whether the character is in any way...

I can clearly remember seeing adverts for Granada's Sherlock Holmes on the side of Merseyside PTE buses around 1984.

Just announced on Radio 4 PM news that he has passed away aged 83.

Although I'm too young to remember Top of the Form, thanks to the early series of Winner Takes All the expression "difference of opinion" has always reminded me of him.

Looks like Bernie was right, judging by this picture.

Interesting to see on the 1980s page a Marconi MkIX as well.

The primary school I attended in Merseyside in the late 70s/early 80s had an air raid siren left over from the war on its roof, which was tested about once a year (not the full alert tone, just one quick spool up to pitch then off). I was absolutely fascinated by it at the time, but the sound still ...

The final number was usually played in full, so there might be a further two minutes of audience dancing after the fade of the final credit. This "tail" was useful to Pres who could opt out early, or take an extra 30 seconds if the network was running light. I remember once reading somewhere (very ...

The Sky menu description of this weeks edition, said 'includes strong language'....did I miss something? That Who film looked a bit tatty, as well. BBC iPlayer has a similar warning - presumably due to said clip featuring a prominent "fuck" from Roger Daltrey; it's expurgated from the vocal soundtr...

Very sad news. I can't think of anything I ever saw him in that I didn't really like; he was always my favourite of the NTNOCN cast as well. My old Drama teacher knew him from his time at the Sheffield Crucible and I remember him telling me what a personable (and hugely knowledgeable) bloke Mel was....

There was the caption that appeared on the live final of the 1982 Young Musician of the Year contest announcing that British troops had taken South Georgia. It didn't actually interrupt the programme, but it was an annoying distraction (and I think the simultaneous radio broadcast was interrupted)....

Why did Suranne Jones have to keep reintroducing the programme after every ad break by saying Peter Kay is saying goodbye to Granada Studios. Have the audience forgotten what they are watching in the intervening 3 minutes!! Another annoying practice we seem to have inherited from America, unfortuna...

According to Digiguide, this will air on Friday 22nd March at 8:30pm preceded by a commemorative concert by Madness and followed by a session by Richard Thompson from TC8.

robinsmith wrote: a Kenneth Williams sketch where he's saying 'hands up this is a stick up, gimmie your money' (Round The Horne?).

"Hand up your sticks", a sketch from (IIRC) Pieces of Eight, a stage revue by Peter Cook starring Williams and released as a studio recording.