[TV] Largely Forgotten TV Personalities of the 60s, 70s and 80s

[marlowe]

I still have my original childhood 45's of The Theme from Dr Who and The Theme from Steptoe and Son. Always had eclectic taste in music!

That Dr Who theme is immense, latterly covered really well by Orbital.

The arrangement was done by Delia Derbyshire who worked at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. When Grainer heard her arrangement he was so impressed he tried to get her a co-composer credit but the BBC bureaucracy prevented it.

She was eventually credited on-screen 50 years later for the Doctor Who 50th anniversary special, "The Day of the Doctor".

 

[Juan Albion]

David Nixon anyone?

 

[Gwylan]

The arrangement was done by Delia Derbyshire who worked at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. When Grainer heard her arrangement he was so impressed he tried to get her a co-composer credit but the BBC bureaucracy prevented it.

She was eventually credited on-screen 50 years later for the Doctor Who 50th anniversary special, "The Day of the Doctor".

And here's the theme tune arranged by Ron Grainer himself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1SZs4xudf8

 

[Icy Gull]

Norman “swinging and dodgy” Vaughan

 

[jakarta]

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Fanny Craddock

Johnny's famous quote is no doubt an Urban Myth but still bears repeating...

And may your doughnuts all turn out like Fannys

 

[Is it PotG?]

Johnny's famous quote is no doubt an Urban Myth but still bears repeating...

And may your doughnuts all turn out like Fanny's

 

[Garage_Doors]

 

[Barrow Boy]

Lenny the Lion.

 

[Barrow Boy]

Ray Alan & Lord Charles

 

[Gwylan]

Lenny the Lion.

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Trivia question (no Googling). The Lenny the Lion fan club was launched by the father of someone who was to become rather famous in the 70s. Can you name that person?

 

[Juan Albion]

Trivia question (no Googling). The Lenny the Lion fan club was launched by the father of someone who was to become rather famous in the 70s. Can you name that person?

Idi Amin.

 

[Lower West Stander]

I remember On the Move, but I have no idea why I would have watched it. Maybe I just watched everything on television back in the day.

Claim to fame.

The guy who wasn’t Bob Hoskins in On the Move is my Uncle Donald.

He also played Mavis’s love interest in Coronation St. And was in Dr Who.

Now lives in a **** off house in Putney. Last saw him about 5 years ago during a family inheritance dispute when he travelled down to see my mum. Total knob.


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[AZ Gull]

Claim to fame.

The guy who wasn’t Bob Hoskins in On the Move is my Uncle Donald.

He also played Mavis’s love interest in Coronation St. And was in Dr Who.

Now lives in a **** off house in Putney. Last saw him about 5 years ago during a family inheritance dispute when he travelled down to see my mum. Total knob.


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That's a very uncharitable thing to say about your mum.

 

[Juan Albion]

Anyone else remember a program from the Sixties called "Away To Adventure"? I can't remember anything about it except that the theme tune was "A Walk in the Black Forest". And a strange feeling that the titles included a shot of a bridge.

 

[Garry Nelson's teacher]

Idi Amin.

Without going to Professor Google I remember that a Terry Hall was the man behind (as it were) Lenny and I'm going to guess that he was the dad of the Terry Hall who was in The Specials?

 

[Barrow Boy]

For those of you of a certain age I have found this little gem, (Professor) Stanley Unwin interviewing Peter Hawkins who was the original voice of The Flowerpot men!




Stanley Unwin explaining politics in 1983

 

[Gwylan]

Idi Amin.

No. Wrong age, wrong nationality, wrong colour, wrong profession, wrong physique ... but you got the sex right.

Without going to Professor Google I remember that a Terry Hall was the man behind (as it were) Lenny and I'm going to guess that he was the dad of the Terry Hall who was in The Specials?

Good thinking but no... you're in the right sort of ball park though

 

[Is it PotG?]

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Kelly Monteith. Thought he was quite funny back in the day.

Sadly died aged 80. RIP Kelly.