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

[RossyG]

Maggie Philbin, Howard Stableford....er....I think the other woman was called Carole, and...some other bloke.

Judith Hann and I think the other man is Peter McCann.

 

[Is it PotG?]

Judith Hann, now whatever happened to her with her spritely delivery?

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Judith Hann and I think the other man is Peter McCann.

Ah thanks. Wonder where I was getting Carole from?

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Wasn't Phillippa Forrester on TW at some stage too? I remember her as a kids TV presenter whom (it seemed) most of the boys in my class had a crush on.


Another 80s name from the archives: Simon Groom. Can't help wondering if you'd get a job on kids' TV now if your name was Groom.

 

[Swansman]

Hypno-Disc...

Ahh you didnt include the 90s

 

[Skuller]

Stilgoe once lived on a houseboat in Newhaven between ring road and Denton Island. I was told it's now the rusty sunk hulk you can see from the road but I don't know if that's true.

 

[Dick Head]

 

[marlowe]

Wanda Ventham, serious crush on her and was in so many TV series and films, and is the mother of Benedict Cumberbatch.

I had a HUGE crush on Wanda - her name alone is enough. Remember her in a program with Del Henney who played a crocked rugby player called Fallen Hero.

She was also born and grew up in Brighton. She worked at the Connaught Theatre, Worthing as a scene painter before becoming an actress.

Later played Cassandra's mother in Only Fools and Horses.

 

[pearl]

Saw him at the Goldstone on countless occasions.

I remember seeing him there with a milk crate

 

[AK74]

Richard Stilgoe ! I am sure I would appreciate him much more now than I did watching his brief appearances on Nationwide etc!

Classic Stilgoe for those of us who are a certain age:

 

[The Oldman]

Wasn't Phillippa Forrester on TW at some stage too? I remember her as a kids TV presenter whom (it seemed) most of the boys in my class had a crush on..

Yes she was on TW then later into Nature programmes with her partner. Recall great programmes from their home in the Cotswolds(?). Her man now works as a wildlife camera presenter for National Geographic and they live in Wyoming.

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

Graham Kerr:



Patrick Cargill:

Graham Kerr is a great call apart from Keith Floyd no one has even come close.

 

[Weststander]

Graham Kerr is a great call apart from Keith Floyd no one has even come close.

Everyone I know with the slightest of interest in food prog's, always enthuses about Keith Floyd as the best. He oozed charisma, so many stories to tell, even the boozing part of the act.

 

[RossyG]

Everyone I know with the slightest of interest in food prog's, always enthuses about Keith Floyd as the best. He oozed charisma, so many stories to tell, even the boozing part of the act.

Those who worked with him on his short lived stint on LWT’s On Television series (following Clive James) don’t have much good to say about him. He was a bitter, snarling drunk who alienated the crew and sometimes the studio audience,

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

Those who worked with him on his short lived stint on LWT’s On Television series (following Clive James) don’t have much good to say about him. He was a bitter, snarling drunk who alienated the crew and sometimes the studio audience,

I don't know if that is true but I wouldn't be surprised if it was.
I do know that he was difficult and really liked the wine.

 

[Weststander]

Those who worked with him on his short lived stint on LWT’s On Television series (following Clive James) don’t have much good to say about him. He was a bitter, snarling drunk who alienated the crew and sometimes the studio audience,

Quite common in show business. I know people who've worked with celebs, who said some were consistently nasty and bullying away from the camera.

 

[atfc village]

Maggie Philbin, Howard Stableford....er....I think the other woman was called Carole, and...some other bloke.

Guy on the left was a south today reporter Peter McCann i think.

 

[atfc village]

Micheal Rodd ,Screentest.

 

[Perry Milkins]

She was also born and grew up in Brighton. She worked at the Connaught Theatre, Worthing as a scene painter before becoming an actress.

Later played Cassandra's mother in Only Fools and Horses.

Was also in that drama just been on TV...you know the one with the psycho bloke who moves in to a household and seduces the mum..oh what was it called...Neil Morrisey was in it and she played his mum.

 

[AZ Gull]

Ah thanks. Wonder where I was getting Carole from?

Maybe from Carol Vorderman? (who apparently presented TW in the mid-90s).