The Champions HQ was glamorous Geneva, which seemed a world away in the 70’s.
I've been to Geneva several times - I can assure you that it's far from glamorous
The Champions HQ was glamorous Geneva, which seemed a world away in the 70’s.
I collected those cards as well - think I had the full set.
And yes, everyone at primary school watched it, our must-see programme.
I've been to Geneva several times - I can assure you that it's far from glamorous
Diana Rigg (Avengers) was one of my customers! Absolutely lovely lady full of incredible stories about the 60's and 70's and I used to get hacked off when I had to leave. Full of life, still mischievous - and I'd love to have met her when she was young as she was a proper hottie!
She makes a cracking cuppa, too.![]()
Unfair
PS You should have listed Z Cars and Dixon of Dock Green
What's not to like about someone of whom Wikipedia says
".............Michael Parkinson, who first interviewed Rigg in 1972, described her as the most desirable woman he ever met, who "radiated a lustrous beauty". A smoker from the age of 18, Rigg was still smoking 20 cigarettes a day in 2009. By December 2017, she had stopped smoking after serious illness led to heart surgery, a cardiac ablation, two months earlier. A devout Christian, she commented that: "My heart had stopped ticking during the procedure, so I was up there and the good Lord must have said, 'Send the old bag down again, I'm not having her yet!'"
Courtesy also of the same source of all accurate facts I was fascinated to learn that Guy Garvey from Elbow is her son in law.
<sigh> I wonder if this anomalie was the start of my long road to being different and slightly out of kilter with all the other massively popular things:
Topo Gigio
David Cassidy
Manchester United
Pogle's Wood
Paul McCartney and Wings
The Radio 1 Road Show
Sorry but I don't care how popular that shower was, you can shove them all where the sun don't shine
And I'm afraid that TMFU can go with them. In my book.
I literally watched one episode each of these. They are too dull to list, and have yet to meet a single person who liked eaither.
What's not to like about someone of whom Wikipedia says
".............Michael Parkinson, who first interviewed Rigg in 1972, described her as the most desirable woman he ever met, who "radiated a lustrous beauty". A smoker from the age of 18, Rigg was still smoking 20 cigarettes a day in 2009. By December 2017, she had stopped smoking after serious illness led to heart surgery, a cardiac ablation, two months earlier. A devout Christian, she commented that: "My heart had stopped ticking during the procedure, so I was up there and the good Lord must have said, 'Send the old bag down again, I'm not having her yet!'"
Courtesy also of the same source of all accurate facts I was fascinated to learn that Guy Garvey from Elbow is her son in law.
I literally watched one episode each of these. They are too dull to list, and have yet to meet a single person who liked eaither. Apart from my mum who had a crush on some Irish bloke from Z cars. In contrast it seemed like TMFO was being rammed down my throat, and that admitting to not likeing it would be a bit like admitting to not like football.
Z Cars was very good - although it lost its way towards the end. I think you and I are slightly too young to appreciate the impact that Z Cars had on television. It may look soft and cosy now but it was revolutionary in the early 60s, seen as very hard-hitting with a more realistic view of police officers.
Dixon of Dock Green, on the other hand, was turgid rubbish, with the oldest copper in western Europe patrolling the streets.
Few others to mention
Kojak
Cannon
Harry O
Rockford files
Charlies Angels
Hawaii Five O
That one that used to be on Friday Night lived in a caravan (Palace supporter?) with the foundations of a house next to it that he was supposed to be building but it never changed