[TV] Times have changed

[Is it PotG?]

Watched a documentary last night about this event in Brighton in the early 80s.

Investigative reporter Roger Cook takes a whacking from an antiques dealer with an iron bar, causing cracked ribs. Not sure there was ANY action taken.

Back in the day, eh?

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Roger Cook! That brings back memories. I met him once, my old boss previously worked for the Beeb and he was a friend. Fixed his loudspeakers lol. He was great to watch, had guts.

 

[schmunk]

Times have changed - the fact that this piece revolved around the sale of fake ivory carvings.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Watched a documentary last night about this event in Brighton in the early 80s.

Investigative reporter Roger Cook takes a whacking from an antiques dealer with an iron bar, causing cracked ribs. Not sure there was ANY action taken.

Back in the day, eh?

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A man walks into a bar in Preston Park...

 

[m@goo]

Cook didn't press charges.

It's funny because it shows how times have changed in a few ways. I think they said they never originally aired the attack because of it's nature but now it's not so shocking by today's standards.

 

[Bry Nylon]

It's a bit like that Blue Peter footage from the 70's of John Noakes climbing up Nelson's Column on wooden ladders lashed together with baler twine and wearing a pair of slip-ons and an old army jacket.

 

[Bry Nylon]

A man walks into a bar in Preston Park...

I remember walking into a bar in Preston Park with you once. I don't remember walking out.

 

[NooBHA]

A man walks into a bar in Preston Park...

Ouch - It was an Iron Bar - The old ones are the best

 

[m@goo]

"C'maannn, you PIMP!"

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I remember walking into a bar in Preston Park with you once. I don't remember walking out.

I do vaguely remember crawling on hands and knees down the A23 and digging a deep gouge out of my front door with a key. But like yourself, I have no recollection of walking being involved

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Ouch - It was an Iron Bar - The old ones are the best

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

The Cook Report was top viewing back in the day.

My fave episode was the lion hunt in South Africa - right at the last minute, with rifle in Cook's hands aimed between the lion's eyes and the "crim-organiser" urging him to pull the trigger, he stops and declares; "I'm not going to do this, I'm Roger Cook from the BBC and this is criminal, oh and you're all on film too"

Very brave with crim-man and his henchmen armed to the teeth, deep in the African bush - compulsive viewing ....

 

[Uh_huh_him]

It's a bit like that Blue Peter footage from the 70's of John Noakes climbing up Nelson's Column on wooden ladders lashed together with baler twine and wearing a pair of slip-ons and an old army jacket.

Unreal...

 

[SeagullinExile]

It's a bit like that Blue Peter footage from the 70's of John Noakes climbing up Nelson's Column on wooden ladders lashed together with baler twine and wearing a pair of slip-ons and an old army jacket.

Top stuff. Didn't he get propper messed up on a bobsled or skeleton bob too at some point? Vaguely remember something like that.

 

[Bry Nylon]

Top stuff. Didn't he get propper messed up on a bobsled or skeleton bob too at some point? Vaguely remember something like that.

I think you're probably right.

You'd think at some point he would have cottoned on to the fact that Peter Purves and Valerie Singleton kept sending him on assignments with a 1/10 chance of coming back alive whilst they stayed back at BBC TV Centre and made advent candles and double-ended dildos together.

 

[Bry Nylon]

Top stuff. Didn't he get propper messed up on a bobsled or skeleton bob too at some point? Vaguely remember something like that.

It's on this video, starting at 8 mins 52.

Kid's telly back then was just utter madness!

 

[SeagullinExile]

I think you're probably right.

You'd think at some point he would have cottoned on to the fact that Peter Perves and Valerie Singleton kept sending him on assignments with a 1/10 chance of coming back alive whilst they stayed back at BBC TV Centre and made advent candles and double-ended dildos together.

Those three WERE Blue Peter for me. Fond memories.

The Baby elephant is still one of the best pieces of live TV ever aired!

 

[lizard]

The Baby elephant is still one of the best pieces of live TV ever aired!

I dunno...

 

[SeagullinExile]

I dunno...

Hehe. Fair enough!

 

[lost in london]

It's a bit like that Blue Peter footage from the 70's of John Noakes climbing up Nelson's Column on wooden ladders lashed together with baler twine and wearing a pair of slip-ons and an old army jacket.

Didn't he have to do it twice in the end as something went wrong with the sound / video first time around?