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Not really a fan of the Good Old Days but saw some of it last night. The Hot Dogs were very funny, also enjoyed Danny La Rue and the comedian.
Looking forward to the 1959 edition tonight, eager to see what Morecambe & Wise were like that early, I don't remember them on TV until the late sixties. |
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Wow ,loving this, 1959,the year my parents got married, I used to sit and watch it with them in the 70s
looking forward to Morecambe and Wise.
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It's like a different world with Leonard Sachs being so staid. He even pretended to bang the gavel. I enjoyed it though despite Cardew Robinson and M&W being the only acts I'd heard of. Sadly I felt M&W were a bit flat and others like Betty Jumel and Smoothey & Layton were much funnier. It was good seeing thrm though so early in their career.
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I thought some of the comedians embarrassingly unfunny, particularly the one who climbed on tables and kept on laughing (not sure what at!). When he climbed into a tube at the end, the camera cut to the audience, so we never got to see if he got out.
Perhaps he's still there !!! |
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It's like a different world with Leonard Sachs being so staid. He even pretended to bang the gavel. I enjoyed it though despite Cardew Robinson and M&W being the only acts I'd heard of. Sadly I felt M&W were a bit flat and others like Betty Jumel and Smoothey & Layton were much funnier. It was good seeing thrm though so early in their career.
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Not really a fan of the Good Old Days but saw some of it last night. The Hot Dogs were very funny, also enjoyed Danny La Rue and the comedian.
Looking forward to the 1959 edition tonight, eager to see what Morecambe & Wise were like that early, I don't remember them on TV until the late sixties. I've still to see the M&W edition. |
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I thought some of the comedians embarrassingly unfunny, particularly the one who climbed on tables and kept on laughing (not sure what at!). When he climbed into a tube at the end, the camera cut to the audience, so we never got to see if he got out.
Perhaps he's still there !!! |
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I never saw Danny la rue on ?
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My thoughts too. Some of camera operating was amateurish and misses the actual ending 1959 dear god. Acts were shit
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Sadly, I agree. Leonard Sachs' mildly suggestive banter with the band and good old reliable Pat Bredin were about the only passable acts on that vintage edition. Morecambe and Wise weren't much cop either, lots of earnest (pun intended) dull song and dance patter. Shows how much Eddie Braben's scripts did to lift M&W into the ranks of the immortals.
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An excellent show tonight.
Les Dawson was in fine form. Top of the bill DInardi, who I had never seen before, was amazing. |
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Next week's show features Larry Grayson, Fenella Fielding, and Hinge and Bracket.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0888q72 |
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looking forward to Morecambe and Wise.
