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Old 26-12-2016, 19:56
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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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Old 26-12-2016, 22:09
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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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Old 26-12-2016, 23:20
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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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Old 27-12-2016, 14:14
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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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Old 27-12-2016, 14:21
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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.
Don Smoothey of Smoothey and Layton only died last year at the age of 96

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Smoothey
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Old 30-12-2016, 17:44
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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 enjoyed The Hot Dogs too. I was going to fast forward them but glad I stayed. It was an enjoyable act.

I've still to see the M&W edition.
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Old 30-12-2016, 20:04
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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 !!!
My thoughts too. Some of camera operating was amateurish and misses the actual ending 1959 dear god. Acts were shit
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Old 30-12-2016, 20:06
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I never saw Danny la rue on ?
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Old 30-12-2016, 22:24
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My thoughts too. Some of camera operating was amateurish and misses the actual ending 1959 dear god. Acts were shit
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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Old 31-12-2016, 22:57
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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.
Yes but of course remember in the fifties and later it was many a person's escapism going to the music hall , away from the kids, or wife but I think the quality of the acts is in this case imerterial
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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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Unread Yesterday, 21:17
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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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