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I wasn’t a great fan of Hill Street Blues to be honest but I may revisit to see what I was missing first time round. Of the American shows NYPD Blue was the one I have probably watched most of and I used to be allowed to stop up late on a Saturday night to watch Starsky & Hutch.
My grandmother and Joan Hickson were lifelong friends. They met at RADA in the 1920s, though Granny Beryl’s donning of greasepaint and wallowing in the limelight was restricted to semi-professional dramatics in smokey dives. She jacked it all in when my father popped-out in 1933
Apparently I had afternoon tea with Granny and Joan in Lyon’s Corner House on Oxford Street, though being in a pram at the time the memory is dim
She was the definitive Miss Marple, though I liked Julia McKenzie too. Geraldine McEwan was too twinkly I thought
Margaret Rutherford looked the part as did Basil Rathbone playing Sherlock Holmes; but those old small-budgety black-and-white films were nowhere near as good as their big-budgety colourful successors
Ealing Comedies however have never been equalled
He may well have done GM but didn’t he join the program 4-5 years in to it’s run in which case I wouldn’t have been watching. TBH I didn’t even know he was in HSB until you pointed it out!
I saw your Lyons tea date about six years ago travelling north up Kensungton Church Street roughly where the Costa was but they have knocked it for a big development. I was quute fazed by it – she was carrying a bag of light shopping – more like personal items possibly clothes than groceries. I saw Emmily Thornbury brush by me in Waitrose without make up and I had to rack my brains
I once bumped in to a large Fish in an airport lift. I said hello but he didn’t reply as he was incommunicado
I travelled with Chelsea a bit in the eighties and it was murder. Gave it up
One story I knew well was when ickys coach had a paint fight in a b and q (or similar) and the bill arrived. Mates (ok acquaintances) all offon the coach and a couple of painters and décoraters in white splashed overalls got pulled
Seems both Billy and
Harry the Dog both passed away a few years back after a search on themGaelic Warrior Gold Cup Winner 2026
The Ladykillers with Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Cecil Parker – and of course Katie Johnson.
What a great film from the “Ealing stable”.
Talking Pictures quiet often show this film.
A fine film which would share a bronze with ‘The Lavender Hill Mob’ but gold and silver would be ‘The Man in the White Suit’ and ‘Kind Hearts and Coronets’
Talking Pictures is a little gem of a channel. Other than the roster of worthwhile films, the ‘Glimpses’ series of 10-minute all-our-yesterdays vignettes are touchingly nice. And joy-of-joys Laurel and Hardy are given an airing from time to time too
Laurel and Hardy are timeless
a bit like Only fools and horses but having said that watching it on GOLD they have edited out quite a few bits for the PC brigade etc, reckon in 30 years time they will play the intro followed by the ending music.
I use to watch Postman Pat a lot as a kid
that Billy Plumber would of been perfect for the movieGaelic Warrior Gold Cup Winner 2026
I see one of Gamble’s famous 5 is still twittering away at another of Gambles famous 5 as recently as December
Don’t you think the middle class sociologists behind that edition of Panorama exploited Billy Plummer, Nathan. Clearly a troubled kid who ultimately took his own life.
I didn’t realise Billy had taken his own life, GM, that’s sad, I had read on twitter he had passed away a few years back but didn’t know how. Yes trouble but came across a decent enough chap, caught up in it all, sometimes life choices are semi forced because of class, background, where you live etc. Addiction is more than just gambling, drinking, drugs and smoking and that buzz of being part of the circle is hard to break.
I’d say for sure they exploited him, they don’t give two hoots do they, same as some of the press, as long as they have their story.Gaelic Warrior Gold Cup Winner 2026
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