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The contestants on Blankety Blank were always desperately dull, weren't they?
And Terry was unfailingly kind to them :-(
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Did you not see Kenny Everett on it - he unfailingly managed to bend Terry's wand-like mic every
time. He was a great bender, was Kenny
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He wasn't a contestant, though. I mean the two members of the public
who competed for the 'prizes'.
Apparently Terry's microphone was a standard Sony tie-mic stuck on the end of an aerial from Halfords.
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That was the point, I think. Light Entertainment and a' that.
Well played, Sir TW, imo.
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Surely Wagwan was all about the Eurovision
Basically he came into his own when he could inject a bit of good old fashioned laughing at Johnny Foreign.
Deathly dull most of the time, mind.
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A consumate bender, in a very real sense
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Oh yeah - horrible people
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I remember it as a sea of beige and pastels, big lapels and at least one bimbo with big knockers.
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No. His radio show was very good - as long as you didn't listen to the music.
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He had a long and varied career encompassing many roles, j.
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Yeah, they do it to us just the same. Only not as well.
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Very proud of his Limerick roots, apparently.
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It does tend to hole the hole business of it being good below the water line somewhat
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Indeed, who can forget his folk period?
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Sodd? Is that you?
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pic?
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Not enough "passion" and "tempo"
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Tbf to Wogan he was vastly more entertaining than those two c**ts.
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Re: pic?
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Re: pic?
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I've no idea. Wasn't allowed to watch it as a kid.
Too many common people on it, you see.
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Simpler times, b.
Better times, in some ways.
Consider the date of the final episode of series 1 of Blankety Blank: 8th May 1979.
Five days previously, Mrs Thatcher had won the first of her great election victories, and four days subsequently, Alan Sunderland would win us the FA cup with his last-gasp winner. :cloud9:
Good times, really.
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What else were your parents too snobby to let you watch?
I had a kid in my class whose parents never allowed him to watch ITV, which at the time was jam packed with seminal teatime gems like A-Team and Knight Rider. I swear to god the poor kid used to try and make us play Dr Who every play time, or at least put Dr Who into the world of A Team.
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I consider you to be a man of decent taste and character, I'll let this aberation pass
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I'm sure there were plenty of shows on TV that were vastly more common.
My mother was a fan of both Coronation Street AND Crossroads :-( Our TV was inhabited almost entirely by common people.
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Just about everything, really. Certainly everything on ITV except The Big Match.
I was allowed to watch Blue Peter. Dr Who. Dads Army. The Sunday evening drama (Poldark / Onedin Line etc) Not sure what else. When we visited the proletarian grandparents I got to see stuff like The Generation Game, which I thought was pretty dreadful.
wd The Parents tbf.
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So you basically missed out on the cool-vehicle-superhero genre
Did you creep downstairs of a tea time to sneak a furtive look at Airwolf?
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I have no knowledge of any of these things of which you speak.
My super-heroes were Liam Brady and Malcolm MacDonald.
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