Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary

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That's another thing. If you missed anything on telly, well tough titty, that was it, no winding it back, you'd missed it.

If you were watching a serial you had to be at home in front of the telly at the time it was broadcast, sometimes every week for months on end.

No point ringing anyone during The Fosdyke Saga, Family at War or A Passage to India, which was fine by us, we didn't have a phone.

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We always watched it to the very end so we could see everyone go round on that roundabout thing, while the sig tune played.

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We always watched it to the very end so we could see everyone go round on that roundabout thing, while the sig tune played.

I'm surprised I can't find an image of that.

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We always watched it to the very end so we could see everyone go round on that roundabout thing, while the sig tune played.

I'm surprised I can't find an image of that.

Ditto - it's pretty hard to find one.

This is a bad one of it.

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La-la, la la, la la, la la,

Laa-Laa, la la, la la, laaa laaaa

Laa-Laa, da da Laa-Laa, la la laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

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La-la, la la, la la, la la,

Laa-Laa, la la, la la, laaa laaaa

Laa-Laa, da da Laa-Laa, la la laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Blimey, that's word perfect.

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Think this is a modern version.

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Think this is a modern version.

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Not that modern. That looks like a young Bruce Forsyth and Bob Hope.

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Warning. Old fart post not really relevant to anything.

Today I was thinking about how easily entertained people were when I was a kid.

TV - Sunday Night at the London Palladium.

Headline act - Frankie Vaughan.

My family speculate excitedly - Will he do a high kick?

Consensus  - He will if he sings Gimme the Moonlight.





Wow! There, he did it. Did you see it?

Yes it was fantastic, he always does it.

Bugger, I was looking for the ashtray and missed it.

Serves you right, you should pay attention.


Heady days.

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For some reason I read Frankie Howerd

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I must say I was quite disappointed.

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OMG! I loved Frankie Howard, (as did everyone else) but it's only as I've got older that I realise just how brilliant he was.

Ooh Mrs no.... Titter ye not.

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They certainly don’t make them like they used to do. Saturday/ Sunday tv schedule is so much different now. I can’t remember the last time I watched anything worth watching.

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They certainly don’t make them like they used to do. Saturday/ Sunday tv schedule is so much different now. I can’t remember the last time I watched anything worth watching.

There's loads of fantastic factual stuff on telly theses days but the popular stuff is truly dire.

I just did an impromptu soap survey. Every character, and I mean every one, was either angry about something or lying about something when their obvious best move and inevitable destiny is to tell the truth.

Cue 17 episodes while spellbound viewers await the outcome with bated breath.

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Back to the Palladium. A typical show was compared by Brucie or Norman Vaughan. Swingin/Dodgy (No relation to Frankie)

Act one probably someone like David Nixon, who would do a magic trick and astound us all, then Moira Anderson would sing These are my Mountains. (Mam might sing along)

After the adverts Danny La Rue would prance around in an extravagant frock with a huge feather boa to hide the join between his neck and his tits. Then maybe a juggler on a unicycle as a prelude to the headline act which would be something like Mike and Bernie Winters, Tommy Cooper or Dickie Henderson. Real A list stuff.

What was the name of that bloody elephant that Henderson sometimes brought on stage and when did the Tiller girls come on, was it only at the end? 

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Back to the Palladium. A typical show was compared by Brucie or Norman Vaughan. Swingin/Dodgy (No relation to Frankie)

Act one probably someone like David Nixon, who would do a magic trick and astound us all, then Moira Anderson would sing These are my Mountains. (Mam might sing along)

After the adverts Danny La Rue would prance around in an extravagant frock with a huge feather boa to hide the join between his neck and his tits. Then maybe a juggler on a unicycle as a prelude to the headline act which would be something like Mike and Bernie Winters, Tommy Cooper or Dickie Henderson. Real A list stuff.

What was the name of that bloody elephant that Henderson sometimes brought on stage and when did the Tiller girls come on, was it only at the end? 

The elephant was called Tanya.

The Tiller Girls always started ("kick-started"......) the show.

Most famous person I knew in my childhood was a Tiller Girl who lived next door. A real Tiller Girl, unbelievable.

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Back to the Palladium. A typical show was compared by Brucie or Norman Vaughan. Swingin/Dodgy (No relation to Frankie)

Act one probably someone like David Nixon, who would do a magic trick and astound us all, then Moira Anderson would sing These are my Mountains. (Mam might sing along)

After the adverts Danny La Rue would prance around in an extravagant frock with a huge feather boa to hide the join between his neck and his tits. Then maybe a juggler on a unicycle as a prelude to the headline act which would be something like Mike and Bernie Winters, Tommy Cooper or Dickie Henderson. Real A list stuff.

What was the name of that bloody elephant that Henderson sometimes brought on stage and when did the Tiller girls come on, was it only at the end? 

The elephant was called Tanya.

The Tiller Girls always started ("kick-started"......) the show.

Most famous person I knew in my childhood was a Tiller Girl who lived next door. A real Tiller Girl, unbelievable.

Tanya! FFFT.

A Tiller Girl? I don't believe it.