Saucy Seventies
Celebrating the golden age of the great British sex comedy. God bless Barry Evans and Robin Askwith. And Barry Stokes, the Handyman. Too saucy for YouTube!
- I don't think I've ever seen a more seventies bit of television. Bob Langley on Pebble Mill at One reporting from the Birmingham NEC. He's lounging on a garden chair smoking a cigarillo and interviewing the 'dolly birds', the first of whom shows off her bra.
- Good afternoon. Not been here for a while. What's going on?
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- Hoorah! Celebrate Christmas with Rentaghost! The kids show that made inevitable fate of death look fun! And spookily actor Michael Darbyshire had actually died when this had it's delayed transmission.
- Who remembers the Banana Splits? Who remembers Cilla Black singing the theme tune? Oh my!
- The muppet favourite Mahna Mahna was first heard in Italian exploitation flick Svezia, Inferno e Paradiso (Sweden: Heaven and Hell)in 1967, which focused on Swedish sexuality. Here's the scene it was used in!
- Happy Dr Who Anniversary! To celebrate here's a Dalek trying to teach a Welsh woman to speak properly.
- Pagan Man Aftershave - because there's a bit of pagan in every man...
- Happy International Men's Day. Here's the ultimate man, Charles Bronson. He wears Mandom.
- You'll miss the BBC when it's gone...
- Great bath scenes from British cinema. Barry Evans and Angela Scoular almost get caught out by unlikely husband Brian Wilde in Adventures of a Taxi Driver.
- In 1978 Dudley Moore gave a chilling prediction on the state of the UK political parties in 2025.
- Remembering Pier Paulo Pasolini, who died 50 years ago. In 1975 Tom Baker began filming an Italian adult version of Dr Who directed by Pasolini. The BBC got cold feet over the idea and only one episode was filmed. Though lost, a clip from the series of 'Dottor Chi' has recently been discovered.
- Office etiquette. If there is a secretary in a short skirt standing in the way of some important documents you need, then ask them to to move aside rather than grope around her bare legs.
- Happy Birthday to Luul! I guarantee you will not see anything as bonkers as this today. Lulu, Bernie Clifton, Margaret Thatcher, Idi Amin and Clement Freud - Smile, Darn You, Smile!
- Spookiest ghost picture ever? I'll start...
- Happy Birthday to actress Jessica Hynes (nee Stevenson). When I was sixteen I was in the school play with her - The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole. I was George Mole to her Grandma. I imagine she learnt much about the craft of acting from me.
- Cult film treat.A Z-grade film what I made in 1999, Inspector Zucker vs Gorgo will be viewable this Halloween.This film will be available to watch on YouTube from 12:01am 31 October until 11:59pm 2 November, after which it will be cleaned and burnt. Here is the link, enjoy: youtu.be/X6t8Moi1Vmc
- Dedication. That's all you need kids!
- Happy 67th Birthday to Blue Peter!
- Happy 85th Birthday to Cliff Richard. Here's he and Una Stubbs Foot tappin'!
- Happy 75th Birthday to the guvnor of the Saucy Seventies, Sir Robin Askwith!
- Dance off! Dainty vs Gaga!
- Play the name game.
- Tomorrow I am performing a comedy show/debacle in Londinium. Tickets still available if you fancy it! Show of the year! www.museumofcomedy.com/phwoarr-unzi...
- Have a great day! Here's Stu Francis singing about crushing grapes.
- Happy National Coffee Day. Make it good and strong.
- Good morning! Have a great week, I hope you enjoy yourself as much as Lesley Judd does on this electric horse.
- People having the greatest night at a 1977 James Last concert at the the Royal Albert Hall.
- Good morning. Here's Gareth Hunt demonstrating the dangers of trying to work whist nursing the mother of all hangovers.
- Happy 80th Birthday to one of the greats, Bryan Ferry.
- Remembering Ronnie Barker, born on this day in 1929.
- Anthony Newley, born on this day in 1931. Here's his contribution to the hippy movement, a version of George Harrison's Within You, Without You. Far out man!
