Best Programme of the 70's

[planeterotica]

The Magic Roundabout
Watch With Andy Pandy
Bagpuss !wink!

[max_tranmere]

The Sweeney.

[steve56]

Clangers

[Nob3y]

wasnt shoestring an 80's prog ??
I do remember it,trev eve drove a cortina estate

[steve56]

1979 it started it was repeated in 1981/82.Nob3y wrote:

> wasnt shoestring an 80's prog ??
> I do remember it,trev eve drove a cortina estate
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[mark cremona]

whatever happened to the likely lads.

Love thy neighbor ( it introduced me to the lexicon of racist abuse that became common currency in the UK around that time)

and on the buses.

[Muffinman]

Budgie - Charlie Endell was magnificent.

If you allow 1969 in, then Big Breadwinner Hog.

[spider]

Budgie.

Yes that was a good one.

Iain Cuthbertson (who played Charlie Endell) died at the beginning of September. Really good actor.



I Adam Faith (who played Budgie) who died a couple of years ago had his last words recorded as something like "fucking hell, they show some crap on channel five don't they ?".

He was holed-up in some hotel room with his twenty year old mistress, after saying the above he keeled over with a heart attack. Worse ways to go I suppose.

[jubilee]

The Goodies. Everyone remembers the Pythons for their comic genius (and rightly so) but the Goodies are always passed over.
I doubt if you mentioned them to someone under 40 they wouldn't have a clue who you were on about, as the series hasn't been seen on British telly since 1985. Whereas in Austraila they've been repeated so often that children can quote large chunks of dialogue. Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden have just finished appearing at the comedy festival on Cockatoo Island Sydney where they were welcomed with open arms and made to feel like royalty (Bill Oddie was absent as he's currently suffering from a bout of depression) and were very surprised that whole families came to see them.
I saw the two of them when they toured their stage show over here two years ago and I have to say that they are two of the nicest people I've ever met, happy to pose for photos, chat with fans and sign autographs after they came off stage. It was one of the best evenings I've spent in the theatre for a long time.