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Posted by U6679583 (U6679583) on Friday, 13th November 2009
....starts with the startling "fact" that GC began his career appearing in the seminal seventies summer holidays kids morning TV show - "Why Don't You...?"
Gid - is this true? I really want it to be true.
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Posted by Cyril Benson in Penrith (U2611279) on Friday, 13th November 2009
"...Just Switch Off Your Television Set And Go And Do Something Less Boring Instead (WDYJSOYTVSAGADSLBI)"? I remember it well. The irony that it was itself on telly wasn't lost on me even at that age (I must have been, oooh, in my mid-50's back then)
...sitting at home, watching tv, turn it off it's no good for me so why don't you, why don't you whhhhhhhhhhyyyyyyyyy doooooooont yooooouuuuuuuuu.......
It's true. Bristol. 1979/80. I was going to do another series but we moved back to Canterbury so bang went my showbiz career.
As an 11/12 year old I was very good at learning lines. I was word perfect every time. I have no idea how I did this. I must have been very annoying.
Happy days, my name badge was based around the Piano keyboard. We'd record on Whiteladies Road in Bristol in the same building that housed Antiques Roadshow.
Yes, I did meet Arthur Negus.
I will include a fuller version in my memoirs.
x
Is there any YOUTUBE footage mate!?
That was going to be my next question, marc.
Gid - if there was surviving documentary footage - you would point us to it? Wouldn't you?
Of course I would point you towards it, I'm a mad egomaniac. I did investigate this and was told that all the shows were wiped some time ago. However, a few years ago when Channel 4 did "The 100 best Kids shows ever" or somesuch, the clip they used for number 76 was of me reading out a viewers letter. In a rugby shirt. Fashionable at the time with 11 year olds.
"any kind postman please sign here". That was the start of it. Can't remember then rest.
If there's any other footage I'd love to see it. I could learn a lot from a younger me.
It's given me pause for thought that 30 years ago I was loafing around my sitting room listening to you read out messages from the public, and now.....
We've both moved on tremendously Fist, I know.
Before you ask, no payment was made but there was a gift of d****hams vouchers at the end of each series. This could explain the spike in duvet sales amongst the young in Avon in the 1970s/80s. I was also gifted a record at the end of the series and it was...
Goodbye 1970's by Another Pretty Face.
I still have it.
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Posted by Cyril Benson in Penrith (U2611279) on Friday, 13th November 2009
, no cast credits!
just the title sequence from 1988
3F aha credit at last!
Even I can google. Of course, today's version would be a webcast entitled "Why Don't You Just Close Internet Explorer And..."
Cyril, I will tread carefully bearing in mind your recent loss, but there was very little in the way of mass public tv recording in 1979/80.
As I'm sure you will recall, at that time we were debating the relative merits of Betamax and VHS before working double shifts for 3 years to pay for the deposit on our recorder of choice.
For that reason very little is now available to post on timewasting websites. This is just as well as otherwise I would spend each Thursday night at 7pm watching Woolard, Rodd, Hann and Baxter.
Then Top of the Pops.
Somewhere out there, those WDY tapes exist.
On a related note: here is a collection of Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ for Schools continuity clocks. Click on each image to load an exciting mpeg of.....a Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ for Schools continuity clock.
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Posted by Cyril Benson in Penrith (U2611279) on Friday, 13th November 2009
I would watch old Tomorrow's Worlds, too! With its light jazz theme and "this worked earlier" demos. Classic TV.
There was no Betamax/VHS debate in our house, we had a Philips employee in our midst, so we were busy using *both* sides of our V2000 tapes. Why, when Shabba was just a pup, I ---
[gulps]
Gidfans: you'll find it here:
at exactly 16 mins in.
It's at #43 in the list. Well done for beating Fingerbobs!
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Posted by Billy__liar (U14191454) on Friday, 13th November 2009
Iin response to gideon
"i wonder if you know the name of your own postman"
the clip is here and 16 minutes in
not changed much gid.
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Posted by Billy__liar (U14191454) on Friday, 13th November 2009
Damn!!!
beaten by Fist's fast google fingerbobs
on side note..
No wonder our generation are all *&%$*% UP
some of the music we had foisted on us, what with the PIcture box theme (hello Mr Stuart M)
and the programmes for schools themes.
shaped my listening habits tho.
(anyone got the key to the tv cabinet?)
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Posted by alan_lloyd (U1160366) on Saturday, 14th November 2009
"I wouldn't mind having a go at doing that myself..."
Indeed.
And incidentally, why I am I not prevented from posting inconsequential drunken nonsense at 3 a.m.? I thought there was a curfew. Has some Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ functionary just forgotten to shut everything down? Or has some sort of metaphorical Berlin wall been demolished in the last few hours? It'll be anarchy before you know it. Unofficial trouser threads and all sorts.
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Posted by Cyril Benson in Penrith (U2611279) on Saturday, 14th November 2009
I'm loving it. "100 Greatest Kids' TV" - "Not Suitable For Younger Viewers".
Sandwiched between Captain Pugwash & Brian Cant. Not a bad place to find yourself.
Thanks, I'd no idea it was so easily available. I remember that shirt. Green it were.
My accent was never so clipped again. Which is a shame as I was clearly on course to appear in Salad Days.
I just showed this to my four year old son. He was unimpressed.
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Posted by Andrew Bowden (U178009) on Monday, 16th November 2009
He might be more impressed in ten years time. Or if they brought back Why Don't You in some big bang glory remastering...
I am convinced kids everywhere are ready and waiting to sit in front of their TV during the school holidays, wondering quite why they are watching this programme
Gid, my friend at Fairfield did WDY too, but can't remember what year, but she'd have been a year or 2 older than you.
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Posted by Tinsnail_Racer (U1486682) on Monday, 16th November 2009
Regarding "Why Don't You...", there's a couple of relevant t-shirts on here.
How interesting!
Can we compile a list of "where are they nows" for everyone?
I have finally got this link (Gid at 16mins)
to work off "the evil robot 'other side' that goes by the name of Channel 4 but which we all know uses the bottom right-hand push-button on the Philips 26" colour telly marked clearly with its true identity, ITV2".
I had to enable cookies (drool) for channel4.com and it wouldn't work in Firefox, but would in Internet Explorer.
BTW I heard Chris "the Chris" Hawkins claim that that footage was air-brushed...
Not as airbrushed as Chris was on the front cover of Hello magazine. Check it out.
Interesting. Is he the only 6music dj to have graced the pages of Hello?
Doubt it. Did you not see the Riley goes to Lapland edition? If memory serves it sold out in minutes.
Did you not see the Riley goes to Lapland edition?Β
is it true that the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ has signed a lease by mistake and is moving lock, stock and barrel to Lapland, believing Rovaniemi to be where Marc lived anyway as it was north of the Hyvinkää Gap?
At least when the weather forecasters look out of the window they'll be able to say "looks like "reindeer" "...
is that a LAP DANCING CLUB Gid?
If so - it wasnt me...and I want even there...
Your thinking, or rather not thinking, of Lapworld.
You're... Sorry.
Anyone who thinks that Jahn Teigen's iconic Mil Etter Mil is a fine example of Lapp dancing
has surely earned nul points...
"I wonder if you know the name of your own postman"
Superb. A dyed in the wool duffer even then!
Remember "Why Don't You" well, in amongst "The Banana Splits", "The Flashing Blade" and "Robinson Crusoe" with its glorious theme tune. (Pauses wistfully before matron brings the medication)
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Posted by Cyril Benson in Penrith (U2611279) on Friday, 20th November 2009
Here's how to make a handy name-badge for your, or your Granny's, postman/woman/being.
You will need:
- cardboard
- scissors
- safety pin
- sello, erm, sticky tape
- marker pen
- your, or your Granny's, postman/woman/being
Cut the cardboard to approx 95mm x 60mm using the scissors. Attach the safety pin to the BACK, not the front, using the sell... the tape. Write the name* on the FRONT, using the marker pen. Open the pin, and chase postman/woman/being down street, whilst attempting to attach badge to lapel or earlobe.
*if you know it
For an even more professional finish use some clear sticky backed plastic over the top of the badge.
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Posted by Cyril Benson in Penrith (U2611279) on Friday, 20th November 2009
You've done this before, haven't you!
Now, over to Jemima, who's been white-water rafting in the Sahara.
Am I alone in envisaging what the Carpenters would be like after seeing Gid's message?
"Oh stop, wait a minute Sid..."
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