Not the Hammer production, or the pre-”let’s get silly” period Rathbone-Bruce original, but a mid-’80s version with Ian Richardson and Donald ‘Spooner’s Patch’ Churchill as the investigative companions, plus Denholm ‘I like the noughts particularly’ Elliott, Glynis ‘Major! Can’t you see I’m undressing?’ Barber, Brian ‘Dive!’ Blessed, Eleanor ‘Prick!’ Bron, Martin ‘Oh I see, we’re going to be the elastoplast, are we?’ Shaw and Connie ‘She doesn’t mean any arm’ Booth.
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Goodnight and God Bless
DONALD “SPOONER” CHURCHILL mugs and frugs to high heaven as a HUGHIE GREEN-esque shagging, cheating bastard game show host.
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BENT COPPERCOM which lingered for a while at the turn of the decade in spite of iffy plots, endless strikes and equally numerous cast changes including the corrupt eponymous inspector regenerating from RONALD FRASER to DONALD “GOODNIGHT AND GOD BLESS” CHURCHILL between series one and two. RAY “SIMPSON” GALTON and JOHNNY “GARNETT” SPEIGHT wrote it, not always in the same room.
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Wrestling’s Golden Age – Grapples, Grunts and Grannies
Sunday, 22.05, BBC4Mick McManus died this week, alas, and remember him this way with another outing for this absolutely brilliant documentary from just before Christmas about British wrestling at its earthiest. There are some hilarious bits in it, like Johnny Kincaid being told he had to pretend he was from Barbados even though he’d never been there, Klondike Kate reminiscing about the fishwives throwing foot-and-mouth-disease injections at her, an interviewee saying “excuse my language” after he’d said the obscene word “bum” and the fantastically good value Max “brother of Shirley” Crabtree, the big kahuna in the “sport” in its imperial phase, explaining how they came up with the concept of Big Daddy after Shirley complained to him that “me whole career’s gone to cock!”. Great stuff.
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