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All posts tagged "Bob Monkhouse"
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38.2K2It's Saturday Night110. He gives us our spirit of unity; we’d all like to strangle him
Compared to ITV’s hapless attempts at finding a new hit in 1995 and 1996, the BBC was the very model...
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34.1K3It's Saturday Night92. That’s the last thing I was expecting, Jim
In 1990, the BBC managed to trade in one master game show host for another. Bob Monkhouse had been presiding over...
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30.8K2It's Saturday Night75. This is your show, folks, and I do mean you
In 1986, Central Television saw fit to resurrect New Faces. Hosted by previous winner Marti Caine and featuring the then fearsomely ubiquitous...
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31.0K2It's Saturday Night74. I Heard A Seat In The Stalls Go ‘Gerdonk!’
“A pale, pretty girl dressed in black is singing a sad love song,” observes writer Nicki Household. “Her voice cracks a...
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20.5K1It's Saturday Night51. Oh dear – Auntie’s playing bingo!
Another comedian hosting a primetime quiz show for the BBC in 1984 was Bob Monkhouse. From the 1980s onwards, Monkhouse would routinely...
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6.5K8Your Wednesday Night In...Your Wednesday Night In… June 1984
Wednesday, 20th June 1984 PICK OF THE DAY 8pm MIKE REID’S MATES AND MUSIC, ITV And there’s your elevator pitch right there!...
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9.0K6Your Friday Night In...Your Friday Night In… September 1991
Friday, 20th September 1991 PICK OF THE DAY 8pm THE RUSS ABBOT SHOW, BBC1 In the past there were small but obvious...
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6.6K5Your Friday Night In...Your Friday Night In… June 1990
Friday, 1st June 1990 PICK OF THE DAY 7.05pm THE $64,000 QUESTION, ITV “64,000 welcomes to you!” – not one of Bob’s...
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6.6K3Your Friday Night In...Your Friday Night In… February 1982
Friday, 5th February 1982 PICK OF THE DAY 7.00pm FAMILY FORTUNES, ITV The mighty Monkhouse boots up Mr Babbage once more to...
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3.8KBooksA-Z of Television, The
The talents of Bob Monkhouse - are we even close to totting them up? This comedy gazetteer of the state of the...
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2.6KFilms: S is for...She’ll Have To Go
Carry On meets the nouvelle vague? Sort of. Bob Monkhouse and Alfred Marks are two down-at-heel brothers competing to do in their...
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2.8KFilms: D is for...
Dentist On The Job
Aka, would you believe it, Carry On TV. In some circles, at least. This is the second and best of the orthodontic...
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