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All posts tagged "Russ Abbot"
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31.2K3It's Saturday Night80. The Charge-And-Shout Brigade
Aside from streamlining the rank and file of LWT, Greg Dyke was also intent on maximising the company’s advertising revenues. To do...
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27.2KIt's Saturday Night64. Things Look Very Precarious
With the arrival of Casualty, Saturday evenings had taken on a surprisingly grim aspect, yet the real world could also violate the...
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26.5K1It's Saturday Night62. There’s going to come a time when you’ll have to go to the BBC
Come 1986 and, as per usual, ITV (now operating with the strap-line “It’s worth coming home to … ”) was playing...
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19.0K2It's Saturday Night44. Let’s get straight into this
Leslie Crowther was born in Nottingham in 1933. In 1946 he found his way into the BBC Schools Repertory Service and in...
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18.1KIt's Saturday Night43. If you want Russ Abbot to do it, then you have to accept me and my ideas
Even before the arrival of Surprise, Surprise, Birt’s public confidence in LWT’s output appeared well founded. By the end of 1983...
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18.2K13It's Saturday Night40. Delivered impeccably
But back in 1983 Russ Abbot’s Madhouse was a lynchpin in ITV’s Saturday night schedules. Meanwhile Abbot’s old mentor, Freddie Starr was finding...
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18.5K6It's Saturday Night39. We are investing in people
The eventual victor in the TV Times Magazine Top Ten Awards in the category of comedy was Russ Abbot. The loss in...
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16.8K6It's Saturday Night36. I thought it might be terrible and I wouldn’t enjoy it at all
Born in Bermondsey on May 4, 1952, the young Michael Barrymore fell in love with Norman Wisdom films and, from the age...
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9.3K1It's Saturday Night8. This is your show now
Although a disaster for Forsyth, Bruce Forsyth’s Big Night eventually came up trumps for Cannon and Ball who, on the strength of their...
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9.5K6Your 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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