Sid James pops up in unexpected roles in old Talking Pictures TV movies, I think his first big part was as an American. Appeared briefly in the remake of The 39 Steps with Kenneth More, for instance.
These advertisements were not considered to be offensive at the time, were they just the attitudes of the day or did people have more of a sense of humour back then?
Unintentionally funny adverts…the second has a transatlantic misrepresentation…
Those were the days…
Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
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Some of those adverts are hilarious…I know EXACTLY what I’d get if I bought the current Mrs Miles a Hoover for Christmas - or at anytime actually 😮🤣
Even I am too young to have listened to the Goon Show when first broadcast, but I have listened to them all later in life and very funny it is too. Certainly subversive for its time, it must have inspired the Monty Python team.
Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
Sir MilesThe Wrong Side Of The WardrobePosts: 31,053Chief of Staff
Well if you are too young then I’ve no blinking chance 😏😮🤣
But, very much like yourself, I’ve listened to all the surviving broadcasts - they were all on the BBC Sounds app, not sure if they still are…I also had several of their records too 😁
I was just using The Goon Show as a famous example of humour back in the 1950s, there were plenty more. Today we remember the big hits, eg Hancock (which of course co-starred Sid James), and there were many which have not lasted in memory, remakes and sequels, or books. My point (hardly an original one) being that popular humour has changed over the years.
They had one of those Confessions knock offs, Adventures of a Private Eye on Talking Pictures TV the other week. There was some enjoyment of a kind to see TV talents given the chance to earn a bit of cash elsewhere - Harry H Corbett for instance, as a moustached gentleman of the manor, and Anna Quayle (the one who buttonholes Lennon in A Hard Day's Night and is in the occasional Avengers episode), Jon Pertwee and Ian Lavender... poor stuff really but made weird by it being followed by the 1980s drama Scandal with John Hurt and Joanna Walley as Christine Keeler, it seemed to be part of one continuous strand when the latter is meant to be high brow stuff.. It's true as Barbel says that just as humour can evolve, the unfunny stuff you can see in a new, curious light decades on.
A brother had the magic robot and my mum had those thread reels.
I abashedly own up to wearing the platform heels at that time. Everybody did! At 6 foot I felt like the Frankenstein Monster and was always scared I'd fall and break an ankle.
And I could do a very convincing imitation of the trimphone sound...
Yes absolutely, I used a cassette recorder like that to record the chart rundown. 😀
Hai Karate = Valerie Leon
🥰 be still, my beating heart.
Miss Leon gave Roger Moore a message in TSWLM and caught Sean Connery while fishing in NSNA. She was in CR67, too. Now that must be some sort of record!
Sir MilesThe Wrong Side Of The WardrobePosts: 31,053Chief of Staff
A couple of things I’m with you on…
I can’t stand liquorice either 😝
And I’m with you on the incredibly beautiful Valerie Leon 🥰
Oh…and my dad used to use Old Spice…I can’t smell it without thinking of him 😁
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He did rather well for a South African born hairdresser 😁
Real name was Solomon Cohen…he was great with Tony Hancock in both radio and tv too…I also thought he was great in Bless This House 😁
Sid James pops up in unexpected roles in old Talking Pictures TV movies, I think his first big part was as an American. Appeared briefly in the remake of The 39 Steps with Kenneth More, for instance.
Roger Moore 1927-2017
These advertisements were not considered to be offensive at the time, were they just the attitudes of the day or did people have more of a sense of humour back then?
Unintentionally funny adverts…the second has a transatlantic misrepresentation…
Those were the days…
Some of those adverts are hilarious…I know EXACTLY what I’d get if I bought the current Mrs Miles a Hoover for Christmas - or at anytime actually 😮🤣
I want one these 😁
Attitudes, I think. The sense of humour was very different - I don't think The Goon Show would get more than puzzled looks today.
Beatles cake? Beatles everything then!
Even I am too young to have listened to the Goon Show when first broadcast, but I have listened to them all later in life and very funny it is too. Certainly subversive for its time, it must have inspired the Monty Python team.
Well if you are too young then I’ve no blinking chance 😏😮🤣
But, very much like yourself, I’ve listened to all the surviving broadcasts - they were all on the BBC Sounds app, not sure if they still are…I also had several of their records too 😁
I was just using The Goon Show as a famous example of humour back in the 1950s, there were plenty more. Today we remember the big hits, eg Hancock (which of course co-starred Sid James), and there were many which have not lasted in memory, remakes and sequels, or books. My point (hardly an original one) being that popular humour has changed over the years.
🤣🤣🤣
They had one of those Confessions knock offs, Adventures of a Private Eye on Talking Pictures TV the other week. There was some enjoyment of a kind to see TV talents given the chance to earn a bit of cash elsewhere - Harry H Corbett for instance, as a moustached gentleman of the manor, and Anna Quayle (the one who buttonholes Lennon in A Hard Day's Night and is in the occasional Avengers episode), Jon Pertwee and Ian Lavender... poor stuff really but made weird by it being followed by the 1980s drama Scandal with John Hurt and Joanna Walley as Christine Keeler, it seemed to be part of one continuous strand when the latter is meant to be high brow stuff.. It's true as Barbel says that just as humour can evolve, the unfunny stuff you can see in a new, curious light decades on.
Roger Moore 1927-2017
I didn’t have this but played it at a friends house…
My mum used to a lot of knitting and sewing and I remember dozens of these reels in a box…
Yep, I used to wear something similar to these in the mid 70s ☺️
I think these were called trimphones, I had one in my first flat…
A brother had the magic robot and my mum had those thread reels.
I abashedly own up to wearing the platform heels at that time. Everybody did! At 6 foot I felt like the Frankenstein Monster and was always scared I'd fall and break an ankle.
And I could do a very convincing imitation of the trimphone sound...
Covers of spy movie themes were popular back in the 60s…
Not all of those type of albums made it to CD, but of the ones that did Roland Shaw is the one to look out for. I suggest this
is the one to go for, and this
is the one to avoid (poorly mastered, some edits).
I had the first album and the first CD, both long gone now.
Splash it all over…
When tennis was interesting…
Did you use something like this to record the chart rundown on the radio?…
Allsorts or Mixtures? I don’t like liquorice so Mixtures for me…
I don’t think I ever had a box of Weekend, they don’t look very appetising…
I don't like liquorice either.
Yes absolutely, I used a cassette recorder like that to record the chart rundown. 😀
Hai Karate = Valerie Leon
🥰 be still, my beating heart.
Miss Leon gave Roger Moore a message in TSWLM and caught Sean Connery while fishing in NSNA. She was in CR67, too. Now that must be some sort of record!
A couple of things I’m with you on…
I can’t stand liquorice either 😝
And I’m with you on the incredibly beautiful Valerie Leon 🥰
Oh…and my dad used to use Old Spice…I can’t smell it without thinking of him 😁