..........Today reminded me of that BBC programme with the British troops sweating it out in the jungles of the Far East, with that excellent actor Windsor Davies as the Sergeant Major.
Any of of you remember it?
A programme of its time, with blacked up actors, silly accents and jokes about "poofters". Consign it to history. Don Estelle did have a lovely voice, though.
A programme of its time, with blacked up actors, silly accents and jokes about "poofters". Consign it to history. Don Estelle did have a lovely voice, though.
I remember the two officers in a conversation about where the Americans got the idea that all British army officers were effete, limp-wristed twits, and confirming the stereotype as they pondered.
What a voice, if I could ask to have the ability to do anything, surely singing like that would be one of them (I would also like to be able to shag like a stud) but both are unfortunately beyond me
What a voice, if I could ask to have the ability to do anything, surely singing like that would be one of them (I would also like to be able to shag like a stud) but both are unfortunately beyond me
About a few months before he died I saw Don busking in the Priors Shopping Centre in Leamington Spa. He had a backing track machine and a microphone, a few cds for sale and a hat on the ground for tips
It was very sad to see.
Obviously no residual fees for rebroadcasts of the TV series.
Father was Harry Bates, mother was Sarah Clarke. Children were Rupert, Camila and Jolyon. Just happened to be born in India. That makes him as Indian as Colin Cowdrey.
I admit I liked it at the time, as I did Benny Hill and On the Buses (somehow). Rather cringey and embarrassing now.
I was in my teens in the 1970's - I wonder why tv programmes were so out of step with what came before and after? News and entertainment seemed respectful in the 50's and a little less so in the 60's. I think 'alternative comedy' in the 80's saw the end of the type of approach from the previous decade. A strange time in history.
Father was Harry Bates, mother was Sarah Clarke. Children were Rupert, Camila and Jolyon. Just happened to be born in India. That makes him as Indian as Colin Cowdrey.
I admit I liked it at the time, as I did Benny Hill and On the Buses (somehow). Rather cringey and embarrassing now.
Hot it may be but our lot have a pre season friendly at Southport this afternoon which I can sit and watch on the club's you tube channel, so at last something football wise to look forward to.