English Heritage

[wibblywobbly]

In case anyone outside the UK ever wondered why the British may seem a little odd, this archive footage may shed some light on the subject...

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The man doing the interviewing is Professor Stanley Unwin, and the man being interviewed is the voice of Bill and Ben the Flowerpot men.

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So now you know!!

[jarndice]

Another beauty that has me squirming let alone himself was Prince Charles in his younger days trying and failing to copy the voices of the "GOON" show characters,
Fine in private but for a future King perhaps he should have been advised not to do it in public.
Shaun.

[wibblywobbly]

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[jarndice]

BRILLIANT
Shaun.

[43rdRecceReg]

Anybody remember these? A few of my former colleagues almost fitted the description:

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Then this piece of weirdness. This kid is battery powered and has a lamp in the head. He was Torchy, the Battery Boy. I'm from these islands, but even I found this odd when I was a kid:

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As for eccentricity, or quirkiness, not much tops 'The Clangers', 'The Magic Roundabout', and much later Patrick McGoohan's 'The Prisoner'....

[43rdRecceReg]

LOL, I was watching videos like them last night Mr 43rd.

I did a watch with mother search.

And that was the exact same wooded tops I watched lol.

..and I have Torchy and 'Watch with Mother' on DVD, along with boxsets of Richard Greene's Robin Hood and many more discs packed with meaningless nostalgia. How odd is that for an educated senior citizen? Not very, I suspect.
After the age of 50, many conversational gambits seem to begin with '"Now..when I was a boy.." (Or girl, of course..delete as appropriate.) . and we spend more time looking at the past than the future. After a certain point, the future looks somewhat limited or circumscribed, and so the past is a far safer and more comforting place to visit.

[silversurfer1947]

I remember Michael Bentine before It's a Square World when he worked with the Bumblies. The was Bumbly One, Bumbly Two and Bumbly number Three.

[wibblywobbly]

I used to like Muffin The Mule, but I got arrested three times so had to stop.

I remember Michael Bentine, especially his weekly Mad Professor sketch.
Used to like the Andy Williams show as well, but I only sat there waiting for the bear trying to get a cookie out of him.

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