My favourite two sketches of Russ Abbot: The one in the Crimean War, where he is the messenger going back and forth between the camps and they keep giving him vodka to keep him warm. By the end of the clip he was so drunk I'm sure he said he got kicked in the Trossachs! 🤣 The second is where he parodied Keith Harris and Orville. Orville started singing, "I wish I could fly way up to the sky but I can't" Russ Abbot's parody replied... "You can!" So he picked Orville up and kicked up in the air 🤣
@@David-sk9vv I remember him as a waiter in the restaurant that supposedly at the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. He was battling to push his trolley up this steep incline, allegedly the restaurant floor. Priceless.
@@David-sk9vv As a child of the 60s, I remember tv from about 1968 onwards and I grew up watching all the really classic actors/actresses and the great comedians. It really WAS the Golden Age. Thank goodness for film and videotape.
@@sratusit’s contextually relevant when the preeminently white middle class intelligentsia in goverment and media purposely shelve Christmas and anything to do with it and yet celebrate every other obscure minority envelope opening . That’s why people are nostalgic about these clips and rightly angry their mainstream culture has been hijacked by self-hating privileged cretins who have no struggle in life apart from their own fictionally contrived issues
@@mrnexus8seven949 Same piece of music, but a different arrangement. I believe it's called 'Chicken Man' by Alan Hawkshaw who also wrote the theme for Countdown.
Not so - they both appeared on the final edition of the original run of Parkinson in April 1982, available in its entirety elsewhere on here, if you fancy it! 😉
I wonder if the production of this Christmas special was delayed due to the infamous ITV strike of 1979, which saw all of ITV (except in the Channel Islands) knocked off air and no new productions made from August 10th until October 24th 1979?
Yeah, I didn't realise it either, although this was early on in GUAC's life and the theme had changed later by the time I started watching it. The original is called Chicken Man by Alan Hawkshaw (I think).
It was until series 4 when it was replaced by a new theme tune that was composed by Denis King although the final edition of Give Us A Clue to use 'Chicken Man' as it's theme tune was broadcast the day that Prince Charles (Now King Charles III) & Lady Diana got married.
Dickie Davies was the host of sports programming on Saturdays on ITV in the 80s. Beryl Reid was a comedy actress, on loads of stuff, Metal Mickey if I remember right. A show about a robot that lived with humans. It looked like an obese c3po.
i noticed when Michael Aspel announced 30 seconds to go at the 1 minute mark. Thought maybe a misread and the timer would still count down to zero. Was surprised to hear the buzzer go off with 30 seconds still to go. The guys may have finally guessed the first word was Sinbad.
Every one of these guests were top of their respective fields. To see them just casually interacting is 100% entertainment to me.
Those were the days - just good fun and no woke messaging or hateful content.
This is what TV use to be like, polite entertainment, a more simple time.
lol! Not all tv was like this, it was an exception.
@@johnmc3862 Most of it was - it wasn't mandatory to have every other word 'f*ck' or softcore porn in dramas after 9pm. It's trash.
@@johnmc3862 Most of it was
Wonderful tv, i remember it all ... when the world was definitely a much better place. Thank you for sharing such treasured stuff!
Spike Milligan was hilarious 😅😅😅
Russ Abbott always made me laugh….my name is Bond….Basildon Bond. If you know, you know!
Yes, he had letters after his name.
My favourite two sketches of Russ Abbot:
The one in the Crimean War, where he is the messenger going back and forth between the camps and they keep giving him vodka to keep him warm. By the end of the clip he was so drunk I'm sure he said he got kicked in the Trossachs! 🤣
The second is where he parodied Keith Harris and Orville. Orville started singing, "I wish I could fly way up to the sky but I can't" Russ Abbot's parody replied... "You can!" So he picked Orville up and kicked up in the air 🤣
@@David-sk9vv I remember him as a waiter in the restaurant that supposedly at the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. He was battling to push his trolley up this steep incline, allegedly the restaurant floor. Priceless.
@@stephenguppy7882 We had the best of tv... didn't we?
@@David-sk9vv As a child of the 60s, I remember tv from about 1968 onwards and I grew up watching all the really classic actors/actresses and the great comedians. It really WAS the Golden Age. Thank goodness for film and videotape.
Love it,gone back to being 8 on Christmas Eve.
Thank you for this. I miss those days, especially Spike.👍
back when christmas tv was fun to watch.
And celebrated by the same vast majority as now but without TV and media being taken over by people who hate any form of tradition.
Can't you just enjoy something without being the 'Back when...' guy Andrew?
@@sratusit’s contextually relevant when the preeminently white middle class intelligentsia in goverment and media purposely shelve Christmas and anything to do with it and yet celebrate every other obscure minority envelope opening . That’s why people are nostalgic about these clips and rightly angry their mainstream culture has been hijacked by self-hating privileged cretins who have no struggle in life apart from their own fictionally contrived issues
This was a joy to watch.✌️❤
Una Stubbs & Paula Wilcox - dream team!
Times were much better then. What a woman Una was.
Una Stubbs was just so elegant
You can always tell a dancer or someone with dance experience by how they move and act. Beautiful.
That's the Grange Hill theme music too
I thought the same..
almost Grange Hill but not the actual theme, very close though! :-)
Yes that’s odd.
@@mrnexus8seven949 Same piece of music, but a different arrangement. I believe it's called 'Chicken Man' by Alan Hawkshaw who also wrote the theme for Countdown.
Yes. Thames TV were made to change it.
Back when tv was fun ❤
that was such fun. I remember watching that back then. All lovely entertainment.
Book… film… and a haircut 😂
This is when Britain was Great!
This must be the only time Spike Milligan and Kenneth Williams appeared together
Not so - they both appeared on the final edition of the original run of Parkinson in April 1982, available in its entirety elsewhere on here, if you fancy it! 😉
Great channel so glad I found you. ❤❤👌
Was in my O’Levels. Better British days!
Christ, you must have a selective memory if you think it was a better time back then.
I wonder if the production of this Christmas special was delayed due to the infamous ITV strike of 1979, which saw all of ITV (except in the Channel Islands) knocked off air and no new productions made from August 10th until October 24th 1979?
Miss Una Stubbs. RIP
Russ Abbot thought it was Comedy sketch show. 😂😂😂
Russ Abbot with hair!🤣
Give us a clue had the same theme tune as Grange Hill? Did not know this.
Yeah, I didn't realise it either, although this was early on in GUAC's life and the theme had changed later by the time I started watching it. The original is called Chicken Man by Alan Hawkshaw (I think).
All legends loved give us a clue.
So two year’s later Una got Cinderella Rockefeller to do, but her team didn’t guess it. She did a very similar mime.
Beryl Reid was always on it. I loved Mooncat.
A fine women’s team!
Lionel Blair was probably the nicest chaps that ever lived.
You saw him for half an hour a week on a television show and you think he is the nicest man that ever lived!! Hahaha
He was so cool.
@@katonesswho hurt you
@@Rocketmanhashtag9208 No one, I'm just not deluded!!
I thought that was the Grange Hill theme tune
Top birds as usual 👍🏻
I don't remember Give Us a Clue and Grange Hill having the same theme tune.
is this theme music normally the same as Grange Hill'?
It was until series 4 when it was replaced by a new theme tune that was composed by Denis King although the final edition of Give Us A Clue to use 'Chicken Man' as it's theme tune was broadcast the day that Prince Charles (Now King Charles III) & Lady Diana got married.
Funny how they had 1½ minutes but no-one was able to change the clock.
Why is the intro music the same as Grange Hill?
Ooh stop messing about. ❗️Are you looking for a smack up the bracket mush ?
Russ abbott looks like nicholas lyndhurst.
Kenneth Williams is so competitive.
But not too good.
The book Lord of the Rings was called The Lord of the Rings, itself a collection of three separate books. The men were robbed by shoddy research
Lol! 😂😂😂
Very funny
More entertaining then anything on TV at present.
Why is the theme tune from grange hill? Lol
Why does it have the grange Hill theme tune?
When Tv was good
The tune is Grange Hill
Which came later.......
Hang on, get your own theme tune
It’s a piece of library music from KPM. Just a tune picked off the shelf and not specifically commissioned. I used to use it in adverts.
Why does this have the same theme tune as Grange Hill?
The other way round it had the theme 1st.
Edited Grange Hill music FTW!
Grange Hill Theme tune?
yes, shared with this show.
Surprised that Kenneth went on there as he and Michael Aspel genuinely disliked each other
They parked it for the show.
Gabrielle Designs Paddington Bear plush @ 24:15.
Where is Beryl Reid? or Dickie Davies!
Why don't you watch it?
@@rhessex sta zitto
She's got Dickie Davies eyes 🤣🤣🤣
Worm food long ago. Maybe not the latter.
Dickie Davies was the host of sports programming on Saturdays on ITV in the 80s. Beryl Reid was a comedy actress, on loads of stuff, Metal Mickey if I remember right. A show about a robot that lived with humans. It looked like an obese c3po.
'One-and-a-half-minutes'? The timer shows 2 minutes ..... probably the BBC cuts kicking in again.
Was on ITV not the BBC ....
i noticed when Michael Aspel announced 30 seconds to go at the 1 minute mark. Thought maybe a misread and the timer would still count down to zero. Was surprised to hear the buzzer go off with 30 seconds still to go. The guys may have finally guessed the first word was Sinbad.
Lovely accents. Not like today.
Spike was never funny
And you are wrong.
Milligan arse as usual.