Writing in to call Gyles Brandreth a ‘television idiot’ is delicious. Anyone can do that on Twitter these days but both using the postal system & then waiting to see if they’ll read it out is worthy of fulsome praise.
Second only to Corrine Russell on the cover of the Vixen game. That was a much stealthier shuffle than trying to smuggle an entire jazz mag inside a copy of Your Sinclair. Came in very "handy".
I remember a Christmas where my dad had come to visit our newly one-parented family. My mother came home after a walk with her friend and saw him and ran out of the house in hysterics. We didn’t see her for hours. My dad slinked away and never set foot in the house again, although he did successfully claim his share of equity from it a little later, making us all that little bit more impoverished. That was a Child’s Christmas in Wales in 1982.
What happened? I’ve got to say, the 1980s were very grim - particularly if you were affected by the mines being closed. On the other hand, they were great for films, computer games, and being out the house for the whole of the summer holidays. But always backed by a somber mood of grimness.
the fact, that after binge watching so many of your video essays over the last day, i got to the end and was fully invested in seeing little and large come up at Wolverhampton, assuming it was a troll to get viewers to stick to the end. Imagine my suprise when they indeed appear. Genious mate, have laughed so much today. You are the less gittish, and a lot funnier version of Charlie Brooker! Fist of fun is definetly worth a look at. I was one of those kids in the 80's and 90's that amassed hundreds of self recorded tapes of mostly comedy, occasionally eurotrash and no doubt hundreds of adverts! keep at it! so funny
25:22 Nice subtle Brasseye reference, there. Not a single one of those pantos listed at the end were staged in Wales... Not sure if I should feel disappointed or grateful.
I was born and raised in the UK but now live in British Columbia with no one to reminisce with about how gloriously bizarre British TV was! Trying to explain noels house party to my Canadian wife was made a lot easier with your videos - Thank you!
9:14 I love how proud he seems to be taking down a child with a simplistic and well rehearsed argument. And he just has to point out that not all humans are free either as if to stamp on his head whilst he’s already on the floor. If that was today, the kid would probably have seen it coming and said he was a vegan when asked that question. Would love to have seen what he had up his sleeve for that answer. The kid should have said so because soldiers get paid to kill people does that mean it’s ok to go around murdering people. I mean, I don’t have a personal opinion about zoos & eating meat. But if he wants to play that game… 12:22 this just needed “and was eaten by sharks” on the end.
Just watching the end of this clip I spotted that Derek Griffiths was in Aladdin at The Beck Theatre Hayes that year…..I remember this vividly as I was there with my mum and dad. My dad went to get ice cream in the interval and was late back to his seat….Derek called him out saying he was fat and greedy. Never forgave him. Sod Look and Read and ‘magic magic E’ after that day😡😁
My cousin worked in a hotel as a cleaner, she knocked on Paul Daniels’s door and he was stood naked asking her if she wanted to earn some extra money… she walked away.
i get the feeling russ abbot went into business for himself with the 'cloak cloak' joke. just no-selling whatever 'shark infested custard' shite was actually in the cracker with a gag he had knocking round his noggin
Lovely video. Quick question, the clip of Mike Reid and Russ Abbott, what episode/year was it from? They mention the Winkie badge, something we've been looking into and I'm trying to see if the Winkie badge is featured elsewhere in that episode. Thank you.
It was December 21st 1985, and as far as I noticed, that's the only mention, though the footage right after Read mentions it, under the narration "those QAnon people were right all along" appears to show one.
@@StuartMillard wonderful. Thank you. It's just odd because that badge, as far as I'm aware, was never sold in the UK. I've been trying to find out more about the badge to follow up a documentary I'd already made about it a year ago. So every time I see it mentioned somewhere, I need to know more. It's becoming a problem 😂 thanks for the video again.
Loved this one 👍🏻 you really know how to cheer someone up lol I’m so embarrassed but I don’t care I love it all. Russ abbot singing lol also Dustin gee doing his dying act lmao keep them coming.
I think I now have a date for when life started to go wrong... I wonder what I was getting excited about during Christmas '85? I wish I could remember exactly what I got for each Christmas, rather than just a vague notion and a rough year. Sarah looks like she's just come from shooting the cover of the Christmas issue of Razzle...
Jeez, when you said Mini Minstrels, I feared the worst. And it's Wimbledon for me, I mean the then current Doctor Who Peter Davison, his then Wife Sandra Dickenson and Lena Zavaroni. Where's the nearest time toilet!!
Russ Abbott was one of those entertainers who was good when he was with a group of others, but on his own exposed his lack of charisma quite well. And, then destroys what credibility he had left by producing an album of disco songs that only your dad would dance to.
Not if you're a, 'dancing dad', at a family occasion such as a wedding reception or birthday party disco. Get your comfy cardigan and plaid slippers on and get down to the, 'funky beats', of Russ Abbott!
M8ke reads Christmas is just a rip of the beatles .it's all too much 😂 he really tried any chance he could to song thought he was some sort of rock dude I seem to remember
Loving your work .... but your 'and whatabout them Tories and them Brexiteers' gets a bit corny after a while ... i prefer when you just make Crowley jokes about cups O'Spunk
Chegwin: "A very warm welcome back..." Warm? Oldham at Christmas? Strange choice for an OB. Anyone who knows Oldham knows it's on the side of the Pennines facing the full force of westerly winds and rain. The first rule of Christmas in Oldham is, "Don't go out."
Writing in to call Gyles Brandreth a ‘television idiot’ is delicious. Anyone can do that on Twitter these days but both using the postal system & then waiting to see if they’ll read it out is worthy of fulsome praise.
The page 3 girl on Barbarian is Maria Whittaker. Oh the memories of that cassette cover 😂
She helped me through many teenage years!!
Second only to Corrine Russell on the cover of the Vixen game. That was a much stealthier shuffle than trying to smuggle an entire jazz mag inside a copy of Your Sinclair. Came in very "handy".
@ oh Corrine….. ❤️
I remember a Christmas where my dad had come to visit our newly one-parented family. My mother came home after a walk with her friend and saw him and ran out of the house in hysterics. We didn’t see her for hours. My dad slinked away and never set foot in the house again, although he did successfully claim his share of equity from it a little later, making us all that little bit more impoverished. That was a Child’s Christmas in Wales in 1982.
Why was she in hysterics? Was he violent?
Ah fun childhood memories.
What happened?
I’ve got to say, the 1980s were very grim - particularly if you were affected by the mines being closed.
On the other hand, they were great for films, computer games, and being out the house for the whole of the summer holidays.
But always backed by a somber mood of grimness.
the fact, that after binge watching so many of your video essays over the last day, i got to the end and was fully invested in seeing little and large come up at Wolverhampton, assuming it was a troll to get viewers to stick to the end. Imagine my suprise when they indeed appear. Genious mate, have laughed so much today. You are the less gittish, and a lot funnier version of Charlie Brooker! Fist of fun is definetly worth a look at. I was one of those kids in the 80's and 90's that amassed hundreds of self recorded tapes of mostly comedy, occasionally eurotrash and no doubt hundreds of adverts! keep at it! so funny
25:22 Nice subtle Brasseye reference, there.
Not a single one of those pantos listed at the end were staged in Wales... Not sure if I should feel disappointed or grateful.
“You’re through to the world’s greatest magician.”
“Oh, I wanted to speak to Paul…”
Russ Abbott might lack taste in a lot of what he does, but Maxell brand Videotape? That's class that is.
I was born and raised in the UK but now live in British Columbia with no one to reminisce with about how gloriously bizarre British TV was! Trying to explain noels house party to my Canadian wife was made a lot easier with your videos - Thank you!
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Forgot how hot Sarah was. 😮❤
9:14 I love how proud he seems to be taking down a child with a simplistic and well rehearsed argument. And he just has to point out that not all humans are free either as if to stamp on his head whilst he’s already on the floor.
If that was today, the kid would probably have seen it coming and said he was a vegan when asked that question. Would love to have seen what he had up his sleeve for that answer.
The kid should have said so because soldiers get paid to kill people does that mean it’s ok to go around murdering people. I mean, I don’t have a personal opinion about zoos & eating meat. But if he wants to play that game…
12:22 this just needed “and was eaten by sharks” on the end.
Impeccably curated as always!
Jesus, Sarah Greene was gorgeous.
She really is. I didn't really see it as a kid, as she always struck me as a bit mumsy. She's aged pretty well, too.
@@FranzSanchez-ky9up She was there for the dads, on Saturday morning shows.
Thank you so much for all the content you have posted - Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
My pleasure, Ray. Thanks for the support, and Merry Christmas!
I would have been a babe in arms when this aired - a startling insight into the world I was born into, thanks
16:26 miming that line on a 12-string acoustic, lovely
two blue tulip rose read references in as many videos, that's the festive content i'm looking for from this channel 👌
Tremendous as always. We were easily pleased as kids weren't we?
Just watching the end of this clip I spotted that Derek Griffiths was in Aladdin at The Beck Theatre Hayes that year…..I remember this vividly as I was there with my mum and dad. My dad went to get ice cream in the interval and was late back to his seat….Derek called him out saying he was fat and greedy. Never forgave him. Sod Look and Read and ‘magic magic E’ after that day😡😁
love all of your vids! cant wait for the next one! would like to see a full vid on Noels House Party!
My cousin worked in a hotel as a cleaner, she knocked on Paul Daniels’s door and he was stood naked asking her if she wanted to earn some extra money… she walked away.
Now that's Tragic!
He just wanted her to hoover his wig.
Did he add ‘you’ll like this….not a lot but you’ll like it!’
@@stephenhough4957 I asked her. Didn’t go down well 😂
well 1 minute in, and you've got me crying.. you monster.
15:35 - the silly sound was probably Cheggars chugging back the Night Nurse
The noise Keith makes reminds me of the sound I make in my sleep when I suddenly start breathing again.
Biggins again, the guy's a fookin legend
Every time you say chegwin my mind screams "naked jungle" and i die a little more inside
"Occult warlock Paul Daniels is in..." 😂
This whole channel is basically what's inside my head!
Sarah Greene in that outfit 🤤😍
5:48 and the "Glam Rock Fred West" line from the previous Saturday Superstore video, I'm noticing a theme with these Superstore videos.
Russ Abbots music brings to mind a Disco infused Talking Heads. Well, a crap one anyway.
Do you recall the 2nd wave Thunderbirds/Stingray Mania in the early 90s?
why is paul daniels abruptly giving gun safety advice so funny
12:00 ‘The Incredible Sulk’, surely? Fuck sake….😂
Aw, I loved Christmas issues of Crash. Memories…
i get the feeling russ abbot went into business for himself with the 'cloak cloak' joke. just no-selling whatever 'shark infested custard' shite was actually in the cracker with a gag he had knocking round his noggin
Lovely video. Quick question, the clip of Mike Reid and Russ Abbott, what episode/year was it from? They mention the Winkie badge, something we've been looking into and I'm trying to see if the Winkie badge is featured elsewhere in that episode. Thank you.
It was December 21st 1985, and as far as I noticed, that's the only mention, though the footage right after Read mentions it, under the narration "those QAnon people were right all along" appears to show one.
@@StuartMillard wonderful. Thank you. It's just odd because that badge, as far as I'm aware, was never sold in the UK. I've been trying to find out more about the badge to follow up a documentary I'd already made about it a year ago. So every time I see it mentioned somewhere, I need to know more. It's becoming a problem 😂 thanks for the video again.
The rampant hunger for Winkie lore is a virtuous endeavour Mr Gammon. Godspeed, a year on.
@@cheapshowhalfway through watching Thai again and heard the winkie reference and was looking to see if anyone mentioned cheapshow!!
I have about ten beatable max video tape from the.v in the 80s I will need to find out how to get them converted and see what's on them
Cheggers probably wanted to be in the delivery van so he could rifle people's bins for slugs of gin
To be fair he did pull Maggie
Loved this one 👍🏻 you really know how to cheer someone up lol I’m so embarrassed but I don’t care I love it all. Russ abbot singing lol also Dustin gee doing his dying act lmao keep them coming.
I think I now have a date for when life started to go wrong...
I wonder what I was getting excited about during Christmas '85? I wish I could remember exactly what I got for each Christmas, rather than just a vague notion and a rough year.
Sarah looks like she's just come from shooting the cover of the Christmas issue of Razzle...
25:55 Yay! Southport Theatre!
I recall Mike Read’s Betjaman musical lasted one night. As for UKIP Calypso….. 😔 The Horror.
I see that at 19:10 Cheqwin is on the piste again.
Well, Cheggers can't be boozers
What were the music videos they reviewed?
Where Daniels is angry about "it being set in a church" is Aha's "Sun Always Shines On TV".
Great video thanks! At 24:15 is that their version of the Squid Game Red Light Green Light game?
John Peel on Top Of The Pops : "Russ Abbott with a cover of Joy Division's 'Atmosphere' "
Stu Francis at Leeds *and* Reading? Is that how they got the idea for the festival?
Remember, if you see two Stu Francis's at Christmas, it doesn't mean he isn't real, just that he's so busy he has to have helpers who dress like him.
Rare sighting of Winkie. Makes me realise Cheapshow didnt make them up and has been gaslighting us all these years.
Best TV ever . Never get away with it these days. We had it good back then
Jeez, when you said Mini Minstrels, I feared the worst. And it's Wimbledon for me, I mean the then current Doctor Who Peter Davison, his then Wife Sandra Dickenson and Lena Zavaroni. Where's the nearest time toilet!!
Dustin Gee was the first celebrity death I remember. I was really bemused that he wouldn't be on tv anymore.
Who was Paul Daniels talking about on the song review bit?
Russ Abbott was one of those entertainers who was good when he was with a group of others, but on his own exposed his lack of charisma quite well. And, then destroys what credibility he had left by producing an album of disco songs that only your dad would dance to.
Russ Abbot reading out a child’s full address 😂🤦♀️
Thanks Stuart, another great video. Where do you get the old footage of Saturday Superstore episodes from? Would love to watch them. Cheers
If you search on here, there's a few clips, plus a couple of episodes I haven't covered. It's all just stuff I've found on TH-cam.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Another gem 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
5:20
And this was Paul Daniels pre brain tumour.
He was livelier after.
Just like a bout of indigestion hilarious
The black girl in the tutu wow just wow.....................👻👻👻
Bloody hell.... Our TV heroes were just deeply bitter, out of touch middle aged men, Russ's "schtick" would have looked dated in a 1933 holiday camp
I wish you’d watch all the episodes of Surprise Surprise and make a list of the worst people.
Russ Abbott is at least 5 years behind the curve. Disco music went out of fashion by 1980.
Not if you're a, 'dancing dad', at a family occasion such as a wedding reception or birthday party disco. Get your comfy cardigan and plaid slippers on and get down to the, 'funky beats', of Russ Abbott!
Nah, 79 was peak disco in the clubs although it died away in the early 80s.
His song "Atmosphere" peaked at number 7 in the UK charts back in 1984.
M8ke reads Christmas is just a rip of the beatles .it's all too much 😂 he really tried any chance he could to song thought he was some sort of rock dude I seem to remember
14:35 RUSS ABBOT ITALO DISCO
yay, Mark Curry and John Noakes in a racist panto!
Not sure my hometown was a great place to visit in the dead of winter.
Who told Russ to start singing songs? Cruel joke.
"If this was really.happening what would you think?..."
Chris Morris, Brass eye...
Do i win 10£?
you win an arsecandle
@@multirevelatorPottymouth!!..
your Mind is as bent as a bad hedge....
Youll never find a good wife with language like that
Okay.. Im back 4:00, mike really exploded over her chest there.
Loving your work .... but your 'and whatabout them Tories and them Brexiteers' gets a bit corny after a while ... i prefer when you just make Crowley jokes about cups O'Spunk
Chegwin: "A very warm welcome back..." Warm? Oldham at Christmas? Strange choice for an OB. Anyone who knows Oldham knows it's on the side of the Pennines facing the full force of westerly winds and rain. The first rule of Christmas in Oldham is, "Don't go out."
Stu Francis was in panto in Leeds and Reading!
You could read out people's addresses because people weren't effing insane then.
Apart from paedophile and child murderer Sidney Cooke.