Michael Fish took all the blame and quite rightly so but I believe Bill Giles had stated " It might be a bit breezy in the channel" I am sure he was then renamed Bill Gales after that and it has stuck since then . :)
I was working in a vacant office south of Heathrow, not aware there was a storm brewing, my office called me to say pack up and head home around 4pm, which was unheard of, so I thought great even that time of night around the M25 and up...
Episode Edie and the Automobile was on the other day where Barry having sat in the car with Edie driving is so shocked he calls Glenda by the name Brenda. The thing I noticed about the episode was how young Barry but particularly Brenda...
They have been repeating the show since about 1990, as new episodes were released on BBC, UK Gold etc would start showing them a couple of years later, so for the first couple of years all we got was series 1-4 on constant repeat...
I agree 100% with Flatcap 50..... out of our intrepid "formula 1 wannabee's" mouth comes the immortal words......"I'M GOIN' RACING.....A MAN HAS TO DO WHAT A MAN HAS TO DO !!!!!!!".........following by a look of absolute distain by...
I think he was brilliant. He (John) got his character so spot on. The nuances perfected. Absolutely top tier actor. Strangely I was watching him the other day in Serenade For.... episode and realised how excellent he was. Truly missed.
I was an honest[ish] plunderer of treasure , scourge of the Spanish Main and Batley City Centre but that scoundrel Commander Willoughby was a total cad and bounder and deserved everything he got . Surreptitiously flogging copies of a...
My wife and I were running down actors and actresses during the LOTSW series and sometimes we were left scratching our heads. It seems hard to believe that in "Who's That Merry Man with Billy, Then?" from 2006 the actress playing D.W...
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