That would have been great, Abbot could have done that. He was offered the part of Barry's neighbour Boothroyd in 'Enter The Finger' (who could have become a recurring character) - but he declined. Basically he wasn't interested unless he got a permanent 'big' role.
The first tv set I remember at home (mid-1960s) had two big knobs at the side just above the speaker grille. You manually tuned the channel to change programmes. '4' on the dial was BBC1, '8' was ITV (Midlands). That was easy to remember, BBC1 has '4' characters, Midlands has '8' characters -...
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