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Decent game shows do seem to succeed with new hosts. Family Fortunes, Blankety Blank and The Generation survived well. Having said that, I don't recognise many of the celebrities on Bradley Walsh's Blankety Blank. And the most recent revival of The Generation Game was awful with those two...

Did you see the Bullseye reboot with Dave Spikey? Quite a good attempt, I thought. Paddy McGuiness is a good choice.

Technically, there IS a thirteenth episode of Fawlty Towers. It is the very first episode of the first series of Not the Nine O'Clock News, broadcast in 1979. Be sure to watch it from start to finish.

Perhaps Joan Hickson in the Blamire role. And maybe Megs Jenkins for the Clegg role.

!971. !972 actually. I'm thinking Patricia Hayes in the Compo role. Then again, perhaps Hylda Baker.

In my own senile opinion, the show never needed additional characters to keep things fresh, and the ratings were always generally good - though I suppose the additional cast proved invaluable when the main three were either too old or absent to carry on the demanding work schedule.

I'm sure whatever decision is made will be the right one, and either way, our opinions and ideas and thoughts on the other shows will be displayed whatever happens. Would certainly like to hear the thoughts of other members very soon. This highly valued forum is, for me, absolutely spot on at...

I think it was partly to fill the void left by Sid, and partly because the characters were successful in the play. When you think about it, they could have adapted the Marina character into Lynda Baron's Lily Bless Her - just for tv continuity - but perhaps that wouldn't have worked. Around...

Personally, I think the forum covers those shows quite well at the moment - and since those other shows consist of fewer episodes, and in some cases, never get shown on TV anymore, and some aren't even appreciated by all (such as SOAH) - it would need careful consideration. At the moment we...

Carnation milk on kippers. Now you're talking.

You're not missing anything.

Marmite - it's a disgusting spread some folk seem to think is a good idea to put on their bread. Quite simply - you either love it of hate it.

We used to have those big tins every Christmas, in the early 1980s. They really were filled to top with chocolates, none of this half-filled nonsense we see everywhere now. I seem to recall those tins were incredibly expensive back in the early 1980s - something like £5 then - which is about...

It was written as a novel from nearly 10 years before, with Blamire instead of Foggy. The book was written with very earthy dialogue and conversation, and despite that, the film is considerably cleaner than the book. For some reason, the book used different 'language' to even the gritty Series...

Series Three also had other recurring characters - Big Malcolm was in two episodes. The Man from Oswestry wasn't going be part of Series Three - it was hastily written when Michael Bates decided he wasn't well enough to appear in that series to introduce Foggy. So, this probably gave Big...

I think the show first got 'physical' as early as Series Two, with the Blamire episode Ballad for Wind Instruments and Canoe.

The Mysterious Feet of Nora Batty?

I hope I have the correct episodes. Barry's Christmas and A Leg Up for Christmas - with the hearse theme.

Isometrics and After?

Foggy?