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If that was his pastie van and he is out of supplies he'd be Hank Marvin [rhyming slang for starving for our friends over the pond]

Loads of them totally ignored the collectability aspect for money in later life quite a few came as a gift for getting teeth out no tooth fairy and cash under the pillow for me :)

reverse the last two words divide them with "for" and you have a huge difference . Howard has a new lady friend Camomile , Marina is livid and Pearl is about to blow a gasket. :)

Remember Penny chews well they are now a pound , that said in this shop they were always that!

There are occasions the 18 year old you will still appear but the sixty year old you kicks in pretty quick and slaps the 18 year old down.

Apologies but as we are talking bikes have to post this clip of a chimpanzee on a bike again . It was used on Never Mind The Buzzcocks probably 15 years ago where they alleged that you could play any piece of music with it and it just works but its just funny.

Hobbo and his men are assisting adding that subtle touch that elevates the soup to a new level, he has his Crew T' on it!! :tw::fp:

Just watched another fascinating insight into TV of yesteryear with the School sitcoms programme thank you for posting Leigh and expending a huge effort to research them . I remember Whacko as a child but with corporal punishment still being administered in schools including mine it just seemed...

You'll remember this Rick not the show perhaps but from Red Dwarf when Cat and Lister discuss the show and what happened to Hammy. I have to say it was a much watch for me as a child.

There was one of these polo bikes and its accompanying mallet that was restored on the Repair Shop [Series 14 episode 5] a couple of months back . On the main titles of that series , Tim Gunn, their bicycle guy, features saying he has never seen a wheel rim quite as bent as this one which is...

I am yet again reviving the thread having watched a VE day at 80 special Antiques Roadshow. I would urge anyone to take some time to watch this emotional tribute to those who did and sacrificed so much to help bring the War to an end . It was an emotional rollercoaster of a show which was both...

Just caught controversial 3 another great insight . I am a huge fan of Spike Milligan , he was unique but some of his choices, as you mentioned Curry and Chips and the show you so expertly analysed , do make you wonder if he broke too much ground sometimes . The Q series was extremely...

My local club years ago had a Romany concert chairman and the comic turns took the mick many times mostly involving balloons and pegs along the lines of "Hello !!! Nice to see you have a new suit chairman, that must of cost a few balloons and pegs"

" Where did you get that hat!!" for Nora, "what the Blood and Stomach pills you've finished " for Ivy and " Has anyone seen Howard?" for Pearl.

Just caught up with episode 2 thank you Leigh for all the diligent research and work to present a thought provoking and yet again fascinating insight into these comedies of yesteryear. It's strange that they are no longer seen on terrestrial tv because it would be so interesting to see what...

Granville: IF I'm Hungarian why did me mother call me Granville Arkwright: Well you top half might be Granville but your bottom half looks Hungarian and is probably called Hugo . Shop Bell rings Arkwright: Don't you go Hugo I'll go .

Jellytot Julie: Do you think I have flyaway hair Mr Arkwright Arkwright: Well it's still on your head isn't it.

Were Lister's drink stirred in earlier episodes by an attachment to Kryten's groinal socket? Similar to the hoover when he picks up and spits out a penny. I can't see anyone else, other than Lister, drinking any drinks stirred by that attachment. :)

"Wesley Pegden why have you been moving things again !!!!" " How did you manage to get that in their ??"