Famous Names Dropped in the Show

[Inky Batty]

Cliff Richard.
Mrs Goatee Helliwell mentioned that Nora has a photo of Cliff in The Only Diesel Saxophone in captivity.

 

[Roger]

Cliff Richard.
Mrs Goatee Helliwell mentioned that Nora has a photo of Cliff in The Only Diesel Saxophone in captivity.

I've already said that.

 

[Inky Batty]

Beethoven.
He wasn't a Yorkshireman but he were a good Goalkeeper according to Compo in Getting on Sidney's Wire

 

[onyx(John)]

Cecil Beaton, famous photographer mentioned in Hail Smiling Morn or Thereabouts

 

[theatrically_inclined]

Inky Batty said:
Cliff Richard.
Mrs Goatee Helliwell mentioned that Nora has a photo of Cliff in The Only Diesel Saxophone in captivity.

I've already said that.

There's an echo in here!

Webster Booth and Anne Ziegler ...

and... (drum roll)

Nigel Hinchcliffe in series 6 “Serenade for Tight Jeans and Metal Detector”

 

[Barrychuckle]

Her Majesty The Queen was mentioned in The Odd Dog Men with Foggy suggesting he could walk the royal corgis

 

[Roger]

Joan Crawford was mentioned in The Charity Balls and several other episodes.

 

[dick]

King Farouk...ruler of Egypt !!....the girl who used to sit on Compo,and they used to roll her down the hill looked like King Farouk.....Compo said she fancied his mate...I can't remember her name...but I know a certain gentleman/gentlemen who will !!!!!.
X!

He was also mentioned in another episode by Foggy saying "as soon as King Farouk coughs up from the royal treasury"( I think it was when they had a race to see who was fittest ISOMETRICS??)

 

[Inky Batty]

Dorothy Lamour, who according to Foggy would rather devote her life to making Raffia baskets than take up with Compo, in a Merry Heatwave

 

[Inky Batty]

Margaret Thatcher in Jubilee, where Compo asserts that no part of his anatomy belongs to her.

 

[Barrychuckle]

There's a yesteryear famous actor who played Robin Hood referenced in How Errol Flynn Discovered The Secret Scar of Nora Batty but I cannot for the life of me remember his name

 

[Roger]

Foggy said he was looking forward to seeing Max Jaffa in The Great Boarding House Bathroom Caper.

 

[captain clutterbuck]

Frank Ifield mentioned by Clegg in Who's That Dancing With Nora Batty?

Your Memory is just astounding Roger keep saying you'd be a shoe in for Mastermind if you ever decide to enter . You remember him , with your superb knowledge, the members and certainly I remember you [The sentiments are genuine the pun is just one of my worst ever , apologies]

 

[Inky Batty]

Adolf Hitler, who, according to Clegg in The Loxley Lozenge, was an Ovaltiney.

 

[Inky Batty]

Walter Pidgeon.
Mavis Duffield (nee Hinchcliffe from Alderson Street) thought the streets of America were lined with him.

 

[Roger]

Princess Margaret was mentioned by Compo and Clegg in Hail Smiling Morn Or Thereabouts. They said she would never get on with Blamire's landlady.

 

[Inky Batty]

Marilyn Monroe.
A lot of things happened to her that were unlikely to happen to Nora Batty, in The Woollenmills of your mind

 

[onyx(John)]

Wallace Beery was mentioned by Clegg. Can't recall the episode.

 

[Inky Batty]

Wallace Beery was mentioned by Clegg. Can't recall the episode.

Short Back and Palais glide

 

[Barrychuckle]

Malcolm Sargent was also mentioned by Foggy, he says to Compo 'Thank you Malcolm Sargent' as usual this simpleton can't remember which episode it was tho!