Famous Names Dropped in the Show

[Inky Batty]

Wigglesworth discovered America & Marco Polo discovered custard - My history teacher omitted to tell me that !!!!

History is written by the winners mate!!!

 

[Roger]

Barbara Cartland was mentioned in several episodes.

 

[Roger]

Compo said "listen Barry Sheene" to Foggy in Enter The Phantom.

 

[Inky Batty]

Ivy accuses Sid of reading Harold Robbins in Serenade for Tight Jeans

 

[Inky Batty]

Captain Mark Phillips in The Odd Dog Men

 

[Inky Batty]

Cleggy mentions Stalin in The Loxley Lozenge.
"Eh up Comrade, we're being invaded.....by the Isle of Man"

 

[Inky Batty]

Compo mentions Henry Cotton in the clubhouse in Thew Kink in Foggy's Niblick
Clegg mentions Gary Player in the same episode

 

[Inky Batty]

Maurice Chevalier in a few episodes and one named after him

 

[gothic]

Cleggy says Foggy has that "Clive of India" look in Walking Stiff will make you famous

 

[Inky Batty]

Albert Einstein and his Theory of Relativity was mentioned in Cheering up Ludovic

 

[maltrab]

Here is a admission, what started me thinking about this thread was a totally different episode, but I could not remember it 5 minutes later, so with the power of the telephone and chatting to Tony, he jogged my memory

It was Sylvester Stallone in Passing the Earring when Howard said to Pearl that Sylvester wore one

 

[Roger]

In Wind Power, Edie says Seymour was once nearly presented to Princess Michael of Kent.

 

[imitation700mb]

Don't forget the Three Astaires! (As in Fred!)

 

[maltrab]

Oh Liberace in A Dewhirst up a Fir Tree

 

[Inky Batty]

Entwistle says about Boothroyd "Thinks he's Bruce Lee, or could be Peggy Lee" as he's practicising martial arts in Enter the Finger

 

[Inky Batty]

Adam and the Ants, as mentioned by Clegg in the barn in The Waist Land

 

[dick]

Do The Terriers ( Huddersfield Town ) count?Compo wore their kit and shirt. Specially when he got his rattle out !
Arts of Concealment

 

[maltrab]

Pearl referred to Howard as being Houdini in Enter the Hawk

 

[maltrab]

Also Foggy mentioned John Wayne in The Man from Oswestry

 

[Barrychuckle]

In Going To Gordons Wedding, Clegg says Compo reminds him of George Raft. I had to Google him but apparently he's an American Actor from yesteryear!