@@hippybuddhist an old joke but knowing Roy’s personality he was always one to keep ‘em laughing 😂 He was also a deeply religious man & he was at peace with himself and his Maker
I'm so addicted to these vids, they're hilarious, being a 47yo they hit the sweetspot for me. I was sat in the bath the other day with my mobile carefully ballanced at the tap-end of the bath and watched four of them in a row. The only reason I stopped at four was because the water went cold 😅👍
Roy Castle firmly belongs in the “Mad Friendly Uncle” category of kids presenter, alongside Johnny Ball and Fred Dineage. It’s genuinely sad that we just don’t have that type of presenter anymore.
My Uncle was a mime artist. He use to pretend to play the trumpet as part of his mime. He died of Gesticular cancer in the 90's. We still have his imaginary trumpet up on the wall in Nans living room. RiP uncle Gillespie. Non of the allegations about the slide trombone were ever proven.😢
My kids do a Roy Castle charity tap dance each year. This year the t-shirts had a massive image of his face on. They have no idea who he was. I tried to explain but being kids they only understand things via youtube or tiktok. I will therefore be making them watch this video to educate them. I haven’t actually watched it myself yet so I hope it’s child friendly…. Thanks in advance, Stuart
Another thoroughly engrossing Millard effort here....dedication what you need to sit through this much Record Breakers to find all those magical whithering quip-worthy moments. Bravo!
I have vague memories of special editions of Record Breakers shown around Christmas, in which Roy would throw a party around his "house" (a studio set) inviting other children's presenters. As a kid, I was quite buzzed to see Roy Castle hanging out with the hosts of Play Away, Play School and Swap Shop et al. It was your usual Christmas special affair, with sketches, jokes and musical numbers.
That's strange because I was about to say the exact same thing. Maybe it sold particularly well? I remember it still being about the house well into the 90s
72 and 74 for me..not because I was alive in those years but because it was considered by my parents that these were good enough for a small child like me to read about records...72'S cover freaked me out a BIT
We got the 1982 one for Christmas that year, and had the front cover of the 1979 edition knocking about our house long after the rest of the book disappeared. Our school library had the 1968 edition!
Thank you once again Mr M, always appreciated. Saw Geoff Capes early ‘90s do the brick lift at a local show, as strong man acts go it is a difficult thing to do but is visually very unimpressive, I wanted him to start throwing cars in the air!!! My main memory of record breakers was Roy Castle continually trying to get tap dance records onto the show and me just hating them.
Children are perennially terrible, yet when I was one of those terrible cunts, I loved Rainbow, Worzel Gummidge, Bagpuss, Rod Hull & Emu, Dungeons and Dragons, Transformers, Grange Hill etc (you know, those things of genuine worth, warmth and charm) - but something collapsed inside my then child's soul when Roy Castle appeared - I am avowedly not ashamed to admit this, but something in his worthy bobbins persona really rubbed me the absolute wrong way.
I read Roy’s autobiography and he said that when he got the presenting job on the show he was worried it might typecast him However he was bright enough to realise that his style of standup wouldn’t fit alongside the cruder 70s gagsmiths, and as an actor he’d probably be starting at the bottom again So he asked his old friend from stage, Arthur Askey, who said “Don’t look for the next James Bond, might never come. Look for the firm offers, choose the one that suits and get on with it and enjoy it! When that’s over, do the same again, and if the offer isn’t there, retire!” 😂 Will admit, as a drummer, I’m fond of Roy’s duet with Russ Abbott…it’s about the only drum battle most people would ever sit through 😂
Coolest TV show I've ever seen was a Roy castle and Matt monroe special from the late sixties, they showed over Xmas last year. It's incredible. He was a massive part of my childhood and finding that video was like discovering gold. In 94, when he died, I pledged with a mate that during our RE exams at school, we'd answer ever single question with the answer 'roy castle'. We did so. I got a D+.
It is such a huge shame what happened to Roy Castle. Like a lot of other here have commented, he seemed to be (and by all accounts was) such a great bloke. I once heard him tell an anecdote about playing Las Vegas and, not having any material to hand, he just did a copy of the latest Frank Sinatra album. After the show a couple of heavies knocked on his dressing room door and said that Sinatra had been in the audience and had a message for him. Roy thought he was going to be part of the new freeway overpass, but the heavies said that Mr Sinatra thought it was a great tribute! Roy Castle certainly had an affinity with children and all the kids looked like they were having such fun in the studio. I certainly loved to watch Record Breakers back then, not least because of Roy.
I loved record breakers. It was a constant throughout my whole childhood. It was always interesting telly in those pre Microsoft Encarta days. Roy Castle was a brilliant host and I had a definite thing for Cheryl Baker.
Isn’t it wild what was entertaining before the internet, I tried to describe how hard general knowledge quizzes were before you could google anything to a friend’s daughter and she just looked confused. I was telling her I had to go to the library to look in a book for facts to do homework in primary school because my parents wouldn’t fork out for an encyclopaedia and she fully didn’t believe me lol
I went to see it recorded once in the early 90s. It was when Cheryl Baker was presenting it with Roy Castle. Nobody broke a world record, it wasn't that exciting and I felt like I'd gone to see The Pyramids and found out that they were made of cardboard and were actually in somewhere like Southend. Can't even remember if McWhirter was there with his clipboard pretending there were actual rules to the nonsense going on in front of him. Just think now that he was writing down swear words and drawing knockers on that thing.
I absolutely adore your work. When I've had a bad day I'll hyst watch your videos. I am howevere amazed you missed Kate Copstick from Crosswitts at 15m122s
same here!, ive been singing it on and off for must be 30 years. Somewhere in London perhaps Madame Tussauds they had a lifesize waxwork of Robert Wadlow and a video on loop with that song accompianing it
21:45 - Blackpool looks a bit like Aldington-On-Sea, I was expecting Councillor Roy Evans to give us a demonstration of a proposed trajectory of a landing helicopter. "Pidd-ah Powell's not gonna come now if he can't see his proposed trajectory of landing!"
Love these videos as I'm now in my early 50s I can relate to all of these telling my mates I can't come out to play cus I'm watching record breakers 😂😂
Hi Stuart, I honestly love what you do with this channel. One of the things you said in this video is so so true 'Everything seems more unimpressive with the passage of time' . I try to hold on to my youth so much. I buy retro everything from games consoles to toys that we played with. Spend a lot of money trying to relive the early years..... then when i get them out to play with them, i think i spend about 5 mins with each and get bored. Just bought a bulk of pocketeer games from ebay (cheap) and i think i went through the full lot in half an hour 😂. Was gonna look for the Remus stuff, but think I'll give it a miss. Please keep going with this channel. I love your satire and quirky comments on what was our childhood. Bravo mate.
Roy Castle was Englands best entertainer imho - He was (in the industry would say) a “Triple-Threat”, could sing, act and dance with one other quality…A bloody all round nice guy! - RIP Roy 🥇
He famously appeared at The Glasgow Empire, the “Graveyard of Comedians”. If you weren’t liked, sometimes the crowd threw Shipyard rivets at you!!! Roy appeared, all smiles and proceeded to sing, dance, tell jokes and play his trumpet. One wag in the crowd shouted “Is there no end to this mans talent?”. The show stopped shortly thereafter.
Eric Morecambe said the bravest thing he ever saw was Des O'Connor at the Empire. Des later admitted the longer he stayed on stage, the audience ran out of small change and started throwing larger denomination coins, which he would scoop up after the curtain went down.
@@lindsaypollock597 it’s the only one like it and has been around for a while but I’ve got a suspicion that as more people are getting into Hauntology this is popping up on their feed as the Algorithm does its’ work.
Had to replay, the fast speaking Shakespeare at 1/4 speed. Enjoyed this one,. Reading the comments i note that everyone respects Roy, and I know you can be quite cutting. at times, but here you opted not to; 20 + years, and 100+ episodes, yes I used to watch this as a kid, and much respect to Roy. Seemingly there were other people involved in producing/ presentiing children's/ Family tv who really shouldn't have been doing what they were doing, hopefully you will continue with your reviews, in your more regular mode!
A personal Mandela moment: until now, I believed that Record Breakers was cancelled after Norris McWhirter died in the late 1980s. Now I find out it not only kept going long after Roy Castle’s death, but also that McWhirter continued to consume oxygen until 2004. I was happier not knowing.
@@goodnightvienna8511 He was slightly before my time. No, I’ve got a distinct, false memory of Norris dying some 15 years before it happened, and the series ending.
Roy Castle: one man of many-many genuine talents. Ant &/or Dec: two 24 carot shitstains with barely a party trick between them. Oh the evolution/descent of kid's TV presenters.....
For some reason, when I was very young, I got it into my head that Roy Castle and Rolf Harris were actually one and the same person, that the latter was the former in a wig, glasses and fake beard. Even back then, I knew this was silly, but nothing could allay this nagging suspicion. One evening, I saw a show on telly (perhaps a Children's Royal Variety show) that featured both men, who even talked to each other across the stage, and I breathed a sigh of relief... Until, that is, I realised that you never saw both of them in the same shot!
Where’s the Roy Castle’s life story movie?! That one writes itself, would likely struggle to cram in all the things he achieved. Feel like he did more in a week than I’ve done the last 10 years. Amazing fellow.
Hollywood legend Ann Miller was interviewed for Channel 4's 100 Greatest Musicals and complained that, while she once held the record for fastest tapdancing, it was broken by some young British upstart - meaning 41 year old wunderkind Roy Fucking Castle. Mind you, this was shortly after she confidently asserted that Marilyn Monroe was undeserving of her success, being a sex worker who did a bit of acting on the side. What I'm saying is, Ann Miller was not a happy woman. "World's most embarrassing sunglasses?" How embarrassing can a pair of sunglasses b-OH JESUS CHRIST
There were TWO McWhirters? And one of them got shot? And they might have been fascists? You'll be telling me that Lion-O was voiced by Enoch Powell next!
Just discovered your channel and have blitzed the major of the video so many memories unlocked. Hopefully you have plans for future stuff on things like ghost train or what’s up doc. Seems very few remember stuff like bro n bro.
we weren't allowed to watch this in our house 'because norris is a nartsee", so saw it at friends house. Roy was lovely on the whole though, as long as he wasn't tapdancing.
Re. was there a solemn announcement before the first RB after Ross getting murdered? Yes. I have a vague memory that there was a RB special shortly afterwards, featuring both of the McWhirters, and Roy did say something before it. What he said, I can’t remember.
Oh wow. When I was a tiny infant I went with my family to the Record Breakers museum and there was this video screen with the tallest man in the world that had this catchy jingle song. That song has stuck in my head for probably forty years, words remembered wrongly but not the melody, but here it is! It wasn't a fever dream! Also used to enjoy Lee and Herring's Fist Of Fun constantly reiterating the fascist leanings of McWhirter.
yep i went there in London and that song has been stuck in my head also. I think the huge waxwork of Wadlow captivated me and hung around that bit for a while and the song seared itself into my conscienceness
Listening to that Record Breakers theme tune whilst slurping on a Mr Freeze style ice pop made me feel like a teen again. Have you covered Ron Collins and the Black Dragon Ninjitsu? He's like James Hydrick on dexamphetamine. Keep it coming Stuart. 😂
Fun fact: Robert Wadlow and Wales were the first two units of measurements all children knew. “Robert Wadlow was the same height has 3 children”, “in the Amazon rainforest an area the size of Wales is destroyed everyday”
I watched one episode where a small child asked, "what are the least amount of teeth anyone has ever had?" McWhirter chuckled embarrassedly, and said, "well of course, babies are born with NO teeth haha, but the person with the MOST amount of teeth was..."
Aside from the domino rallies, milkcrate balancing, Castle's own dancing challenges and the world's fastest rappers, I can't remember many of the records themselves. I do though remember the challenge music being The Alan Parsons Project's "Sirius."
When you go through Roy Castle's TV & Film appearances, he couldn't wait for the chance to get that bloody trumpet out. The bloke who presents "Flog it" is like that too with the drums. Oh & Jools Holland will grab any chance he can to "dirty" up anything remotely good with his "boogie woogie" interference as well.
Roy Castle was one of those all round entertainers that you don't get anymore, probably the last was Brucie. Political leanings aside though, McWhirter's knowledge of world records was astounding.
Aside from the possibility that one of my uploads has snuck on here - my most memorable RB moment is when Norris was asked ‘which tree has the most leaves?’, and the questioner told Norris he was wrong, which lead to a Newsround Extra Special and questions in the House.
When he was battling cancer, Roy Castle quipped: 'Dr said I had six months to live. I told him I'd do it in four.' Legend.
He really said that?.. I thought that was just the sick joke going round school after he died
@@squirrel7t7 Yes. Bob Monkhouse talked about it in an interview.
@@hippybuddhist an old joke but knowing Roy’s personality he was always one to keep ‘em laughing 😂
He was also a deeply religious man & he was at peace with himself and his Maker
I genuinely love Roy Castle. He just seemed like a thoroughly nice chap.
The Yin to the McWhirters' Yang
I'm so addicted to these vids, they're hilarious, being a 47yo they hit the sweetspot for me. I was sat in the bath the other day with my mobile carefully ballanced at the tap-end of the bath and watched four of them in a row. The only reason I stopped at four was because the water went cold 😅👍
I assume you didn't break Stuart's record for shortest bath then?
A new World Record!
Roy Castle was one of the few celebrities Kenneth Williams was complimentary about in his diaries.
Christ! That’s a feat in itself!
@@indigohammer5732 That's what I thought!
My uncle died of ear cancer from listening to trumpet records back when he worked at a tobacco factory.
🤣
Yeah he went on a crusade about that and “ jazz cigarettes “
My condolences
Well, you win the internet for today! 😂
Greatest letter in Viz ever
Roy Castle firmly belongs in the “Mad Friendly Uncle” category of kids presenter, alongside Johnny Ball and Fred Dineage.
It’s genuinely sad that we just don’t have that type of presenter anymore.
My Uncle was a mime artist. He use to pretend to play the trumpet as part of his mime. He died of Gesticular cancer in the 90's. We still have his imaginary trumpet up on the wall in Nans living room. RiP uncle Gillespie. Non of the allegations about the slide trombone were ever proven.😢
Is there an emoji for groaning at the initial joke? I’ll just go with 😮
Can't believe Toxteth O'Grady was never on it
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And I told you that you bloody cheat!
Wolds biggest bottom burp
Err.. Rik! Britain!!@@paulmuppet5730
@@paulmuppet5730"Rick.Britain!"
World’s stickiest bogey!
Another wonderful Millard classic! Excellent stuff sir. I genuinely think that Roy Castle seemed a lovely chap. Died way too early of course.
Roy Castle is currently fighting Daleks in another dimension. Eggs and Baker and Mark Curry’s cooking programs please
My kids do a Roy Castle charity tap dance each year. This year the t-shirts had a massive image of his face on.
They have no idea who he was. I tried to explain but being kids they only understand things via youtube or tiktok.
I will therefore be making them watch this video to educate them. I haven’t actually watched it myself yet so I hope it’s child friendly…. Thanks in advance, Stuart
I’m still on the first few minutes but I do recall that Roy was a bastard for a tap dance - he loved it!
Another thoroughly engrossing Millard effort here....dedication what you need to sit through this much Record Breakers to find all those magical whithering quip-worthy moments. Bravo!
I have vague memories of special editions of Record Breakers shown around Christmas, in which Roy would throw a party around his "house" (a studio set) inviting other children's presenters.
As a kid, I was quite buzzed to see Roy Castle hanging out with the hosts of Play Away, Play School and Swap Shop et al.
It was your usual Christmas special affair, with sketches, jokes and musical numbers.
World's smelliest willie was J Saville of Leeds, surprised it never got him in the papers.
Are you saying prepubescent kids have smelly vaginas? You disgust me...
I think you mean Sir Jimmy Savile OBE. Show a bit of respect mate.
Man, the cover of that ‘87 one brings back memories. That was the first one I had as a kid.
That's strange because I was about to say the exact same thing. Maybe it sold particularly well? I remember it still being about the house well into the 90s
72 and 74 for me..not because I was alive in those years but because it was considered by my parents that these were good enough for a small child like me to read about records...72'S cover freaked me out a BIT
I had the 1988 issue.
We got the 1982 one for Christmas that year, and had the front cover of the 1979 edition knocking about our house long after the rest of the book disappeared. Our school library had the 1968 edition!
I got the 1980 one for Christmas
Thank you once again Mr M, always appreciated. Saw Geoff Capes early ‘90s do the brick lift at a local show, as strong man acts go it is a difficult thing to do but is visually very unimpressive, I wanted him to start throwing cars in the air!!! My main memory of record breakers was Roy Castle continually trying to get tap dance records onto the show and me just hating them.
Children are perennially terrible, yet when I was one of those terrible cunts, I loved Rainbow, Worzel Gummidge, Bagpuss, Rod Hull & Emu, Dungeons and Dragons, Transformers, Grange Hill etc (you know, those things of genuine worth, warmth and charm) - but something collapsed inside my then child's soul when Roy Castle appeared - I am avowedly not ashamed to admit this, but something in his worthy bobbins persona really rubbed me the absolute wrong way.
I got the same vibe from Roy as I did from the bloke on "The Little Picture Box".
Chester Chester😂
I'm watching this on headphones and when I laugh my wife asks me why. She just said "it better not be Wadlow's knob again" and it was.
I read Roy’s autobiography and he said that when he got the presenting job on the show he was worried it might typecast him
However he was bright enough to realise that his style of standup wouldn’t fit alongside the cruder 70s gagsmiths, and as an actor he’d probably be starting at the bottom again
So he asked his old friend from stage, Arthur Askey, who said
“Don’t look for the next James Bond, might never come. Look for the firm offers, choose the one that suits and get on with it and enjoy it!
When that’s over, do the same again, and if the offer isn’t there, retire!” 😂
Will admit, as a drummer, I’m fond of Roy’s duet with Russ Abbott…it’s about the only drum battle most people would ever sit through 😂
Coolest TV show I've ever seen was a Roy castle and Matt monroe special from the late sixties, they showed over Xmas last year. It's incredible. He was a massive part of my childhood and finding that video was like discovering gold.
In 94, when he died, I pledged with a mate that during our RE exams at school, we'd answer ever single question with the answer 'roy castle'.
We did so. I got a D+.
The fact that you got a D+ would lead me to believe that 'Roy Castle' was, in fact, the actual answer to a few questions.
It is such a huge shame what happened to Roy Castle. Like a lot of other here have commented, he seemed to be (and by all accounts was) such a great bloke. I once heard him tell an anecdote about playing Las Vegas and, not having any material to hand, he just did a copy of the latest Frank Sinatra album. After the show a couple of heavies knocked on his dressing room door and said that Sinatra had been in the audience and had a message for him. Roy thought he was going to be part of the new freeway overpass, but the heavies said that Mr Sinatra thought it was a great tribute!
Roy Castle certainly had an affinity with children and all the kids looked like they were having such fun in the studio. I certainly loved to watch Record Breakers back then, not least because of Roy.
I loved record breakers. It was a constant throughout my whole childhood. It was always interesting telly in those pre Microsoft Encarta days. Roy Castle was a brilliant host and I had a definite thing for Cheryl Baker.
Isn’t it wild what was entertaining before the internet, I tried to describe how hard general knowledge quizzes were before you could google anything to a friend’s daughter and she just looked confused. I was telling her I had to go to the library to look in a book for facts to do homework in primary school because my parents wouldn’t fork out for an encyclopaedia and she fully didn’t believe me lol
I went to see it recorded once in the early 90s. It was when Cheryl Baker was presenting it with Roy Castle. Nobody broke a world record, it wasn't that exciting and I felt like I'd gone to see The Pyramids and found out that they were made of cardboard and were actually in somewhere like Southend. Can't even remember if McWhirter was there with his clipboard pretending there were actual rules to the nonsense going on in front of him. Just think now that he was writing down swear words and drawing knockers on that thing.
I absolutely adore your work. When I've had a bad day I'll hyst watch your videos. I am howevere amazed you missed Kate Copstick from Crosswitts at 15m122s
Never thought I'd hear the Robert Wadlow song ever again. Just wish it wasn't 43 years until I did.
same here!, ive been singing it on and off for must be 30 years. Somewhere in London perhaps Madame Tussauds they had a lifesize waxwork of Robert Wadlow and a video on loop with that song accompianing it
21:45 - Blackpool looks a bit like Aldington-On-Sea, I was expecting Councillor Roy Evans to give us a demonstration of a proposed trajectory of a landing helicopter. "Pidd-ah Powell's not gonna come now if he can't see his proposed trajectory of landing!"
I'm sorry Coxy....
Love these videos as I'm now in my early 50s I can relate to all of these telling my mates I can't come out to play cus I'm watching record breakers 😂😂
Hi Stuart, I honestly love what you do with this channel. One of the things you said in this video is so so true 'Everything seems more unimpressive with the passage of time' . I try to hold on to my youth so much. I buy retro everything from games consoles to toys that we played with. Spend a lot of money trying to relive the early years..... then when i get them out to play with them, i think i spend about 5 mins with each and get bored. Just bought a bulk of pocketeer games from ebay (cheap) and i think i went through the full lot in half an hour 😂. Was gonna look for the Remus stuff, but think I'll give it a miss. Please keep going with this channel. I love your satire and quirky comments on what was our childhood. Bravo mate.
Roy Castle was Englands best entertainer imho - He was (in the industry would say) a “Triple-Threat”, could sing, act and dance with one other quality…A bloody all round nice guy! - RIP Roy 🥇
Norris McWhirter, there's a blast from the past💚
Another smashing upload.
RIP Sir Roy Castle OBE
He famously appeared at The Glasgow Empire, the “Graveyard of Comedians”. If you weren’t liked, sometimes the crowd threw Shipyard rivets at you!!! Roy appeared, all smiles and proceeded to sing, dance, tell jokes and play his trumpet. One wag in the crowd shouted “Is there no end to this mans talent?”. The show stopped shortly thereafter.
Oh, his Lung Cancer was probably caused by all the bits of asbestos “safety curtains” he sucked up in Theatres all over Britain.
Yes, the Glasgow Empire's reputation for being, shall we say, 'a difficult crowd', earned it the tag line "no turn is left unstoned"
Eric Morecambe said the bravest thing he ever saw was Des O'Connor at the Empire.
Des later admitted the longer he stayed on stage, the audience ran out of small change and started throwing larger denomination coins, which he would scoop up after the curtain went down.
Lovely tribute and wicked pisstake at the same time! Genius! And ‘Biggins’ TIE Fighter laugh’ is going to have me giggling for hours 😂😂
Roy Castle was a truly lovely & highly talented man.
You showed two of the books I had. Class.
Woah only four hours old and you have nearly 2000 views 😮 the people are waking up to your brilliant channel
It's a really good channel, isn't it
@@lindsaypollock597 it’s the only one like it and has been around for a while but I’ve got a suspicion that as more people are getting into Hauntology this is popping up on their feed as the Algorithm does its’ work.
I was trying to get into the Guinness Book of Records for the Longest Trail of Snot...
Had to replay, the fast speaking Shakespeare at 1/4 speed. Enjoyed this one,. Reading the comments i note that everyone respects Roy, and I know you can be quite cutting. at times, but here you opted not to; 20 + years, and 100+ episodes, yes I used to watch this as a kid, and much respect to Roy. Seemingly there were other people involved in producing/ presentiing children's/ Family tv who really shouldn't have been doing what they were doing, hopefully you will continue with your reviews, in your more regular mode!
A personal Mandela moment: until now, I believed that Record Breakers was cancelled after Norris McWhirter died in the late 1980s. Now I find out it not only kept going long after Roy Castle’s death, but also that McWhirter continued to consume oxygen until 2004. I was happier not knowing.
Maybe you were thinking about his brother who was murdered earlier??
@@goodnightvienna8511 He was slightly before my time. No, I’ve got a distinct, false memory of Norris dying some 15 years before it happened, and the series ending.
@@martinfenton1275 well that’s Mandela definitely 👍
'Biggins was there, with his Tie-fighter laugh' proper made me guffaw 😂
Roy Castle: one man of many-many genuine talents. Ant &/or Dec: two 24 carot shitstains with barely a party trick between them. Oh the evolution/descent of kid's TV presenters.....
I remember Jasper Carrott described the sort of records like "hangliding through Marks and Spencers while heavy petting with a giant marrow".
I’ve done that but it was with a cucumber so McWhirter was unimpressed with the alternative veg.
@@stephenhough4957 they wouldn't accept aubergines, either, apparently
My mom was always irritated by Roy Castle for some reason - "here he goes again" she'd say when he tap danced
I never liked him as I found him condescending and the Mc Whirter brothers were unpleasant .
A few years before Record Breakers Roy Castle appeared in the Carry On film "Carry On Up The Khyber".
I have enjoyed all your videos.....they are funny ...and thought provoking.....and nostalgic....many thanks 😊
Bloody perfect video again ❤
Nice one Millard, I was hoping you'd get round to a bit of Castle and Baker Record Breakers.
Great channel. New subscriber. Watched most of your videos in 2 days. Want more. 😂👍
Castle is one of those 70s kids show presenters I can think back on without the word nonce entering my mind and/or feeling sullied.
Another Millard classic. Thanks sir!
THATS THE BEST MEMORIES I HAVE OF RECORD BREAKERS ALL THEM TAP DANCER'S ROUND THE FOUNTAIN AT THE BBC SHEPARDS BUSH STUDIO
Roy Castle forcing kids to endure tap dancing, an art form that died out in the ‘20s, always seemed to be raining when that 💩 was on tv
20:30 I remember this, as a fire eater myself it did make me laugh a bit at the time.
I haven't laughed so hard in ages. Thank you Mr. Millard.
For some reason, when I was very young, I got it into my head that Roy Castle and Rolf Harris were actually one and the same person, that the latter was the former in a wig, glasses and fake beard.
Even back then, I knew this was silly, but nothing could allay this nagging suspicion.
One evening, I saw a show on telly (perhaps a Children's Royal Variety show) that featured both men, who even talked to each other across the stage, and I breathed a sigh of relief...
Until, that is, I realised that you never saw both of them in the same shot!
Well now I wanna know the longest phone call and it's not on their website!
Great upload. A lovely tribute to Roy Castle and you mentioned "Dad blow offs". Good work. 😂❤
Mr Millard back with another absolute chart-topper 💯 🔥 ❤
Roy Caste was such a great guy. Didnt show the guy running backwards faster than he could run forwards
Where’s the Roy Castle’s life story movie?! That one writes itself, would likely struggle to cram in all the things he achieved. Feel like he did more in a week than I’ve done the last 10 years. Amazing fellow.
Hollywood legend Ann Miller was interviewed for Channel 4's 100 Greatest Musicals and complained that, while she once held the record for fastest tapdancing, it was broken by some young British upstart - meaning 41 year old wunderkind Roy Fucking Castle. Mind you, this was shortly after she confidently asserted that Marilyn Monroe was undeserving of her success, being a sex worker who did a bit of acting on the side. What I'm saying is, Ann Miller was not a happy woman.
"World's most embarrassing sunglasses?" How embarrassing can a pair of sunglasses b-OH JESUS CHRIST
I finally now know where my hatred/phobia of tap dancing came from.
Top vid Millard.
There were TWO McWhirters? And one of them got shot? And they might have been fascists? You'll be telling me that Lion-O was voiced by Enoch Powell next!
22:01 ‘Dispatching Cheryl Baker’ - classic TV! 😊
Little known fact is that Roy Scheider was a last minute casting replacement in Jaws (1975) as a result of his Record Breakers commitment.
Always nice to see Bernard, the Worlds Funniest Right Wing comedian... Will Never forget him singing Let It Be for Ferry Aid ❤
One day I'll find the full length clip of Little and Large doing Ghostbusters
This was fucking brilliant THAT IS ALL
Just discovered your channel and have blitzed the major of the video so many memories unlocked. Hopefully you have plans for future stuff on things like ghost train or what’s up doc. Seems very few remember stuff like bro n bro.
"Tie Fighter laugh" that killed me! 😅
Robert Earl Hughes would now get full PIP and a blue badge, the jammy bastard.
It’s so odd that world records are forever associated with Guinness and good food is forever associated with Michelin.
What's brass and sits in the corner?
Roy Castle's trumpet! 🎺
My all time, number 1 favourite joke that
Another top video.
Brilliant video 😂😂
Thanks for the laughs. Record Breaaaaakkkeeeerrrssss!!
we weren't allowed to watch this in our house 'because norris is a nartsee", so saw it at friends house. Roy was lovely on the whole though, as long as he wasn't tapdancing.
‘Ride the viper’ 😂
Dear Norris! Who was the first homosexual, quasi Nazi editor of The Guinness Book of Records, shot with a.357 Magnum at home?
Mmmmmmm don’t know 🤷🤷😂😂
Re. was there a solemn announcement before the first RB after Ross getting murdered? Yes. I have a vague memory that there was a RB special shortly afterwards, featuring both of the McWhirters, and Roy did say something before it. What he said, I can’t remember.
How exciting! I am the first to comment on this video.
Oh how I do LOVE these videos! Do we still call them "videos"?
They're called Toobumz now. Toobumz. That's what the kids are calling them so that's what you shouild also call them everyone willl thinkg you're cool
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Thanks Lindsay! .. I'll get right on it! Lol.
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@@lindsaypollock597pretty sure that was Vanessa Feltz nickname at school
Deep memory unlocked: Milk crate chin balancing
20:56 is that a load piss or just an unfortunate shadow?
Oh wow. When I was a tiny infant I went with my family to the Record Breakers museum and there was this video screen with the tallest man in the world that had this catchy jingle song. That song has stuck in my head for probably forty years, words remembered wrongly but not the melody, but here it is! It wasn't a fever dream! Also used to enjoy Lee and Herring's Fist Of Fun constantly reiterating the fascist leanings of McWhirter.
yep i went there in London and that song has been stuck in my head also. I think the huge waxwork of Wadlow captivated me and hung around that bit for a while and the song seared itself into my conscienceness
Seriously though. Looking back, this is very poor quality television. I used to watch World at War instead. Or Threads if it was my birthday. 🎉
Listening to that Record Breakers theme tune whilst slurping on a Mr Freeze style ice pop made me feel like a teen again.
Have you covered Ron Collins and the Black Dragon Ninjitsu? He's like James Hydrick on dexamphetamine.
Keep it coming Stuart. 😂
Fun fact: Robert Wadlow and Wales were the first two units of measurements all children knew. “Robert Wadlow was the same height has 3 children”, “in the Amazon rainforest an area the size of Wales is destroyed everyday”
I watched one episode where a small child asked, "what are the least amount of teeth anyone has ever had?" McWhirter chuckled embarrassedly, and said, "well of course, babies are born with NO teeth haha, but the person with the MOST amount of teeth was..."
Aside from the domino rallies, milkcrate balancing, Castle's own dancing challenges and the world's fastest rappers, I can't remember many of the records themselves. I do though remember the challenge music being The Alan Parsons Project's "Sirius."
When you go through Roy Castle's TV & Film appearances, he couldn't wait for the chance to get that bloody trumpet out. The bloke who presents "Flog it" is like that too with the drums. Oh & Jools Holland will grab any chance he can to "dirty" up anything remotely good with his "boogie woogie" interference as well.
Roy Castle was one of those all round entertainers that you don't get anymore, probably the last was Brucie.
Political leanings aside though, McWhirter's knowledge of world records was astounding.
Aside from the possibility that one of my uploads has snuck on here - my most memorable RB moment is when Norris was asked ‘which tree has the most leaves?’, and the questioner told Norris he was wrong, which lead to a Newsround Extra Special and questions in the House.
He had a knob so big it had a knob of its own 😂
Did Stigy Daz have poor parents and did he wear hand-me-downs?
No product placement on the BBC; free Grifter bikes for one and all! @5.30
Ah I wondered what they were, I couldn’t understand why a BMX would have a mudguard
24:15 I played the fast talker at 0.5 and 0.25 speed and could barely understand a word of it. Shouldn’t be a record!
Did Roy dance, yeah?
Good bloke
Cheers ya 🔔🔚