Frank Thornton recalls This Is Your Life

The actor Frank Thornton was surprised by Michael Aspel in October 1998 for the television programme This Is Your Life.
In an exclusive interview for the BigRedBook website recorded in October 2009 Frank Thornton and his wife Beryl recall their memories of appearing on the programme.
💻 Find out the full details of this edition of This Is Your Life at www.bigredbook.info/frank_thor...
📺 This Is Your Life was one of the most popular programmes on British television, spanning almost 50 years of broadcasting, with over eleven hundred editions produced between 1955 and 2003.
📕 Part biography, part celebration, the programme’s premise was simple - an unexpected surprise for an unsuspecting subject, as the host opened the Big Red Book to reveal a life story told through a reunion of family and friends.
The Big Red Book UA-cam channel is a growing online archive of exclusive interviews with former subjects of This Is Your Life, as well as friends and relatives who took part in the show.
Subscribe to the Big Red Book UA-cam channel to keep up to date with all future This Is Your Life related interviews:
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[@DrVonChilla]

RIP dear Mr. Thornton. Thanks for decades of marvelous entertainment!

[@RiquetRudeau]

So nice to see Frank. I am a huge fan of Are you being served!! I watch a few episodes every week, it just keeps on giving!!!

[@gavincardwell3216]

Frank seemed a lovely chap. Rest in peace captain peacock!!

[@slagrajag]

RIP Frank Thornton

[@spinout3]

frank passes away a year after my original post..r.i.p frank. thanks for the laughs.
gone to keep order in that grace brothers in the sky.

[@trevorkeyes1694]

Sadly all gone r.i.p

[@walleye359]

ya he will never know probably how many fans he has world wide. and places he never would have thought of.

[@spinout3]

great to see frank is still going strong...r.i.p trevor bannister.

[@angelacooper2661]

Captain Peacock, This is your Life! I was twenty eight at the time.

[@occy976]

RIP Captain Peacock.

[@jrgboy]

I remember Frank from Tony Hancock's The Blood Donor

[@ericmadsen7470]

Capt. Peacock are you free?

[@brnleague99]

He died. So did Mrs Slocombe, Miss Brahms, and Mr. Grainger.

[@DamiensTrainsandTravels]

RIP Frank Thornton