No. 73: S03E10
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- Опубліковано 9 вер 2024
- No. 73: Series 3: Programme 10: 9.7.83 ‘Yes or No…’
Live from TVS Maidstone
Ethel Davis: Sandi Toksvig
Dawn Lodge: Andrea Arnold
Alec Simmons: Patrick Doyle
Harry Stern: Nick Staverson
Neil Buchanan
Fred the Postman: Tony Aitken
With:
Robert Crowther (biscuit man)
Eddie Kidd
And the Kids
Thanks to:
Demonaim Ltd
Geevor Tin Mines
Film:
Neil visits a tin mine
Alec goes to a model boat manufacturer in the Isle of Sheppey
Band:
The Belle Stars
Sandwich Quiz:
Fred the Postman v Jennie Matthias (Belle Stars)
Devised & Produced by:
John Dale
Director:
Michael Kerrigan
TVS Production
© 1983 Television South plc
Tony Aitken is the postman! Hes done End of Part One too the LWT comedy
Loved Harry thought he was so cute!!!
Is this the end of Fred's attempts to court Ethel? She does seem like a big fan of the Belle Stars even if she didn't recognize them at first. Looking forward to see more of "The Sands of Thyme"!
Good to see Dawn (Andrea Arnold) carried on going doing good. Became a successful director it appears.
VERY successful!
This was the first national run
Now we're talking! New wave all-female septet The Belle Stars take over the backyard (and a bit of Martin & Hazel's at No.75 as well for Judy's drums) to perform their forthcoming single "Indian Summer". It would not reach the Top 40, peaking at No.52 in August 1983. They play us out with what would be the single after that, "The Entertainer". That would miss the Top 75 entirely, flopping at No.95 in early November. Pity, really - "Sign of the Times" showed lots of promise from them early in the year.
Cripes. 1983. I was not watching 73 at this time as I thought it was pretty silly. I was a BBC1 kid. I did not get a portable in my bedroom till Dec 1984 and that was when I started channel hopping to it during boring bits on BBC1 and started to grow to like its insanity. The Belle Stars...Unreal. I had forgotten them completely. That song Sign of the TImes depressed and annoyed me when it came it. So irritating with its jangling and downbeat lyrics at the start. There were hundreds of Ska / Reggae influenced groups back in the early 80s and people like Madness and The Specials etc got all the publicity. I had no clue who the Belle Stars were, to me they sounded American. I never even saw them on top of the pops. They all look like a shocking bunch of lesbians, so would not have fitted in back then with the establishment, but would be right at home now...
@@Simon-xc5oy In all honesty I don't remember _No. 73_ at all. I was born in 1983, and the only memory of SatAM from the mid 80s I have is of Mike Read hosting _Saturday Superstore._
@@antster1983 Ahhh. Well I was there from the start. The first ever Saturday morning kids tv show that went out nation wide was Swap Shop with Noel Edmonds. Tiswas on ITV could only be seen in certain regions for a long time till they got national coverage as well to compete with the BBC. The Saturday Superstore with Mike Read was just Swap Shop after Noel Edmonds left. They got in Mike Read to replace him and changed the name. A few years later it became Going Live with Schofield and Sarah Greene. The other show we started to notice was No73. Some people loved Tiswas but for me it was just too silly. It was fun but it got on your nerves after a while week in week out just people who were not that funny chucking crap over one another for a couple of hours in between pop songs and stupid sketches etc...I think that the BBC versions of Swap Shop then Superstore and then Going Live etc more or less forced ITV to copy the format to a degree and tone down the gunge so we got No73, which evolved over the years. It was silly and fun with the characters all having different personalities and fitting in together. I was never a huge Ethel fan and did not mind when she left. I also liked it a lot when it became 7T3 much later at the cowboy theme park. But they axed it in favour of Motormouth. The best one though on ITV was Get Fresh. So 80s. Gilbert the alien was priceless. When that ended they just made more or less the same show and called it Ghost Train instead. With a sheep instead of an alien that was not as funny...
Brings back so many memories. So glad this channel has appeared. Made in Maidstone...you don't happen to have Series 4 EP 2 do you? 🎉
45:26 A few years later that book would be adapted into a successful television series, complete with theme tune by Ian Dury.
Loving all these No.73s, are you the guy mentioned on the Paul O'Grady show who found the reels in the skip ?