Then and now cast of the tv programme Hi-di-Hi Between 1980 to 1988. At the time it was one the country's most popular tv programmes attracting large viewing figures.
I absolutely loved watching this at Saturday teatime. Every episode was as funny as the last one, and every actor was brilliant in it. It was a sad time when it ended, as it also reflected the decline in UK holiday camps, which gladly have had a resurgence since. Sadly, nothing like this will ever get written again. The PC brigade and recent events have put the final nail in British comedy's coffin.
I attended Su Pollards 70th Birthday party last year. She was a life long friend of my next door neighbour. She is one of the loveliest people you could ever meet.
Yeah, she is a very friendly and bubbley lady, I worked on the train from Grantham to London, I never let on that I knew who she was... Wonderful woman
love this show was the first box set i bought bought the whole tv series. does anyone else find when you watch it just can forget the terrible world we live covid etc inflation. just makes you laugh we sure need it
Went to the school that backed on to "Maplins". Or rather bunked off to watch them filming every year. The cast and crew were really lovely to us. Didn't seem to mind at all. They mixed in with the locals, and it was genuinely sad when it ended. As kids we couldn't really recall a time they didn't come down to make it. Like everyone else I later ended up working on the camp and it was like being in Hi-De-Hi. The writers got it SO spot on! In fact, I have the huge honour of having made Jimmy Perry and David Croft laugh. (it was more at me than with me, but I'm taking that to the grave! ) 😁
Great job on this. Hi-de-hi was a very endearing program. Talfryn Thomas, who appeared as Gladys' brother, Gareth, was, in real life, a bone fide war hero. He was a rear gunner in a Lancaster bomber and flew many missions in WW2. The final mission, the plane was hit and crashed. All crew were killed but him. He survived. As a recovery he enrolled in theatre school and got into comedy. Playing Private Cheeseman in Dads Army + other roles.
Rumour has it that he was getting to many laughs for some of the regulars so he had to go from Dads Army! He was nowhere near as good as,the character he replaced, Walker, but reasonably amusing!
I met Felix when he was the audience warm-up / “when things go wrong” entertainment for “Noel’s Telly Years” filmed in Birmingham Pebble Mill years back in the mid 90’s. He played his guitar and didn’t want to stop his routines / banter even when the cameras were ready to roll (kept getting told off by the floor manager). So genuinely happy to be doing his thing. Happy memories.
I remember him fondly. He was warm up for Wogan too when i worked there. He was all shook up after car accident. The following week we were on the same train/tube and we got chatting and he appreciated it. He even kindly gave us tickets to the last Hi De Hi and yes continuing amusing us inbetween takes. He was such a lovely man bless him.
This is without doubt my favourite comedy series, all the cast were faultless I just loved the idea of a Punch and Judy man who didnt like kids and of course it's ,also brilliantly written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, I have the whole series on DVD and in these uncertain times at the moment you carn,t beat your favourite tipple, your favourite armchair and a good helping of HI. DE. HI.
A great old show now. A great throwback to a different era and made by many veterans of the British holiday camp era who would have remembered family holidays at the real thing.
I'd completely forgotten that David Griffin was in this. I remember him mainly as Emmet in Keeping up Appearances. Light bulb moment . Thanks for jogging my memory. 😄
I used to live in that town down gravel hill way and used to play on the site as a kid when it was derelict before the estate went up. Must of been 1992 at a guess and I think it was call tall acres?
Awesome, I was probably 6 when this was on... god i loved it... I wanted to be an entertainer at a holiday camp - sadly the way youth and families have changed I decided just to concentrate on theatre work and my musicianship and it all worked out ok, but, they hey day of simple family entertainment and holidays in the UK is something not lost on me in my 37th year. Well done Mark Mahoney, nice insert there at the beginning😃😃😃😃
I recently enjoyed watching the repeats on Drama ,keeped up my spirits during lockdown. It was never the same after Simon Cadel left no disrespect to David Griffin who must of known he had a hard act to follow. Did you know Simon Cadel was David Crofts son in law? Dads army also by Perry and Croft is my absolute favorite, I watch it every Saturday night.
Agree about Simon Cadell. For best comedy results, the other characters needed a strait-laced type like Jeffrey to bounce off. Clive was just a bit too much like yet another chancer along with all the rest. BTW, did you know Diane Holland was Jimmy Perry's sister-in-law?
Dads Army, It ain't alf ot Mum, Hi de Hi, and even the somewhat underrated You Rang M'Lord?, must all be in the Top Twenty sit coms of all time ! As for Geoffrey and Clive, they were both excellent, but Geoffrey straight laced persona was absolutely hilarious, especially when he was introducing the latest lowest ot the low competition! This type of scene could not be done with Clive!
I remember seeing Felix Bowness performing on the IoW at Sandown Pier back in the 60's and again later doing cabaret, I think in Brighton. A very funny man and highly accomplished musician. Thanks for the memories Felix R.I.P.
Yes i remember him well in Hi-de-Hi! i read his wiki page it states he was a popular warm up act for morecombe and wise! It briefly mentions you christopher 👌👍
Mark Mahoney yes. That was his main gig being a warm up man at the bbc. This is your life 1985. I was on it, only 11 months old. He was a born entertainer. Thank you so much for your kind words, he would love it.
Your welcome! I can see he was a very talented man! From the war and being a boxing champion! To his warm up days and later roles! He must have had a great life!👌
I remember this coming on tv when I was a kid in the 80s, I think it finished in 1989 ? I remember watching it, though being young I didn't always get all the jokes. Its shown on UKTV Gold regularly, it's so funny and reminds me of Saturday night's as a kid. I love the Punch and Judy man, he was always drunk and hated kids !.🤣
@@MarkMahoney I thought it was 89. I remember when Mr Partridge left, he dressed up a dummy put a knife in it's back and chucked it in the pool. They all thought it he had been murdered and didn't realise it was a dummy until the police pulled it out. Great show.
@Uncle Sam thanks I thought it was around 89, I can remember watching it as a kid. In 88 I was 10/11 and it was part of Saturday evening TV. Watching it on Gold brings back good memories.
I love this show watch it all the time wow jonathan aris looks like his dad if they ever do a remake they should cast him as the part his dad played very much so
Great series and such wonderful characters so well performed by a fine band of actors. Simon Cadell's death so young is still shocking, however, his work is superb and Jeffrey Fairbrother his finest creation, As far as I am aware Chris Andrews and the Webb Twins are still with us.
Great show, got the dvds. Reminds me of childhood holidays at Pontins Prestatyn to an extent. Very cleverly written, like all the best sitcoms, plenty of pathos to go with the laughs. Spawned lots of catchphrases too, not just hi de hi but Peggy’s I want to be a yellowcoat, don’t tell Miss Cathcart and Ted’s first rule of comedy! They really went for those big laughs too, esp Su Pollard. I loved the you have been watching end titles sequence too.
@@Clem_Fandango11 What are you talking about? Thank God that WE DO have social media, the establishment ALWAYS lie, when you are doing bad shit you have to
It’s very weird that I remember Hi-de Hi on BBC1 but I was probably too young to enjoy it properly then. I really enjoyed the re runs on BBC2 not so long ago. Sadly so many of these stars have passed on along with the post war British holiday camp heyday. But sadly that’s the way of things and I’ll pass on to leave room for younger generations.
I saw Barry Howard on Bournemouth Pier and in their cafe on the pier he spoke and enjoyed a chat with him He used to live just up the road in Boscombe not far from Bournemouth
The Warners holiday camp @Dovercourt, where the series was filmed is now a housing estate. The BBC TV crew took over the place at the end of the summer season, and it was a nice little earner for Warners. Such a shame its gone.
sad dawn the yellowcoat is missed out again, as she never seems to feature in these types of videos, she was played by laura jackson and was absolutely lovely, i had a huge crush on her back then.
As a child i stayed at this camp. It was Warners Dovercourt Bay. The holiday camps were a paradise for children. I thought the last ever episode was very sad as Maplins closed the camp because Brits were now going abroad for their hols. It was the end of an era
Met Geoffrey Holland and Ian who played ted all I can say is true gentlemen ,so pleased that their work was appreciated ,great show sadly nothing is made like this now the last great sitcom was dinner ladies now it all rubbish on Tv thank God for DVD and down loads so we can still enjoy true talent
Great video well done.... Good to see most of the yellow coats also. I loved Mr Partridge played brilliantly by Leslie Dwyer also Christopher's grandad Fred Quilly the Demented jockey. Please no offence it's how Joe Maplin always described him. He was David Crofts go to warm up man he also did Wogans audience's. My favourite ever episode was SING YOU SINNERS What was yours ???
Ted to Yvonne: You stick to the quick, quick slows Ginger. We'll do the funnies. Barry to Yvonne (holding his dungarees up): I wish you would learn to sew the buttons on properly. I only did this (lifts arms) and they popped off like a catapult.
Liked Hi-de-hi growing up, at first when first aired I was fascinated with the end credits, not what was going on in the show itself, then as I got older - obviously discovered the opposite sex!, watching repeats I got obsessed with Nikki Kelly especially her legs! Had a huge crush on her ha
@@MarkMahoney thanks for replying. However, somebody, somewhere must have some info about her. It's like Pat Ashton, who appeared in a few eps of On the Buses, and in Two of the films. You can't find anything of interest about her.
I’m from the US and was unaware of this series but I know and like many Britcoms and I have a question. Was Paul Shane some sort of early cloning success story and if so was Ronnie Barker aware his DNA was used in the process.
@@MarkMahoney It’s on Britbox and I’ve started watching and enjoying it. My comment was a joke and what I thought would be a very obvious one. They look almost identical to the point that before I made my comment I checked to see if they were brothers that used different professional names like George Sanders and Tom Conway. And beyond appearance even his speech pattern and his delivery of lines seems, to me at least identical except Barker in Open all Hours. I’ve enjoyed Ronnie Barker for years and this is my first exposure to Mr Shane the similarities seemed obvious but I’m not saying anything negative about Mr Shane or saying he was a hack trying to steal Ronnie Barkers persona and I meant no offense to his memory or to you.
Sadly I did come across a couple of this lot during my theatre career. Barry Howard who was a pantomime dame and was so horrible he had to be warned about interfering with technical equipment and that the drencher cable wasn't for hanging his clothes on. Quite a nasty man. Paul Shane tried to book me to do sound on his dodgy tour which was cancelled after the hilarious but rather cringe worthy Pebble Mill incident. Nice guy but, boy could he not sing to save his life lol.
I absolutely loved watching this at Saturday teatime.
Every episode was as funny as the last one, and every actor was brilliant in it. It was a sad time when it ended, as it also reflected the decline in UK holiday camps, which gladly have had a resurgence since.
Sadly, nothing like this will ever get written again. The PC brigade and recent events have put the final nail in British comedy's coffin.
i dont think holiday camps will ever fade
At least this one gets shown! The equally brilliant It ain't alf ot Mum is totally banned by the PC brigade who run TV !!
I attended Su Pollards 70th Birthday party last year. She was a life long friend of my next door neighbour. She is one of the loveliest people you could ever meet.
😊👌👌 yes i can imagine lovely lady
Yeah, she is a very friendly and bubbley lady, I worked on the train from Grantham to London, I never let on that I knew who she was... Wonderful woman
love this show was the first box set i bought bought the whole tv series. does anyone else find when you watch it just can forget the terrible world we live covid etc inflation. just makes you laugh we sure need it
Sad that so many of these people have gone now, they entrained the world. Great show.
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Time is like a conveyor belt, when people die they get off the conveyor belt and get left behind. Sad really.
It is and the even sadder thing is there are no up and coming comedians these days to replace them.
Still miss you grandad. X
Must have been fun having Felix as your Grandad !
Saw him as a renowned " Warm-Up" many times in London.
Great show. Good clean harmless laughter and fun. Rest in peace all the ones we’ve lost and thanks to all for giving my childhood happiness. X
It wasn't particularly clean! But an excellent series!
Went to the school that backed on to "Maplins". Or rather bunked off to watch them filming every year. The cast and crew were really lovely to us. Didn't seem to mind at all. They mixed in with the locals, and it was genuinely sad when it ended. As kids we couldn't really recall a time they didn't come down to make it. Like everyone else I later ended up working on the camp and it was like being in Hi-De-Hi. The writers got it SO spot on! In fact, I have the huge honour of having made Jimmy Perry and David Croft laugh. (it was more at me than with me, but I'm taking that to the grave! ) 😁
Great job on this.
Hi-de-hi was a very endearing program.
Talfryn Thomas, who appeared as Gladys' brother, Gareth, was, in real life, a bone fide war hero. He was a rear gunner in a Lancaster bomber and flew many missions in WW2. The final mission, the plane was hit and crashed. All crew were killed but him. He survived. As a recovery he enrolled in theatre school and got into comedy. Playing Private Cheeseman in Dads Army + other roles.
Thank you for that he was one of my favourite comedians Private Cheeseman was one of my favourite characters in Dads Army.
Rumour has it that he was getting to many laughs for some of the regulars so he had to go from Dads Army! He was nowhere near as good as,the character he replaced, Walker, but reasonably amusing!
His appearance in Hi De Hi was his last role, as he sadly died shortly afterwards. He made memorable appearances in The Saint and The Avengers.
A wonderful...funny...warm...sitcom.full of delightfully eccentric characters...hilarious situations and..
Best of all..laugh out loud humour
Great series!
Great characters!
A lot of laughs.
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Glad you enjoyed it 👌
Watching the box set dvd at the moment, got to be the 10th time if not more. So glad there was no pc in the good days of humour. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Leslie Dwyer pops up in loads of films from the 40s 50s and 60s,great actor 👏👏👏
yes very talented
Real pro !
I met Felix when he was the audience warm-up / “when things go wrong” entertainment for “Noel’s Telly Years” filmed in Birmingham Pebble Mill years back in the mid 90’s. He played his guitar and didn’t want to stop his routines / banter even when the cameras were ready to roll (kept getting told off by the floor manager). So genuinely happy to be doing his thing. Happy memories.
Yess mr good life 😊
I remember him fondly. He was warm up for Wogan too when i worked there. He was all shook up after car accident. The following week we were on the same train/tube and we got chatting and he appreciated it. He even kindly gave us tickets to the last Hi De Hi and yes continuing amusing us inbetween takes. He was such a lovely man bless him.
This is without doubt my favourite comedy series, all the cast were faultless I just loved the idea of a Punch and Judy man who didnt like kids and of course it's ,also brilliantly written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, I have the whole series on DVD and in these uncertain times at the moment you carn,t beat your favourite tipple, your favourite armchair and a good helping of HI. DE. HI.
hee hee sounds great mate!
Loved Hi de Hi !!! its still on the TV here in New Zealand
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It's still airing on Gold in the UK (where the show was made)
The Puppeteer who hated children, Hysterical !
Jimmy Savile hated children, but he still raped them!
ha ha lol! And he always had a bottle of something on the go :0)
It was a LOVELY sit-com !!
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It was great how they all had schemes going down .. but when trouble hit they would cover for each other !!
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Thanks for the video. I once stayed at the holiday camp where this was filmed I don't think it's there anymore.
Thanks for the info! Good old days 😊
A great old show now. A great throwback to a different era and made by many veterans of the British holiday camp era who would have remembered family holidays at the real thing.
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Used to love this one, another classic. Some of these characters I never even knew they had passed on..😎👍👍
yes mate😊 was actually a big sitcom in the day 👍
I'd completely forgotten that David Griffin was in this. I remember him mainly as Emmet in Keeping up Appearances. Light bulb moment . Thanks for jogging my memory. 😄
Thats ok mate thanks for watching! 😊
Used to really enjoy Hi di Hi !!👍
Same here! mate
I live in the town where this was filmed, my house is actually where the camp used to be ☺️
Wow nice one! Dovercourt?
I used to live in that town down gravel hill way and used to play on the site as a kid when it was derelict before the estate went up.
Must of been 1992 at a guess and I think it was call tall acres?
Some fantastic characters. It will be an important part of British comedy forever.
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I doubt it! Theyll decide it was racist before long !!!
@@johnsaunders2109 you’re right! There will always be the perpetually offended brigade that will find something offensive about it!!
Awesome, I was probably 6 when this was on... god i loved it... I wanted to be an entertainer at a holiday camp - sadly the way youth and families have changed I decided just to concentrate on theatre work and my musicianship and it all worked out ok, but, they hey day of simple family entertainment and holidays in the UK is something not lost on me in my 37th year. Well done Mark Mahoney, nice insert there at the beginning😃😃😃😃
Very cool!
I recently enjoyed watching the repeats on Drama ,keeped up my spirits during lockdown.
It was never the same after Simon Cadel left no disrespect to David Griffin who must of known he had a hard act to follow. Did you know Simon Cadel was David Crofts son in law? Dads army also by Perry and Croft is my absolute favorite, I watch it every Saturday night.
Thanks for the info, no never knew that mate! 👍i liked simons character! I did warm to David to
My pleasure!
Agree about Simon Cadell. For best comedy results, the other characters needed a strait-laced type like Jeffrey to bounce off. Clive was just a bit too much like yet another chancer along with all the rest.
BTW, did you know Diane Holland was Jimmy Perry's sister-in-law?
Yes I did know ,but thanks anyway. Agree about Cadell being a good straight man.
Dads Army, It ain't alf ot Mum, Hi de Hi, and even the somewhat underrated You Rang M'Lord?, must all be in the Top Twenty sit coms of all time ! As for Geoffrey and Clive, they were both excellent, but Geoffrey straight laced persona was absolutely hilarious, especially when he was introducing the latest lowest ot the low competition! This type of scene could not be done with Clive!
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I remember seeing Felix Bowness performing on the IoW at Sandown Pier back in the 60's and again later doing cabaret, I think in Brighton. A very funny man and highly accomplished musician. Thanks for the memories Felix R.I.P.
Ah cool ok nice one! I think he lived his later years around Reading?
Yea. He was an amazing man. My hero. Absolutely hilarious. Miss him very much. So nice that people still remember him.
Yes i remember him well in Hi-de-Hi! i read his wiki page it states he was a popular warm up act for morecombe and wise! It briefly mentions you christopher 👌👍
Mark Mahoney yes. That was his main gig being a warm up man at the bbc. This is your life 1985. I was on it, only 11 months old. He was a born entertainer. Thank you so much for your kind words, he would love it.
Your welcome! I can see he was a very talented man! From the war and being a boxing champion! To his warm up days and later roles! He must have had a great life!👌
I remember this coming on tv when I was a kid in the 80s, I think it finished in 1989 ? I remember watching it, though being young I didn't always get all the jokes. Its shown on UKTV Gold regularly, it's so funny and reminds me of Saturday night's as a kid. I love the Punch and Judy man, he was always drunk and hated kids !.🤣
Hee hee yes he was a rascal! Yes 1988?
@@MarkMahoney I thought it was 89. I remember when Mr Partridge left, he dressed up a dummy put a knife in it's back and chucked it in the pool. They all thought it he had been murdered and didn't realise it was a dummy until the police pulled it out. Great show.
@Uncle Sam thanks I thought it was around 89, I can remember watching it as a kid. In 88 I was 10/11 and it was part of Saturday evening TV. Watching it on Gold brings back good memories.
@@raedavis1697 youd never get a dark character like him.in an American series, but we find such characters hilarious !
@@MarkMahoney 1988.
One of the best sit coms ever. Its a Joy to watch fantastic cast good clean fun they don't make them like that any more
I love this show watch it all the time wow jonathan aris looks like his dad if they ever do a remake they should cast him as the part his dad played very much so
My all time favourite sitcom
Great series and such wonderful characters so well performed by a fine band of actors. Simon Cadell's death so young is still shocking, however, his work is superb and Jeffrey Fairbrother his finest creation, As far as I am aware Chris Andrews and the Webb Twins are still with us.
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Think the Twins live locally. One used to teach guitar.
Lovely memories of a wonderfully funny show. Thank you!👍🏻
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Great show, got the dvds. Reminds me of childhood holidays at Pontins Prestatyn to an extent. Very cleverly written, like all the best sitcoms, plenty of pathos to go with the laughs. Spawned lots of catchphrases too, not just hi de hi but Peggy’s I want to be a yellowcoat, don’t tell Miss Cathcart and Ted’s first rule of comedy! They really went for those big laughs too, esp Su Pollard. I loved the you have been watching end titles sequence too.
Thanks for sharing!
probs my favourite family orientated sit com ever .. I wish the BBC would repeat them on primetime )))
It was a totally different world when this was originally shown on TV. No computers, no mobile phones but i believe happier people and better times
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PHIL BURTOFT I totally agree with you hundred per cent
No social media.....the scourge of society.
@@Clem_Fandango11 What are you talking about? Thank God that WE DO have social media, the establishment ALWAYS lie, when you are doing bad shit you have to
Yes indeed, Old Son! Couldn't agree more. Happier times.
Absolutely loved Hi De Hi - great entertainment!
Yes 70s and 80s great time for light entertainment!
Bing bong bong good morning campers loved them all
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Especially Partridges usual response of ' Silly Cow !'
Great video Mark .. thank you
Thankyou Mate!
These then & nows are fantastic nostalgia, thank you.
Cheers mate yes really interesting stuff 👍
It’s very weird that I remember Hi-de Hi on BBC1 but I was probably too young to enjoy it properly then. I really enjoyed the re runs on BBC2 not so long ago. Sadly so many of these stars have passed on along with the post war British holiday camp heyday. But sadly that’s the way of things and I’ll pass on to leave room for younger generations.
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I always had a thing for Ruth Madoc , she was well tidy !!
Nikki Kelly for me, yum, yum.......
both delightful
"I mean she's properly stacked", Ted Bovis, S08E01
Ruth Madoc - what a body! Linda Reagan gets the silver medal! ( how did Brian Murphy manage to pull her!). ' Sylvia' , a long way back in Bronze !
Nikki Kelly - best legs on TV at the time! Yes the others may have shaded her in looks but what a body 😍
Great TV from back in the day !
back in the day i like it! 👌👍
Great video!
Thanks for the visit!
Pure entertainment. Never fails to put a smile on my face!😀
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I saw Barry Howard on Bournemouth Pier and in their cafe on the pier he spoke and enjoyed a chat with him He used to live just up the road in Boscombe not far from Bournemouth
thats real nice gloria! a few celebrities choose bournemouth area to live i noticed
One of my favourite comedys. So glad there was no pc then. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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The Warners holiday camp @Dovercourt, where the series was filmed is now a housing estate. The BBC TV crew took over the place at the end of the summer season, and it was a nice little earner for Warners. Such a shame its gone.
why do all good things come to an end
And the Cliff Hotel in Dovercourt (Marine Parade seafront ) where the cast and crew stayed was demolished last year as well !.
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I prefer nostalgia over progress.....
@@glpilpi6209 and replaced with 20 flats, a 61-bed hotel and a bar/restaurant!
love it :0)
sad dawn the yellowcoat is missed out again, as she never seems to feature in these types of videos, she was played by laura jackson and was absolutely lovely, i had a huge crush on her back then.
As a child i stayed at this camp. It was Warners Dovercourt Bay. The holiday camps were a paradise for children. I thought the last ever episode was very sad as Maplins closed the camp because Brits were now going abroad for their hols. It was the end of an era
OLD IS GOLD 💯
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My favourite programme ever. It was this show that inspired me to become a red coat for Butlins!
that's great!! 😊 how was being a redcoat? it always looked so much fun but I can imagine it was stressful!
@@MarkMahoney best job in the world! Loved every minute of it x
@@MsCharley13 😊 was you bognor? I bet you have a few tales to tell!!x
I used to watch this show mainly to see Ruth Madoc, I thought she was beautiful.
Yess very attractive lady!
Understatement of the year!,Has any woman filled a uniform so fully ?!? And dont start me on her flimsy bodice when she was in the Town Float !!!
Perry and Croft...the kings of nostalgia...when England..the empire..were.....
But they're far from 'dewy eyed ' about it! That's what makes them so good!
cheers mark
Welcome mate
Good video. Some have aged really well.
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British comedy at its best xxx
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Still makes me smile simple uncomplicated funx
Yesss the 3 magic words! :)
@Mark I met Felix Bowness in Ventnor Isle Of Wight many many yrs ago while I waz in a Marching Band
Met Geoffrey Holland and Ian who played ted all I can say is true gentlemen ,so pleased that their work was appreciated ,great show sadly nothing is made like this now the last great sitcom was dinner ladies now it all rubbish on Tv thank God for DVD and down loads so we can still enjoy true talent
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Richard Cottan who played Marty Storm in the early episodes is still with us.
Good one mate, thanks
He was fairly young!
Great video well done.... Good to see most of the yellow coats also. I loved Mr Partridge played brilliantly by Leslie Dwyer also Christopher's grandad Fred Quilly the Demented jockey. Please no offence it's how Joe Maplin always described him. He was David Crofts go to warm up man he also did Wogans audience's. My favourite ever episode was SING YOU SINNERS What was yours ???
Thanks! On the motley?when Ted thinks he has a chance of stardom
Ted to Yvonne: You stick to the quick, quick slows Ginger. We'll do the funnies.
Barry to Yvonne (holding his dungarees up): I wish you would learn to sew the buttons on properly. I only did this (lifts arms) and they popped off like a catapult.
Thanks for the upload, happy childhood memories. Casting on the show, was amazing.......
Glad you enjoyed it
My wife hates the fact I'd rather watch. Repeats of, Dear John, Brush strokes, ever decreasing circles, Auf Wiedersehen Pet, etc. Cannot beat 80s sitcoms & drama.....
The Perry and Croft curse, people from their sitcoms seem to drop like flies
People age and die! Fact of life
sad but true
I wish the surviving cast would do something together. A reunion would be great.
Yes would be great!👌👍
Wouldn't mind a one to one meeting with Ruth Madoc or Linda Reagan !!!
I really fancied ruth madoc at the time
something about her yes
A real woman with proper curves!!!
I met Sue Pollard in Mablethorpe, It made my week. A lovely woman has time for everyone even nutter fans like me.
thats great! yes she strikes me as that sort of person
@Mike Barratt haha yes i can imagine! She seems grateful for everything! I like that alot!
Like Jones in Dads Army, Peggy was an intensely irritating character, but vital to.the plot and comedy !
Liked Hi-de-hi growing up, at first when first aired I was fascinated with the end credits, not what was going on in the show itself, then as I got older - obviously discovered the opposite sex!, watching repeats I got obsessed with Nikki Kelly especially her legs! Had a huge crush on her ha
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Rikki howard right fit great figure
I like you're channel but can you slow it down a little, moves along too quickly!
Thanks for watching! Yes i get you! il try add on an extra second or 2, to each clip in future 👍
Never a huge fan of this, but Simon Cadell has been dead for over 24years....where the hell is time going!
Yes i loved it but not everyones cup of tea! And yes time just flying by😯
Chris Andrews who was a prominent singer-songwriter in the 60s was born in 1942...
ah nice one!!👍
Wrong Chris Andrews I have met the real one he sold records in a shop in Islington
This has got to be banned for being so funny
Hi-de-Hi UA-cam
Can you do one for will Hay
now thats a challenge! 👌👍
Will Hay loved Astronomy and was an accomplished pilot .
@@drsyn9616 Yes he had a yes he had a large telescope in his garden
Paul Shane singing on daytime tv...oh dear....
You lost that loving feeling??lol A for effort from him
Yes!,What possessed him ?!?
Linda Regan is married to Brian Murphy. George from George and Mildred. What a lucky guy, waking up with her every morning.....
Thanks for the info!
He's 27yrs older than her!
@@mrlister2000 Lucky tw@t.....and I don't mean twit......
@@karmafuture He looks younger now than when he was in George & Mildred!
Lucky guy 😊
Why didn’t you put their character names in?
soz 🙏
@@MarkMahoney do it again and put their character names in
@@beckyneopolitan8945 il try it's just hard to edit them in now beckster
@@MarkMahoney ok thank you! ☺️👍
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Looks like Simon Cadell has been reincarnated as the Health Secretary!
Hee hee
Nikki Kelly still looks good now.
yesss 😊👌
Not as good as Linda Reagan !
No mention of Susan Beagley who played Tracey Bentward...
I did try to include her but i genuinely couldnt find a recent now picture (1990 was the laatest)
@@MarkMahoney what about the lovely laura jackson who played dawn cant find anything about her.
So... What became of Susan Beagley? She was a main character. Is she still with us, or has she passed away?
still alive just can't find nothing about her
@@MarkMahoney thanks for replying. However, somebody, somewhere must have some info about her. It's like Pat Ashton, who appeared in a few eps of On the Buses, and in Two of the films. You can't find anything of interest about her.
Why were Paul Shane and Simon Cadell left out?!?
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Hi di hi di hi ho di ho di hooo 😃
I’m from the US and was unaware of this series but I know and like many Britcoms and I have a question. Was Paul Shane some sort of early cloning success story and if so was Ronnie Barker aware his DNA was used in the process.
Hi yes was actually popular in its day, i'm not really sure what you mean!?
@@MarkMahoney It’s on Britbox and I’ve started watching and enjoying it. My comment was a joke and what I thought would be a very obvious one. They look almost identical to the point that before I made my comment I checked to see if they were brothers that used different professional names like George Sanders and Tom Conway. And beyond appearance even his speech pattern and his delivery of lines seems, to me at least identical except Barker in Open all Hours. I’ve enjoyed Ronnie Barker for years and this is my first exposure to Mr Shane the similarities seemed obvious but I’m not saying anything negative about Mr Shane or saying he was a hack trying to steal Ronnie Barkers persona and I meant no offense to his memory or to you.
@@bumpusjones.1978 ah I see yes I get you! 😊 I just genuinely don't see any resemblance lol all interesting stuff
@@MarkMahoney LOOK AT THEM AGAIN, just kidding.
Haha ok I will
It is very weird to put the Birth date on the Old Faces! Thumb DOWN!
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Di you JUST do videos about whether people have died or not?
Sadly I did come across a couple of this lot during my theatre career. Barry Howard who was a pantomime dame and was so horrible he had to be warned about interfering with technical equipment and that the drencher cable wasn't for hanging his clothes on. Quite a nasty man.
Paul Shane tried to book me to do sound on his dodgy tour which was cancelled after the hilarious but rather cringe worthy Pebble Mill incident. Nice guy but, boy could he not sing to save his life lol.
hi sophie yes i remember his performance of pebble mill i didnt think it was bad! 😊 what did you do in theatre? tell me more, sound real interesting!!
Paul Shane- one of the worse singers I’ve ever heard.
☺ Grade A for effort though
@J0hNF_UK 😊👌👍