I saw Don Estelle, in his 'Lofty' costume, under a small marquee in Basingstoke town centre, singing 'Rhinestone Cowboy' An unsold pile of cassettes on a trestle table. One of the most brutally tragic things I've witnessed
the irony is that the Universal New York set that appears was actually used in Frost/Nixon to depict the exteriors of LWT and surrounding London area, but was deleted in the final print, replaced with a 70s stock shot of the London Studios @@TheUnfinishedSynth It was also used as London (specifically Streatham) in those Murder, She Wrotes.
The heads in the sand section from 6:30 reminded me of Caligula's Wall Of Death in that Malcolm McDowell film. Frost getting to play out his Caligula fantasy.
Funny how most of the alumni from the 60s satirical boom later became involved in utter shit like this. And this channel is gold, showing us how crap the past was, love it.
And he wrote the Hinge And Bracket TV series (they outlined what they wanted, he went away and wrote it, then they adjusted it as needed). Apparently not precious at all if they wanted to replace his lines with their own and was good to work with.
I went to Beaulieu Motor Museum as a child in the eighties and I'm still haunted by that Outspan-mobile. It's like some citric acid fueled episode of The Prisoner.
'Please Mr Frost, I just want to go home, I haven't been home in so long I can't remember what my family look like and my 2 weeks of Annual Leave from work expired 7 months ago'
Message from my brother - “has the guy who does the Barrymore videos done any on Noel's house party?” Naturally tried to direct him to the House Party Hell shorts, only to find they’ve mysteriously vanished. So what happened, has Edmonds got to you, Guy Who Does The Barrymore Videos? PS David Frost is more Partridge than Partridge in this video - the suit, the hair, the script, the voice, the mannerisms. There were a couple of times I had to do a double take to be sure it wasn’t Partridge.
@@StuartMillard Edmonds and Blobby controlling all of UA-cam from a dark room deep inside their abandoned Crinkley Bottom theme park. It's a sinister thought.
When I was 6/7 Ultra Quiz was the most exciting thing on TV. This lot turning up has been my holy grail. It's every bit as fantastic, exciting and boring as I remembered. A show that lured you in 1000 people, all the B and C listers you could want, barking mad carnage, and then ends up on 16mm film abroad doing a pub quiz in a lift. Series 3 is shocking in comparison. The same content stretched across an hour with 2 presenters fresh from Crackerjack. The Alan Harding dancers doing excoriating routines with D lister guests. Episode 1 is worth viewing along for the dive of death guy. A genuinely thrilling bit of TV, Pity he died shortly after TX doing the very same stunt, It's like a weird cross between Summertime Special (which replaced it the next year) and Ultra Quiz as we know it. The Blackpool episode of series 3 being notable for the fact that Les Dennis and Dustin Gee have been booked but poor old Dustin has just had his first heart attack. They literally helicoptered Bella Emburg from Bournemouth (she's in Summer season with Russ) to give Les someone to work with! Anyway I could rattle on all day about Ultra Quiz and I will to anyone who will listen.
I was only 11 was UQ85 was on - and I loved it, but watching it now on here, it's pretty awful stuff. I just loved Sara Hollamby because of Crackerjack and even then she was in 4th place after Sally Anne Triplett, Leigh Miles and Julie Brown.
From the credits looks like British Caledonian flew them for free (or at least the transatlantic route) in return for a BCAL DC10 featuring in the titles. Although not officially you understand as the IBA would have done their nut.
why the hell are you knocking bully's prize board? don't you know every one of those prizes were hand-picked from an argos catalogue the day before. they even had a fur coat once, which must have been a few hundred quid. £10,000 in the mid-80s really wasn't that much. might just get you a unreasonable sized 2-bed house.
I think it was allowed because it ran over several weeks. More dodgy is the obvious BCAL DC10 in the titles when BCAL are clearly thanked in the end credits (presumably for flights).
I vaguely remember the 1985 iteration of this with Stu "Ooh! I could crush a grape!" Francis as the host. I can only remember two challenges from the show. The first was contestants finding objects in a haystack against the clock. The other challenge entailed contestants having to do mental arithmetic; reading off signs as they hurtled downhill on a toboggan simulator (go-carts on rails). Then at the very end, I remember the grand prize being presented in huge stacks of £1 coins. (NB: These memories may be subject to The Mandela Effect).
I didn't want to nitpick the video but yeah - the one here is a car. Malcolm and Donald Campbell used the bluebird name on both land and water speed record vehicles, but the boat that killed Donald is probably the most famous one at this point so it's easy enough to see where the mixup could happen
Looking through your excellent videos, I'm constantly surprised at how stiff and awkward presenters are whenever they have to do small talk. Who in the world goes up to someone they've never met and ask "still working, are you?". How were any of us ever born when even people who are paid to talk to other people seem to have crippling social anxiety???
@@kildogery Mrs Chinny, who met him a few times, thought he was being genuine at the end. They had two contestants with good backstories that we don't really hear about until the final episode. The money was genuinely life changing.
@@kildogery Someone wise to such things told me that while Frost did the serious stuff, he also liked doing light entertainment shows and he would have loved to have been asked to host something like Sunday Night At The London Palladium. He wanted to do it all and not be stuck in just one area.
Lest we forget, behind the glamour of 1984 big prize game shows was Thatcherite mass unemployment. I wonder what Linda's business was she started with the money and whether she lost it all.
Just one video this month, cos I was absolutely riddled with Covid, which is why my voice is wrecked. I'm much better now, thanks for asking.
Take care
So much for it being over. (I had the bloody thing last month.)
Drop of bleach in the old varicose will see you right.
Take care mate, always love your content, get well soon
All the money for the wonder drug well spent eh?
I saw Don Estelle, in his 'Lofty' costume, under a small marquee in Basingstoke town centre, singing 'Rhinestone Cowboy' An unsold pile of cassettes on a trestle table. One of the most brutally tragic things I've witnessed
I also felt that when I saw Basingstoke.
I love that this gloriously expensive show looks like a cheap infomercial all the way through. Some achievement that.
Yes. Incredible how every single city, no matter how interesting, looks like it could be Croydon. Excellent effort on the innovative filming, guys.
@@medievalist Haha.
the irony is that the Universal New York set that appears was actually used in Frost/Nixon to depict the exteriors of LWT and surrounding London area, but was deleted in the final print, replaced with a 70s stock shot of the London Studios @@TheUnfinishedSynth It was also used as London (specifically Streatham) in those Murder, She Wrotes.
Ah all the sights of LA, like the famous drive through Burger King.
Don't know why everyone gets excited about LA. Horrible place.
The heads in the sand section from 6:30 reminded me of Caligula's Wall Of Death in that Malcolm McDowell film. Frost getting to play out his Caligula fantasy.
They should have actually done that instead, and saved everyone from havimg to sit through another 8 weeks of it
Stu Francis and Cannon & Ball - the line up from hell.
Jim Davidson turns up as a sidekick in ep 1 of series 3 and within 0.7 nanoseconds is doing his "Chalky White" voices.
Just when you thought it could not get any worse.
We really did suffer back in the day.
'Hell on Sea'
@@B3tanTyronne I believe there's a circus animal with an erection later on in the same episode.
Jimmy on the train with the kiddies *awkward*
Funny how most of the alumni from the 60s satirical boom later became involved in utter shit like this. And this channel is gold, showing us how crap the past was, love it.
The Outspan car was always in the local carnivals back in the 80s
Hockey player henchwomen was a novel idea, very st Trinians
I mean, in Gyles Brandreth's defence, he did quit being an MP because he found Tory voters to be so utterly revolting.
Presumably the ones in Chester who swung to Labour and lost him the seat in 1997?
@@JasonC1782 He didn't exactly rush back.
And he wrote the Hinge And Bracket TV series (they outlined what they wanted, he went away and wrote it, then they adjusted it as needed). Apparently not precious at all if they wanted to replace his lines with their own and was good to work with.
As he tells us on every episode of _Just a Minute._
@@pipster1891 That counts as a public service.
I went to Beaulieu Motor Museum as a child in the eighties and I'm still haunted by that Outspan-mobile. It's like some citric acid fueled episode of The Prisoner.
I can assure you, as of a few years ago it's still there. As is Bluebird, although I didn't check to see if the corpse of John Inman was inside.
I got to ride in the thing when it came to our local country fair in the 90s. I've never felt such immediate motion sickness, an awful experience.
I bloody LOVED this show as a kid
10:25, most Partridge moment I've ever seen
'Please Mr Frost, I just want to go home, I haven't been home in so long I can't remember what my family look like and my 2 weeks of Annual Leave from work expired 7 months ago'
David Frost really went the full Alan Partridge in this.
Message from my brother - “has the guy who does the Barrymore videos done any on Noel's house party?”
Naturally tried to direct him to the House Party Hell shorts, only to find they’ve mysteriously vanished. So what happened, has Edmonds got to you, Guy Who Does The Barrymore Videos?
PS David Frost is more Partridge than Partridge in this video - the suit, the hair, the script, the voice, the mannerisms. There were a couple of times I had to do a double take to be sure it wasn’t Partridge.
I had to delete them unfortunately because they got my channel demonetised. Bleedin' Blobby!
@@StuartMillard Edmonds and Blobby controlling all of UA-cam from a dark room deep inside their abandoned Crinkley Bottom theme park. It's a sinister thought.
I was a 16 year old idiot in 1984. How can it be that I have absolutely no recollection of this? Has dementia set in?
Same here.
When I was 6/7 Ultra Quiz was the most exciting thing on TV. This lot turning up has been my holy grail. It's every bit as fantastic, exciting and boring as I remembered. A show that lured you in 1000 people, all the B and C listers you could want, barking mad carnage, and then ends up on 16mm film abroad doing a pub quiz in a lift.
Series 3 is shocking in comparison. The same content stretched across an hour with 2 presenters fresh from Crackerjack. The Alan Harding dancers doing excoriating routines with D lister guests. Episode 1 is worth viewing along for the dive of death guy. A genuinely thrilling bit of TV, Pity he died shortly after TX doing the very same stunt, It's like a weird cross between Summertime Special (which replaced it the next year) and Ultra Quiz as we know it.
The Blackpool episode of series 3 being notable for the fact that Les Dennis and Dustin Gee have been booked but poor old Dustin has just had his first heart attack. They literally helicoptered Bella Emburg from Bournemouth (she's in Summer season with Russ) to give Les someone to work with!
Anyway I could rattle on all day about Ultra Quiz and I will to anyone who will listen.
Series 3 is simultaneously the best and worst thing ever broadcast, and needless to say, a video all about it is already in the can.
@@StuartMillard That Ghostbusters routine. Jeeez! The kind of stuff Alan Harding would do in Summertime Special but with Lulu in the middle of it all.
@@chinnyvision I punched the air when Kenny's head appeared round the side of the crypt.
I was only 11 was UQ85 was on - and I loved it, but watching it now on here, it's pretty awful stuff. I just loved Sara Hollamby because of Crackerjack and even then she was in 4th place after Sally Anne Triplett, Leigh Miles and Julie Brown.
What station was this broadcast on?
It probally cost them more than £10,000 just to travel everyone taking part to all the places in the world Each episode combined though.
From the credits looks like British Caledonian flew them for free (or at least the transatlantic route) in return for a BCAL DC10 featuring in the titles. Although not officially you understand as the IBA would have done their nut.
I once asked my (very posh) uncle, who knew Lord Montague what he was like. He said he was, "an ok chap, quite pleasant. Very bad breath though".
why the hell are you knocking bully's prize board? don't you know every one of those prizes were hand-picked from an argos catalogue the day before. they even had a fur coat once, which must have been a few hundred quid. £10,000 in the mid-80s really wasn't that much. might just get you a unreasonable sized 2-bed house.
The £30,000 equivalent today wouldn't.
Hope you’re on the mend Stuart. ‘Gay Paris until the name changed…’ WTF!
Oh look it's uncle Jimmy and his young friends...
Thanks for confirming just how shit the decade I was born was. I had my suspicions
It was awful. Thatcher's decade. Still, looks like glory days compared to the 2020s.
Always interesting to see the old racist Jungle Cruise
Can’t remember this one…but I remember QD The Master Game hosted by Lisa Aziz and Tim Brooke-Taylor (RIP)
Gino Ginelli- the classic Britalian ice cream
I wonder if the IBA asked a few questions about that £10K prize in light of their stringent restrictions on game show winnings...
I think it was allowed because it ran over several weeks. More dodgy is the obvious BCAL DC10 in the titles when BCAL are clearly thanked in the end credits (presumably for flights).
Willy.
I dunno will he?
I vaguely remember the 1985 iteration of this with Stu "Ooh! I could crush a grape!" Francis as the host. I can only remember two challenges from the show. The first was contestants finding objects in a haystack against the clock. The other challenge entailed contestants having to do mental arithmetic; reading off signs as they hurtled downhill on a toboggan simulator (go-carts on rails). Then at the very end, I remember the grand prize being presented in huge stacks of £1 coins. (NB: These memories may be subject to The Mandela Effect).
Zambezi...
Victoria Falls is on the Zambezi...
John Inman inside a Blue Bird?
I say!
The Japanese version that this was based on was brutal
My dad worked on this. I’ll show him your clip 😂
You're really fucking good, at what you do!
Wasn't the Blue bird a land speed record car? And not a boat?
I didn't want to nitpick the video but yeah - the one here is a car. Malcolm and Donald Campbell used the bluebird name on both land and water speed record vehicles, but the boat that killed Donald is probably the most famous one at this point so it's easy enough to see where the mixup could happen
Nice ‘Runaround’ reference. To think TFI did awarding an audience so much better without this nonsense.
Looking through your excellent videos, I'm constantly surprised at how stiff and awkward presenters are whenever they have to do small talk. Who in the world goes up to someone they've never met and ask "still working, are you?". How were any of us ever born when even people who are paid to talk to other people seem to have crippling social anxiety???
Ultra Quiz is such an impressively shit name.
Thanks, this looks like it was shit.
The gay Paris, line was pure Partridge 🫡
Haha, his voice cracking at the end, was even more Partridge.
I forgot how cringe Frost was.
@@kildogery Mrs Chinny, who met him a few times, thought he was being genuine at the end. They had two contestants with good backstories that we don't really hear about until the final episode. The money was genuinely life changing.
@@chinnyvision oh yeah, I've no doubt he was genuine. It's just funny, compared to his Frost V Nixon persona.
He's a light hearted TV anchor.
@@kildogery Someone wise to such things told me that while Frost did the serious stuff, he also liked doing light entertainment shows and he would have loved to have been asked to host something like Sunday Night At The London Palladium. He wanted to do it all and not be stuck in just one area.
@@chinnyvision I'll always remember him for through the Keyhole.
It's what he would have wanted.
Wow ! Frost with a " you show um " at the end there is the most Partridge thing i've ever seen..............
Lest we forget, behind the glamour of 1984 big prize game shows was Thatcherite mass unemployment. I wonder what Linda's business was she started with the money and whether she lost it all.