Back in the olden days, things like the London Weekend Show with Janet Street-Porter or even Nationwide often approached pop culture. Not to mention the live TV shows for kids and Pebble Mill at One. The item appeared on TV just the once and was never seen again. For the more bizarre memories, you begin to wonder if you made them up in your head.
I remember Gaz Top (chirpy kids TV presenter) doing some outside broadcast on a Saturday morning show. Mark Knopfler appears! And he’s having a go at riding a unicycle! He’s having a great time and laughing his head off. He was well established at this point, post Brothers in Arms, so no real need or pressure to do Saturday morning kids TV, I’d have thought. I remember being astonished. I thought he was a thoughtful, mumblin” kinda guy who was only happy in the studio. Yet there he is, the life and soul of the party.
I’m aware that the whole scene sounds like a Vic & Bob imagined scenario but I swear that this is not the case, I believe I saw this.
If you can confirm this, I will redirect my next hamper to your home address. But it also makes me wonder whether you have any similar memories of one-off TV appearances?
This doesn’t really fit the brief, but it definitely comes under the heading of Did I Really See That?
Why is the big L wearing a yellow plastic bag instead of a groovy shirt? Perhaps he wasn’t happy with the top he was given and had a hissy fit backstage.
(read this line in Liberace’s voice) “That’s what the kids call a “caftan” nowadays, and all the mod young folk are wearing them!”
Kaisfatdad shared that a few weeks ago and it has haunted my dreams since. The level of squareness on display can not be represented with Euclidian geometry.
I used to love the Amazing Kreskin in the 1970`s and was delighted to find the episode where he convinces the studio audience that the aliens are landing! 18:30 in
I remember that show too. Get a local am dram group- give them a briefing and off you go.
Adopts look of intense concentration while placing thumbs on temples and fingers on forehead
I”M GETTING A CLEAR MENTAL IMAGE OF THE LETTER J!
IS ANYONE IN THE AUDIENCE CALLED….JOHN?
…JEFF??
…JAKE???
…JOAN????
Do you mean this sort of thing?
Robert Plant was a fairly regular visitor to Tiswas. Often just hanging around in the crowd. Rumor is he was the Phantom Flan Flinger a couple of times
Tiswas often had a eclectic guest list. It was on Tiswas that Lemmy discovered not all the Nolan Sisters were quite as clean cut as they appeared
Sometime during the mid 1980s, Tyne Tees had their own local music show, show exclusively in the region.
One week they did a review of the hard rock/heavy metal VHS videos currently available from one Newcastle store, and roped in elderly Wearside commedian Bobby Thompson to ‘review’ them. The said reviews were nothing more than Thompson reading out the name of the act or video title, which he then worked into one of his old jokes – eg. “Twisted Sister – tha wife has a twisted sister ….”
I had his single “When I was a Lad”. I don’t know why or how. I remember a phase of buying “pot-luck” single packages from a local record shop – 5 for a pound. Basically, you could see the top one and the bottom one, so if either of those were OK and you would have bought it anyway, it’s a pretty good deal.
Five forra pund, surely.
Eee, ah divvent knaa…
When I first moved to the North East, every charity shop I ever went to seemed to contain a copy of The Little Waster.