Spoilsport
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Fenella was even more terrifying than davros.
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From Wikipedia , the untruths are far more enjoyable than the truths .
To avoid the ire of Richard , I have sanitised the references
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Loved Mr Benn
G
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Here Here 
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Love the bowler hat!
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So there was no Seaman Stains either? 
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Well quite.
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Was that possibly a pun? 
If it was the one on BBC 4 the other night I had to turn it off when some therp started banging on about his relatives being leftist/marxist and then trying to say that the clangers had political undertones.
Not seen the latest doc, but I’m sure I recall one of the ‘voices’ of the Clangers saying they were imagining some very fruity sayings as they performed the lines on the swanee whistle.
I think Postgate did grind a few political axes in his programmes (the mice on the mouse organ, IIRC) and didn’t he go a bit Brexity in later years?
Mark
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Memories are not so great. My mother bought my clothes from the army surplus store.
For a boy of 13 dressed in a Polish officers jacket was very caused a laugh.
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Not sure whether this is meant to be a joke or not - the link to Oliver Postgate though completely escapes me
I think Brian means memories of childhood, which this thread celebrates (through the medium of TV) - maybe Brian never had a telly. We (well, my Mum) only had a colour one in the 80s…that was a shock for her!
We had a secondhand B&W telly in the kitchen when I was growing up and I used to get bumped into there if there was nothing else to do on a Sunday afternoon except watch some telly, typically old movies.
Imagine my surprise when I saw ‘A Matter of Life and Death’ on the proper TV for the first time and discovered half of it was in colour!
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‘One is starved for Technicolour in heaven!’
AMOLAD is my favourite film
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Since Brian has helpfully reminded us that Childhood memories are the essence of the thread …
But sticking with TV …
Muffin the Mule was closely followed by Andy Pandy, Bill and Ben the Flowerpot Men and of course, Sooty.
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I can just about remember the woodentops too way back in the mists of time!