Quite simply, as a variation to our excellent Just One Smack series, anyone care to nominate actresses or even actors who deserved more than that & got away without anything?

You may wish to nominate for the characters they portray, or their thespic skills, or both. Or something else entirely!

Gaby Rodgers in Kiss Me Deadly(1955). Very bad behaviour here with a purloined atomic briefcase. Definite trip to the Headmistress for the cane is worth considering,Micky Spillane novel or not-VERY bad girl. OK, she does come to a bad end, but should be resurrected for the purposes of a due disciplinary date.

Susan Shaw & the other "gels" in Fire Maidens From Outer Space(1956). All dance around in mini-togas, don't give out a hint of sexiness, dancing ability or anything except extreme embarassment. I think appearance in what has GOT to be the worst British movie ever merits 4 of the slipper,six for Miss Shaw, as the lead.

As the Fire Maidens purport to inhabit the 13th moon of Jupiter(which bears a startling resemblance to the Hog's Back off the A3 near Guildford!), AND don't explain how they got there from the lost continent of Atlantis either, we might just extend that to a really sound spanking at a specially-convened assembly,gentlemen!

And finally Beverley Garland in Roger Corman's unforgettable It Conquered the World(1956). Anyone that can walk in a sweater that tight should have shown better domestic science skills in buying their washing powder in the first place.

She also deserves it for emoting with all seriousness to a killer Cucumber from Venus that is mounted on a trolley in a cave & kills people by sending out rubber bats to bite them with paralyzing serum:"I hate you;I hate your living green guts" before the far-from-invisible film assistant pushes the trolley of doom at her.

Lee Van Cleef doubles as Bev's husband and the plonker that brought the cucumber down & contacted it in the first place, so Ms Garland should have some long runner beans put to novel use across the back of her equally-tight skirt by hubby.

Over to you!


Steve M

Steve, how much time and space do you have? I think you've created a monster here! I'm sure Ketta, Mimi, Paul B and Danny will have something to contribute also, not to mention the Honourable Bozo.

The cast of Lost In Space-the original television series gets my vote. And William Shattner's performance of Capt Kirk in Star Trek is another one. Sane on minute and complete out of his tree the next. Why he never complained about the scripts is beyond me.

Theres something insidious about hollywood on screen spankings.
i remember as a kid spanking or any reference to it was very taboo.
very underground.
"gay"was even further buried.
hence when musicians like lou reed released albums like transformer
it contained subtle images and messages that were extremly rare outre
and very exciting to the supressed masses.
it wasnt so much a question of daring as arousing conciousness
saying hey look are you thinking what im thinking?
click.
the onscreen spankings created a feeling of great excitment inside to the young ovbserver.
Remember spanking porn was nil for teens ,zero and I mean zero!at this time outside a very few big city adult porno stores.
the nearest one came to it was the rare "Carrie" series in Mayfair where once "Carrie"was caned BB ove r a desk.You MIGHT get the ODD suggestive photo in SEARCH or RELATE still coming out of the SPick and Span era.
(BUT mainly these were swamped by bizarre rubber mack stuff.)
So you can imagine the first Janus which was probably the first ever wholly regular Spanking magazine ever seen in the UK(imagine the first ever Gay magazine in world history!)seemed like IT.So when McClintock came on with its 15 minute Maureen O Hara build up in and out the water butt(still THE sexiest vintage spanking on celluoid I maintain!)in her frilly Victorian drawers...remember this stuff was NOT documented AT ALL,there were no "lists of spankingmovies" or stuff like that then then so its was anybodys guess what might come up on family BBC screened westerns on Saturday night!It was a question of watch wait and see!You could uually tell when a spankingw a due due to the dramatic build up of the characters but sometimes it never came what a tease!True Grit and Blue Hawaii?Ah those were the days!

Steve, I would like to nominate Hills Angels from the Benny Hill show.
I think they all should have been spanked,not because of their acting
ability or disability, but for the sheer enjoyment it would have given us.
I was limited to the amount of TV in my childhood, so I'm slightly at a disadvantage. My second nomination goes to all the female crew on Star Trek.
For making my pulse race, any suggestions for what method?

Paul B

Given the way the crew had to simulate being hit by phasers by leaning over & falling around, the budget wouldn't have run to sophisicated devices like the orgasmatrom in Barbarella.

I'd therefore suggest Star Trek spankings would have been effected best by:


a) Tribbles that had been transmorgified into hard leathery hand-sized creatures by Bones not paying attention to sick-bay experiments

b) Spock or Kirk(probably the latter) when their mind is suddenly taken over by Klingon spankophile thought-rays

c) A new delivery of uniform belts confiscated from Ferengi traders

d) One of Scotty's cock-ups in the transmitter room producing a f***ing great pile of paddles or black gym-shoes from the 20th century school penal system-illogical, captain, but Steve M works for the CSA!!


Steve M

For obvious reasons I nominate zee females from Allo Allo.
Zee girls with zee satin skirts, frilly blouses and seamed stockings.
All Zee resistance girls with zee leetle vite socks.
Helga with the knickeeers francais avec zee leetle svasticas around zee edge.
Last but not least Mimi la bonque for being a leetle pain in zee rs....
Au mange toot it ess time for zee froid shower.......shiveer

Steve, quite a varied choice.
(A) Tribble, too much like animal cruelty.
(B) Kirks distorted face, don't think so.
(C) Possibilty.
(D) Paddle or Gymshoe,
Being I've had first hand experience of
the gymshoe, that would be my choice, it
would have to be a black lace up though.
I can vouch it does its job well.
Lt Uhura would have to be the first
recipient though. What would be your
choice?

Okay, hows this for a claim to fame.
I actually went to the same school as Marina Sirtis who stared in Star Trek.
I one saw her get the ruler!
I await the disbelief. ( she is English and moved to the states).
As for her acting and snotty attitude, unchanged since she was seven I nominate her for a good slippering.
And before anyone looks it up she is not on FR and neither am moi.

PAUL

I think Mimi's ruler will have to be transported.

Even Scotty could probably manage it-this could be a novel thing. Mind you, knowing our luck, it'll probably emerge on the bridge as a tin of sardines or a waste paper basket.


MIMI

Nice lateral thinking here-was it one of those big thick rulers the teachers used for drawing on the board?

Would be just the thing for a spoilt female bottom! I never could quite put my finger on what I didn't like about Allo Allo-thank you for solving my problem with the programme at last!


Steve M

Barbarella!!!!! Ahhh!!!!!

DANNY

Hanoi Jane never looked lovelier.

Unfortunately, I've only got a pic of Fire Maidens to show you at present









Steve

Here we have Bev Garland about to get it from da killa cucumber! not a spanking,though!
















And here Lee Van Cleef confronts his alter-ego/frankenstein's monster/the Big C itself!

Jane,just for you, mate!







Steve

Steve, it was a normal lightish ( but bloody heavy when you are seven) school ruler as applied by Mr C to either the palm or calve of naughty girls.
I think she is billed as Martina? but I know her name was Marina at school.

Steve, great poster of 'The Fire Maidens from Outer Space', I must have missed that flick! I wonder if any of the other members are into B grade Sci Fi movies and if they know where to get them? Perhaps Mimi, Paul B, Ketta, Danny and even Bozo may have a few ideas.

Nothing beats the old fifties and early sixties Sci Fi movies for haming it up. I wonder what these people who acted in them thought looking back at their movies 20 years later.

And what I love the most was the overalls they wore. I'm sure the overalls Leslie Neilson wore in The Forbidden Planet cira 1956, were re-cycled in numerous sci fi movies after that. Come to think of it they look very familiar to those in the Fire Maidens poster. Same wardrobe person on both movies? I wonder.

By today's standards, these costumes would embarrass a Bullfrog!

Can you imagine Sigorney Weaver's character in 'Alien', and Katherine Hammilton's in 'The Terminator' romping around in one of those fifties
sci fi facsimilie Toga's.

In the words of Homer Simpson....."Sci fi Toga's. Mmmmmmmmm!"

I must admit to drooling at the mouth when I read that magic name 'Barbarella' last night, Steve! I was dead tired but it certainly perked me up!
That, for me, was the sexiest picture I have ever seen. There was nothing of the crude nudity of all the blue movies thrown at us since. Just the smile on her lips did it for me!

I also never saw the flick you posted the first pic of, Steve. Where were we, Mike? By the way, did you hear about the Ozzie and the Morman who were sitting next to each other on a flight from London to Melbourne?
After everyone had settled down, the stewardess approached them and asked the Ozzie, "Would you like a drink sir?" The Ozzie replied "Thanks mate. I'll have a rum and coke." She then turned to the Mormon and asked "Would you like a drink sir?" to which the Mormon bristled with indignation, wrinkled up his nose in disgust and replied "Huh! I'd rather be ravaged by a dozen violent whores than let a drop of alcohol pass my lips"
The Ozzie responded by returning his glass to the stewardess, saying "I'll have the same as him please - I didn't know we had a choice."

I don't think you needed to be envious of me last week, Mike, it was a real humdinger of a crossing over to Dingle! Pretty good coming back but I really must start acting my age and become a couch potato - as God intended!


What's all this censoring that's going on, I thought this was an adult forum! If it's essential for Larry to make cuts I think he really should try harder to keep the context of the post! It makes them very hard to understand when words are simply left out! (I thought Bozo had been at them!)

Not only left out Danny, but substituted ie stirring.

Mike, I'm afraid my visits to the pictures when a child were waiting for the exit door to open and sneaking in as money was in short supply. I think Dr Who, is as good as any though, its still going strong today. Incidentally two
teachers were in the very first series I bet Steve, Mimi and Danny remember
that, although Danny being a bit older was probably into more sophisticated
programs. Time travel may not be as far fetched as we imagine, Stephen Hawkins colleague believes it could be possible, Stephen Hawkins claims there is a parallel universe to our own. He came to that conclusion from how the light reflects from a prisom, so we could all have doubles, and not at the bar.

I'm not interested in any doubles UNLESS they're at the bar, Paul! And not so much of the ageist comments either, me and that young heel-biter Ming are really fed up with it!

DANNY

Fire Maidens From Outer Space was the 2nd & last film of director Cy Roth & was made by Criterion Films. No wonder you never saw it when it came out.

I read about it in bad movie books & caught it on Carlton ITV at c 2:15 am in 1989 & videoed it. Have seen it on DVD on E-bay but it's region 1 & not much use out of Doubya's area.

Haven't seen it billed on terrestrial since. But I did see it not that long after its' initial release, because I remember recognising both the Hog's Back scenery & the genesis of the spaceship's control mechanism;the latter is noticeable in the poster(middle left) & is one of those kid's toy steering wheels that you stuck on table or desk with a big rubber sucker.

At half-a-dollar it was outside my pocket-money range, but clearly the budget just about stretched to it. I think from memory we stopped going down Guildford way for Sunday day outs around 1959-60 & my interest swtitched to Corgi toys etc about a year further on, so I must have seen it around 1961/2, and probably at a fleapit cinema in Greenwich or Woolwich.

And if Paul & Stephen Hawking are right, my now- more imminent than last week retirement could mean 2 pensions, or the wrong me getting out! It won't be for a few months yet, but we are in there pitching!

Steve M

Hi Danny, I had a good laugh at that, and no, I hadn't heard it before. I will always remember Warren Mitchell being interviewed back in the early eighties on a daytime variety show just about the time he came out here to live.

The show's host was talking to Warren about migrating and Warren saw an opening for a joke. He looked at Mike Walsh, the compare, and said, "How do you know when a plane full of English migrants land at Tullamarine Airport?" Mike just looked at him with a blank look on his face.

Mitchell answered, "When the engines stop, the whining continues!" The audience errupted in laughter and Mike Walsh who was taking a a sip of water at the time of the punchline and nearly choked on it.

We Australian's have an ability to be able to laugh at ourselves, but it was refreshing to see the Brits can do the same thing. This makes both of us unique I think.

Forget the couch potato business Danny, there's still too much to see and do like writing your memoirs or family history-something I can't do because of family skeletons and tight lipped relations. We have my mothers side who were Bransons, and yes, we are related to Dicky!

Paul, how are you? Gee you reminded me of old times when you mentioned going to the pictures as a kid. Saturday afternoons would see us heading off to the local flee house to the matinee session where we would get a serial and two flicks. We weren't well off by any means either and I would use the money I earned from my paper boy job. My father would be out working, helping one of his friends dig trenches by hand for drainage and sewerage lines for new houses being built. He used to get Ten Bob for that and spent the next day recovering in bed because he was so sore.


I remember seeing all ten episodes of a Batman serial. He who used to drive around in an old Single Spinner Ford. No Bat mobile then. I also remember the Western movies and the kids booing the Indians and cheering the caverlry when they came charging in.

I have vivid memories of kids rolling jaffa's down the isle of the old wooden floors and throwing empty coke bottles from the dress Circle.

Paul I remember the days outing would cost Two shillings. (sorry but I don't have pound signs on my keyboard, only dollars) It would cost three pence to get on the bus to get there, a shilling to get in to the movies which left me with nine pence, three pence for the return bus ride and sixpence for a drink and an ice-cream.

Paul I don't know how that compares to what you paid as this was around 1963 when I was 11, hence the matinee session which started at 1pm and finished at 4pm. Unlike what I have heard from my mother-in-law who is a Pom, we couldn't stay in for the next session. Ushers used to clear the theatre out for the next session.

I didn't see a lot of Dr Who, it was in serial form on the ABC which we never watched much. The first time I saw it was when they re-ran the old B&W series in the seventies. I geuss I've only seen maybe 6 episodes in my life.

I also remember seeing The Forbidden Planet with Leslie Neilson and Walter Pidgeon, circa 1956 and being enthralled with the ten special effects in the movie.

There was also a serial about Moon men and a guy who used to have a rocket pack strapped to his back. He had a dial on the front of him which controlled the rockets.

Steve, if you have read this, you may have some knowledge of the name of it and can perhaps mention other serials that were around then.

Well that was a nice trip down memory lane for me and shows the lights up stairs are still on.

Paul and Steve, going to Saturday morning pictures in my day was far more exciting than any Rugby World Cup final! The Goodies were cheered and the Baddies booed, each in their turn, until the rafters really rang! Then, the cowboys were the ones being cheered and the red indians booed but, after all I've read of that continent since, it would be the other way around now!
It cost a tanner a time then, which is about 2p now, and probably the most cost-effecient exercise I have ever experienced before or since!

Mike, I did try to get your email addy off of Steve M but the 'email' section on this forum's index didn't work - probably due to the new rules. I'll try again later.

DANNY

I'm already in e-mail contact with Mike & Paul, and you will be another welcome change from adverts for Fake Swiss Watches, penis enlargement and Russian women wanting to be your "f***-buddies",no questions asked.

Probably so they can steal your fake Swiss Watch as you lay exhausted after servicing them!

Just try going on to e-bay's home page & looking up CD's-seek out Defrosted by Frijid Pink set to expire around 18:30 tomorrow. Simply e-mail the seller in question, and I'll soon know it's you & not another bloody Russian hussy;the e-mail goes to my computer & Outlook express.


Steve M

Hello Danny, Ijust read your post. There is a problem in living down under and that is everyone's usually tucked up in bed when I post because of the time frame. As I write this, it is Monday morning here. Looking at my clock and doing a quick calculation, it is still Sunday night in the UK. Hence tomorrow calling! I'll probably be sued by Brian Ferry for plagiarism.

Danny, I also read Steve's post about e-mailing members here but Steve is the only one I communicate with at the moment. As Steve is a person who respects people's privacy, I am happy to have him supply you with my e-mail address which I also offer to Paul if he is interested in writing to me privately.

Steve and I have a few things in common apart from what transpires here.
I am enbarking on a little venture which relates to my profession and I would be happy to have some input from others in the UK before I launch it.

I'm happy to discuss the project via e-mail so please feel free to ask Steve for my e-mail as I'm not sure the moderator would allow me to post it here.

I appreciate the moderator's views about withholding e-mail addresses for security reasons but it does make it hard when one member wants to contact another.

I will write to Steve and discuss a solution to this problem.

Regards Mike.

Oh Danny, before I go. I was thinking about the movies and I remembered this story which is about a Policeman on traffic duty at the corner of Swanston and Bourke Streets in Melbourne.

The policeman was directing traffic one day when he noticed a a man crossing the intersection walking a crocodile on a leash. The Cop yelled ou to the man
asking him what he thought he was doing. "I'm taking my croc for a walk' said the man.

"take it to the zoo" yelled the cop.

The next week the same cop was on traffic duty at the same intersection again when he once again saw the man walking the crocodile.

"I thought I told you to that that thing to the zoo" yelled the cop feeling rather angry.

"I did" said the man, "and he enjoyed it so much I'm now taking him to the pictures!"

Not to see 'Fire Maidens from Outer Space' by any chance, Mike, was it? A good'un Boyo! (See, I'm gradually turning into a Taff!)

Thanks Steve, I'm '.....eugk' if you've got a bundle of messages on ebay.

Hi Danny, no my friend, I haven't had the pleasure of seeing Fire Maidens yet but I have been duscussing it with Steve.

I apologise for not replying to you re the e-mail address issues however, I have just posted a message about on the Email thread asking the moderator to reconsider the issue. I hope there is a resolve shortly.

I e-mailed a few sites to Steve yesterday on movies and I stumbled across a site where you can ask about a certain movie you want know the title of etc. I placed a message there yesterday and received an e-mail to tell me my question will be answered in three days. Should anyone be interested in the link I will be happy to post it.

I actually scrolled through a site Steve semt this morning and found a few movies which I asked Steve if he has seen. One which springs to mind is 5000 Fingers of Dr T. I saw it during the school holidays when I was about 10 or 11 and it stayed with me. I suppose it was the little beanies the kids wore which had a hand sticking up on top of them.

The guy who used to host Fractured Flickers-a silent movie show which was given a satirical sound track bordering on the deborched. I think his name was Hans Conred or Conrade-something along those lines.

Invasion from Mars was another one. Same kid in the lead role I think but don't quote me on that.

I also remember Robie the Robot in a Sci fi movie about an evil computer trying to take over. Once again, the kid seemed familiar. Perhaps Hollywood had a shortage of childhood actors then. I think the kid was in for it from the father for flying in some contraption. Do you know the film at all. Steve probably will as he has a great memory.

If the moderator gets sick of us corresponding this way he might decide to allow us to post addresses.

Danny, you might like to have a look at the email address thread as I posted there a few minutes ago. I'd be interested if you agree or not.

While down memory lane, does any one remember the Telegoons that was shown
on a saturday. Remember Neddie Seagoon, Eccles and Major Dennis Bloodnok.
Very funny at the time, but I wonder if today it would be as popular.

I remember the Goons. Peter Sellars - Bloodnock, Harry Secombe - Seagoon, and Eccles was played by my all-time favourite, the madman himself, Spike Milligan! Who the Telegoons were, I've no idea.

MAJOR BLOODNOK!


It's a lie, I tell you!

How dare you come in here and offer me money for Mike & Paul's e-mail addresses over there,which are not here!

The Telegoons were an early Spitting Image, putting faces to the Goons characters in Puppets in 1963(?). One series only, but I shall now go & see if the DVD exists!!

The first record in the British pop charts to have Rock N Roll in its' title?

Yep, the Goons! Bloodnok's Rock N Roll Call-1956;double a-side with The Ying-Tong Song!


Steve M

He wouldn't? Would he?

OH YES HE WILL!

Herewith the complete lyrics for Bloodnok's Rock N Roll Call:-


Company shun! Shoulder High!! By the right, number!
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight
Nine, ten, eleven, tweleve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen
Sixteen, fifteen, fourteen, thirteen, twelve, eleven, ten, nine
Eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight
Nine, ten, eleven, tweleve, thirteen, fourteen, <bang>
You've got to rock and roll in a roll call way
You've got to march with a Marilyn Monroe sway
You've got to rock and roll with your old kit bag
But you musn't ever mention her name in the mess
And if you want to know the title of this number
It is a Major Dennis Bloodnok Rock'n'Roll Call rhumba

Left, left, left, right left
Quick, slow, quick, quick, slow
In, out, in, in, out
Pick up your gun, shove a bullet up the spout
It's the dance they do from Madras to Pango-Pango
It is a Major Dennis Bloodnok Rock'n'Roll Call Tango

Coy, dum diddle, blow de how
Bombay didde bowl of char
Um diddle

Minnie: Stop! Stop! Stop that sinful naughty record-type music
Stop it I say! Oh! Stop it you fool. Stop it!

Bloodnok: Oh! Foddle me puckies and cril me topie
Why do my beady old eyes deceive me, or is it?
No, no -- it can't be. But yes! It is!
It's me old child hood sweetheart Spotty Minnie
Bannister-- the darling of Roper's Light Horse

Bless my soul, what are you doing here?
Nothing catching I hope
Minnie: I just came to put my bag full of money in the bank
Bloodnok: Money! Money! Oh!!! Neddie, take Miss Bannister
in a steaming love dance while I check her properties
One, two, three, four

Secombe: Gents to the left, ladies to the right.
All join hands -- panic

<some nonsense>

Bloodnok: Bravado, bravado. What a voice! (What a bank balance!)
I beg you, you gorgeous wanton. Give me some small token of your love and I will sing you a known miltary melody.

Music, maestro Plonk

(Right mate)
You've got to rock'n'roll in a monetary manner
If you want to earn a necessary tanner
Take your pick while the picking's good
If you don't pick right, things will never get better
When I hear the chink of money that is good news
It drives away the Bloodnok Rock'n'Roll call blues

So let there be, always some cash for me
That will be mine, all mine!

(Send only 2/6 for a copy of this record)



Bloody poetry,Arkwright!


Steve M

And here are Neddy Seagoon(L)& Bluebottle(R) from the Telegoons. They are probably discussing the forum, of course!







Steve M

Paul, I said it before and I'll say it again, we are disadvantaged living downunder. I had been told many years ago about the Telegoons but we never got them here. At least to my knowledge that is.

The father of a friend of mine used to have a few Goons records and I remember my mate and I listening to them when we were 15 years old.

I have collected a few Goons records and have those famous songs 'I'm Walking Back For Christmas' and the 'Ying Tong Song'.

I don't think anyone can beat the English when it comes to comedy.

I was also a Dave Allen fan too.

Ya derty ratten svine!!

Mike!

Dave Allen, ENGLISH! Youd anuder derty rotter!

Mike I too loved watching Dave Allen, I think you would like the
Blackadder series with Rowan Atkinson. If you can get hold of them
over in Oz.

A short autobiography of my hero:


Major Dennis Bloodnok, IND. ARM. RTD. (Military idiot, former plumber's mate, coward and bar) is a character from the 1950s BBC Radio comedy The Goon Show. He was voiced by Peter Sellers.

Born 1867 and 1880, Sandhurst NAAFI although it's also claimed he originated in India though "through no fault of the natives."

Bloodnok's army career is noted by cowardice and monetary irregularities. He is discharged after being found dressed as a woman, although he claims it was carnival night. He is repeatedly implied to be a womaniser. A prime example of this is in "Drums Along the Mersey" where he is thrown out of a boat for being caught with the captain's wife. Another example is featured in "The Histories of Pliny the Elder", when he says: "You know that saying 'Caesar's wife is above suspicion'? Well, I put an end to all that rubbish!"

He introduces himself in "Napoleon's Piano" as "Major Dennis Bloodnok, late of the third Disgusting Fusilliers OBE, MT, MT and MT." Seagoon questioned him on the MT's, to which Bloodnok responded "I get tuppence on each of them" (MT's meaning "empties", as in empty bottles).

Dennis is plagued by gastro-intestinal problems and his entrance is usually accompanied by flatulent sound effects (on the occasion it wasn't played, Bloodnok cried, "I'm Cured!") and quotes such as:

"The screens nurse! Quick, the screens."
"What must the neighbours think?"
"Never again..."
"There must be a cure for it, you know .."
"No wonder I can't go to parties any more ...."
"No more curried eggs for meee ...."
also:

"You're all mad, I'm the only sane one here"
Bloodnok's arch enemy is the Red Bladder as voiced by musician Ray Ellington.



And here he is



sitting on the knee of his mentor,Peter Sellers. Eccles is there with Spike Milligan(why was HE never Poet Laureate????) & Neddy with Harry Secombe.

God must be creased up with all 3 of them upstairs now!!

Paul, Blackadder, now you're talking! I once saw an interview with Rowan Atkinson where he said he and Tony Martin found nothing funny their lines when filming the Blackadder series. Well all I can say is that it cracked me up no end because I have a dry sense of humour I suppose.

I occasionally saw Dave Allen who I thought was magic. I enjoyed his shows but didn't see a lot of them. He did a sketch where he was a Priest conducting a funeral. The senopsis was two funerals being held at the same time but only one plot available in the cemetary. In case you haven't seen it, I won't give the ending away suffice to say I was in tears of laughter at the end of it.

Steve, you've done it again! Great poster. I'd like ot have one hangong on my wall but I'd have to take down one of my Swans posters or an Eric Clapton poster to make way for it and I just can't seem to do that.

Steve, just a bit of trivia for you. Spike Milligan was featured on This is your life here. This was when his mother was still alive and she joined him on the show. Spike was his usual self cracking jokes left, right and centre.

Interestingly, his mother remained straight faced the whole way through the show. I suppose she was used to his antics or perhaps it went over her head.

Danny, I do beg your pardon for giving you the impression I thought Dave Allen was English. My relatives are turning in their graves. With an Irish surname, I may very well be Oirish. Di, di, didilly di di, Potato. There, surely that's proof.

Mike, Did you ever get to see "Fawlty Towers" in oz? I think Steve and
Danny would have enjoyed these classic's too. My particular
favourite episode was when Manuel's pet rat Basil popped its head out
of the buscuit tin, just when the health inspector was about to take one.
But that was just one of many hilarious sketches.

Paul, I had e-mailed you recently with a reply but received a message that my e-mail could not be delivered.

Yes, Fawlty Towers was featured on the ABC here back in the seventies and has had several re-runs since. 'I liked the episode with the rat and I also liked episode titled 'The Germans' as well. In fact, I liked most episodes. Other shows that screened here were Monty Python's Flying Circus and Ripping Yarns.

I was a Python fan and the episode entitled The Spanish Inquisition has stuck in my mind for years. Crazy stuff!

Blackadder has been shown a few times and I remember seeing an interview with Rowan Atkins where he stated he and Tony Martin, was it? didn't find what they were doing funny at all.

Hugh Laurie and Steven Fry's show was another series which viewed here but it finished up on cable tv.