Next Week, Telly looks at Middlesborough. "Da first thing that hit me baby, was all that polluted air and the views.....of industrial chimneys, crumbling streets, and Muslims everywhere."
Other Harold Baim productions included: Telly Savalas looks at Birmingham and Telly Savalas looks at Portsmouth. Telly was then replaced by Pete Murray for Coventry, Hastings and Nottingham.
He should have walked past the old HP Sauce factory, that would have took his breath away. As cringe inducing as this is it also makes me nostalgic for my childhood, I always found a day out in town back in the 60s and 70s to be exciting, loved a trip to the open spaces like the Lickey Hills and Cannon Hill or been left outside The Upper Grounds pub with a Vimto and Bag of crisps while my uncles were inside enjoying a few pre match pints.
"This is the view that almost took my breath away!" 🤣 I'm sure many would agree, just not for quite the same reasons!!!😏Telly Savalas has clearly had a fair bit to drink to get beer-goggles for Brum!! The cheesy 70s soundtrack does its best to inject excitement and drama into 'inspiring' scenes of motorways, flyovers and endless expanses of concrete, but just makes the whole thing even more unintentionally funny!!!🤣
Birmingham. Suffered the same fate as London. A sprawling mess - overcrowded, rubbish and graffiti everywhere. I can't believe people pay such high prices to live in such a muck of a city.
Great memories. Pity it's not the whole film. Quite a lot of it is about Broadway, the well known Birmingham suburb. I've always wondered what Dee Birmingham and her family were like....
"Now remember, Mr Savalas, you are still under oath. Did you really spend hours in the Birmingham Botanical Gardens"? "I refuse to answer on the grounds that it might incriminate me, baby."
