Rod Hull and Emu. You were one of my childhood heros. I still miss Rod so much. You make me laugh as much now as you did years ago. Your a true genius. R.I.P
I found the Deadly Dustbins pretty scary myself when I was a kid, Janboreeni, so you're in good company. "RUB-BISH! DIS-POSE! IN-CIN-ER-ATE!" (Chilling stuff!)
@AnthonyUK So this one is the second episode, hence "Return of the Deadly Dustbins"? It was the first episode (of which no copy seems to exist) which had the phone box queue. Right. Wish they'd release a DVD of EBC1 - "Emu Trek", "The Emudin Line", "Open Emuversity", "The Bionic Emu", and, of course, Billy Dainty skiing and mountain climbing with a box of worms, "All because the Lady Emu loves worms!" Brilliant. Repeat, repeat, repeat!
There is a clip of the first dustbin caper on the documentary "A Bird in the Hand", which implies it must exist somewhere or at least it did in 2003 when the documentary was produced.
I'm sad to confess that, at six years old, this had such a disturbing effect on me and I was terrified of these bins. Used to have nightmares! Strangely not so much of the Daleks though. Thank you for posting this, it's very cathartic.
This show was one of my faves as a child, in the happy days before Rod Hull and Emu made the awful Pink Windmill show. Well, I say that, Grotbags and co made it so terrible I watched it for unintentional laughs!!
This was only marginally more silly than many actual episodes of doctor who in the 70's and 80's, where the doctor was often fighting random high st/household objects that were supposed to be aliens. I recall someone getting eaten by a couch for example.
Playing Disco Duck in the background at the beginning! 'The Pink Windmill' stuff was aimed at a younger audience - terrible for me, but then I was nearly twenty by then!
That's not fair. It's only really the Whittaker & Chibnall era that's crap. And maybe some of the Capaldi era (which wasn't sure to him, but down to lazy writing)
@AnthonyUK Didn't it end with Rod and Emu going back to the Tardis and there's a bloke inside using the phone and a queue waiting to use it? Our "heroes" try to get in and keep getting pushed to the back of the queue by the angry people in the line. "Crackerjack" did several DW spoofs, as I recall.
Yes, didn't they put the tin foil disc on it and jam the camera lens over it? Or was it Rod and Emu just turning it round really badly like a steering wheel for a laugh? Great days !
