Emu's going through his box of treasures with Rod, the Pink Windmill Kids are planning to hold a concert amongst themselves, and Grotbags has her dear little nephew coming to stay - and one way or another, all three of these elements collide into a coherent, sometimes-funny, sometimes-melancholy storyline. This episode was originally broadcast on Friday, 6th April, 1984.
I'm sure there's no need to tell you that the part of Nauseous is of course played by Joe "To You" Greco - one of very few occasions that a Pink Windmill Kids was given a full-blown character role on the show. And very good he is too! He's got perfectly bad manners, is selfish, greedy, technologically a snob, and gets what was very much coming to him after committing the cardinal sin of bending over near the flour bins at 13:44. Pity he only visited once.
The songs in this one are On the Sunny Side of the Street (written by Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields back in the 30s, featured in Lew Leslie's International Revue, but owing a lot to the 1979 Savoy disco version) and Rod's rendition of Five Pennies (from the Danny Kaye film The Five Pennies). I don't know what Abbie's made of, but her splits at 7:01 suggest mostly elastic.
Just to be absolutely clear, the very beginning was missing, so I've edited on the opening titles from elsewhere, and the end credits were cut off, so they come from the final episode of the series. We may never know if Joe was properly credited...
Many thanks to Jayne for lending me this tape.
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27 янв 2017
