Was gonna say the same, they certainly bear an uncanny resemblance to the female anatomy. My feeling is that would have been on purpose, a sort of 'in' joke for the pervs who ran the proceedings. It was for kids, for Heavens sake!
20:10 I bet Graham now looks back from the perspective of his sad & broken life thinking "That Andrea was actually really nice. God, I really blew it with her... DAMN YOU peer pressure!"
I remember Pigsty now - god that one’s been suppressed for over 30 years. Can’t recall the others though. You are indeed an audio visual archaeologist. Man I hated Spatz. And So Haunt Me.
"My Christian name is also what I used to do to people." First kid: "Roger Moore?" Second kid: "Shaggy from Scooby-Doo?" Third kid: "Slash from Guns & Roses?"
Someone must have spent a long time lovingly crafting those pig snout doors, and they were shown for 3 hours of television and then hopefully went to a bonfire where they belonged.
@oldusernamewasbadlol no I managed to grab them from a bbc skip alongside the ladders from chucklevision. They are hung on my lounge door frame and are a great conversation piece. Nobody comes around anymore, my family hate me.
Snowy's hat is in the colours of the pre-Franco Spanish republic. I like to think he travelled to Spain and volunteered in the Civil War. He would remember his time fighting on the Aragon front fondly; reading anarchist literature, drinking red wine, seducing a fiery militiawoman in a ruined farmhouse yards from the trenches...and of course, sending fascists to the place they belong. A more innocent time.
Snowey was a regular sight in Cambridge for many years sitting by the entrance to Petty Cury with his animals. There's a statue there now in his memory
That diner in Pigsty with all the pig decor is giving me massive and somewhat disturbing flashbacks to Satriale's in The Sopranos, and specifically that scene in the back room where Christopher and Furio 'dispose of' Richie Aprile in the grinder. I wonder if David Chase got the inspiration for Satriale's from Pigsty?
Richard Gauntlett (the juggling chief pig Troyboy) has been 'Mr Panto' in Norwich for many years now- playing the dame & writing the scripts for the main professional show.
You're definitely getting some of my Hypes when RU-vid launches them. Even if you brought back unsettling memories of those pigs, locked away in the deepest recesses of my brain for 30 years.
Awesome as always Stuart. ❤ I was going to mention Spatz but then you did. The pseudo American pandering was rife in the late 80's/early 90's. With liberal usage of 'yo!'s, high fives and shades worn by would be cool dudes on lots of shows. Looking back, it feels like an embarrassing parent getting it wrong in front of your mates. I seem to remember garish, fluorescent Bermuda shorts purchased from the local market along with a knock off Simpsons /tmnt t-shirt was a popular fashion around the same time. Please cover any of the following; Dizzy heights hotel. Your mother wouldn't like it, Mike and Angelo. or..you know...not.. ..suit yourself...
Check out some of the early Channel 4 Sunday morning kids shows "Pobs programme", "Helping Henry" [about a taking chair, really...] and "the Great Bong" starring Stanley Unwin (who voiced Bong), Michael Bentine (Spudley), Spike Milligan (Ogmore) and Barbara Windsor (Mabel)
"Thanks" for un-repressing a long repressed memory of the Eldritch abomination of Pigsty. I can't imagine how bad the stuff on the other channels must have been to have chosen to watch even one episode of it but I must have done exactly that at some point.
That Snowy show, the cat on his hat looks terrified every time you see it! And back in 2008 I worked in the same building as Steve Coleman, when he was the breakfast jock on Magic 1152 here in the North East, I was working at the other end of the building at Metro Radio as the phone op for their breakfast show, Tony Horne In The Morning!
I'm glad the only things i recognise is the alan partridge reference and the theme from betha at the start. I recognise clive mantle but remember him as the 80s little john 😊
I had completely forgotten Knock Knock, but this has brought it all back! So here's a question - has the early morning C4 breakfast show 'Breakfast Serials' every been requested? A mix of different sketches and longer form series (such as Niceman, who is art brought to life by lightning), and one of Russell T Davies' first outings as a writer...
Peter Simon.. oh God you've unlocked a terrible PTSD memory from my childhood. Seeing him stumbling out of a van getting dressed up as Ronald McDonald for the opening of a new restaurant sometime in the 80s, it was like witnessing a man escaping from some sort of circus abduction.
OMG you've opened some deep psychological wounds with this one - I haven't thought about PigSty in decades. It was buried very deeply and confused with Spatz (if anyone remembers that). But the second I heard that theme tune....
Goodness me! footage of Knock Knock - I was a contestant on this show, not the one shown thank goodness. I remember very little about it apart from the musical guests being Hue and Cry and that they were exceptionally sweaty.
"All we're doing is waving goodbye to our years, prize by prize, question by question" Next week, Stuart discusses the polarity in Sartes last thesis. He also poses the age old dichotomy - was Cant a c**t? 🤔✌
A old kids show that freaked me out as a kid was children of the stones ! I really love it now and the soundtrack was released on vinyl recently and I bought it and it’s really good !!!!
Honestly the subject matter gives me an equal nostalgia buzz to resurfacing childhood trauma ratio. Its losing my tea laughing at the well written script and deadpan delivery that brings me back everytime!
Midweek slump? Not now a new Millard has dropped - please, please tell me you sing a theme tune and add your own words in this one? That’s my favorite.
I remember Buttercup Buskers in the first programme and on citv on a Thursday afternoon. I remembered thinking ‘it’ll soon be Friday where I’ve got rainbow 🌈 to indulge in’
I could never figure out why those slightly blurry, faux-American shows like Spatz had got people in I'd heard talking normally (English) on other things. It seemed a waste of their range to me.
I'm trying to imagine what the conversation was like with Jermaine Stewart trying to explain to the kids what his hit song "We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off" is about and why they shouldn't try "cherry wine."
Bloody hell, you've dug up Pigsty from the depths of my surpressed 6 year old me memories. I jolted in my seat as soon as I realised what it was. While you're at it, please do a vid on another source of my earliest cold sweat 3am wake ups... What's Up Doc.
@@Tmuk2 There was a boy who lived on my street who looked like Eustace from Dizzy Heights, and when I pointed it out to him he was pissed off with me for months 😆
Millard. I’ve just posted a comment on Drinkers channel. Take a look. Hopefully you’ll now get the recognition you quite rightly deserve. Thanks for keeping us sane. Top work and top channel.
@marktucker8737 yep it was i liked it though used to do alfonso whistle when i was young too haa it was calle billy webbs amazing story some of its on you tube i remember lots of things people forget i used to like the Ritz about two bouncers thats was kind of weird to....heyyy a billeee web
I don’t know where you found all this but all of it is absolutely diabolical tbh. I can’t believe we watched all this growing up. Great compilation Stuart and thoroughly enjoyable yet again 👍
A while ago I was trying to research the original broadcast schedule of the first run of Snowy and the Buttercup Buskers (long story short there was a Thames Television strike that threw its debut broadcasts into disarray, and some episodes only got their debut showing at some ungodly hour during the Easter holidays of the following year). Whilst doing that research I stumbled on an article that makes it seem like Snowy might have been a animal short of a menagerie in real life. He was doing a live appearance with his bike thing and some animals at some village carnival or something and was supposed to lead a parade of children with batons/instruments/costumes etc down the village high street, but for whatever reason took a different route to the plan and started leading about 200 kids out onto the bypass instead.
There is a early 90's maybe late 80's movie/show (cant remember) that had puppets of beavers in a shoddy run down car, and at the end is a giant spider (who was I think small and normally sized throughout the show/film)....im hoping Millard does this memory of mine one day...coz that's all I remember.
it might have been winjin pom? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-j4X-8-9Qm1I.html they're australian animals but a few of them kind of look like beavers, and the rest fits pretty well
@@didaididai207 OMG you are right, that's the name of the it...thanks so much I am 37yo and as I said, only had those vague memories of it, but now you have said the name, that's it. Thanks mate :)
@@temparalflux914 glad it was that! it's an interesting show, definitely one that got stuck in my head for some reason (the song in that episode is a powerful earworm)
I recall Pigsty now! Oh 1990. But I'm mainly remembering this other series called Beavers, which was roughly the same fever dream only with beaver-masked actors. It was American. Or Australian. There were plant monsters, maybe. It's vague.
