Frank Muir | The meaning of Christmas | comedy writer | Good Afternoon | Part 1 |1975 

We started copying the Americans

@@Lyndalewinder agreed

mavis will turn 90 years old this October.

@@jasonwhitehurst4508 Thank you for that info.

RIP.

tom moston Yes he did. Frank Muir was also a top TV executive for many years as well as being a talented script writer and broadcaster. He had a huge amount of power at the BBC back in the day.

Everyone's a fruit and nutcase

agreed, used to love him on call my bluff , happy memories of TV shows in the 1970s when i was growing up, everybody was nicely spoken, these days TV seems to be just about shouting and noise, wonderful eloquent people on tv back then, Willie Rushton, Kenneth Williams, Peter Ustinov, great storytellers and role models for the young

@@dougieb2159 You are right about that. I was a child in the 70s but I must admit, there seemed to be a better class of celerity in those days. Few survive from that time now though. I recent years Tim Brooke-Taylor and Barry Cryer passed away. Graeme Garden hasn't been on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue for a good while now, so I suspect his time is looming too. Wasn't it great how these people could make you laugh so deeply without resorting to smut or swearing.

@@johnbellamy3406 definitely!! standards throughout society were much higher than nowadays, TV shows seemed to actually cater for intelligent people nowadays its all about scandal and the lowest common denominator in everything, wish i could go back tbh!!