So just to set the record straight I was that girl in the video 35 years ago, it was NOT fake, I was set up by my mother-in-law and husband who wrote in to the show. Apparently it took a lot of planning all done without my knowledge to the point my husband kept coming home later from work and I thought he was up to no good, but didn't have a clue this would be it. Thank you for some of your nice comments, but as for the other crude unnecessary comments, for this site, I will refrain from giving out verbal abuse !!!!!
Ignore all these sad mugs mum they wouldn't say it to your face or mine cuz they would get knocked clean out! Classic video so funny and i think your jumper looks good have you still got it haha?
Another example of proper entertainment on a Saturday night in the 80's, hilarious pranks against an unsuspecting target, not like the rubbish served up today, RIP Jeremy, never forgotten!
Beadle’s About was utterly essential viewing back in the 80’a. I remember coming home on a flight from Greece in 2000 and for some obscure reason it was on the tv. Most folk were sleeping but the two of us were crying with laughter. JB was a real good sort. RIP Jezza.x
Did some work once at Ormond St childrens hospital. Heard from staff that Beadle went regulary, stayed always longer than booked, nice guy and kids lived him. Top man.
Blimey what a brilliant throw back to the glory days of TV. The amount of work that must have gone into this is mind blowing, when you consider there were no smart phones/cameras, tiny microphones. Cheers for posting
Loved this show when I was a kid, remember this episode well , they were really genuine nice people who just seemed so typical of adults when I was growing up.
It was great. Used to really enjoy watching Beadles about or Game for a laugh. Very entertaining as was his hand. Great man, made millions for charity.
I have absolutely no doubt that, speaking as someone who grew up throughout the 1980s, this was good Saturday night entertainment at the time. But, it has to be remembered that this was the best part of 4 decades ago, and there have been two generations added to the population of GB since. So, basically, anyone born in the 1990s or 2000s will naturally have different views on what they found entertaining on Saturday night. It's just a matter of how old you are and what you remember watching in your time. I, personally, am glad things change... Because, if everything stayed the same, we wouldn't have half the nostalgia.
Loved these pranks I remember this one and the one where the guys van went into the river with all his tools in it - and the poor lad who was a trainee plumber and all the radiators kept spewing water all over the house - happy days - I also had a jumper with the V at the back and buttons up the back like a reverse cardigan I loved it
Jeremy Beadle was a British Institution. A wonderful entertainer, taken from us before he was 60. His humour was infectious. In today's standards he is an icon.
He got his karma, pushing people, to their limits, before they exploded, and nearly killed someone, or lost their mind, he got his karma in full dose, I hope they filmed it, and showed it to him, up in heaven!
And yet his reputation amongst the industry was said to be terrible with few friends marking his passing and Thames pleased to see the back of him. Sad if true 😵
I remember being at a boxing show (think it was Eubank v Watson 2) & Bradley was there. The MC gave Bradley a big up & the whole place booed and jeered shouting abuse at him. He was quality, too many people failed to spot his worth. RIP Jeremy Beasley.
I do remember seeing some episodes like this and liked them a lot. It was the bleeps that they used in the show that always make me laugh with any show that uses them.
Remember watching these when I was a kid, sat morning go to my nans Watch WWF on sky one buy the dandy and beano, go home play with mates on bikes making high ramps, watching sat night TV them my other nana would come round and we would match max headroom and then a peter cushion movie oh the good old days for me x
Classic that Sharon ,i can actually remember that ,seems like yesterday.great viewing.its a pity they dont make shows like that any more. Kind regards.
As Sharon said in her message, these were genuine set-ups. They did my neighbour in Beadle's About and the lengths they went to to make it happen were unbelievable. They actually persuaded his boss to allow one of their team to join the firm undercover for a couple of days, so that they could assess if they thought his character was right for the show and the stunt they had lined up. meticulous planning went into everything they did. UPDATE: As some people don't believe me (why?) I will tell you a little more. My neighbour, who died some years ago, was a man called Owen Andrews. Some years before the programme was made, the local council made a compulsory purchase of part of his garden to build a groundsman's house for the adjacent recreation ground (that was the house we lived in as my dad was the groundsman). They decided to pretend the council were taking another section of his garden to create 'Gnomeland' - this was a carefully formulated idea because his family had told them he hated garden gnomes. They put giant concrete gnomes on his lawns and made out they were turning his garage into a toilet block. When he got home from work he bought it hook, line and sinker - he was effing and blinding, telling them to get out. He picked up two urinals the team had carefully placed in front of his garage and dumped them out on the alleyway. The garage actually had a hidden camera behind the doors (there were windows in the upper part) so they had to make sure he didn't go in there. In the end, Beadle appeared dressed as a gnome, on a pushbike. The funny thing was, Owen had never seen the programme and still didn't know who he was! It was his daughter who actually suggested him for the stitch-up. So there you go, if you think I'm capable of making all that up then perhaps I should start writing fiction for a living LOL.
Beadle's About began in 1986 not before. What Sharon is wearing was the real popular 1980s fashion, the heel, the jumper with low back etc. I remember the fashion from that era even the girls at school had so much the same look. Good ol' times growing in the 80s
This must of been a later series of game for a laugh, as i seem to recall Mathew, Sarah and Henry were with Beadle when I watched it. I don't remember those two at end of the video but it was so long ago, that I can barely remember what I was doing at the time.
There was a similar sketch but on `Beadles About' in which a Poclain excavator was parked with cars and a guy got in the cab to move it but pulled the wrong lever and plunged the bucket into the roof of a Morris Marina.
Hello Stephen, I am trying to figure where it was filmed, battersea?, camberwell?, the twenty story block of flats in the far back ground, built mid 1960's, at 5 minutes 44 seconds as beadle appears, that style apart from a very simularv style at rotherhithe, I saw the ones at camberwell go up when I was a kid, if you can shed light on the location, thank you in advance, tom, crystal palace.
Lol u must have had a heart attack that day !! And great to see some 80s classic cars now, lovely jag xj6. Also why all the flack bout the red jumper I’m sure it’s not on backwards that’s just the 80s design😁
What happened to the original lineup on Game For A Laugh? I remember Matthew Kelly, Henry Kelly and Sarah Kennedy used to present it with Jeremy Beadle, not the two you see at the end.
