Those were the days. It all looked pretty slick on the screen but conditions were quite primitive backstage. I recall when I started working at QTV, we'd been filming all morning and were starving at lunchtime - we had a packet of fish fingers but nothing to cook them on! Luckily Patrick Troughton, who was there to appear on Ask Askwith, showed us how to cook them with a hair dryer. After that we made hair dryer fish fingers a regular treat, and people would ask: "Who taught you that trick?" and we'd say, "That's right."
I remember seeing this when it went out at the time. I was off sick with Dengue fever and my mum kept my spirits up by bringing me alternating cups of butterscotch Angel Delight and Bovril and sometimes, as a treat, both mixed up in a big Tupperware tub. I was just glad to be off to tell the truth.
Great to see you back , you were all missed Mr Smires. Really enjoyed this Classic continuity craziness. And nice to finally see some of the behind the scenes of News at 1 ;)
One of the videos to the right, as suggested by the algorithms, is "Do you have cabbage at home?" I find myself unable to proceed further with this comment but feel obliged, constrained even, to mention this.
I think the lesson learned here is never use another magician's tapping technique. As a former student of magic, my first lesson was to fear & respect the tap, and you broke this cardinal rule, I was terrified of the consequences from using the tap, as I knew who that tap belonged to and I know the cruelty of their power, (when you posses that much power you don't even need to speak). Thank God you never uttered his magic words.
Just in the nick of time, a dose of welcome sanity from QTV. My Ulcer is now subdued and the headache has gone. Lunction has been well and truly served!!
Hope you all have a great Christmas , Thanks for all the great Nostalgia and the Scary moments too. Your all legends. Hope to see more great continuity craziness in the new year. Merry christmas all.
i remember one episode of Ask Askwith when he was wearing what looked like a kilt, or it could have been a frock i guess, drinking a hot beverage out of a left footed football sock. It was a good one that. Made me sick! i think there was a horse involved as well, but don't quote me.
I feel the need to say something but no words I know can come close to describing what I just watched. The only thing I can put in to words is how wonderful, yet dark that test card was at the end. Bravo. I think.
When's Bronwyn going to get her own spin-off episode? Maybe including a love triangle between her, Gentle Geoff, and Ken, with some interference from Comfrey. Actually, that wouldn't be a triangle then, would it? It'd be more of an oblong. A love oblong. Yes.
(Hesitant intake of breath)”Well, it seems we’re experiencing some technical difficulties at the moment, please bear with us while we sort things out. In the meantime, here’s some music.” (Cue BART by Ruby.)
Shame they didn't try to market t.v's with faulty colour filters. I used to have a mate who swapped a bottle of cheap cider for a t.v. that only showed the picture in red. Honestly, we didn't notice after a few spliffs and some bombay mix.
Bamber was widely disliked at QTV but he had a lot of influence with management, for dubious reasons. I recall a notorious studio party where all kinds of celebs turned up including Pinky & Perky, who soon got into a fight with Tinsel & Custard. Anyway Bamber was pickled as usual and stupidly joined in, grabbed the Perky puppet and started randomly bashing people with it. An all-out brawl ensued but at the later inquiry, management decided to blame Jeff and the gang from Don't You Start, who'd actually made an effort to calm things down.
Ahh, another fine episode of Q TV!!! 👌🥰👍 This reminds me that I need to send a handful of tuppence so you can buy some premium luncheon meat and new knickers for the Q TV crew! 👨👩👦👦🩲👨👩👦👦
I’ve spent the past 2 hours going through your videos. Your creativity and ability to marry feelings of both horror and bliss is truly genius. Please keep doing what you’re doing, you’re truly a visionary! By the way, do you ever listen to Boards of Canada or anything like that? I’m interested to hear where your artistic inspiration comes from.
I'm sure there was a 'kiss a face lift!' in the original uncle Barrington. Actually there was 2. Kiss a face lift! kiss a face lift! Uncle Barrington! Uncle Barrington!
Quentin is what happens when someone who has thier only son in thier late 40s, dies when they're 15, with an estate of upwards of £3.5m of which the entirety is issued in increments of £200 pw for his entire life because he was a special child who was quite sickly and didn't like going out much...
