In 1991 I idly compiled a montage of some of the emotional reunions from Cilla Black's 1991 series of Surprise! Surprise! (LWT). Here is my choppily-edited compilation from the original home-recorded video.
Statically that is incorrect. Generally there is less poverty and less war now. But we hear about it, we've lived rather comfortably, so we think its worse
The story about the chap who’s daughters were just taken to America without his knowledge, was just shocking. The pain of that moment was still written on the poor man’s face 17 years on. Great television.
Our Cilla was certainly the Queen of the TV shows. Sunday night you knew there was going to be tears with reunions. And the song written by Kate Robins , perfect
I love the way Cilla is on this 1991 surprise surprise and brings back the time when I which. It on the television. And it also reminds me of my mum and dad. Carol Wilson
Thank you so much David, for going to the trouble of putting this together for our enjoyment. I don't care what the quality is like, it still brought "Dust in my Eyes" and some sort of "Constriction" in my throat. Thank you again. Gareth
I've watched thousands and thousands of hours of TV over my 70 plus years but never heard "... wished you'd put your teeth in now" before. What a line, Cilla.
If I'm ever feeling very down and the black hole in my heart is hurting... I watch videoes of kids who surprise their step dads (usually) with adoption papers for birthday presents or soldiers who come back and surprise their kids or families. There is one particular video of a dog who is reunited with his owner and its unbelievably beautiful... There's some videos of even like fully grown lions and all just getting so excited to see people who reared them. Check out one video Rachael where there is a man who finds a gorilla who he reared and let go into the wild...its years later and the crew are very nervous... I mean the gorilla can just pull you apart like warm bread... But he comes down and they reunite and he brings his babies and families down to show him... Needs to be more love in the world Lots of ☀ ✌️ 🥂 from 🇮🇪
These stories are very heartwarming & yet so tragic with families ripped apart That poor sister Pat was in complete shock at 34.03. Imagine 30 plus years of longing to see your brothers 😢
I think Frank Berry is my favourite one here. He seems like a really lovely person and what had happened to him was unfair and wrong. His newfounded family seem lovely too. I also, liked Jan and Pat meeting their brothers - poor Pat looked mortified!
Fantastic upload, thanks for putting together. Remember this was before the internet or cheap international flights, so reunions like this were very rare.
OMG that was a perfect transition at 22:13, at the end of the song. "That's all we got time for this week, but we will be back next week with DAVE!" That was perfect!!
she's notorious for having an on screen persona and being a total witch off it, theres whole forums based on how she has treated people off screen, google it.
@@TheAnn2shoes you do get to see it now and again in an interview setting.... she will drop quite a harsh or nasty comment & get a laugh for it and say something like 'im just been honest' she was a token narcissist, it was always planet cilla
Heartbreaking stories really. A brother in Greece you hadn’t seen in 30 years, you’d just FaceTime him every other day now. Kids who disappeared to America 16 years ago & you hadn’t seen or heard from them since.
I am going to view these shows as I was on one of them reunited a friend in NZ with his family in UK and OZ, think our show was Easter 1997 with David Essex on it as well.. We dont get this show in NZ and I loved meeting Cilla Black..
Manuela Darazsdi I think it just depends whether you understand complex colloquial humour if you don’t it will probably go over your head unfortunately!
Only Cilla Black could do this programs it was her own and blind date used to love so much was unbelievable she only this programs and nobody can ever take this away from her(the wife)
I definitely don't think they did not want to meet - it was just different times and some were just emotionally overwhelmed and finding it too difficult to deal with plus the added pressures of tv cameras and being on television. It deals with heart-wrenching topics and life events. Id never seen this program until now - amazing stories. My only piece of criticism is that FLAMIN STEP!!! Id like to know if some bright spark eventually realised they'd be best getting rid of it - people come out to be reunited with long lost family members, they've travelled halfway round the world, defying illness and health problems - only to be nearly finished off right at the last second by that Flamin Step!!!?? No health and safety in those days!
Talking of which yeah there's much harsher things even before then but that's just the way it was then, though I do think sometimes its like what Adam Hills says now Bureaucracy over Common sense, for them to even have a candle light would require a fire expert at the ready with a fire extinguisher I'm not kidding either. For some reason when you said about health and safety it would have existed then but then been far more relaxed about it as opposed to now, I mean going far back to the 1800s even just general working of course Hanna Dyson an 11 year old girl her leg was factually crushed in a Mill in Leeds, forms part of the realisation of what it was like in Industrial Britian the latter part of that same revolution, ended up having it amputated, 1864 I think it was, some can't watch the reconstruction video of the surgeon prepping the student Dr's about it. That's at the Thackary Museum the Leeds Teaching Hospitals museum rather.
Great show with a lot of hard work gone on behind the scenes with Cilla the perfect host but I felt the first reunion didn't seem to be all that joyful. I am not a body language expert but anyone could see the lack of emotional embraces when the three sons met their dad for the first time followed by an embarrassing silence.
Tara our cilla , i wouldnt have stayed in liverpool if i had a choice either , not because it,s bad , just because you are born somewhere doesnt mean you have too stay there forever , loads of normal people emmigrate everyday , RIP you were a one off x
