A 7pm Thames/LWT handover from 28th December 1979,including excerpts from The Muppet Show,adverts and trailers. ALL COPYRIGHTS AND MUPPETS DUTIFULLY ACKNOWLEDGED.
This version of The Glums was a spin-off from an item on the ill-fated Bruce Forsyth's Big Night, as was the Steve Jones Game Show from around the same time. A reasonably rare capture of Hilary Osborn here - with just the kind of voice that, sadly, would disqualify her from continuity these days. (Although three or four glances at her monitor betray a certain anxiety, and the cut to the ATV ident is a wee bit late.)
Not that Ray Charles--a white man who led the chorus on the Perry Como show, among many other things (including singing the theme for "Three's Company," the U.S. version of "Man About the House"--Mr. Charles liked to refer to himself as "the other Ray Charles."
God if they were the Weekend Highlights back then wtf were the Lowlights like? God LWT must have charging millions to advertise on Friday to Sunday pimping crap like that out.
