Iconic Tv moments

[beccabear67]

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The name Kendo Nagasaki is a bit like Karate Tokyo, so I'm assuming it's a 'stage' name. Maybe most are, but I remember one of the most well known in Canada was Gene Kiniski without a nickname even. Others used a last name after a nickname, this we could keep track of Mad Dog Vaschon being a different person from Mad Dog Maretti.

Big Daddy seems a great larger than life character! Having been into the ska revival I sort of relate him to Buster Bloodvessel of the group Bad Manners. Central ITV was Birmingham if I have things straight. Thanks for the responses!

Someone should rerun old wrestling programs from the past. They were reshowing old ice hockey games here and it was quite interesting to see games from as far back as the 1950s. They showed the 1967 Toronto Maple Leafs winning the Stanley Cup (haven't won one since) and there were names of players I only know mainly from trophies and a restaurant chain. I'd love to see some classic World Cup matches, starting with the 1966 final!

I guess I'm just generally a looking back sort of person; I was always asking my mother what the one block street we live on was like when she was little and also lived on it. I wonder if she has even had much curiosity about what it was like before her time? In 77 years she moved five houses down to the one her Godparents had built out of a smaller farm house. She would've heard my grandfather listening to hockey on the radio back then (apparently she hated the announcer's shrill voice, that is very much like me).

[George 1978]

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Big Daddy was to present Central TV's Saturday Show on Saturday mornings, but for some reason he decided to drop out at the last minute and was replaced by Tommy Boyd - the thing about that (and it might not have been the main reason why he dropped out) was the fact that he was still doing the live wrestling on Saturday afternoons, and I assumed that he probably wouldn't have been able to do both on Saturdays - perhaps it was the reason why he turned the Saturday Show job down?

[amethyst]

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Was there any particularly memorable wrestling match between Big Daddy Crabtree and Giant Haystacks? Or even wrestling events in general. I haven't looked at any in decades but I remember my grandfather always watched wrestling avidly for years. There was quite a variety of it back then.

My Aunt loved watching wrestling on ITV on Saturday afternoons in 60s early 70s

[beccabear67]

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Was there any particularly memorable wrestling match between Big Daddy Crabtree and Giant Haystacks? Or even wrestling events in general. I haven't looked at any in decades but I remember my grandfather always watched wrestling avidly for years. There was quite a variety of it back then.

[George 1978]

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BBC Ghost Watch back in 1992.

The SAS storming the Iranian embassy.

Ghost Watch of course.

Others I can think of:

Royal Weddings (Charles and Diana, Andrew and Fergie, etc)

General Elections (Thatcher era mostly)

Live Aid

Dennis Taylor in his "upside-down" glasses gesturing "I told you so!" with his right hand when he beat Steve Davis in the 1985 final.

[mark1970]

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BBC Ghost watch back in 1992.

The SAS storming the Iranian embassy.

[Semi42]

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April fools on tv was always a hoot
i fondly remember the Lirpa Loof on Thats life
there usually was a spoof article on Nationwide and I recall watching an episode of pebble mill on April the 1st waiting to spot the leg pull.
however as the show was finishing up, all seemed normal until the last announcement was made that one of the stories they aired was completely made up for April fools

[George 1978]

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An April Fool's joke which was read on a TV-am news bulletin on Sunday 1st April 1984 about Albert Tatlock being killed by Libyan hitmen - meanwhile, the news had broke the actor Jack Howarth who had played Tatlock in Coronation Street for over 23 years had passed away in the night. Some viewers had complained to say that the spoof news story was offensive and malicious.

[George 1978]

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That’s life!
mum would let me stay up to watch it as I’m sure it was on late Sunday evenings.

ESTHER: "Do you wear socks in bed?"
ELDERLY MAN IN STREET "Condoms".

[George 1978]

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I am getting into the spirit of things now...

Rod Hull's Emu (well, Hull himself to be honest) attacking Michael Parkinson on his chat show (the Emu also attacked others, but the Parkinson incident was what he was most famous for).

Oliver Reed getting drunk on what appeared to be a jug of orange juice on Michael Aspel's chat show.

Julian Clary "Norman Lamont / Red Ballot Box" on the 1993 Comedy Awards.

David Icke on Wogan "they're laughing at you..."

George Best also on Wogan.

[Semi42]

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That’s life!
mum would let me stay up to watch it as I’m sure it was on late Sunday evenings.

The talking dog (“sausages”) was the hot topic in the playground on Monday morning after it was first aired

[Richard1978]

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Grace Jones slapping Russell Harty

Mick Fleetwood and Samnatha Fox having to ad-lib most of the Brits 1989 after their autocue failed.

Bill Grundy interviewing the Sex Pistols.

[George 1978]

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TGI Friday
Sean Ryder singing pretty vacant and Chris Evans repeatedly apologising after the performance.

TFI Friday methinks.

Another memory is the Stan Boardman "Fokkers" joke on Des O'Connor Tonight - rumour had it that Thames TV had banned him from appearing on any more of their programmes as a result.

[George 1978]

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Going Live! - Elliott Fletcher being profane to Five Star on April Fool's Day 1989 - I have this feeling that it was an April Fool's joke in the making.

The Time The Place - The show goes off the air after a guest accuses the show of racism. John Stapleton asks Security to get rid of the guest and all hell brakes lose.

National Lottery Draw - The Fathers 4 Justice people storm the studio minutes before the Eurovision Song Contest is due on air (remember Daz Sampson and Teenage Life?)

Six O'clock News - Another "how did they get past security" moment - the lesbians protesting.

That's Life! - Grant Baynham having a bucket of water tipped over him because he wouldn't stop smoking.

Channel 4's 100 Greatest TV Moments from Hell was a great source for a lot of those sort of things happening.

[amethyst]

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Spitting image Maggie Thatcher & Dennis lol