Weird Roger Daltrey series

[JM28Cardiff]

I'm trying to find anyone who remembers a weird Roger Daltrey TV series, just to confirm to myself that I didnt just dream it up!

It was late 80's, probably ITV saturday teatime. Roger Daltrey was in it, and he worked for some kind of shadowy organisation. Roger wore a pinstripe suit and bowler hat, and he had a black sidekick who wore cowskin flares. The whole tone of the show was weird, avengers-lite. Ive tried asking friends, SFX magazine, Roger Daltrey fansites and even ITV itself, but no one else on earth seems to have any knowledge of this show!

[JM28Cardiff]

I found out from the Internet Movie Database that Roger Daltrey made a TV series in 1988 called "How to be cool", but I don't know anything else or if that is the right show.

[Popsicle]

He does done a few guest spots too.
He appeared in some episodes of "Highlander" and "Rude Awakening", and one off guests in shows such as "Slider".

[Gaz]

Oh man I don't believe it! I've been trying to remember the name of this show for years!
In fact that's why I started looking through this forum!
You are correct in that it was Saturday evening about teatime.
I remember it was a little like a serialised kids version of 'A Clockwork Orange'.
And wasn't there something called 'The Fashion Police'?.....
Please please someone help.

Gaz

[Gaz]

Another memory of this show.
Don't ask how I remember this (!!!) but one of the young actors was called Russell Lee.

Gaz.

[Bobby232]

How to be cool

I remember that show, i have been trawling the net to find it but the only reference i have found is here, i watched it when i was a kid.

Apart from daltery the main charactor was vas blackwood (cant remember his charactor name) he was in lock stock and two smoking barrales and a Childrens ITV show called spatz.

My memory of it is sketchy, it was a very bizzare series and the premise was that daultery invented the sixtys scene and was planning to create the ninetys with the help of a scientist who had develped some kind of potion or machine that turned who every took it into the coolset person in the universe it was very strange but i was eight years old at the time so i loved it.

There was a bunch of cool kids who had a device called a cool omitor that could measure coolness (The writers must have been on drugs)

I seem to remeber something about the sceintist growing a giant pea. It ended with vas blackwoods charactors slob sister absorbing the power andbeing turned into the coolest person and daulery being killed.

Does anybody else remeber anythiong about it

[willpurry]

Re: Weird Roger Daltrey series

How To Be Cool turns out to be based on a Phillip Pullman novel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Be_Cool

[sf1378]

Re: Weird Roger Daltrey series

Did Daultrey's character have a pencil thin moustache in the show???

[MandM]

Re: Weird Roger Daltrey series

I wonder if you are thinking about Big Breadwinner?
The main character Hog is a young ruthless London gangster called Hogarth played by Peter Egan.

[bielzibub]

Re: Weird Roger Daltrey series

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnctbSOuO8k

here is a clip, sorry it also features Gary Glitter!

I think about this show way too much , I was 11 or 12 when I saw it and it stayed with me!!