RIP Diego Maradona

[George 1978]

Argentina legend footballer Diego Maradona has died at the age of 60.

To me, he will always be "Mr 1986 World Cup", and as the 1986 World Cup hosted by Mexico that year, also happens to be my earliest memory of the event - Maradona is the first footballer that I can remember taking...

[George 1978]

Many thanks to both of you - I just hope that things will get back to normal very soon.

[George 1978]

I use this website on Internet Explorer which has always been my choice of using the internet (used it since 1999), and yesterday (Friday) I noticed that for some reason I was logged out (I didn't long myself out - I never do that), and was unable to log in (I am always logged in and never log out,...

[George 1978]

Re: Story lines

It seems to be mostly an American thing, but when they do that, and obviously they go back to when an adult character was a child, a younger person would be drafted in to play the child version of that character.

[George 1978]

Re: Coronavirus... thoughts ..

Yesterday when I visited a relative's house I found out that a member of my family also had the COVID in September, but thankfully she had made a fully recovery. She was studying in Newcastle when she got it and was 160-odd miles away from home, which takes...

[George 1978]

Re: Coronavirus... thoughts ..

There was something I heard (it might have been on Radio 4's Today) about university-based scientists saying that mouthwash can get rid of coronavirus which I think sounds too good to be true, especially for such an everyday item that millions of people...

[George 1978]

Re: Cigars

Football PR Eric "Monster, Monster" Eric Hall (who sadly died recently) was also a cigar smoker.

[George 1978]

Re: 2001 or 2002 Comedy

Sounds like a Doctor Who episode but I know it isn't that.

[George 1978]

Re: 1980s BritishTelecom International Call Print Ads

The only BT adverts I remember from around that time had Maureen "Beattie" Lipman in them.

[George 1978]

Re: What Is Your Favourite Queen Song's



I made the same observations on the first page of this thread - post #5....

[George 1978]

Re: RIP Des O'Connor

I also thought I would mention that Stepney, East London-born Des O'Connor was also suggested as a probable answer by a contestant in the "name a famous Irishman" round on the Bygraves-era Family Fortunes which took a dozen guesses before someone guessed...

[George 1978]

Re: Cigars

I mentioned on the Des O'Connor obituary thread that both he and Russ Abbot had appeared in a Castella cigar advert back in 1990 (the one where Abbot puts a Des record on and puts the speaker into the pond to catch fish, which leap out of the water and into the net). Whether...

[George 1978]

Re: Christmas food

A suppose it counts as Christmas food - does anyone still have chocolate advent calendars each year?

[George 1978]

Re: Pilot of the Airwaves

On BBC Radio Nottingham in the early 1990s, former weekday lunchtime presenter Jeff Owen used to play the "I've been listening to your show on the radio" part of the song at the start of his programmes, and used to blank out the word "friend"...

[George 1978]

Re: Coronavirus... thoughts ..



That's the main thing for everyone at the moment....

[George 1978]

Re: RIP Des O'Connor

Sad news - he was a great all-round entertainer that I would put in the same bracket as Monkhouse and Forsyth. He always looked youthful and a good ten years younger than he really did - unlike most entertainers of his generation who would look ten years older. In...

[George 1978]

Re: Cigars



A very bad example as it would encourage young people to smoke at an early age....

[George 1978]

Re: ITN newsreaders and reporters



Gordon Honeycombe worked for ITN (I think he did the 5:50 News before it became the News at 5:45), but did Baker or Dougal ever work for ITN? - I always thought they were only on the BBC....

[George 1978]

Re: Leif Garrett



Absence makes the heart go fonder....

[George 1978]

I was thinking about the familiar names of newsreaders and reporters that used to feature on ITN bulletins in the 1980s while we were watching the News at One, News at 5:45 and of course the old-school News at Ten.

Just before revamped 1992 version of News at Ten became the Trevor McDonald...