I have only a few favourite tv programmes
Reruns of the zombie apocalypse The Walking Dead. ( of course)
The boffin quiz Only Connect
The silly and playful Taskmaster
And now on Monday nights reruns of CALL MY BLUFF, plucked from around 1974
Bluff was glorious. Not much playing around , but with enough humour to tickle, we had Frank Muir and Patrick Campbell playing a parlour game about the correct definition of words.Muir was a famous comedy writer and Campbell a journalist and The 3rd Baron Genavy and both played the programme for gentle laughs. I loved it when I watched with my mother when I was 10 and I love it now over 50 years later. Tonight we had the sailor Robin Knox Johnson taking part, a real hottie
Mortimer and Lighthouse go fishing is another sweet watch
This is another simple premise where the two old friends ( and stand up comics) chat over time spent fishing in a river . It’s a lovely piece of tv where real affection between two funny men surface constantly
Oh and Gogglebox
Love Mortimer and Whitehouse and Gogglebox. M&W are so lovely together and they go to some beautiful countryside and stay in some lovely places. Such a lovely, gentle programme. XXXX
ReplyDeleteI've only caught Mortimer and Whitehouse once or twice on some obscure channel... isn't one of those lovely men recovering or suffering from cancer or some such ugly illness and this programme is a swan song... I am not sure where I got that information from though so I could be completely wrong.
ReplyDeleteFurther investigation done and both suffering from heart problems and both gladly still fishing.
DeleteBeing competitive I used to watch Call My Bluff with a dictionary to see if I could find the correct word before they did!
ReplyDeleteTaskmaster is brilliant - how do they - mainly Alex Horne - come up with all the ideas?
I used to watch Call my Bluff with my Nana, who lived upstairs from us. I also used to go up to hers every Monday night to watch Opportunity Knocks or Take Your Pick and then we would sit and get none of the answers on University Challenge together.
ReplyDeleteNow like you I love Only Connect, I had a dire week this week but a brilliant one last week. Gogglebox and First Dates are also must sees ... and The Great British Bake Off is back this week. :-)
I loved Call My Bluff. I remember Graham Hill saying “male volent” instead of malevolent.
ReplyDeleteHave been out of the Uk for a couple of weeks so now have lots on catch up to watch. We only have Amazon Prime as an add on and find there is always something good to watch.
I loved Call my Bluff...was it one of the programmes that moved over from radio?
ReplyDeleteI also loved Call My Bluff as a child and watching it again has been a delight - good humoured, witty, silly and endlessly entertaining. You weren't the only one taken with Robin Knox Johnson last night. As you say, a real hottie!
ReplyDeleteCall My Bluff was too high brow for us. My family didn't 'do' BBC2. BBC1 was only used for the sports programmes.
ReplyDeletePaul Lighthouse is often beamed into our homes. His comedy is illuminating.
ReplyDeleteI used to love Call My Bluff as a kid. I've always loved words, probably from my Dad who was a crossword addict and passed that on to me. Your other choices, I'll pass on, but I do like University Challenge, even though I don't understand some of the questions. I do feel smug when I get a question right, though, especially if the brains don't know the answer!
ReplyDeleteHope you're on the mend now and the animals haven't wrecked the cottage whilst you've been laid up. xx
I just finished reading another blog that was enthusiastic about "Mortimer and Lighthouse Go Fishing" -- small world! It was Ted's birthday.
ReplyDeleteI have never heard of any of those shows and the video is blocked here in the US for some reason.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I've enjoyed many shows from the BBC - mostly mysteries and baking shows and, of course, Repair shop!
All these shows are new to me. I'll look for them in the US.
ReplyDeleteDitto, Susan.
DeleteBeth U.S.
I really enjoy the old shows , easier on the brain and psyche.
DeleteI love gogglebox and somehow missed the one shown in the clip. Hilarious! I am so sad that I am now watching the reruns of walking dead. I thought I would just dip into them and have got hooked all over again.
ReplyDeleteMy former father in law said dom and Steph were not liked by their fellow neighbours
DeleteIt is thanks to you John that I am now hooked on Walking Dead. I have just reached series 6, episode 2. Superb viewing!
ReplyDeleteWho is that ?many thanks anyhow
DeleteJust one of your readers who had never heard of the Walking Dead before reading your blog!
DeleteThe sailor is a looker
ReplyDeleteLee
He WAS a looker but he's now in his 80's and is unrecognisable from those days on Call my Bluff.
DeleteI had never heard of Call My Bluff and I was intrigued so I rustled up some episodes on YouTube and have been enjoying them immensely. Just what I needed as a mood lifter!
ReplyDeleteWe used to love Gogglebox but we haven't watched it in ages. Not sure why -- I guess it just ran its course in our household!
ReplyDeleteCall my Bluff was great and is one of the few programs I remember watching with my late Dad who generally had differing views to me on good entertainment and music , have to say though in his later years he told me one day how he had been wrong to constantly berate me for my love of Bob Dylan, he had opened his mind and watched a documentary on him and listened to his lyrics,
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