Timbo Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Actor Gorden Kaye has died aged 75. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-38718282 Great actor...also very good in Porridge with Ronnie Barker. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffbroadslover Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Sad news indeed. I did not realise there had been so many episodes of "Allo, Allo". Hopefully there will be more repeats and possibly" Till Death Do Us Part" and "Are You Being Served" as well. Jeff 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScrumpyCheddar Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 " I should say this only once".... Another fab celebrity gone... RIP... 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baitrunner Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Yet again 2017 is trying to beat last years record. Another actor who will be sadly missed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaughan Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Does anyone remember "The Secret Army", which was a serious weekly adventure programme about the resistance and their efforts to help British airmen, and upon which the satirical "'Allo Allo" was based? Unfortunately the funny series rather killed off the first one, as it was a gripping programme, in its day. Part of the success of 'Allo Allo was that it so easily translated into both French and German. They all loved it! I have lots of friends in France who always laugh about it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennyMorgan Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 All these good people dying in their seventies is beginning to worry me! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Remember it well Vaughan As you say a good series at the time 1970's i think 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaughan Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 4 minutes ago, JennyMorgan said: All these good people dying in their seventies is beginning to worry me! I believe in moderation in all things. Including "Mount Gay" rum from Barbados, and I am having a small glass right now! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisB Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 5 minutes ago, JennyMorgan said: All these good people dying in their seventies is beginning to worry me! One must remember that he had the most dreadful accident in that gale of January 1990 (I think) and suffered severe brain damage from which he recovered very well. It must however have some bearing on ones longevity. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennyMorgan Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 1 minute ago, Vaughan said: I believe in moderation in all things. Including "Mount Gay" rum from Barbados, and I am having a small glass right now! Woods rum for me, normally neat but sometimes with a whiff of alcoholic cloves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaughan Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Just now, JennyMorgan said: Woods rum for me, normally neat but sometimes with a whiff of alcoholic cloves. No wonder you are concerned for your future! 'Night night all, I hope you all sleep as well as I intend to! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennyMorgan Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Sippers not swiggers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisB Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 I knew a sailor out of Chichester harbour that drank Woods 54% (I forget what colour label it was) mixed with some herbal drink called bush, shrub, sapling or some such name. He drank in the Bird and Ham pub in Birdham a lot! I think he was not long livedby all accounts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baitrunner Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 I shall start a new post about mount gay rum and sailing. Drinking stories ahoy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEAMASTER Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Another great Jimmy Perry and David Croft show. Who made Gordon Kaye a big house hold name. Brilliantly written very funny. Such a shame all these great actors coming to there ends. The beauty of it. Is There never forgotten and there always being repeated on the TV. So it's like there still here entertaining us. What is so sad is there's no new entertainment being written how it was. Perry and Croft are lengends in there writing like john Sullivan. So I raise a glass to Gordon Kaye and thank you for your laughs. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennyMorgan Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 35 minutes ago, ChrisB said: I knew a sailor out of Chichester harbour that drank Woods 54% (I forget what colour label it was) mixed with some herbal drink called bush, shrub, sapling or some such name. He drank in the Bird and Ham pub in Birdham a lot! I think he was not long livedby all accounts. One of those herbal drinks, in excess, could shorten the lives of any red blooded male! As for Birdham Pool, during the 1970's I spent a lot of time down there, in the pub too. There used to be a Lowestoft registered barge-yacht moored there called Dinah. I worked part-time in the yard down there during the winter when delivery work was short. Did a lot of rigging on Dinah but I never saw her sail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
addicted Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 I well remember "Secret Army" thought it very good. I must be one of the few people who failled to laugh at any part o f" allo allo". I honestly thought it was absolute rubbish. Sadly, I can't imagine any repeats of "Till Death Us Do Part" ever being screened the PC brigade would go into melt down. Likewise "Love thy neighbour" I would imagine. A situation that will endure while these humourless do-gooders fail to be able to tell the difference between reality and plain old British comedy Carole 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stumpy Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 Re. Herbal tinctures, in some country pubs round here you can still add clove, shrub and others to your tot. The Lord Nelson (not that one, this is 'down the docks' in Ipswich) used to market half bottles of 'Deben Angel' which was Woods 100 based with clove cordial being the only recognisable ingredient (another maybe honey)- a very warming waxer in this weather! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanessan Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 On 23/01/2017 at 9:42 PM, Vaughan said: Does anyone remember "The Secret Army", which was a serious weekly adventure programme about the resistance and their efforts to help British airmen, and upon which the satirical "'Allo Allo" was based? Unfortunately the funny series rather killed off the first one, as it was a gripping programme, in its day. Part of the success of 'Allo Allo was that it so easily translated into both French and German. They all loved it! I have lots of friends in France who always laugh about it. I have the full set of Secret Army DVDs and very good they are too. There was another series around that era called "Manhunt". Sadly they don't make series like these any more but, if you search online, you can probably find many of the old programmes digitally remastered onto DVD. Does anyone remember a black and white series called The Silver Sword? I think it was set in war torn Poland during WW2. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springsong Posted January 27, 2017 Share Posted January 27, 2017 Lovage was a popular additive to alcohol when I was working in the West Country back in the day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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