How are your childhood TV favourites faring?

[Stumpy Pepys]

Sadly, for British posters, we'll have to ignore the ones found guilty of sexual harassment and child abuse.

Not well
David Bellamy—tedious global warming denier
Johnny Ball—see above
Yvette Fielding—Most Haunted. Enough said

Good
The Chuckle Brothers—still going strong. Last seen with Tinchy Stryder
The late Casey Kasem—stood up to music censorship and the voice of Shaggy

[Stumpy Pepys]

How are your childhood TV favourites faring?

I forgot about Keith Chegwin—last time I saw him was on Naked Jungle.

[ian.64]

How are your childhood TV favourites faring?

Fair

Derek Griffifth, he of 70's Beeb kids' telly, has returned in some voiceover form, but sadly for a poxy loans firm.

[Vicarious Thrillseeker]

How are your childhood TV favourites faring?

Brian Cant - security and mime consultant for Academi (formerly known as Blackwater) in Aylesbury.

[Sits]

How are your childhood TV favourites faring?

OK

Sally James - runs a school uniform business in Cobham, Surrey. Doing panto.

Hope I haven't stirred too many adolescent echoes there. I certainly did for myself.

[Stumpy Pepys]

How are your childhood TV favourites faring?

Bugger, I forgot about Floella Benjamin. Apart from being the only Floella I know of, she's the highly achieving educational campaigner and life peer, Baroness Benjamin of Beckenham.

[gloveguy]

How are your childhood TV favourites faring?

I was massively in love with Janine Turner from Northern Exposure. Sadly, she's turned out to be a Tea Party maniac.

[Land Waster]

How are your childhood TV favourites faring?

Bob Wilson has had more than his fair share of karma thrown at him over the past few years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Wil...#Personal_life

[Stumpy Pepys]

How are your childhood TV favourites faring?

gloveguy wrote: I was massively in love with Janine Turner from Northern Exposure. Sadly, she's turned out to be a Tea Party maniac.

Me too. She also turned out to be a plastic surgery victim.

[Haddock]

How are your childhood TV favourites faring?

A quick search on Google Images and I have to say Janine Turner's not doing too bad on the cosmetic surgery in comparison to, for example, er...Shane Warne. The right-wing nutjob stuff is very disappointing, though.

John Noakes is now 80 and is reported to be quite bitter about his Blue Peter years and especially his treatment by Biddie Baxter. Gratifying in a way that he's reverted to curmudgeonly Yorkshire type rather than going chirpily into that good night.
He also apparently teaches the Romance languages.

[Freestyling buck wilding Stijn Stijnen]

How are your childhood TV favourites faring?

I immediately thought of Rod, Jane and Freddy, running cocaine across south America or some shit, but that would require three lots of googling and I'm fucked and doing this sneakily at somebodies house. But I wanted first dibs on Rod, Jane and Freddy.

[gloveguy]

How are your childhood TV favourites faring?

Haddock wrote: A quick search on Google Images and I have to say Janine Turner's not doing too bad on the cosmetic surgery

I think a lot of the work she had done was temporary (botox, whatever the hell they inject into people's lips), and she looks a lot better now than she did 5 or 6 years ago.

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

How are your childhood TV favourites faring?

Timmy Mallett came into our village pub during the summer, apparently on a cycling tour of the area. Shamelessly, he came in armed with photos of himself ready to sign for the bar staff "for their wall". Neither of them, both being under 30, had the faintest idea who he was, much to the amusement of me and others at the bar who did recognise the twat.

[George]

How are your childhood TV favourites faring?

Mallett's nemesis Tommy Boyd seems to have dropped off the face of the earth. He was rumoured at one time to rake the bunkers at some Hampshire golf course inbetween TV and radio jobs.

[jwdd27]

How are your childhood TV favourites faring?

Peter Duncan is 60 years old. 60!

He, like Simon Groom and Mark Curry, is still operating on the outer reaches of show business, variously acting, directing, producing and motivational speaking/life coaching.

I didn't know Mark Curry was gay until Wikipedia told me a few minutes ago. I guess he had to keep that quiet at the time, I doubt Biddy Baxter would have stood for that.

[Various Artist]

How are your childhood TV favourites faring?

Blimey, neither did I. Notoriously, Michael Sundin, who briefly replaced Peter Duncan on Blue Peter in the mid '80s, was forced out of the show allegedly after rumours about his gay lifestyle got around, although Biddy Baxter claimed it was simply due to the audience not liking him.

Peter Duncan is superbly well-preserved for 60. He was made Chief Scout a few years ago by the Scout Association, which aroused minor controversy because he'd only been a Cub as a kid and not gone on to Scouts at the time. For anyone who remembers him doing all the crazy outdoor stuff on Blue Peter and Duncan Dares* however, he was obviously a brilliant choice. (Is Bear Grylls still in the role now?)

(*And in Flash Gordon, although his character's daring cost him his life there, admittedly.)

I wonder what Zippy, George and Bungle are up to now? I've just googled Rod, Jane & Freddy and found that apparently they were originally 'Rod, Jane & Matt', the latter being Matthew Corbett, who had to leave when he took over doing Sooty from his dad Harry. Heh, and further inquiry reveals also that the latter was nephew to Harry Ramsden, he of chip shop fame.
And heh, apparently the Zippy puppet was meant to be blue-coloured in Rainbow, but Geoffrey — a Dundee Utd fan — convinced them to make it that sort of tangerine colour instead due to his allegiance.

[Stumpy Pepys]

How are your childhood TV favourites faring?

jwdd27 wrote: He, like Simon Groom and Mark Curry, is still operating on the outer reaches of show business, variously acting, directing, producing and motivational speaking/life coaching.

Simon Groom has a guesthouse in Derbyshire.

[Geoffrey de Ste. Croix]

How are your childhood TV favourites faring?

My wife and I bumped into John Craven filming Countryfile on Cromer beach (we were there for a wedding) a couple of years ago. Had a brief chat with him. I'm pleased to report he's an absolutely charming man. I told him he was a bit of a hero of mine from my childhood to which he replied that he gets that all the time from people of a certain age.

[longeared]

How are your childhood TV favourites faring?

Simon Groom presented a weekend show on Radio Sheffield for years, though not sure when this stopped. A look at the schedules for the station also shows up Andy Crane presenting the Sunday breakfast show.

[Tramp The Dirt Down]

How are your childhood TV favourites faring?

Is Bobby Bennett of Junior Showtime fame still with us?

[George]

How are your childhood TV favourites faring?

Crane pops up on various BBC radio stations as a reserve presenter.

Didn't Geoffrey from Rainbow find himself driving a taxi to earn a living after the show ran it's course?

[Freestyling buck wilding Stijn Stijnen]

How are your childhood TV favourites faring?

Neil Buchanan, he of number 73, art attack and finders keepers fame has been touring with his band Marseille, which formed in 1976. They were part of the New Wave of the British Heavy Metal scene

[Freestyling buck wilding Stijn Stijnen]

How are your childhood TV favourites faring?

Stumpy Pepys wrote: I forgot about Keith Chegwin—last time I saw him was on Naked Jungle.

He also had a small role in extras. I was genuinely going to write 'small part', but saw the naked jungle open goal and changed it.

[Freestyling buck wilding Stijn Stijnen]

How are your childhood TV favourites faring?

Hugo Myatt aka Treguard from the kids role playing game show Knightmare, a show that is screaming for a remake seems to get a fair bit of work as a voice actor.

[MsD]

How are your childhood TV favourites faring?

Andy Townsends Tactics Truck wrote:
I was genuinely going to write 'small part', but saw the naked jungle open goal and changed it.

What on earth is the matter with you?

Did Magna Carta die in vain?