There be no comb overs under a labour government 😊
@marksmith334
17 күн бұрын
A lovely time before very quiz show question was about Harry fkn Potter
@philipusher4282
28 күн бұрын
Unfortunately it's not 1978 anymore. Would that it were, would that it were.
@NormaStitz-w1f
Ай бұрын
Have a plump!
@normanmeharry58
Ай бұрын
Comb-over extraordinaire.
@soylentgreennewdealtimeshare
Ай бұрын
With Progress, we now use so much more of our brain; the majority of which is available as Snapdragon or MediaTek.
@davidevans3227
Ай бұрын
thankyou for sharing this 🙂 x
@megamega362
Ай бұрын
I remember this from the 70s ,they look like their from another planet a boring one wow doesn't fashion do terrible things to people, introducing me and middle class from surrey Mr Altandorf and Mrs Eunice Fuddy Duddy.
@michaelbyrne5507
Ай бұрын
Not the nine o'clock news?
@chipbuttytime3396
Ай бұрын
I'm far too thick to watch this but you all had fun
@dencameron3450
Ай бұрын
God this takes me right back! Tues night I think ?!
@danielpollick339
Ай бұрын
Close! It was actually Monday. 7pm I think, before Blake’s 7.
@G0HZU
5 ай бұрын
If 'best combover' was an Olympic event, they would just post the gold medal to Robert Robinson every four years.
@algrant5293
7 ай бұрын
I remember being petrified of the opening titles, it didn't set me up for the rest of the programme very well. Good memories? "Aaaaah would that it were, would that it were" 😅
@smithpm81
7 ай бұрын
love the music
@jmcallion2071
8 ай бұрын
This brings back memories and it's not just the count Arthur strong sketch
Rather baffled that Mr. Robinson thought Green Onions sounded as though it had been composed and played on a computer! He had NO idea what was to come...
@simonparry5958
Жыл бұрын
Used to watch this regularly
@MrDastardly
Жыл бұрын
When Robert Robinson went on holidays, the BBC changed the name of the show to ‘Ask The Combover’.
@anthonyperkins7556
Жыл бұрын
I remember this on weeknights in the 70's on BBC-1
@frankmurphyburr3598
Жыл бұрын
greatest combover in tv history lol
@HookBeak_66
Жыл бұрын
Robert Robertson had the best combover on television, & was a thoroughly nice presenter.
@peterfireflylund
Жыл бұрын
Is Robinson’s hair painted on?
@PastPresented
Жыл бұрын
Awesome quality recording. You appear to have obtained a BBC master tape of the episode!
@danielpollick339
Жыл бұрын
Yes that’s correct. I may post the story of how that happened.
@PastPresented
Жыл бұрын
@@danielpollick339 Ooh, yes please!
@danielpollick339
Жыл бұрын
@@PastPresented ok here goes. In 1978 only primitive vcrS were available. We had a Phillips n1700 and we made a terrible recording off the tv. Those went obsolete very fast so we assumed we’d never get a recording. But then some time in the 80s/90s I wrote to the bbc to ask if they had a copy. They replied snootily that they didn’t and that only items of merit were preserved in the archive. A few years passed. Then I came to work one Monday and a colleague said ‘I saw you on tv on Saturday night’. Bbc2 had done a programme called tv hell, which was a full evening of clips from terrible old shows. The clip in which my sister and I featured (with a separate clip of parents who were not ours) was preceded by a screen banner saying ‘warning. Ugly middle class family approaching.’ We were especially amused by being chosen as the best example of kids to go with the chosen parents. Tv hell, incidentally, followed a c4 Saturday night special called tv heaven which was about good old shows rather than terrible ones. Anyway, I wrote to the BBC again and they admitted having one show in the archives and sold us a VHS copy for, I think, £170. This was the first round. I’ve never found the other three episodes in which we appeared. The video, and the story of getting it, has given us all enormous pleasure as well as helping us to realise how ugly and middle class we are.
@PastPresented
Жыл бұрын
@@danielpollick339 That sounds extremely cheeky of the BBC. Apart from anything else they should probably have paid you residuals for the _TV Hell_ clip; when we were on ATF we got extra payments for the weekly repeats.
@fungiformenow
Жыл бұрын
I was a neighbour of the Buswell’s for many years. Mr Buswell was a great advocate of the moleskin trouser, and l, having been convinced by him, have been wearing them ever since. I don’t mind if people laugh and besides, I’m pretty sure they shielded me from Covid!
@manchegocheese997
Жыл бұрын
A little known fact that will surprise many: Robert Robinson was bald.
@davidscott2821
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting, Dan.
@adamgregory5274
Жыл бұрын
Bet Mrs Buswell does two or three afternoons at a charity shop when she's not chairwoman of the Floral Art Society
@marquonuk
Жыл бұрын
Robert Robinson now seems quite abrupt as a question master! A favourite show at ours. Comparing then with now, the introductions of the contestants are brief and the ending is wrapped up very quickly. These were days when it was really all about the quiz questions, and what good ones they were. Would that they were the same standard now! :-)
@Keithbarber
Жыл бұрын
Pppòp
@Charlietwice
Жыл бұрын
Getting the green onions song wrong showed their middle class ignorance even though the song was a classic and only a few years old at the time.
@danielpollick339
Жыл бұрын
Actually green onions had not yet been a hit. See my earlier reply on this. Cheers for the random insult!
@frankmurphyburr3598
Жыл бұрын
Just like your working class ignorance of Mozart? I was brought up in Glasgow, 100% lower class types, slums, alcoholism, but guess what? my middle class friends were always kind and friendly, AND they liked rock n roll as well as classical, I was the ignorant uneducated, then I got educated, and stopped me being a dick on youtube with my dicky comments on class systemn.
@BlytheWorld1972
Жыл бұрын
love the comb over lol
@numinousbookofreview
Жыл бұрын
Mull of Kintyre was still number 1 when this went out. Different world.
@ProfessorBernardFuck
Жыл бұрын
"my daughter, Keith Moon"
@bananabrooks3836
Жыл бұрын
Surprised how many lmperial measures/currencies reared their heads even in post decimal '78
@gareththomas6714
Жыл бұрын
this is a comedy spoof right?its hilarious
@sirloydfcatsby
Жыл бұрын
A quiz for quantity surveyors of all ages
@danielpollick339
Жыл бұрын
Bit harsh. My dad was a market trader, my mum was a teacher and then social worker!
It still makes me laugh to see Robert Robinson hiding his bald head with a Bobby Charlton hair style.
@brucedanton3669
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for this of course-I remember the series, if not perhaps this edition though.
@brucedanton3669
Жыл бұрын
And very nice start music too with it. It seems they altered it later on until the series ended in 1984 at the time. I preferred this music to that one of later on though too! Thank you anyway too.
@slobodanreka1088
Жыл бұрын
Loved the frogs' legs clue!!! Try getting away with that in today's wahwah world. :)
@taofanarchy96-renzomaracas14
Жыл бұрын
13:51 #RIPQueenElisabeth and #RIPPrincePhilip
@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684
Жыл бұрын
My god I used to love this program as a lad.... compare the standard and range of questions here to the likes of current "Richard Osman's House of Games". And they say that we're not being "dumbed down"?
@ithewonder
2 жыл бұрын
The theme music and those weird pictures used to give me the creeps lol
@mikewest1542
2 жыл бұрын
When they played “ Green Onions” I bet they didn’t know what the hell it was as in the answers they gave , can’t imagine them grooving to that, more like listening to Beethoven “😂😂😂
@danielpollick339
2 жыл бұрын
Mike - as I’ve explained elsewhere in this thread, Green Onions had not yet been a hit so basically no one had heard of it.
@garyhunt8067
2 жыл бұрын
Tricky questions
@spanishpeaches2930
2 жыл бұрын
Always found this prog so creepy. Creepy music, odd people, creepy comb-over. Would that it were.
@danielpollick339
2 жыл бұрын
Cheers!
@immaterialimmaterial5195
2 жыл бұрын
Worth watching for the fashions and hairstyles alone!
@anajonda
2 жыл бұрын
Do you have the episode where the father was a quantity surveyor, the mother was a quantity surveyor, and both children were quantity surveyors?
@fudgis2572
2 жыл бұрын
Wow, it was that spooky intro I remembered most of all from childhood, those Victorian faces turning around with their toothy grins fascinated and disturbed me in equal measures!
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