Michael Bentine's Potty Time [Archive]

Finn

8th October 2006, 13:54

Am I the only person in NZ that remembers this show? Michael was one of the Goon's and created the potty show. It was friggen hilarious and I watched it religously as a kid but when I mention it to people, they look at me funny.

Maybe the oldies will remember???

MattRSK

8th October 2006, 14:00

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How could you not know of it?

Finn

8th October 2006, 14:01

Exactly. I've only managed to find one clip on You Tube.

Swoop

8th October 2006, 14:16

Remember it well...
along with The Goon Show. Fabulous comedy.

...He's fallen in the water!

MattRSK

8th October 2006, 14:20

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James Deuce

8th October 2006, 14:22

Finn I used to watch Potty Time and Thunderbirds on a Sunday afternoon. Weekend was complete then.

paturoa

8th October 2006, 14:24

my fav was Lancelot Link & the Evolution Revolution.

Hitcher

8th October 2006, 14:28

I will refrain from acknowledging, least I be classified as an "oldie"...

Clivoris

8th October 2006, 14:29

Sign me up as a nostalgic old bastard too. These programs were probably the root cause of my telly addiction. Can't go past the Pythons and Kenny Everett either.

MattRSK

8th October 2006, 14:31

I have a Spike Milligan video.

Hawkeye

8th October 2006, 14:36

I used to love the battles on the models. You could only see the footprints and the explosions in the sand. Brilliant.

Lissa

8th October 2006, 14:36

Although way to young to post in this thread.. my fav would have to have been the Goodies.

MattRSK

8th October 2006, 14:38

Its my birthday on the 29th.

Brian d marge

8th October 2006, 14:55

Have a look at Tv gold , all the old programmes are on there carry on Matron ! as you were

Stephen

MattRSK

8th October 2006, 15:01

carry on Matron ! as you were

Stephen

Sir yes Sir.

oldguy

8th October 2006, 16:13

Anything with Sid James. poms know there comedy. Doctor in the house, On the Buses, could go on.

Hitcher

8th October 2006, 19:00

Some pom comedy, however, is egregious. I'd rather eat cold porridge and oyster sandwiches...

McJim

8th October 2006, 19:17

that is coincidental - I was talking to a fella in the next office just last week about that and Ken dodd's diddy men...and the single released by Michael Bentine and the Diddy Men (do you remember that one?).

wonder hat happened to bring this to the forefront of the collective mind?

SixPackBack

8th October 2006, 19:18

I remember it well, however for some reason it all ways make me think of Spike milligans grave-stone epitaph..."I told them I was feeling ill":lol:

Skyryder

8th October 2006, 19:48

Anything with Sid James. poms know there comedy. Doctor in the house, On the Buses, could go on.

And the Rag Trade. Now she was my kind of union delegate. All legs and mouth. :rofl:

Skyryder

pritch

8th October 2006, 20:24

I remember it well, however for some reason it all ways make me think of Spike milligans grave-stone epitaph..."I told them I was feeling ill":lol:

I loved his preface to "Adolf Hitler, My Part In His Downfall"

"After 'Puckoon' I swore I'd never write another novel.
Here it is."

Pixie

9th October 2006, 12:21

McJim

9th October 2006, 12:38

No one remembers the Clangers
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/clangers/

"A series about a family of knitted aliens eking out a threadbare existence on a bleak and cold world."

With the soup dragon and the pea soup wells

I remember the clangers. And Mary Mungo and Midge, Andy Pandy, Bagpuss, What was the name of the programme with Parsley the Lion? What about Noggin the Nog - went out on adventures and always came back to hot buttered toast..mmmm.

Bill and Ben, Muffin the mule - they were before my time though.

My goodness - I'm exploring synapses I haven't used for more'n 30 years!

Swoop

9th October 2006, 14:16

Basil Brush?

Hawkeye

9th October 2006, 16:58

Basil Brush?

Bum, Bum..

Brian d marge

9th October 2006, 18:00

, Muffin the mule -

I remember Muffin the mule ....had bad breath for a week afterwards

BOOM boom!!!!

Stephen

Oakie

9th October 2006, 19:04

Ah I used to listen to 'The Goons' and "I'm sorry I'll read that again' on a Sunday night as I did my weekend's homework. (Perhaps this explains the School Cert result.) I think 'The Goons' had a profound effect in forming my sense of humour.
TV-wise ... Monty Python,The Goodies, Not The 9 O'clock News, Fawlty Towers, Dave Allen, The Two Ronnies ... ahh the list just goes on

SixPackBack

9th October 2006, 19:09

"The Young Ones" had arguably a much greater affect than any single show on pommy T.V...unsurpassed.

dawnrazor

9th October 2006, 19:21

What about captain pugwash??????

Remember masterbates, seaman stains and Rodger the cabin boy

James Deuce

9th October 2006, 19:28

What about captain pugwash??????

Remember masterbates, seaman stains and Rodger the cabin boy

All Myths.

http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/pugwash.htm

Ixion

9th October 2006, 20:19

Noone was ever as good as Fred Karno. Corse, that was before television was invented. Hancock's Half Hour was good, and Life With Dexter.

fazer

9th October 2006, 20:27

Used to love Catweazle......

scumdog

9th October 2006, 20:34

A valve radio and "I'm sorry I'll read that again", "The Navy Lark" "The Glumms" (with Ron and Eff) and "The Goon Show":banana:

Swoop

9th October 2006, 20:35

Ah I used to listen to 'The Goons' and "I'm sorry I'll read that again' on a Sunday night...
9pm on a Sunday night...? National programme IIFC. Great conversation for the walk to school the next day!

Hitcher

10th October 2006, 07:39

He's fallen in the water!

scumdog

10th October 2006, 07:44

He's fallen in the water!

What-what-what-what-what-what..............what?

(said in best Neddie Seegoon voice)

And the names like Count Grip-pipe Thin and Bluebottle etc - crack me up!!

Krayy

10th October 2006, 08:00

And the Rag Trade. Now she was my kind of union delegate. All legs and mouth. :rofl:
EVERYBODY OUT!!!! :2thumbsup

Krayy

10th October 2006, 08:03

My childhood faves:

The Bugaloos
Potty Time
Thunderbirds
Joe 90 (thank god for box set DVDs)
UFO
Terrahawks
Battle of the Planets
Sigmund the Seamonster
Land of the Giants
Voyage to the bottom of the sea
The 6 Million Dollar Man
CHiPs

Swoop

10th October 2006, 08:11

What-what-what-what-what-what..............what?

(said in best Neddie Seegoon voice)!!
Please don't do that Neddie! *said in best Gryptype Thyne[sp? - will check Goon Show Scripts tonight!] voice*

Edit:Checked it out on the scripts!
Hercules Grytpype-Thynne, The Hon.
(A plausible public school villain and cad)

Don't overlook Major Dennis Bloodnok, IND. ARM. RTD.
(Military idiot, coward and bar)

Hitcher

10th October 2006, 09:29

My childhood faves:

Pahh! Others of us were fondly recalling the golden era of the steam-driven wireless, not that new-fangled television stuff. Tarnation! I'll have you know that my folks didn't buy a TV until 1969. We used to have to run across the road and negotiate with the dreaded Mrs Hoskin in order to watch such world-shaping events as the 1964 Olympics, and The Lone Ranger!

Finn

10th October 2006, 09:57

Pahh! Others of us were fondly recalling the golden era of the steam-driven wireless, not that new-fangled television stuff. Tarnation! I'll have you know that my folks didn't buy a TV until 1969. We used to have to run across the road and negotiate with the dreaded Mrs Hoskin in order to watch such world-shaping events as the 1964 Olympics, and The Lone Ranger!

Pfffft, weez wuz paaw. Try 1976! My brother and I ended up having to make our own television out of cardboard and crayons. I was the technical director, he was the program manager and the cast consisted of our goldfish and a grumpy old dog. Funnily enough, it was more entertaining than real TV especially when we took it out back and set it on fire. When we finally got a TV it took us 3 years to figure out what a re-run was.

Hitcher

10th October 2006, 10:48

Try 1976!

But by then at least yours would have been colour...

scumdog

10th October 2006, 10:51

Paul in NZ

10th October 2006, 11:50

Pah!!, mere stripplings you lot!!

My father refused to buy a TV until they were priced at less than a hundred quid, miserable bugger!!

Had to peer into shop windows in Wellington to watch TV - and the tramcars seemed to interfere with the reception at crucial moments!!:(

Luxury....

We were so poor we had to draw a wind up gramaphone (without the records) until father could save up enough lead so we could draw a cystal set - mind you, it wern't real crystal as that twer han extra tuppence - nay lad, ours was more a hand drawn cut glass set.

But we were happy then, sitting around the piece of paper with the set drawn on it pretending to listen to the comedy hour of an evening while we took a break from licking the road clean (father had to work hard to get us a job that supplied a meal) and....

etc etc

Ixion

10th October 2006, 12:15

I wonder how many people on this site know what is meant by the phrase "tickling the cats whisker"? And how many have actually done it ?

James Deuce

10th October 2006, 13:09

Arr Ixion, used to do that at Boy's Brigade.

Paul in NZ

10th October 2006, 14:24

I wonder how many people on this site know what is meant by the phrase "tickling the cats whisker"? And how many have actually done it ?

No I doubt many have - but I'm pretty sure a few of them have tickled a few other pussies - erm - cats - erm -

Clivoris

10th October 2006, 17:31

All Myths.

http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/pugwash.htm

Ta for clearing that up. I would have sworn that I could remember those names. Curse the unreliability of memory.