tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post7956700683343940785..comments2024-03-28T22:32:50.562+00:00Comments on Liberal England: John Bird and John Fortune: Well AnywayJonathan Calderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00730157683743989696noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-90147512802019958232023-09-25T08:59:20.480+01:002023-09-25T08:59:20.480+01:00The Secret Policeman's Ball tended not to have...The Secret Policeman's Ball tended not to have much original material. That sketch most likely came from much earlier courtesy of The Establishment :<br />https://archive.org/details/lp_the-establishment_peter-cook-the-original-london-company/disc1/02.01.+Potatoes-Potatoes.mp3Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-11121779940034235352022-02-25T19:09:24.972+00:002022-02-25T19:09:24.972+00:00Thanks Anonymous - that sketch is on YouTube, but ...Thanks Anonymous - that <a href="https://youtu.be/kcHKm0cm-jI" rel="nofollow">sketch</a> is on YouTube, but it comes from the 1976 Secret Policeman's Ball.Jonathan Calderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00730157683743989696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-20297219938328824532022-02-25T12:30:23.814+00:002022-02-25T12:30:23.814+00:00I very much liked this at the time, but my only cl...I very much liked this at the time, but my only clear recollection is of one of the Johns being asked to sight read the song Let's Call The Whole Thing Off. Sight reading the tune was no problem, but the words "you say potato and I say Potato, you say tomato and I say tomato, potato potato, tomato tomato" etc were of course sight read with a consistent pronunciation of all the words. Probably funnier hearing it than reading it!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-47683566290470662812021-11-07T22:21:21.618+00:002021-11-07T22:21:21.618+00:00One of the episodes was titled "There Again&q...One of the episodes was titled "There Again". I associate this programme with leaving home in the north east of England to go to Barcelona to teach English. It could have been the night before I flew out.Tilley lamphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14737585064695329491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-90011850690026384022015-02-04T00:48:04.537+00:002015-02-04T00:48:04.537+00:00I was 15 and I remember it being quite dark, but v...I was 15 and I remember it being quite dark, but very funny. There was one episode where John Bird decides the future is in artificial life, so he makes John Fortune turn the kitchen into a lab. After some sleepless nights a very tired John Fortune creates life in a beaker/milk bottle. At this point Bird decides there's no money in it and pours it down the sink. It reminded me of "The Bed Sitting Room" a David Lester John Antrobus movie from 1969 that just seems to have been forgotten.marcushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11024151175961148286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-53754240847058848372012-03-07T17:40:09.785+00:002012-03-07T17:40:09.785+00:00A friend mentioned this just now on Twitter, and I...A friend mentioned this just now on Twitter, and I was moved to look up its archival status. Oh dear. Of the 6 episodes, only number 3 survives. The South Bank Show also failed to mention John Bird and John Wells' Leeds series for YTV, which exists in its entirety.Louis Barfehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09500085182214151483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-27113705579489603302011-07-15T14:24:26.525+01:002011-07-15T14:24:26.525+01:00I was 15 when I watched this series, the only thin...I was 15 when I watched this series, the only thing I can vaguely recall about this series is a scene where John Bird gets a bottle of champagne from the back of a milk float, very surreal.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-3409203820405635332009-03-09T10:06:00.000+00:002009-03-09T10:06:00.000+00:00That's way too old for me as I was two years old ...That's way too old for me as I was two years old when it came out! However, I hadsn't relkaise they been around for so long.<BR/><BR/>You've got a good site here, so thanks to Myth Shifter (www.mythshifter.com) for linking to you or I'd never have found you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com