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As part of our new redesign we're doing some exclusive interviews with legends from some of your favourite classic TV programmes. We want your questions for Juan from Mind Your Language, and Lt. Gruber from Allo Allo. Send them in (contact us via Dull Bits at top menu), and we'll do our best to ask them very soon!
19th May 1937 Pat Roach (Bomber) was born in Birmingham.(Auf Wiedersehn Pet) 20th May 1922 Elizabeth Bradley (Maud Grimes) was born.(Coronation Street) 20th May 1920 Betty Driver MBE (Betty Williams) was born.(Coronation Street) 21st May 1952 Mr. T (BA) was born in Chicago.(The A Team) 21st May 1917 Raymond Burr was born.(Perry Mason) 22nd May 1984 After five years the series finished with the 'Meanwhile, Back At the Ranch'(Hart to Hart) 22nd May 1958 Denise Welch (Natalie Horrocks) was born.(Coronation Street) 23rd May 1951 Don Warrington (Phillip Smith) was born in Trinidad.(Rising Damp) 24th May 1992 Actress Joan Sanderson (Doris Ewell) sadly passed away in Norfolk.(Please Sir) 24th May 1940 Gary Burghoff (Radar) was born in Connecticut(MASH) 26th May 1949 Phillip Michael Thomas (Ricardo Tubbs) was born.(Miami Vice)
RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES The continuing cases of the Hamlet of crime fiction. Jeremy Brett may have been the 117th actor to play Holmes but as one fan has put it, "It took God six days and six nights to make the universe, but it took a century to find the perfect Holmes."
Jennis from Hertfordshire on Army Game: "A friend of my Mum's worked on the set and so she got us tickets. After the show she took me back to meet Alfie Bass and Bernard Breslaw. I sat on Bernie's knee and Alfie Bass gave me a hug. I was about 7"
Senah-Olive from New Zealand on the high chaparral: "The Greatest Story Ever Told (The greatest Western Series Television have ever made). To this day it brings tears to our eyes and sets our hearts a flutter just to listen to the music theme. Such a Beautiful and Fabulous Show ever. I was only 7 when I first watched it and 50+ years later still hooked on it. It's a Memorable show that will live in our hearts forever."
djanie from kumasi ghana on Mind Your Language: "oh blimey! you are confusing me"
jojo from on The Brittas Empire: "My favorites are Mr. Brittas changes Trains and The Christening. The funniest sitcom to date! Great cast! Not many sitcoms make you laugh out loud and this one does it every episode and multiple times an episode."
As part of our new redesign we're doing some exclusive interviews with legends from some of your favourite classic TV programmes. We want your questions for Juan from Mind Your Language, and Lt. Gruber from Allo Allo. Send them in (contact us via Dull Bits at top menu), and we'll do our best to ask them very soon!
