TV shows you miss...

[SploshMeNow]

Hi,


Was just thinking of some past TV shows I miss and up there has to be NHP, used to love seeing someone enter that famous gunge tank sadly not enough females I might add being a little sexist...


Still watch clips on You Tube all the time but it would be great to have a DVD of the most famous gungings or to even have a newer refreshed version of the House Party back on our screens on a Sat night


Anyone feel the same and what were your favourite gungings??
Ohh and who of the present day celebs would you like to see sploshed???

[Sidi]

I miss Animaniacs, mainly for Pinky & the Brain.
And Life on Mars, Gene Hunt was just great. Ashes to Ashes wasn't in the same league though.

[Trouso]

Hi SploshMeNow,

I preferred Noel's Saturday Roadshow (its predecessor). The game "In Other Words" featured a succession of attractive women (Thankfully, many are on Youtube. There are a couple that I remember that, sadly, are not. My own tapes of them recorded at the time are long gone.) I always found NHP a bit frustrating because they so rarely gunged women (considering how many shows there were) and I didn't enjoy the rest of the show as much (the 'Gotchas' etc., all got a bit too self congratulatory).

A show that I'm kicking myself for missing was the edition of the James Whale 'Radio' Show (a late night TV programme in the late 80s & early 90s) when Bill Shipton was a guest and Splosh! was featured. I used to watch it every week pretty avidly and don't know how I managed to have missed it (must have been on holiday). As a result, it would be nearly another decade (1997 in Bizarre magazine - a tiny pic. and a single paragraph) before I even knew it existed!

Regards,

Trouso

[Miss Lipstick]

What about Dick and Dom in Da Bungalow and the big pie fight at then end. Celebrities usually got sploshed - but what about the pop star who refused to do it, i think it was Rachel Stevens. Revenge is needed.

[albawam]

Freddie Starr,s Comedy Madhouse from about 1980/81. Freddie dressed as Hitler(why not) would gunge and pie Toni Palmer to stop her singing there was also plenty of flour and water thrown at her as well. I wish i had recorded them and in particular the last episode when in the paper the next day a reader wrote that Freddie overdone the gooey liquids a feat that is not possible in my book. I wish those shows were on DVD.

[Trouso]

What about Dick and Dom in Da Bungalow and the big pie fight at then end. Celebrities usually got sploshed - but what about the pop star who refused to do it, i think it was Rachel Stevens. Revenge is needed.

Ha! Ha! Yeah! And where's that Rachel Stevens now?

The other (original) Rachel Stevens, (of Splosh! fame) has been having her films re-released.

S Club 7 Greatest Hits? - Not likely!

[Trouso]

Freddie Starr,s Comedy Madhouse from about 1980/81. Freddie dressed as Hitler(why not) would gunge and pie Toni Palmer to stop her singing there was also plenty of flour and water thrown at her as well. I wish i had recorded them and in particular the last episode when in the paper the next day a reader wrote that Freddie overdone the gooey liquids a feat that is not possible in my book. I wish those shows were on DVD.

Great one! Hasn't yet surfaced on Youtube it seems. Surely someone must have recorded them (even a grainy copy would do).

[SploshMeNow]

Hi Trouso,


Yeah good shout mate had forgotten about Noels Saturday Roadshow and your right there was some gorgeous women gunged on that )):

As for NHP yeah was a little frustrated myself at the lack of women gunged, I mean do you remember when Tina Hobley visited the House and she was asking to be gunged, but the public voted for the male celeb who I cannot even remember, what's all that about ((:


As for your last point about Rachel Stevens yeah such a wimp and revenge is needed I recon, maybe even I should dress up like her and take your surgestions on what I'm to be sploshed with.. )): JOKIN OFC

[BillShipton]

Don't start me on shows I'd like to see return I'll be here all day. Rather surprised that a Best of House Party DVD has never emerged (as far as I know). There might be some rights issues cos Noel was all but given the rights to everything NHP by the end. It's easy to forget how many of those Noel Edmonds shows there were. It was, of course, the Late, Late Breakfast Show that killed the brickie.

I think Clown Julie has a copy of Toni Palmer on Freddie Starr's show. If so I urge her to put it on Youtube. It's still a favourite of mine )prefer slapstick to gunge tanks any day). The tedious Rachel Stevens (as opposed to the booby, bubbly one) did indeed refuse to take part in the final messy sequence of Dick & Dom and had the piss taken out of her every week after. Those were the days when you could button punch between D&D and Ministry of Mayhem featuring Holly Willoughby getting caked almost every week, gunged a lot and sitting at the excellent Thank You Desk - now all on Youtube. I think they had issues with Rachel Stevens too. I know Cilla from Corrie refused to take part in a messy sketch!!

With no Saturday morning TV shows and Sat night given over to talent contests, light ent and particularly slapstick light ent is in a very bad way.

[Trouso]

Bill,

You should definitely be put in charge of light entertainment on TV, particularly Saturdays’, on all channels. You could be a sort of latter day Lew Grade (of course, I’m not alluding in any way to your physical appearance or any megla-manaical tendencies you might harbour).

I just think you’re the man to kick it into shape - with some decent slapstick comedy and, well, entertainment.

[BillShipton]

Bill,
You could be a sort of latter day Lew Grade .

Do like a good cigar! More of a Bill Cotton man myself. He really was the King of Light Ent in the 70s.

Thinking about it. The slapstick punchline to a sketch (the pie in the face, mess falling from above etc) has all but disappeared these days. Instead we have people saying Miranda Hart is doing 'slapstick' meaning she falls over awkwardly and predictably onto a hidden crash mat. If you want to see proper female knockabout (aside from the silent days) look at Martha Raye from the 1940s. Now that was falling down - frequently into swimming pools! And she was a great singer too.



Rant over (for now)

Bill

[Trouso]

Do like a good cigar! More of a Bill Cotton man myself. He really was the King of Light Ent in the 70s.

Bill Cotton, indeed, far more apt. (though powerful in TV, the Grades were more agents, impresarios).

Just been looking at that Martha Raye clip. Why are female slapstick performers so damn sexy? In theory they shouldn't be, should they? But they are.

[BillShipton]

Whether it's falling into a pool, being hit with a pie or just landing on their butts, personally I think it's female slapstick performers' ability to send themselves up meaning they're more approachable than some screen goddess that makes them appeal. Although Martha Raye had a notoriously huge mouth and a loud voice (catchphrase "Ohhhhhh boyyyy!") I find her much more attractive than icons like Victoria Beckham. Likewise to me Holly W was far sexier on Ministry of Mayhem than she is on Dancing on Ice even given the low cut frocks! As a result, all the women I fancy HAVE to have that sort of sense of humour or else they are just another 'pretty' woman. Fortunately I am lucky enough to know a couple!

[mr angry]

I remember Freddie Starr's show as well. I vaguely remember watching one in about 1980 ish and a huge pie fight started in the audience. Also, Little and Large had a similar Saturday night programme at about the same time which had a fair bit of mess on it too.

Moving forward a bit, to the late 90s, Jim Davidsons Generation Game also had plenty of gunge on it as well (only reason for watching it, cant stand the sexist crypto fascist)

Finally, anyone remember Bobs Your Uncle? It was an incredibly tacky and shite game show for newly weds presented by the incerdibly oily and unfunny Bob Monkhouse and brides/bridesmaids and wedding guests got drenched in full wedding outfits, early 90s from memory. Variety type Saturday night TV shows seemed to disappear in about the early to mid 80s in general

[Trouso]

I remember Bob's Your Uncle. I seem to remember, also, that so many people wrote in upset and outraged about the wedding dresses getting trashed that a couple of episodes in, they began to point out, before the games began, that all the outfits were replicas.

I too watched the Davidson Gen Game only for the gunge. At one point, in the 1998 end of series 'compilation' they even issued the telling caption: "The Generation Game - Awash with Splosh!" over a collection of messy clips. Someone knew what they were doing.

They were frequently quite elaborately contrived, too. Often in pre-recorded sketch form. There was one where the entire family of the contestant were dressed up and posed for a wedding photo whilst loads of water, 'rice' (pudding?) and other gunge descended from above.