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Post by Cartman on Dec 16, 2019 7:56:37 GMT
Yes I remember that Noel Edmond programme on Saturday night, I never really took that much notice if it, it was kind of on in the background and I thought it was a bit silly.
Another of those car jumps went wrong although, this time fortunately, no one was injured. It was supposed to land on top of a line of parked cars, but cleared them all and landed, after which it kept going and crashed into one of the BBC official cars instead.
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Post by Dirty Epic on Dec 16, 2019 12:22:21 GMT
Didn't the BBC can that Noel Edmunds show when someone died doing one of these stunts when things got ramped up a bit too far?
Didn't do his career much harm he was back on in that prime Saturday night slot a few years later with Noel's House Party.
Can't say I was a fan of either show or even him in general.
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Post by Cartman on Dec 16, 2019 13:49:06 GMT
Yes they did. The guy had to escape from a box that was rigged to explode and was suspended from a crane about 100 feet up and a clip holding his bungee rope didn't work causing him to fall. It was later tested after the accident and was found to be faulty. Also a professional stunt man commented that it was a very dangerous stunt that he would have thought twice about
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Dec 16, 2019 16:46:28 GMT
I found all those Noel Edmonds fronted shows to be an awkward mishmash, part 'It's A Knockout', part game show, part Beadle's About, never got into them nor understood their popularity, especially House Party. Edmonds just didn't have the charisma of a Bruce Forsyth or even Michael Barrymore to carry them with his bland personality, knitwear & dodgy barnet. They all seemed forced & strangely flat. As for his Christmas shows, they strike me as both horribly sentimental & cynical, in fact any of those shows that reunite families or 'reward' people for good deeds give me the creeps, they seem calculated to get people to break down in tears, Cilla Black's 'Surprise Surprise' being the worst.
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Post by Vienna on Dec 16, 2019 17:10:08 GMT
Spot on there Arthur I always thought Edmonds was an arsehole anyway Vi
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Post by Cartman on Dec 16, 2019 17:27:08 GMT
Seconded, didn't mind him when he was a radio 1 dj, but on TV I always found him annoying. As for Suprise Suprise, or pretty much anything fronted by Cilla Black, where's room 101 when you need it?
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Post by Three Litre on Dec 16, 2019 18:48:51 GMT
Seconded, didn't mind him when he was a radio 1 dj, but on TV I always found him annoying. As for Suprise Suprise, or pretty much anything fronted by Cilla Black, where's room 101 when you need it? Yes, I liked his breakfast show in the mid to late 70s.
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Post by D.C. Burtonshaw on Dec 16, 2019 19:42:49 GMT
Sheeeeeeshh!! They must have been mad! Well someone got killed in the end, I remember that, I remember the poor chap being reported on the news at the time.
I also remember similar stunts on other programmes like the same sort of jump on Seaside special in the 70's, the cars being a MK2 Jaguar and a VDP 4 litre R - although the cars weren't going as fast as that Jensen and they landed a lot earlier, so possibly not as much damage done to the driver. And a similar jump in a MK1 Capri that was rocket powered and done by a French driver, on an episode of "Just Amazing" - the car somersaulted so much I was sure the driver was going to be dead, but incredibly he wasn't.
Mr Puniverse was quite wrong really, I agree, not fair on someone who obviously had a health issue and was made a spectable of, like a freak show.
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Post by Dirty Epic on Jan 2, 2020 10:17:51 GMT
I don't know if this has been posted before but here's some Thames News footage of London's Estates from the 1980's and 90's.
Not everyone on these estates were/are bad people and we've had Grenfell which was something which should never have happened and related to making these estates more cosmetically appealing. Many of these estates have gone or been changed significantly but a few pockets of these remain unchanged - perhaps with the privilege (sic) of paying upward of £1m or much more to live on one of these remaining estates if it's in a central or 'trendy' location of London.
Interesting little feature and perhaps some things never change. Some 'issues' discussed aren't new or been solved either.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Jan 2, 2020 16:36:11 GMT
I think most of the social problems throughout the World begin with the simple fact that human beings need space & privacy, room to breathe & think, a place away from other people when things get on top of them. Storing people in these flats one on top of another was bound to cause behavioural problems within the family that inevitably spill out onto the street. I wonder how many of these families lives would've been dramatically different had they a proper house with a garden to live in & a sense of community instead of these hard concrete traps. With no offence intended to anyone who might live or have lived in a flat block.
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