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5 slim panatelas for 44p those were the days
https://youtu.be/E5WA_U3PyIk
Re: Frank Windsor has died
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jon1959
He and Stratford Johns were very good actors.
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xsnaggle
Stafford
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'Long, firm and satisfying'
Those were the days, we got away with murder back then, a simpler time, no PC shit, just good honest innuendo.
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The Z Cars theme was really evocative and I'm not surprised at all that some teams take the field to it even now. There was a time around the early seventies when Frank Windsor and Stratford Johns were contenders for being the biggest stars on UK television - that guy who was in Emmerdale I think it was, was the other member of the trio of coppers in Softly, Softly wasn't he.
RIP - funnily enough, I watched about five minutes of an episode of The Avengers this week where Frank Windsor was trying to murder a computer (honestly!).
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the other bob wilson
The Z Cars theme was really evocative and I'm not surprised at all that some teams take the field to it even now. There was a time around the early seventies when Frank Windsor and Stratford Johns were contenders for being the biggest stars on UK television - that guy who was in Emmerdale I think it was, was the other member of the trio of coppers in Softly, Softly wasn't he. Norman Bowler
RIP - funnily enough, I watched about five minutes of an episode of The Avengers this week where Frank Windsor was trying to murder a computer (honestly!).
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the other bob wilson
The Z Cars theme was really evocative and I'm not surprised at all that some teams take the field to it even now. There was a time around the early seventies when Frank Windsor and Stratford Johns were contenders for being the biggest stars on UK television - that guy who was in Emmerdale I think it was, was the other member of the trio of coppers in Softly, Softly wasn't he.
RIP - funnily enough, I watched about five minutes of an episode of The Avengers this week where Frank Windsor was trying to murder a computer (honestly!).
The Avengers....Now that was an off the wall series for its day, writers’
imaginations running wild.
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xsnaggle
Stafford
Nice town, near Stoke; I've been there several times. What's it got to do with this thread though?
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the other bob wilson
The Z Cars theme was really evocative and I'm not surprised at all that some teams take the field to it even now. There was a time around the early seventies when Frank Windsor and Stratford Johns were contenders for being the biggest stars on UK television - that guy who was in Emmerdale I think it was, was the other member of the trio of coppers in Softly, Softly wasn't he.
RIP - funnily enough, I watched about five minutes of an episode of The Avengers this week where Frank Windsor was trying to murder a computer (honestly!).
Going off on a bit of a tangent Bob, am I right in saying (pre Covid of course) Everton have ditched playing the Z Cars theme before kick offs in favour of a rip off of Rangers' theme song?
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splott parker
The Avengers....Now that was an off the wall series for its day, writers’
imaginations running wild.
Absolutely brilliant at the time.
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Going off on a bit of a tangent Bob, am I right in saying (pre Covid of course) Everton have ditched playing the Z Cars theme before kick offs in favour of a rip off of Rangers' theme song?
Yes I think you are, I'm sure I'd read that someone in the last few months - I suppose no one at Everton is complaining too much after the start they've made to the season.
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My Dad made a TV advert with him for a local Welsh insurance company called Undeb in the early 1970s and I always remember him saying what a nice chap he was.
And the very minor continuity fault in the ad that I always used to look out for.
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Bobby Dandruff
My Dad made a TV advert with him for a local Welsh insurance company called Undeb in the early 1970s and I always remember him saying what a nice chap he was.
And the very minor continuity fault in the ad that I always used to look out for.
There’s a blast from the past, Undeb. Undeb United were a very successful Cardiff Sunday League side in the 70s, they were called Castle United (their founder, Allan Parkins, who owns the vinyl record shop upstairs in the market, lived in Castle Avenue, off Rumney Hill) until obtaining sponsorship from Undeb.
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splott parker
There’s a blast from the past, Undeb. Undeb United were a very successful Cardiff Sunday League side in the 70s, they were called Castle United (their founder, Allan Parkins, who owns the vinyl record shop upstairs in the market, lived in Castle Avenue, off Rumney Hill) until obtaining sponsorship from Undeb.
I was texting my Mum, who is 89, about this as my Dad knew the founders, who I vaguely remember (both quite flash - one drove an E-type) before it all went horribly wrong 😳 I remember them coming to watch Cardiff City with us, but I was only about 10 at the time.