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As it's the 25th Anniversary of Yes Minister, I suddenly realised that Derek Fowlds is the last surviving major cast member....

 

Then I thought I wonder how Basil Brush's other helpers are doing. IMDB hasn't got much on them but I think they were:

 

Mr Rodney (Bewes) (on a magic show I think)

Mr Howard (Williams)

Mr Derek (Fowlds)

Mr Roy (North)

Mr Billy (Boyle)

 

News on Howard and Roy is especially sketchy so the challenge is:

 

Are they still all above ground, and what are they up to, and who do we think is next for the reaper?

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Yes, the available info on Roy North & Howard Williams is ndeed very sketchy, but I found some DOB's for the following:

 

Rodney Bewes DOB: 27/11/38

Derek Fowlds DOB: 2/9/37

Billy Boyle (if it is he) DOB: 24/2/45

 

As for Roy & Howard, nil result..

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derek fowlds still in heartbeat i think?

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Guest Justin W

My father, Howard Williams, is enjoying a much-deserved retirement at the age of 72. He lives happily in the Kent countryside with my mother on a small farm.

 

As well as being Ivan's closest sidekick, a script-writer and the only one of the Misters who returned to reprise his role, he enjoyed a long and highly successful career in children's television, news and current affairs, radio and video. He was a close friend of Ivan who sadly died a few years ago.

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What a splendid thread this was... Informative and concise. Ah you don't what you miss til' it's gone.

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Basil must have been hanging out with Mr Enoch lately.

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What a splendid thread, hadn,t seen it before. It would be interesting to see a glove puppet charged with offences under the race relations act. I wonder who would defend him? Not Sooty, I suppose.

 

PS. Apologies for apostrophe but I,m using a French keyboard and, being French, they don,t do QWERTY. Awkward sods.

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Sooty fell foul of Broadcasting Standards in the 90's in an episode when John Bird turned up in Sooty's hotel selling voices. This involved Bird sniffing white powders in jars and doing his range of voices to demonstrate how each was different at which point Sooty sniffed one and actually spoke, in broad cockney. The obvious problem, of encouraging kids to sniff powders, appeared to have passed the producers by.

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  maryportfuncity said:
Sooty fell foul of Broadcasting Standards in the 90's in an episode when John Bird turned up in Sooty's hotel selling voices. This involved Bird sniffing white powders in jars and doing his range of voices to demonstrate how each was different at which point Sooty sniffed one and actually spoke, in broad cockney. The obvious problem, of encouraging kids to sniff powders, appeared to have passed the producers by.

Talking in broad cockney was made a Class A offence in 1995.

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It's ironic mind, he says bugger all for over forty years and the first time he opens his mouth he talks shite and the Broadcasting Standards Authority uphold a shed load of complaints.

 

No wonder they keep him quiet.

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  maryportfuncity said:
It's ironic mind, he says bugger all for over forty years and the first time he opens his mouth he talks shite and the Broadcasting Standards Authority uphold a shed load of complaints.

 

No wonder they keep him quiet.

Sooty spoke? I would have paid to see that. It couldn't have been more shocking had he got his cock out (ahem, which I wouldn't have paid to see, just thought I should make that clear).

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  Godot said:
  maryportfuncity said:
It's ironic mind, he says bugger all for over forty years and the first time he opens his mouth he talks shite and the Broadcasting Standards Authority uphold a shed load of complaints.

 

No wonder they keep him quiet.

Sooty spoke? I would have paid to see that. It couldn't have been more shocking had he got his cock out (ahem, which I wouldn't have paid to see, just thought I should make that clear).

 

It used to be on YouTube but I couldn't find it a couple of minutes back, since the whole thing was hammered by Broadcasting Standards that may be why it's gone. I'm sure it's out there in cyberspace somewhere.

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Your Joey Deacon avatar is also worthy of admiration Anubis.

 

Go well

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  Anubis the Jackal said:
Well, just for you, here's a shocking XXX picture of Sooty in the nude...

 

 

hand19.jpg

 

Yes, the only role where you can perform a hand job on TV in front of an audience of children.

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Saw Rodney Bewes on Masterchef last week and he looked terrible.

 

Not sure he will make it to 2013 for inclusion on the list.

 

If you are quick it should still be on i-player until Thursday

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Form watchers should tune in to Doctors just now. Derek Fowlds is on.

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  On 14/03/2012 at 13:07, Guest Bibliogryphon said:

Saw Rodney Bewes on Masterchef last week and he looked terrible.

 

Not sure he will make it to 2013 for inclusion on the list.

 

If you are quick it should still be on i-player until Thursday

 

 

Over five years too late for iPlayer- but Bewes remains alive!

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  On 27/06/2017 at 10:24, maryportfuncity said:

 

 

Over five years too late for iPlayer- but Bewes remains alive!

Don't get me started on this. Keep picking him on Deadpools as he looked like a corpse then.

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  On 18/03/2008 at 22:31, TAFKAG said:

Basil must have been hanging out with Mr Enoch lately.

 

Rather apt the acronym for the complainants organisation is GIT network.

 

Did anyone find the sooty white powder episode?

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  On 27/06/2017 at 11:36, Deathray said:

 

Rather apt the acronym for the complainants organisation is GIT network.

 

Did anyone find the sooty white powder episode?

 

Well...without going into too much detail I once had professional dealings with the two foot tall silent ursine magician.

 

It would be fair to say that was probably a serious lapse in a history of well managed quality control.

 

Dunno if it's online anywhere but they'll be up for tearing it down if it is.

 

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Is Mr Rodney the first of Basils co stars to die?

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