Play School - Play Away - Childrens TV

[Banana 859]

39 minutes ago, Toast said:

 

Fuck off, you little shit.  I already had your card marked.

 

You're just mad that I'm the superior breakfast food

[Toast 16,139]

1 hour ago, Death Impends said:

 

Yeah, I was thinking along the lines of anyone that was familiar with her work in general though admit that using "grow up" made it sound like it was only about children's stuff.

 

Oh no, I didn't take it that way.  I would use that expression about any actor who was regularly on TV from my childhood onwards.

No, it was because you said your age was a factor as well as location, ie that you weren't of an age to have watched the kids' programmes that were mentioned.

[Toast 16,139]

48 minutes ago, Banana said:

 

You're just mad that I'm the superior breakfast food

 

At least I'm not named after something that's shaped like a dick.

[Death Impends 7,968]

18 minutes ago, Toast said:

 

Oh no, I didn't take it that way.  I would use that expression about any actor who was regularly on TV from my childhood onwards.

No, it was because you said your age was a factor as well as location, ie that you weren't of an age to have watched the kids' programmes that were mentioned.

 

Ah I see, I was mostly going by msc describing her as a "one for folks of a certain age" type name and figured she was someone generally most familiar to earlier generations.

[Banana 859]

31 minutes ago, Toast said:

 

At least I'm not named after something that's shaped like a dick.

 

Touché

[YoungWillz 21,044]

Having been out for most of today and popping on here, I have to say Sheila's death hits hard.

 

If you recall that she was probably one of the finest comedic and straight actresses of her time, it is difficult to get away from her most starring roles on TV, the aforementioned Ghosts of Motley Hall, her voice of Wellington in The Perishers, and a foil for Bernard Cribbins, Spike Milligan and Frankie Howerd among others. She is also the second death from Never Too Young To Rock after Freddie Jones, the vid of which I have already posted upon his death.

 

Probably only second to Josephine Tewson as a female "Straight Man" to comedy legends.

 

I am, quite simply, devastated. RIP.

[Sir Creep 7,070]

4 hours ago, Lord Fellatio Nelson said:

Until you actually know who and what the fuck you are talking about to add sarcasm to your post, shut the fuck up and let the grown ups pay homage to a fabulous character actress who had an extensive career on TV and the stage.

OK?

Goddamn....a little butthurt?  
You'll be amazed how scrolling past [Banana's] comments still allows you to 'pay homage to a fabulous character actress who had an extensive career on TV and the stage' without your frail constitution being marred. 
SC

[Lord Fellatio Nelson 6,218]

5 hours ago, Sir Creep said:

Goddamn....a little butthurt?  
You'll be amazed how scrolling past [Banana's] comments still allows you to 'pay homage to a fabulous character actress who had an extensive career on TV and the stage' without your frail constitution being marred. 
SC

I want to reply but I just cannot be arsed anymore.

[msc 18,441]

10 hours ago, Death Impends said:

 

Ah I see, I was mostly going by msc describing her as a "one for folks of a certain age" type name and figured she was someone generally most familiar to earlier generations.

 

Yeah, that was because while it was before my time, I know from my many years on this forum how much several posters loved Ghosts of Motley Hall. Also I knew she was fairly ever-present on 70s TV.

 

I remember her best as the voice of Mother Nature in SuperTed. I did watch Woof but the hell can I remember any of that one 30 years on! (Which is saying something for a show about a boy who turns into a dog!)

 

 

PS Her agent Barry Langford has confirmed it. She had leukemia.  When the actual press deems to take notice, I know not.

 

 

[Sean 6,315]

Steafel not getting an obituary yet is truly bizarre.

[Cat O'Falk 3,290]

On 26/08/2019 at 16:06, msc said:

Sorry to folks of a certain age, but Sheila Steafel has died.

 

Guardian Obit

[Toast 16,139]

8 minutes ago, Cat O'Falk said:

 

Guardian Obit

 

That should answer a few questions about why she was known and respected by so many.

[Vinegar Tits 606]

20 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

 

Probably only second to Josephine Tewson as a female "Straight Man" to comedy legends.

 

 

As great as Sheila Steafel was,  and Josephine Tewson is, no-one beats June Whitfield in the female Straight Man role.

[alt obits guy 3,371]

On 27/09/2018 at 18:18, alt obits guy said:

Looking at this thread reminds me many years ago I compiled a list of all Muppet Show guests (original series only) and whether they were still among the living or had passed.  Every now and then I update it when a guest dies.  I believe this is now an accurate listing  The list is in order of appearance:

 

MUPPET GUESTS

  GUEST                                                                       STATUS

 

Valerie Harper                                                          alive

 

Updating the Muppets guest thread to reflect the death of Valerie Harper in late August.

[alt obits guy 3,371]

Rod Coneybeare, a puppeteer and the voices of Rusty the Rooster and Jerome the Giraffe on the TV show The Friendly Giant, has died.  He was 89.  (Sigh, more of my childhood gone.)

 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/obit-coneybeare-cbc-friendly-giant-1.5275900

 

 

 

[YoungWillz 21,044]

Broadcaster and presenter who worked on Seeing And Believing and Let Me Tell You, Meryl O'Keeffe died 23 August: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/236105/o'keeffe

 

More info on her career kindly provided by the BFI: https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9ff92238

[YoungWillz 21,044]

Baroness Floella Benjamin, 70 today!!!

[Bibliogryphon 9,577]

• Gudrun Ure  - Supergran (b.1926)
• Freddie Jones – The Ghosts of Motley Hall (b.1927)
• Bernard Cribbins – The Wombles (b.1928)
• Denise Bryer – Terrahawkes (b.1928)
• K M Peyton – Flambards (writer) (b.1929)
• Joy Whitby – Catweazle (producer) (b.1930)
• Rolf Harris – Cartoon Time (b.1931)
• Alison Prince – Trumpton (writer) (b.1931)
• Brian Trueman – Dangermouse (b.1932)
• Carmen Munroe – Playschool (b.1932)
• John Cunliffe – Postman Pat (b.1933)
• Biddy Baxter – Blue Peter (b.1933)
• Michael Aspel – Ask Aspel (b.1933)
• Raymond Briggs – The Snowman (b.1934)
• Tom Baker – The Book Tower (b.1934)
• James Bolam – Grandpa in my Pocket (b.1935)
• Sheila Steafel – Ghosts of Motley Hall (b.1935)
• David McKee – Mr Benn (b.1935)
• Anne Wood - Teletubbies (b.1937)
• Leila Williams – Blue Peter (b.1937)

 

List updated

[RIP Wee Jum 1,559]

8 hours ago, Bibliogryphon said:

• Gudrun Ure  - Supergran (b.1926)
• Freddie Jones – The Ghosts of Motley Hall (b.1927)
• Bernard Cribbins – The Wombles (b.1928)
• Denise Bryer – Terrahawkes (b.1928)
• K M Peyton – Flambards (writer) (b.1929)
• Joy Whitby – Catweazle (producer) (b.1930)
• Rolf Harris – Cartoon Time (b.1931)
• Alison Prince – Trumpton (writer) (b.1931)
• Brian Trueman – Dangermouse (b.1932)
• Carmen Munroe – Playschool (b.1932)
• John Cunliffe – Postman Pat (b.1933)
• Biddy Baxter – Blue Peter (b.1933)
• Michael Aspel – Ask Aspel (b.1933)
• Raymond Briggs – The Snowman (b.1934)
• Tom Baker – The Book Tower (b.1934)
• James Bolam – Grandpa in my Pocket (b.1935)
• Sheila Steafel – Ghosts of Motley Hall (b.1935)
• David McKee – Mr Benn (b.1935)
• Anne Wood - Teletubbies (b.1937)
• Leila Williams – Blue Peter (b.1937)

 

List updated

Can I add to your list ?

Margaret Stuart Barry  - Simon and The Witch (writer) (b 1927)

 

[Bibliogryphon 9,577]

36 minutes ago, Wee Jum said:

Can I add to your list ?

Margaret Stuart Barry  - Simon and The Witch (writer) (b 1927)

 

She is on my radar from my writers theme team but yes she could go here

[Bibliogryphon 9,577]

 

I have restocked my list with a few other names including the one suggested by @Wee Jum

 

1.       Gudrun Ure - Supergran (b.1926)

2.       Margaret Stuart-Barry – Simon & the Witch (writer) (b.1927)

3.       Bernard Cribbins – The Wombles (b.1928)

4.       Denise Bryer – Terrahawkes (b.1928)

5.       K M Peyton – Flambards (writer) (b.1929)

6.       John Woodvine – Knights of God (b.1929)

7.       Joy Whitby – Catweazle (producer) (b.1930)

8.       Rolf Harris – Cartoon Time (b.1931)

9.       Brian Trueman – Dangermouse (b.1932)

10.   Carmen Munroe – Playschool (b.1932)

11.   Quentin Blake – Jackanory (b.1932)

12.   Biddy Baxter – Blue Peter (b.1933)

13.   Michael Aspel – Ask Aspel (b.1933)

14.   Raymond Briggs – The Snowman (b.1934)

15.   Tom Baker – The Book Tower (b.1934)

16.   Alan Garner – The Owl Service (writer) (b.1934)

17.   James Bolam – Grandpa in my Pocket (b.1935)

18.   David McKee – Mr Benn (b.1935)

19.   Anne Wood - Teletubbies (b.1937)

20.   Leila Williams – Blue Peter (b.1937)

[msc 18,441]

For your list, maybe?

Phyllida Law (1932) - former Play School presenter and Jackanory presenter, also acclaimed TV/film actress, and Mother of the Magic Roundabout and Emma Thompson.

 

Valerie Singleton (1937) and Peter Purves (1939) surely need no introduction. Anita West (1935) also lives.

 

David Graham (1925) - Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet, Dr Who

 

 

[Bibliogryphon 9,577]

1 minute ago, msc said:

For your list, maybe?

 

 

David Graham (1925) - Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet, Dr Who

 

 

And Peppa Pig

[Octopus of Odstock 2,195]

52 minutes ago, Bibliogryphon said:

And Peppa Pig

 

And Ben and Holly - he's the Wise Old Elf

[Toast 16,139]

4 hours ago, Bibliogryphon said:

And Peppa Pig

 

Am I the only person who thinks Peppa Pig looks like a cock and ball sac?