Deid

[TheDeeDon]

Richard Chamberlain, actor who played Dr Kildare.

I've never heard of him, but he's deid aged 90.

My auld ma was a fan.maybe trying to get in about him IF there is another side.
Sure he started out as a singer.

Edit: Just read about his passing. He came out as gay in 2003. Nae luck mother!

He was in The Thorn Birds in the early 80s. A the woman lapped it up, but the very last episode couldn't be seen up here as the TV transmitter went down due to the weather.

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I think they did eventually show it on another day. No catch up TV back then.

[Bojangles9]

My auld ma was a fan.maybe trying to get in about him IF there is another side.
Sure he started out as a singer.

Edit: Just read about his passing. He came out as gay in 2003. Nae luck mother!

He was in The Thorn Birds in the early 80s. A the woman lapped it up, but the very last episode couldn't be seen up here as the TV transmitter went down due to the weather.

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I think they did eventually show it on another day. No catch up TV back then.

I was certainly aware of it at the time but I don’t remember the TV going down, I wasn’t allowed to actually watch it, it must have caused bedlam as The Thorn Birds was huge.
Swaddon must be young.

Father De Bricissart (sp?) was a huge *** symbol which was pretty disturbing given he was a Catholic priest.
Maybe why I wasn’t allowed to watch it

[swaddon2]

Swaddon must be young.

I'm 43. I've vaguely heard of Dr Kildare, but it's way before my time and I wouldn't have known who the star was.

[TheDeeDon]

I was certainly aware of it at the time but I don?t remember the TV going down, I wasn?t allowed to actually watch it, it must have caused bedlam as The Thorn Birds was huge.
Swaddon must be young.

Father De Bricissart (sp?) was a huge *** symbol which was pretty disturbing given he was a Catholic priest.
Maybe why I wasn?t allowed to watch it

I don't think it was the weather. Just something went wrong during the last episode. I can remember my Ma swearing at the telly. Interuptions with services were frequent back then.

I wouldn't have been watching it, but likely to have been in the living room or kitchen, either reading or colouring in. That was the choices of a winter evening for kids back then, if nothing on the four channels or if the big folk wanted to watch something.

[Jupiter]

Didn't we have no TV for a week in about 1987?

[TheDeeDon]

Didn't we have no TV for a week in about 1987?

85 I think. The Durris TV mast fell down during a storm.

We had a Xmas episode of Last of the Summer Wine taped along with the film version of Please Sir.

It felt a long seven days.

I caught the Please Sir film on TV at Xmas and still knew it word for word. 😂

[TheDeeDon]

Back on topic...

The actor Val Kilmer, gone aged 65.

Had suffered from throat cancer for a few years.

[57vintage]

Back on topic...

The actor Val Kilmer, gone aged 65.

Had suffered from throat cancer for a few years.

?He was in The Doors and Joanne Whalley? was my response when asked about his career yesterday.

[swaddon2]

Clem Burke, drummer with Blondie. Away at 70.

[TheDeeDon]

Clem Burke, drummer with Blondie. Away at 70.

Very sad to read that.

One of the best drummers ever, in my opinion. You just need to see the diversity of who he played with, away from Blondie.

Posted some good stuff on Twitter over the years too.

RIP Clem.

[InversneckieDob]

Ach.

RIP her to shreds fella.

[Bojangles9]

Margaret Hilda Thatcher

12 years to the day and still tramping down her ideals… that come from the other side as well

[TheDeeDon]

Mike Berry - The Father from the original Worzel Gummage series and later Mr Spooner, from Are You Being Served.

Started off as a singer in the early 60s, with a bit of success and along with his contemporaries, such as Marty Wilde and Joe Brown, was still doing his shows until a few weeks ago.

[57vintage]

Mike Berry - The Father from the original Worzel Gummage series and later Mr Spooner, from Are You Being Served.

Started off as a singer in the early 60s, with a bit of success and along with his contemporaries, such as Marty Wilde and Joe Brown, was still doing his shows until a few weeks ago.

He was in The Outlaws (not the US country song pulverisers of the mid-1970s) with Chas Hodges who, despite some of the Chas and Dave baloney was a great musician, at one time a player in Joe Meek?s recording house band, putting in the bottom end for soul boys Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers, and for Heads Hands and Feet whose guitarist was only the fabled genius Albert Lee.

Top-dollar podcast here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0fQ...TLKVDan81zN9RA

[swaddon2]

Clodagh Rodgers, Northern Irish singer who came fourth in Eurovision in 1971, deid at 78.