Funny Girl Happened to me on the Way to the Piano +

[John Green]

What a great title,but not even Bob Monkhouse saved a copy-and he was in it! lostshows.com/default.aspx?programme=049d777e-c73c-49e9-a359-aa9adbfe7194
No chance it's out there somewhere?

Rediffusion,of course...

[John Green]

I've cannily added a "+" to the title so I can add I Done What You Told Me To lostshows.com/default.aspx?programme=69f7a1f2-44a7-4a5a-a124-1ad204c58a17
Another title crying out to be found.

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Funny Girl Happened To Me On The Way To The Piano..

my thanks to tvpopdiaries for the following..

Wednesday 13 April 1966 9.40 - 10.40 pm Rediffusion...A Jule Styne tribute hosted by Bob Monkhouse and produced by Rediffusion's new head of Light Entertainment Buddy Bregman, Jule Styne's nephew..
Millicent Martin ...Everything's Coming Up Roses
Matt Monro...I'll Walk Alone; It's Magic; I've Heard That Song Before; Three Coins In The Fountain.
Patsy Ann Noble...Let Me Entertain You.
Janie Marden...Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend.
Jule Styne conducts songs from Funny Girl.

bfi synopsis: Musical programme celebrating the work of composer Jule Styne.
besides those listed above, the cast also included Peter Reeves, Brian Davies, Teddy Green, Paula Hendrix.

Now Buddy Bregman is still very much alive, just turned 85..as nephew of Jule Styne and Producer, there is a good chance he holds a copy of this and perhaps
other Rediffusion shows he was involved in....would someone like to ask him if he holds a copy of this Tribute show please.

Now John's other + show
I Done What You Told Me To.

Someone has kindly sent me the following from the Midlands TV Times for this Show..
Sunday 24 January 1971 6.15-6.54 pm
This account of the Atlantic slave trade tells in words and music the story of that human merchandise. Rudolph Walker and Nina Baden-Semper read from the
contemporary accounts of the trade, with music and song provided by Noir, the Ashiko Drummers, the Bristol Youth Orchestra and the HTV Jazz Band.
This Sunday programme comes from Bristol. Music Arranger Michael Gibbs: Research Martin Ballard: Designer Doug James: Writer/Producer/Director Jeffrey
Milland. HTV Production.
The bfi has no filmographic record for this and hence no holding. Perhaps other members and guests may know if HTV productions are held in other archives
and can add to this thread by advising if anything exists of this unusual programme please..

[John Green]

Performances of I Done What You Told Me To come up on Youtube,but not,apparently,the one we want.

Brings to mind Harlem Heatwave-well,it's about Black people-think I ready that there's no soundtrack album for the stage show (though I can't find the reference),so it's a double-plus pity about this one being missing. lostshows.com/default.aspx?programme=bcde22bd-3541-4d8e-8da3-40a89e417892

From AR...

[John Green]

Three Rousing Tinkles: lostshows.com/default.aspx?programme=3f911d7a-b1cf-4e7a-b0a8-eaa0d7968554 And 4 Tall Tinkles: lostshows.com/default.aspx?programme=44c3fec0-ba8b-433e-b27b-592b4f190f95 Amazingly,one of the latter survives.

And look at the titles of the episodes! Amazing.Only in Britain.

[Ray Langstone (was saintsray)]

Jul 13, 2015 20:28:04 GMT @simonmoreby said:

Funny Girl Happened To Me On The Way To The Piano..

I Done What You Told Me To.

Someone has kindly sent me the following from the Midlands TV Times for this Show..
Sunday 24 January 1971 6.15-6.54 pm
This account of the Atlantic slave trade tells in words and music the story of that human merchandise. Rudolf Walker and Nina Baden-Semper read from the
contemporary accounts of the trade, with music and song provided by Noir, the Ashiko Drummers, the Bristol Youth Orchestra and the HTV Jazz Band.
This Sunday programme comes from Bristol. Music Arranger Michael Gibbs: Research Martin Ballard: Designer Doug James: Writer/Producer/Director Jeffrey
Milland. HTV Production.
The bfi has no filmographic record for this and hence no holding. Perhaps other members and guests may know if HTV productions are held in other archives
and can add to this thread by advising if anything exists of this unusual programme please..

This is very interesting - these are the two actors (note it is spelt Rudolph Walker, not Rudolf.) who were Bill and Barbie Reynolds from Love Thy Neighbour (which did not begin until 1972!!!!)

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Jul 16, 2015 11:41:18 GMT John Green said:

Three Rousing Tinkles: lostshows.com/default.aspx?programme=3f911d7a-b1cf-4e7a-b0a8-eaa0d7968554 And 4 Tall Tinkles: lostshows.com/default.aspx?programme=44c3fec0-ba8b-433e-b27b-592b4f190f95 Amazingly,one of the latter survives.

And look at the titles of the episodes! Amazing.Only in Britain.

Here is some background to these 2 series as well as what is known to exist, yes exist, of these 2 series listed as completely Missing..

on uk imdb the writer credited for both these series is N F Simpson.(Norman Frederick). (nickname Wally).
A playwright who mixed a comic brew of weird surburban characters and absurd situations.

His first play to be produced was A Resounding Tinkle. The central characters of Tinkle ( Bro and Middie Paradock) were expanded into seven half-hours of Three Rousing Tinkles and Four Tall Tinkles, featuring Edwin Apps and Pauline Devaney as Bro and Middie. (Edwin and Pauline were married in real life).

N. F Simpson's final Series for television was Charley's Grants 1970 co-written with John  Fortune and John Wells, starring Hattie Jacques, Willoughby Goddard
and Aubrey Morris...Charley's Grants appears on lostshows entry for Aubrey Morris - The Missing Episodes thread..so again a connection between current threads.

Thank you to the BBC and Kaleidoscope for the following..

Three Rousing Tinkles BBC 2 Saturday 7/5/66 21.10 - 21.40 pm with Bryan Pringle, Michael Robbins, Robin Parkinson.
A short clip from 7.5.66 survives as part of that same day's Late Night Line-Up.

Saturday 14/5/66 21.40-22.10 pm with Avis Bunnage, John Ringham, Geoffrey Hibbert, Rosemary Martin, Terence Brady.
Saturday 21/5/66 21.40-22.10 pm with Frank Williams, Frank Newell, Dudley Foster, Maureen O'Reilly, Michael Robbins, John Barron, Robin Parkinson,
                                                Blake Butler, Fyfe Robertson as TV Commentator.

4 Tall Tinkles (See John Green's Lostshows link above for episode titles)
BBC 2 Monday 2/1/67 20.05-20.35 pm with Avis Bunnage, Geoffrey Hibbert, John Ringham, Blake Butler, Brian Hewitt-Jones.
Titles exist on 16 mm monochrome film.

Monday 9/1/67 20.00 - 20.35 pm with John Barrie as Sergeant Cork and William Gaunt as Detective- Constable Marriott. Frank Williams, John Ringham
                                               Amy Dalby, Peter Mair.

Existing Episode Monday 16/1/67 20.05 - 20.35 pm A Row Of Potted Plants exists on Digital-Betacam from 16 mm.with Avis Bunnage, Geoffrey Hibbert, Terence
                                    Brady, Gwendolyn Watts, John Ringham, Blake Butler, Hamish Roughhead, Rudolph Walker.

Monday 23/1/67 20.05-20.35 pm with Avis Bunnage, Geoffrey Hibbert, Michael Robbins, Gertan Klauber.
Exists as a domestic (i.e. off-air) audio recording.

[John Green]

Thanks for all the hard work,Simon.The Sergeant Cork episode's quite baffling.

[John Green]

More about Harlem Heatwave: books.google.co.uk/books?id=7x4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA6&lpg=PA6&dq=harlem+heatwave+tv&source=bl&ots=gjEB1L4w8i&sig=jEFCPxCnMty-zzh37YmGGt68ptA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=mSkXVNfWD4_OaOfOgLAC#v=onepage&q=harlem%20heatwave%20tv&f=false (Click on 'continued on page 8').

[John Green]

Couldn't resist adding: Cilla Black and the Seven Tall Dwarfs lostshows.com/default.aspx?programme=6ee6f5be-9751-4b99-894e-4890e1bae09c

[John Green]

Ah.Simon Moreby's quite rightly emailed to point out that Tall Dwarfs was never made.The Lostshows entry states "believed never to have been recorded" which means never made (as with this show),rather than never recorded...Duh.
Thanks,Simon!