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70's TV birds we fancied when we were small

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MULLINER™

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May 15, 2007, 4:07:31 PM5/15/07
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Schrodinger

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"MULLINERT" <singh_d...@boltblue.com> wrote in message
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Would Lesley Judd count?


Fr J. Hackett

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On 15 May, 21:07, MULLINER™ <singh_ding_r...@boltblue.com> wrote:
> Anne Aston -  http://www.bapwatch.co.uk/obscure/anne/index.htm
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> Good luck!

I must be weird because I always thought
that Chrissy was more attractive than Jo
in Man About The House.

Good luck!

fr.

MULLINER™

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On 15 May, 21:16, "Fr J. Hackett" <dontbesobloodyno...@hotmail.com>
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never.., but Jo being the dimwit she was made her annoying.

p.s. can I add Nerys Hughes?

Mortimer

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Also score points (as in those I-Spy books!) for:

- Lesley Judd and Sarah Greene (Blue Peter) [but deduct ten points for
fancying Valerie Singleton]; Janet Ellis disqualified because she's post 70s
- Sally James (TISWAS)
- Jenny Hanley (Magpie) [but deduct ten points for fancying Susan Stranks]
- Carol Leader (Playschool)
- Christine Mackenna (Flambards, Kids from 47a)
- The Cadbury's Flake woman (or was that post-70s?)
- Susan George
- Susan Penhaligon
- Angharad Rees
- Angela Rippon (as seen on Morecambe and Wise!)
- Lesley Dunlop (as seen in Angels - and in an episode of The Sweeney with
humungous knockers under a mohair sweater...)
- Judi Bowker and Stacy Dorning (Black Beauty)
- Liz Crowther (Shoestring)

Anyone want to add any more?

Fr J. Hackett

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May 15, 2007, 4:52:36 PM5/15/07
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On 15 May, 21:31, "Mortimer" <m...@privacy.net> wrote:

> - Sally James (TISWAS)

Got her autograph (one of the very few I have)
and she'll be on ITV next month with a Tiswas special.

> - Jenny Hanley (Magpie) [but deduct ten points for fancying Susan Stranks]

Appeared in a Bond film
(On Her Majesty's Secret Service)

fr.

Mazzy

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Mortimer wrote:

> Janet Ellis disqualified because she's post 70s

Ah, but she would qualify due to her '78 Sweeney appearance, bedding
Jack Regan whilst wearing a German helmet.

http://www.thesweeney.tv/images/sweeney/faces/janet_ellis.JPG

Mortimer

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"Schrodinger" <n...@way.com> wrote in message
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Ah, a fellow "admirer"?


Mortimer

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"Mortimer" <m...@privacy.net> wrote in message
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Just thought of some more:

- Sally Geeson (that crap ITV sitcom with Sid James and Diana Coupland)
- Adrienne Posta (Scrubba in Up Pompeii)
- Barbara Flynn (Family at War, before even The Beiderbecke Affair) [sorry,
"adventures under the duvet with Mrs Swinburne" - I need to go for a cold
shower now!]


Light of Aria

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"MULLINER™" <singh_d...@boltblue.com> wrote in message
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Sally (Tizwas)

Cally (Blakes 7)

and special mention to Colonel Wilmar on Buck Rogers

MULLINER™

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I never understood how Regan got crumpet

Mortimer

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"Mazzy" <mark...@binf.WITHfreeserve.SPAMco.uk> wrote in message
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Good point... and I seem to remember that JE had two very good points!

Sadly the URL doesn't work - looks as if all the images have been removed
from the site. But I can remember her!


Jeff Lawrence

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May 15, 2007, 5:14:35 PM5/15/07
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Mortimer wrote:

> Anyone want to add any more?

As you mentioned Play School I have to say that when
I was 5 years old I had a terrible crush on Hamble. My
class-mates at infant school prefered Jemima but she didn't
do anything at all for me. It was the stripey legs I think.
And even today I still don't fancy girls with stripey legs.
Cheers
Jeff


Fr J. Hackett

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May 15, 2007, 5:16:20 PM5/15/07
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Especially when he'd tell them to "shut it!".

fr.

John Rowland

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MULLINERT wrote:
> Anne Aston - http://www.bapwatch.co.uk/obscure/anne/index.htm
>


I'm not sure if she was seventies or eighties, but I thought Debbie Rix was
mesmeric.


Mortimer

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"MULLINERT" <singh_d...@boltblue.com> wrote in message
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Regan's ex-wife was rather tasty too.


How did I forget:

- Felicity Kendall (score 100 points for her!)
- Madeline Smith

Just found a lovely Sally James pic:
http://www.bapwatch.co.uk/obscure/and/sally_james_29.jpg

And how about this Felicity Kendal pic:
http://www.bapwatch.co.uk/Good%20Life/felicity_kendal_good_life__8.jpg -
wish that was my hand!


Mortimer

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"Jeff Lawrence" <jeff.la...@orange.nl> wrote in message
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You little cradle-snatcher, you!

Hamble was horrible - rosy apple-cheeks - yuk.

Jemima on the other hand...


me

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On 15 May 2007 13:07:31 -0700, =?utf-8?B?TVVMTElORVLihKI=?=
<singh_d...@boltblue.com> wrote:

Carol Hawkins (Sharon in Please Sir) and Sally Gleeson in Bless this
house. Cor, that takes me back.

Frank Incense

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May 15, 2007, 7:08:41 PM5/15/07
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Olive - the one from On The Buses ;)

I'll get me coat.


Mortimer

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"Frank Incense" <dmr...@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Olive - the one from On The Buses ;)
>
> I'll get me coat.

Christ!!!! She's fallen out of the same ugly tree as Jo Brand!


SteveW

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On Wed, 16 May 2007 00:08:41 +0100, Frank Incense <dmr...@nospam.com>
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> Olive - the one from On The Buses ;)
>
> I'll get me coat.
>
>

Your glasses would be more useful

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FCS

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He was Sweeney. He either paid for it or, more
likely, promised not to take it any further so as
he didn't have to.

Wow, the whole Spearmint Rhino thing really
did pass everybody outside of Essex and The
Square Mile by didn't it.

G DAEB

COPYRIGHT (C) 2007 SIPSTON
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FCS

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On May 15, 9:31 pm, "Mortimer" <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
> "MULLINERT" <singh_ding_r...@boltblue.com> wrote in message

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> news:1179259651....@e51g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
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> > Anne Aston - http://www.bapwatch.co.uk/obscure/anne/index.htm
>
> Also score points (as in those I-Spy books!) for:
>
> - Angharad Rees -

Angharad Rees? '70s? Since when? I recall
her from the how to give up smoking show
"Go For It!" but that was mid-'80s. And she
was hardly a glamourous 40-something in
the your-best-mate's-mum mould then.

> Anyone want to add any more?

Joanna Lumley and Linda Bellingham, not that
either of them were on my list in those days,
but they both did do Hammer/Confessions series
stuff.

Do Chrissie Hynde and Sioxsie Sioux count or
was ToTP "music" and not "tele'"?

Meng

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Two words: Gabrielle. Drake.
Two more words: Hubba. Hubba.


Paul Hyett

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May 16, 2007, 2:37:13 AM5/16/07
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In uk.media.tv.misc on Tue, 15 May 2007, MULLINER™ wrote :
>Anne Aston - http://www.bapwatch.co.uk/obscure/anne/index.htm
>
>Good luck!
>
I cannot believe no-one seems to have mentioned Felicity Kendal!
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Paul 'Charts Fan' Hyett

Mortimer

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"FCS" <sipst...@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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> On May 15, 9:31 pm, "Mortimer" <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
>> "MULLINERT" <singh_ding_r...@boltblue.com> wrote in message
>>
>> news:1179259651....@e51g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
>>
>> > Anne Aston - http://www.bapwatch.co.uk/obscure/anne/index.htm
>>
>> Also score points (as in those I-Spy books!) for:
>>
>> - Angharad Rees -
>
> Angharad Rees? '70s? Since when? I recall
> her from the how to give up smoking show
> "Go For It!" but that was mid-'80s. And she
> was hardly a glamourous 40-something in
> the your-best-mate's-mum mould then.

Since she played Demelza Poldark in the 1970s series Poldark.


Mortimer

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"Paul Hyett" <p...@nojunkmailplease.co.uk> wrote in message
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> In uk.media.tv.misc on Tue, 15 May 2007, MULLINERT wrote :
>>Anne Aston - http://www.bapwatch.co.uk/obscure/anne/index.htm
>>
>>Good luck!
>>
> I cannot believe no-one seems to have mentioned Felicity Kendal!

I did, ages ago. And I posted a great picture of her:

Sofa - Spud

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On 16 May, 07:30, Meng <nos...@fnarg.co.uk> wrote:
> Mortimer wrote:
> > "MULLINERT" <singh_ding_r...@boltblue.com> wrote in message
> Two more words: Hubba. Hubba.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

A whole rake of nude Gabrielle stuff out there .......... for research
purposes of course.

Frank Incense

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OK then, not Olive but certainly Felicity K and Barbera Flynn along with
Jan Francis (may have been 80's in Just Good Friends)


Mortimer

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"Frank Incense" <dmr...@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> OK then, not Olive but certainly Felicity K and Barbara Flynn along with
> Jan Francis (may have been 80's in Just Good Friends)

Olive! Does your guide dog fancy her as well?

Yes I only excluded Jan Francis because Just Good Friends was 1980s. She was
nowhere near as fanciable when she played the resistance worker (*) in
Secret Army. She was also very tasty, in an older-woman sort of way, in Stay
Lucky, but that was 1990s.


(*) She was the one on whom Michelle "I shall say this only wernce" Dubois
in 'Allo 'Allo was based.


Sam Nelson

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May 16, 2007, 5:21:49 AM5/16/07
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In article <117930543...@damia.uk.clara.net>,

"Frank Incense" <dmr...@nospam.com> writes:
> Felicity K and Barbera Flynn along with
> Jan Francis (may have been 80's in Just Good Friends)

Jan Francis was in The Long Chase in 1972, all the way through to Secret
Army in 1978, with much other one-off stuff in between---a definite 70s
TV babe.

There was, as mentioned elsewhere, also Gabrielle Drake, who I remember most
from The Brothers and Kelly Monteith.

The ultimate 70s TV babe was Elisabeth Sladen, of course.
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SAm.

Sam Nelson

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May 16, 2007, 5:27:29 AM5/16/07
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In article <464ac9c5$0$8737$ed26...@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net>,

"Mortimer" <m...@privacy.net> writes:
> Yes I only excluded Jan Francis because Just Good Friends was 1980s. She was
> nowhere near as fanciable when she played the resistance worker (*) in
> Secret Army. She was also very tasty, in an older-woman sort of way, in Stay
> Lucky, but that was 1990s.

Apparently she was in an episode of New Tricks---like, just last week.

> (*) She was the one on whom Michelle "I shall say this only wernce" Dubois
> in 'Allo 'Allo was based.

She was the only reason I watched the otherwise-terminally-up-itself Secret
Army.
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SAm.

Mortimer

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"Sam Nelson" <s...@ssrl.org.uk> wrote in message
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> In article <464ac9c5$0$8737$ed26...@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net>,
> "Mortimer" <m...@privacy.net> writes:
>> Yes I only excluded Jan Francis because Just Good Friends was 1980s. She
>> was
>> nowhere near as fanciable when she played the resistance worker (*) in
>> Secret Army. She was also very tasty, in an older-woman sort of way, in
>> Stay
>> Lucky, but that was 1990s.
>
> Apparently she was in an episode of New Tricks---like, just last week.

Yes, and Diamond Geezer a few weeks earlier. She's looking a *bit* older
now, but she's still got that impish mischievous streak to her personality.
Still fanciable at 55.


Mike Plowman

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On 15 May 2007 13:16:19 -0700, "Fr J. Hackett"
<dontbesob...@hotmail.com> wrote:

>On 15 May, 21:07, MULLINER™ <singh_ding_r...@boltblue.com> wrote:
>> Anne Aston -  http://www.bapwatch.co.uk/obscure/anne/index.htm
>>

>> Good luck!
>
>I must be weird because I always thought
>that Chrissy was more attractive than Jo
>in Man About The House.
>
>Good luck!
>
Me too.
God, 70's birds, where do I start?
Cherly Murray. Adirenna Posta. Ayshea Brough. Anita Harris. Dora off
Follyfoot. Janet Ellis. Valerie off Land Of The Giants. Lee
Merryweather as Catwoman. Kathy Jones from Handful of Songs. Julie
Stevens, Chloe Ashcroft, Una Stubbs, Stacy Dorming from Black Beauty,
Sonia Fox from Crossroads. Cherie from Pans People. Sally Geeson .
Carol Hawkins from Please Sir.

I could go on and on and on and on.......:-)
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Mike Plowman
"Hey you, Horror Face. I'm a Printhead"

Commander Gideon

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Sally Geeson (that great ITV sitcom with Sid James and Diana Coupland)
Margaret Nolan
Katy Manning
Elizabeth Sladen
Alexandra Bastedo

Commander Gideon

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"Commander Gideon" <b...@indigo.ie> wrote in message
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Forgot to add Valerie Leon!


Halmyre

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In article <1179259651....@e51g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>,
singh_d...@boltblue.com says...

> Anne Aston - http://www.bapwatch.co.uk/obscure/anne/index.htm
>
> Good luck!
>
>

I've been through that entire bapwatch site and haven't seen a single
bread product yet. It's a swizz!

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Halmyre

Mortimer

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"Mike Plowman" <mike.p...@mydomain.net> wrote in message
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> On 15 May 2007 13:16:19 -0700, "Fr J. Hackett"
> <dontbesob...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>On 15 May, 21:07, MULLINERT <singh_ding_r...@boltblue.com> wrote:
>>> Anne Aston - http://www.bapwatch.co.uk/obscure/anne/index.htm
>>>
>>> Good luck!
>>
>>I must be weird because I always thought
>>that Chrissy was more attractive than Jo
>>in Man About The House.
>>
>>Good luck!
>>
> Me too.
> Kathy Jones from Handful of Songs.

Cor. I'd forgotten her. Very nice.

> Julie Stevens, Chloe Ashcroft

Play School totty. I didn't rate Julie Stevens, but Chloe Ashcroft was
lovely. And it seems that she had a bit of a mischevous streak to her:

[Talking about Hamble] None of the presenters could stand her either, so
she'd get drop kicked across the studio, and once, when she wouldn't behave,
Chloe Ashcroft took a dreadful liberty.

"I did a terrible thing to Hamble. She just would not sit up...so one day
I got a very big knitting needle, a big wooden one, and I stuck it right up
her bum, as far as her head. So she was completely rigid, and she was much
much better after that."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/playschool/trivia.shtml

And then there was Toni Arthur. Was she on Play School or just Play Away?

And Carol Chell! The tottiest of the Play School totty.


MULLINER™

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On 15 May, 21:07, MULLINER™ <singh_ding_r...@boltblue.com> wrote:
> Anne Aston - http://www.bapwatch.co.uk/obscure/anne/index.htm
>
> Good luck!

Does anyone know the name of the blonde Aussie hotel guest in Watery
Fowls?

Good luck!

JohnB

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May 16, 2007, 7:27:07 AM5/16/07
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Thread title: "when we were small" ???

I wasn't small in the 70s!

I was big enough to appreciate Pan's People and Legs & Co and Felicity
Kendall and a few others, but my memory's not what it was ...

Wind back a few years and I still think Emma Peel / Dianna Rigg takes
some beating...

Martin Underwood

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"MULLINERT" <singh_d...@boltblue.com> wrote in message
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On 15 May, 21:07, MULLINERT <singh_ding_r...@boltblue.com> wrote:
> Anne Aston - http://www.bapwatch.co.uk/obscure/anne/index.htm

>Does anyone know the name of the blonde Aussie hotel guest in Watery
Fowls?

Well all the actors and characters are listed on
http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0072500/epcast - maybe you can identify her from
that if you can narrow down the episode.


Commander Gideon

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> Wind back a few years and I still think Emma Peel / Dianna Rigg takes
> some beating...

Alexandra Bastedo from The Champions for me ....


MULLINER™

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On 16 May, 12:28, "Martin Underwood" <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
> "MULLINERT" <singh_ding_r...@boltblue.com> wrote in message

>
> news:1179314546.2...@u30g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...
> On 15 May, 21:07, MULLINERT <singh_ding_r...@boltblue.com> wrote:
>
> > Anne Aston - http://www.bapwatch.co.uk/obscure/anne/index.htm
> >Does anyone know the name of the blonde Aussie hotel guest inWatery
>
> Fowls?
>
> Well all the actors and characters are listed onhttp://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0072500/epcast- maybe you can identify her from

> that if you can narrow down the episode.


Raylene Mills character..., real name Luan Peters. I'm sure someone
on here once said they use to know her live.

Good luck!

Sofa - Spud

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Youve forgotten Connie Booth !!

Halmyre

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In article <1179318810.9...@w5g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>,
comfy...@hotmail.co.uk says...
> On 16 May, 12:22, MULLINER? <singh_ding_r...@boltblue.com> wrote:

> > On 15 May, 21:07, MULLINER? <singh_ding_r...@boltblue.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Anne Aston -  http://www.bapwatch.co.uk/obscure/anne/index.htm
> >
> > > Good luck!
> >
> > Does anyone know the name of the blonde Aussie hotel guest in Watery
> > Fowls?
> >
> > Good luck!
>
> Youve forgotten Connie Booth !!
>
>

And Carol Cleavage...sorry, Cleveland.

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Halmyre

Mortimer

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"Sofa - Spud" <comfy...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message
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On 16 May, 12:22, MULLINERT <singh_ding_r...@boltblue.com> wrote:

> On 15 May, 21:07, MULLINERT <singh_ding_r...@boltblue.com> wrote:
>
>> > Anne Aston - http://www.bapwatch.co.uk/obscure/anne/index.htm
>
>> > Good luck!
>
>> Does anyone know the name of the blonde Aussie hotel guest in Watery
> Fowls?
>
> Good luck!

>Youve forgotten Connie Booth !!

Nah! She was vaguely attractive to look at but her voice was a big turn-off.
In the same way that I find some French women's voices a great turn-on, most
American accents are a very big passion-killer for me.


huw....@gmail.com

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May 16, 2007, 9:35:01 AM5/16/07
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Anyone remember Francoise Pascal?

Frank Incense

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May 16, 2007, 9:33:40 AM5/16/07
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She was also on the recent "Comedy Connections" showing her age but still
looking lovely and cheeky.
The only one NOT to appear in this prog was "Daphne". Is she still with us?
or just decide not to take part.


Mortimer

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Er, sorry - who are you talking about? How about including the context of
the posting that you are replying to.


Jeff Lawrence

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On 16 May, 13:14, "Mortimer" <m...@privacy.net> wrote:

> Play School totty. I didn't rate Julie Stevens, but Chloe Ashcroft was
> lovely. And it seems that she had a bit of a mischevous streak to her:

Reading some of these names really takes me back. I don't remember
some of the names though but I found this on TV Cream which puts
a lot of faces to the names. http://tv.cream.org/lookin/playschool/index.htm
My Playschool era was the mid to late 70s so I grew up with the likes
of Floella Benjamin, Derek Griffiths, Brian Cant and the great Fred
Harris
who also presented Chock-a-Block of course. Checking on IMDB it
appears that another favourite (more for his name) Christopher
Lillicrap
also presented it between 74 and 76 although I remember him more from
another programme called Playboard. Ah memories!
Cheers
Jeff

Sofa - Spud

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> "Mike Plowman" <mike.plow...@mydomain.net> wrote in message

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>
>
>
>
> > On 15 May 2007 13:16:19 -0700, "Fr J. Hackett"
> > <dontbesobloodyno...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >>On 15 May, 21:07, MULLINERT <singh_ding_r...@boltblue.com> wrote:
> >>> Anne Aston -http://www.bapwatch.co.uk/obscure/anne/index.htm

>
> >>> Good luck!
>
> >>I must be weird because I always thought
> >>that Chrissy was more attractive than Jo
> >>in Man About The House.
>
> >>Good luck!
>
> > Me too.
> > Kathy Jones from Handful of Songs.
>
> Cor. I'd forgotten her. Very nice.
>
> > Julie Stevens, Chloe Ashcroft
>
> Play School totty. I didn't rate Julie Stevens, but Chloe Ashcroft was
> lovely. And it seems that she had a bit of a mischevous streak to her:
>
> [Talking about Hamble] None of the presenters could stand her either, so
> she'd get drop kicked across the studio, and once, when she wouldn't behave,
> Chloe Ashcroft took a dreadful liberty.
>
> "I did a terrible thing to Hamble. She just would not sit up...so one day
> I got a very big knitting needle, a big wooden one, and I stuck it right up
> her bum, as far as her head. So she was completely rigid, and she was much
> much better after that."
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/playschool/trivia.shtml
>

Poor Hamble !! from the above link

"""Hamble the doll - the hate figure of the under-fives for the entire
run of the programme.
Although it was originally a very common type of doll, sold in
Woolworths, by the time Play School was in full flow there were only
two Hambles in Britain. The other was owned by a woman in Chester, who
would hire it to the BBC for £40 a week whenever the Play School
regular was injured""2

I'd never have guessed!

Mortimer

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"Jeff Lawrence" <jeff.la...@orange.nl> wrote in message
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> On 16 May, 13:14, "Mortimer" <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
>
>> Play School totty. I didn't rate Julie Stevens, but Chloe Ashcroft was
>> lovely. And it seems that she had a bit of a mischevous streak to her:
>
> Reading some of these names really takes me back. I don't remember
> some of the names though but I found this on TV Cream which puts
> a lot of faces to the names.
> http://tv.cream.org/lookin/playschool/index.htm

There's a great description of the toys on that page:

Jemima (red-cheeked floppy cloth effort in Laura Ashley frock), Hamble
(awful, scary Bjorkesque Victorian porcelain doll thing - ugh! Often the
target on in-studio "drawn-on pubic hair" japes), Humpty (the coolest -
round, fat green fucker in tartan trews, prone to unsteadiness atop a
cardboard wall - did all his own stunts)

> another favourite (more for his name) Christopher Lillicrap

I've got to admit that it takes a special sort of courage to use a name like
Lillicrap on TV, especially on children's TV where children are just
beginning to learn about "naughty words" and will poke fun at the name even
more than adults would. I think if I'd been him or his father or
grandfather, I'd have changed the name once and for all by deed poll. Mind
you, an ancestor of mine did have the surname Crapper, so who am I to talk?

MULLINER™

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On 16 May, 15:02, Jeff Lawrence <jeff.lawren...@orange.nl> wrote:
> On 16 May, 13:14, "Mortimer" <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
>
> > Play School totty. I didn't rate Julie Stevens, but Chloe Ashcroft was
> > lovely. And it seems that she had a bit of a mischevous streak to her:
>
> Reading some of these names really takes me back. I don't remember
> some of the names though but I found this on TV Cream which puts
> a lot of faces to the names.http://tv.cream.org/lookin/playschool/index.htm

> My Playschool era was the mid to late 70s so I grew up with the likes
> of Floella Benjamin, Derek Griffiths, Brian Cant and the great Fred
> Harris
> who also presented Chock-a-Block of course. Checking on IMDB it
> appears that another favourite (more for his name) Christopher
> Lillicrap
> also presented it between 74 and 76 although I remember him more from
> another programme called Playboard. Ah memories!
> Cheers
> Jeff

OK, this thread is getting out of hand cos people are naming the likes
of Connie Both, Jack Reagan and Christopher Lillicrap who shouldn't be
in it. To get things back under control, I'm going to surmise top 5 as
follows: -

70's birds you fancied when you were small
- Francois Pascal
- Luan Peters
- Pam Ewing (frist Yankee bird I ever fancied)
- Aurielle, the gril from Rice Crispies ad (important note; I was 13
when I met her and she was 12)
- Cathy Hargreaves, original Grange Hill babe

Good luck!


Meng

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Sofa - Spud wrote:
> On 16 May, 07:30, Meng <nos...@fnarg.co.uk> wrote:

>> Mortimer wrote:
>>> "MULLINERT" <singh_ding_r...@boltblue.com> wrote in message
>>> news:1179259651....@e51g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...>>> Also score points (as in those I-Spy books!) for:
>>> - Lesley Judd and Sarah Greene (Blue Peter) [but deduct ten points for
>>> fancying Valerie Singleton]; Janet Ellis disqualified because she's post 70s
>>> - Sally James (TISWAS)
>>> - Jenny Hanley (Magpie) [but deduct ten points for fancying Susan Stranks]
>>> - Carol Leader (Playschool)
>>> - Christine Mackenna (Flambards, Kids from 47a)
>>> - The Cadbury's Flake woman (or was that post-70s?)
>>> - Susan George
>>> - Susan Penhaligon
>>> - Angharad Rees
>>> - Angela Rippon (as seen on Morecambe and Wise!)
>>> - Lesley Dunlop (as seen in Angels - and in an episode of The Sweeney with
>>> humungous knockers under a mohair sweater...)
>>> - Judi Bowker and Stacy Dorning (Black Beauty)
>>> - Liz Crowther (Shoestring)
>>> Anyone want to add any more?
>> Two words: Gabrielle. Drake.
>> Two more words: Hubba. Hubba.- Hide quoted text -
>>
>> - Show quoted text -
>
> A whole rake of nude Gabrielle stuff out there .......... for research
> purposes of course.
>

I'd particularly like to give an honorary mention to the 1972 film Au
Pair Girls.

By Christ she was fit.

Mike

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On Wed, 16 May 2007 00:17:29 +0100, "Mortimer" <m...@privacy.net> wrote:

>
>"Frank Incense" <dmr...@nospam.com> wrote in message

>news:117927052...@despina.uk.clara.net...
>> Olive - the one from On The Buses ;)
>>
>> I'll get me coat.
>
>Christ!!!! She's fallen out of the same ugly tree as Jo Brand!

Amazingly with "Olive" it was all makeup and dodgy glasses. There are
some pics of her out there either in a bikini or topless and she is
quite simply stunning. She was apparently a model as well as an
actress.


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Brian

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MULLINER™ wrote:
> Anne Aston - http://www.bapwatch.co.uk/obscure/anne/index.htm
>
> Good luck!
>

From Space 1999 - Barbara Bain and Zienia Merton (source of a lifetime
of yellow fever I suspect)

Commander Gideon

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May 16, 2007, 11:14:10 AM5/16/07
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> From Space 1999 - Barbara Bain and Zienia Merton (source of a lifetime
> of yellow fever I suspect)

Barbara Bain was far sexier in Mission Impossible (everyday on Five US).She
was almost Thunderbirdishly wooden in Space 1999!


Richard Brooks

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MULLINER™ said the following on 15/05/07 21:07:Why thank you!

Anyway, Diane Keen from Cuckoo Waltz. Get yourself two blokes, a bird
in a short skirt, a deckchair, no scripts and you have it made.


Richard.

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Russian business saying.

Jim Barker

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May 16, 2007, 12:29:46 PM5/16/07
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Wanda Ventham

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Commander Gideon

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May 16, 2007, 12:36:26 PM5/16/07
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> Wanda Ventham

Oh yes,good call,schwing!


Mike Plowman

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On 16 May 2007 07:36:09 -0700, MULLINER™
<singh_d...@boltblue.com> wrote:

>- Cathy Hargreaves, original Grange Hill babe
>

Oh no. Trisha Yates was the best GH babe, but I also had a soft spot
for the very naughty Imelda played by Fleur Taylor but them I was
always a sucker for spikey hair and eyeliner.
--
Mike Plowman
"Hey you, Horror Face. I'm a Printhead"

Mike Plowman

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May 16, 2007, 1:05:58 PM5/16/07
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On Wed, 16 May 2007 16:29:46 GMT, Jim Barker <j...@cartoonise.com>
wrote:

>Wanda Ventham

Excellent Call. I remember her in UFO. Still looked good in Only Fools
thirty years later.

And what about Michelle Dotrice. She was a babe as Betty.

Kevin Lee

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May 16, 2007, 1:38:49 PM5/16/07
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On Wed, 16 May 2007 11:12:08 +0100, "Commander Gideon" <b...@indigo.ie>
wrote:

>
>"Commander Gideon" <b...@indigo.ie> wrote in message
>news:AOA2i.19664$j7.3...@news.indigo.ie...
>> Sally Geeson (that great ITV sitcom with Sid James and Diana Coupland)
>> Margaret Nolan
>> Katy Manning
>> Elizabeth Sladen
>> Alexandra Bastedo
>
>Forgot to add Valerie Leon!
>
And Madeline Smith

Daniel Lincoln

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May 16, 2007, 2:13:12 PM5/16/07
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I've never fancied any bird in her 70s. What an appalling notion.

xd18911

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=?utf-8?B?TVVMTElORVLihKI=?= <singh_d...@boltblue.com> wrote in
news:1179259651....@e51g2000hsg.googlegroups.com:

All this talk of various Carols and a mention of Lynda Bellingham and
nobody has piped up and mentioned Carol Drinkwater??

Jeff Lawrence

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May 16, 2007, 3:15:01 PM5/16/07
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"xd18911" <my_e...@somewhere.co.uk> wrote in message
news:Xns9932CD96...@80.5.182.99...

> All this talk of various Carols and a mention of Lynda Bellingham and
> nobody has piped up and mentioned Carol Drinkwater??

Don't mention drinkwater, it's a bit of a sore point with me at the
moment! Mine's full of e-coli bacteria until next Monday apparently!
Cheers
Jeff


Calum

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May 16, 2007, 3:53:13 PM5/16/07
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Mike Plowman wrote:
> On 16 May 2007 07:36:09 -0700, MULLINER™
> <singh_d...@boltblue.com> wrote:
>
>> - Cathy Hargreaves, original Grange Hill babe
>>
> Oh no. Trisha Yates was the best GH babe

Did she ever smile? Seem to remember her being a right miserable cow...

Dark 1

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May 16, 2007, 4:03:46 PM5/16/07
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MULLINER™ <singh_d...@boltblue.com> wrote:

Cheryl Ladd of Charlie's Angles gave me tingly sensations on the pant
area, but was too young to know why exactly.

Also had much fondness for Heather Thomas of The Fall Guy fame, but
that's into the 80s.

I think those two were my first TV fancies. Ironic really that
nowadays, not much into blondes.

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May 16, 2007, 4:03:47 PM5/16/07
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Oh yes! Of particular note being 'The Wedding Party' episode. One for
the spank bank that one! ;)

<http://www.robbscelebs.co.uk/noops378/noops_connie_booth_ft0002.html>

MULLINER™

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On 16 May, 18:03, Mike Plowman <mike.plow...@mydomain.net> wrote:
> On 16 May 2007 07:36:09 -0700, MULLINER™
>
> <singh_ding_r...@boltblue.com> wrote:
> >- Cathy Hargreaves, original Grange Hill babe
>
> Oh no. Trisha Yates was the best GH babe, but I also had a soft spot
> for the very naughty Imelda played by Fleur Taylor but them I was
> always a sucker for spikey hair and eyeliner.
> --
> Mike Plowman
> "Hey you, Horror Face. I'm a Printhead"

No way was Trisha Yates top GH babe..., Tucker didn't call her 'Pongo'
for nuffink

1. Cathy Hargreaves
2. Julia Glover
3. Callie

Sorry Jackie Wright (Melissa Wilkes) doesn't make my list. I know she
was popular though

Good luck!

JNugent

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May 16, 2007, 4:18:26 PM5/16/07
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Dark 1 wrote:

> Sofa - Spud <comfy...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
>>On 16 May, 12:22, MULLINER™ <singh_ding_r...@boltblue.com> wrote:
>>>On 15 May, 21:07, MULLINER™ <singh_ding_r...@boltblue.com> wrote:

>>>>Good luck!

>>>Does anyone know the name of the blonde Aussie hotel guest in Watery
>>>Fowls?

>>>Good luck!

>>Youve forgotten Connie Booth !!

> Oh yes! Of particular note being 'The Wedding Party' episode. One for
> the spank bank that one! ;)

> <http://www.robbscelebs.co.uk/noops378/noops_connie_booth_ft0002.html>

In that case, what about April Walker?

Mike Plowman

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May 16, 2007, 4:23:41 PM5/16/07
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On 16 May 2007 13:19:13 -0700, MULLINER™
<singh_d...@boltblue.com> wrote:

>No way was Trisha Yates top GH babe..., Tucker didn't call her 'Pongo'
>for nuffink
>
>1. Cathy Hargreaves
>2. Julia Glover
>3. Callie

Am I the only one that fancied Bridget?

Bob Moore

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May 16, 2007, 4:41:04 PM5/16/07
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Mmmm, in general order of phwoar...

Cherry Gillespie
Katy Manning
Paula Wilcox
Anouska Hempel
Alexandra Bastedo
Jacqueline Bisset
Kate Jackson
Persis Khambatta
Lesley Anne Down
Madeline Smith

Richard Sutherland

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May 16, 2007, 5:59:07 PM5/16/07
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In article <j5pm43dnjsmeon8s2...@4ax.com>, Bob Moore
<bo...@mvps.org> writes

Ayesha from UFO
Carol Hawkins
Sally James
Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights :)
Jaclyn Smith
Pre-plastic Victoria Principal
The girl in the Nimble ads (remember the balloon)
And the one in the Hawaii Five-O opening credits!!!

... ah them were the days.....
--
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Mike

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On Wed, 16 May 2007 12:14:01 +0100, "Mortimer" <m...@privacy.net> wrote:

>And then there was Toni Arthur. Was she on Play School or just Play Away?

We had her exact double as an English teacher. Absolutely gorgeous and
with a delightful habit of wearing tight fitting or semi see though
clothes.


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May 16, 2007, 6:56:49 PM5/16/07
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Mike Plowman wrote:
> On 16 May 2007 13:19:13 -0700, MULLINER™
> <singh_d...@boltblue.com> wrote:
>
>
>>No way was Trisha Yates top GH babe..., Tucker didn't call her 'Pongo'
>>for nuffink
>>
>>1. Cathy Hargreaves
>>2. Julia Glover
>>3. Callie
>
>
> Am I the only one that fancied Bridget?

Forsyth?

Richard Brooks

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Dark 1 said the following on 16/05/07 21:03:

> MULLINERâ„¢ <singh_d...@boltblue.com> wrote:
>
>> Anne Aston - http://www.bapwatch.co.uk/obscure/anne/index.htm
>>
>> Good luck!
>
> Cheryl Ladd of Charlie's Angles gave me tingly sensations on the pant
> area, but was too young to know why exactly.

Cheryl Ladd now looks like Victoria Tennant and who would have realised
that Jacklyn Smith is 61!

<http://www.cherylladd.com/index2.htm>

Wait a minute or so....
<http://video.bravotv.com/player/?id=99778>

Rob Cullen

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May 16, 2007, 7:40:40 PM5/16/07
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Damn you beat me to Victoria Principal.

In the opening credits for Dallas......

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Frank Incense

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"Mortimer" <m...@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> "Frank Incense" <dmr...@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:11793224...@damia.uk.clara.net...
>> She was also on the recent "Comedy Connections" showing her age but still
>> looking lovely and cheeky.
>> The only one NOT to appear in this prog was "Daphne". Is she still with
>> us? or just decide not to take part.
>
> Er, sorry - who are you talking about? How about including the context of
> the posting that you are replying to.
>

Yeah sorry

I was referring to Jan Francis being on the Comedy Connections programme
recently along with almost all the other members of the cast except Daphne
(her mother in the prog)


Mike Plowman

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McCuskey, the headmistress in Grange Hill.

JNugent

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Mike Plowman wrote:
> On Wed, 16 May 2007 23:56:49 +0100, JNugent
> <not.t...@noparticularplacetogo.com> wrote:
>
>
>>Mike Plowman wrote:
>>
>>>On 16 May 2007 13:19:13 -0700, MULLINER™
>>><singh_d...@boltblue.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>No way was Trisha Yates top GH babe..., Tucker didn't call her 'Pongo'
>>>>for nuffink
>>>>
>>>>1. Cathy Hargreaves
>>>>2. Julia Glover
>>>>3. Callie
>>>
>>>
>>>Am I the only one that fancied Bridget?
>>
>>Forsyth?
>
>
> McCuskey, the headmistress in Grange Hill.

Ah... after my time.

Commander Gideon

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)
> > And the one in the Hawaii Five-O opening credits!!!
> >
> > ... ah them were the days.....

What? Danno?


John Rowland

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May 17, 2007, 7:42:44 AM5/17/07
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Mike Plowman wrote:
>
> McCuskey, the headmistress in Grange Hill.

Have we gone through fuck and marry onto kill?


xd18911

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"Jeff Lawrence" <jeff.la...@orange.nl> wrote in news:464b5835$0$49181
$dbd4...@news.wanadoo.nl:

Blimee!

MULLINER™

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He means this little beauty >> http://www.bigbob.com/five-o/files/50girl.gif

I wonder if there's a story about her.

Good luck

P.S. Hawaii 5-O was really Hawaii 5-Zero I think.

Dry Gulch Pete

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On May 16, 3:36 pm, MULLINER™ <singh_ding_r...@boltblue.com> wrote:
> On 16 May, 15:02, Jeff Lawrence <jeff.lawren...@orange.nl> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > On 16 May, 13:14, "Mortimer" <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
>
> > > Play School totty. I didn't rate Julie Stevens, but Chloe Ashcroft was
> > > lovely. And it seems that she had a bit of a mischevous streak to her:
>
> > Reading some of these names really takes me back. I don't remember
> > some of the names though but I found this on TV Cream which puts
> > a lot of faces to the names.http://tv.cream.org/lookin/playschool/index.htm
> > My Playschool era was the mid to late 70s so I grew up with the likes
> > of Floella Benjamin, Derek Griffiths, Brian Cant and the great Fred
> > Harris
> > who also presented Chock-a-Block of course. Checking on IMDB it
> > appears that another favourite (more for his name) Christopher
> > Lillicrap
> > also presented it between 74 and 76 although I remember him more from
> > another programme called Playboard. Ah memories!
> > Cheers
> > Jeff
>
> OK, this thread is getting out of hand cos people are naming the likes
> of Connie Both, Jack Reagan and Christopher Lillicrap who shouldn't be
> in it. To get things back under control, I'm going to surmise top 5 as
> follows: -
>
> 70'sbirds you fancied when you were small
> - Francois Pascal
> - Luan Peters
> - Pam Ewing (frist Yankee bird I ever fancied)
> - Aurielle, the gril from Rice Crispies ad (important note; I was 13
> when I met her and she was 12)

> - Cathy Hargreaves, original Grange Hill babe
>
~
<g> Cathy Hargreaves (Lyndy Brill) got me interested in Grange Hill
many moons ago - saw her outside a West End theatre where she was
playing Peron's mistress in Evita and she smiled at me! :-)

Commander Gideon

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> 70'sbirds you fancied when you were small
> - Francois Pascal
> - Luan Peters
> - Pam Ewing (frist Yankee bird I ever fancied)
> - Aurielle, the gril from Rice Crispies ad (important note; I was 13
> when I met her and she was 12)
> - Cathy Hargreaves, original Grange Hill babe
>
~
<g> Cathy Hargreaves (Lyndy Brill) got me interested in Grange Hill
many moons ago - saw her outside a West End theatre where she was
playing Peron's mistress in Evita and she smiled at me! :-)

Blimey,sounds like something Jimmy Carr would say!

Dry Gulch Pete

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May 25, 2007, 6:04:07 AM5/25/07
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<g> does it? - I'm not one of Jimmy's fans - like all the other girls
our friend mentions though except don't know Aurielle - only know Snap
Crackle and Pop and don't fancy any of those three! :-D

Commander Gideon

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"Dry Gulch Pete" <paci...@btopenworld.com> wrote in message
news:1180087447.2...@q66g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...

Remember Margaret Nolan and Valerie Leon,phoarrr!
>


Dry Gulch Pete

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On May 25, 11:03 am, "Commander Gideon" <b...@indigo.ie> wrote:
> "Dry Gulch Pete" <pacif...@btopenworld.com> wrote in messagenews:1180087447.2...@q66g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
~
LOL - always wanted to see Margaret Nolan in Can Hieronymous Merkin
Ever Forget Mercy Hummpe and Find True Happiness?

The Mullen™

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If Lyndy Brill smiled at me, I probably would have collapsed. She was
hot!

Late 70's Aurielle was Rice Crispies girl who had the pigtails and
(maybe) slight lisp. Met her at a kids party - when I was a kid too,
and she was so sophisticated "oh yaaa" it caused a stir at school the
next day. The big debate was who did Aurielle speak to the most...,
'getting off' with someone didn't come into it for another year or two
later, then dropping the hand a bit after that, and then at 15 it was
all about full blown tiffin.

Also, think Lucy Benjamin was a party when I was small, cos when she
was in Close to Home with Paul Nicholas, I recognised her. Never
fancied her though.

Good luck!

The Mullen™
Surfing the net since '94


Dry Gulch Pete

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May 26, 2007, 4:47:19 AM5/26/07
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~
LOL - still can't recall Aurielle but Lucy rings a bell - as for Lyndy
Brill, I remember a very attractive young lady smiling at me, I
couldn't believe my luck so smiled back as I walked past, *then*
realised who it was! :-D

fowler...@yahoo.co.uk

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