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Interesting
Facts about this episode
- Felix Bowness plays a shop steward from
"Central Services" and delivers the line "I'm not
from Light Entertainment.....do I look like a comedian"....
this gets riotous laughs as he was the BBC's main warm-up comedian
for many a year prior to landing the role of Jockey 'Fred Quilly' in
Hi-de-Hi
- Henry worked with Eric Sykes in one of his many
'Silent Movie' comedy's "Mr H Is Late"
- Look out for a fine cameo role from Les Dawson as
the cleaning man vacuuming the DG's office as the credits
roll.
Neat Places to Visit
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3 points if you can
tell Bemuddlment where this logo was situated during the opening
credits
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Henry plays a BBC Mandarin from Light
Entertainment named 'Roger'. Henry's department has had a collection in commemoration
of 20 years service from Eric and Hattie to the BBC and the trio venture to the
6th Floor to get the DG to present the Gold Clock to Eric; in this classic
"Sykes" episode having a quiet dig at the bureaucracy and madness of
the BBC
Eric (Eric Sykes) and his sister Hattie
(the simply marvelous Hattie Jaques) have been providing loyal service to
the BBC for 20 years. Roger (Henry McGee) arranges for a meeting with the
DG (Hugh Burden) in order for the DG to present the Gold Carriage clock
that the Light Entertainment Department have bought for the couple. The DG
is hopeless, he doesn't know who Eric is and gets him confused with Eric
Morcambe at one point (and to Hattie "..you must be the one with the
short fat hairy legs"). The whole episode revolves around the
apparent idiosyncrasy of the DG, with our Henry putting the DG right.
The show is an excuse to put some old clips
together from old Eric Sykes shows (dating back to 1960 and his first
series for the BBC). Clips from the shows with Ronnie Barker and Peter
Sellers are shown, as well as the classic moments where Eric gets his toe
stuck in the bath tap and the wonderful scene with Hattie Jacques as a Bus
Conductor doing the "Air Hostess Introduction" to the passengers
on the London Master.
As the show comes to a close. Roger (Henry)
asks the DG if he will perform the task of presenting the clock to Eric
and Hattie. Confusion gets in there somewhere and the DG thinks the clock
is meant for him. He accepts the clock and the trio (Eric, Hattie and
Henry) retreat .
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