Challenge aired the 1991 Bullseye Christmas special last night and chopped out the segment of somebody doing a really rather crap impression of a certain now notorious figure. However they have aired the segment previously on many other occasions (up until last year IIRC) so it appears to be a new edit that's been made.
How many Christmas specials did Bullseye do, or was it one most years where it ran a few months either side of Christmas, which was pretty much the case from series 3 onwards to series 12?
Was the the unfunny one out of the unfunny Grumbleweeds? I recall his SJS impression which starts off ok but then he looses the impression so just does the 'yurrra hurrr' noise a lot and gets out of it that way.
Bullseye had various Christmas standalone specials. A couple even ended up on Christmas Day afternoon, after the post Maj big film.
I remember a trail that Bowen did for the Central region, which finished with the line "after you stuffed yourself with Turkey and Christmas pud - a bit of bully will do you good".
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I dunno who it was. He did "impressions" (very loose definition IMO) of a horse jockey, Christopher Lloyd in BTTF attire, and the aforementioned one. The credits suggest The Grumbleweeds and Bobby Bragg featured.
Talking of edits, the find and keep segment of the 9am FK was cut down after a question about a certain Mr Harris, but they left in Neil saying his name but skipped to the next question. Does anyone know what was cut?
Talking of edits, the find and keep segment of the 9am FK was cut down after a question about a certain Mr Harris, but they left in Neil saying his name but skipped to the next question. Does anyone know what was cut?
One would suspect it was some reference to Animal Hospital, or maybe his ITV cartoon/drawing show which the BBC dropped, and a very similar programme turned up on ITV a short while later.
Finders Keepers would have been airing around the same time frame.
Speaking of that, as well as Rolf harris being there, we saw Neil asking the same question (about the Spanish Armada) twice in a row (and the Yellow team were sure "Noddy" was behind number 4 even though we hadn't seen it before)- which implies they'd cut out 2 questions in between. No correct answers had come up, but possibly one of the incorrect answers that was chosen might have been Jimmy Savile, Gary Glitter or something similar? If it was... seems a bit ridiculous to cut out every reference to these people as if they never existed. Yes, they did horrible things, but they still existed, they were still very popular, and these shows were made before we knew what they did.