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Tommy Cooper's jokes in his last perfomance

(July 2020)

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steve brown
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JamesWorldNews posted:
ITN News is listed at 17:20 and 20:45.

But, yes, there was a 5 minute bulletin during Weekend World.


Yes,just after the start,we had a short minute or so bulletin
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Si-Co
JonF posted:
On the Monday evening at 7pm, Thames had just resurrected What's My Line? At the end of the live broadcast I remember as Eamonn Andrews said goodnight, he finished off by saying, "Sleep well Tommy". That really moved me - little knowing that Eric Morecambe, who was on the panel, would also be gone within six weeks.


What’s My Line? went out live? Or have I misunderstood you?
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james-2001
another_beauty posted:
I remember one of the towers collapsing live on ITV. There was a guy on the phone and commented as it collapsed. It was in my mind as I had just come home from school and switched on the TV. This would have been about 3:20pm UK time, but I could never work out if the timings matched up or it was a false memory!


I don't know about ITV, but a few years back Sky News had their footage of the day on their website, and they had someone on the phone when it collapsed.
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JonF
Yes, what's my line went out live - apparently not every week though. As it ended Patrick Mower often could be seen getting up and walking off as he was due on stage later in the evening.
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Soupnzi
james-2001 posted:
another_beauty posted:
I remember one of the towers collapsing live on ITV. There was a guy on the phone and commented as it collapsed. It was in my mind as I had just come home from school and switched on the TV. This would have been about 3:20pm UK time, but I could never work out if the timings matched up or it was a false memory!


I don't know about ITV, but a few years back Sky News had their footage of the day on their website, and they had someone on the phone when it collapsed.


The BBC reporter Stephen Evans was notably on the phone from the ground floor of the south tower when the planes hit. ISTR his phone went dead at one point and viewers may have assumed the worst, but thankfully he was OK https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-14828668
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VMPhil
JonF posted:
Yes, what's my line went out live - apparently not every week though. As it ended Patrick Mower often could be seen getting up and walking off as he was due on stage later in the evening.

There was a Creamguide feature about What’s My Line recently that said the 1984 series was live simply because Eamonn Andrews wanted it to be, like it was in the fifties.
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Michael
Larry the Loafer posted:
I had memories of them showing the first plane hit when the news was breaking, and my young self being amazed that they let the word "s**t" go out uncensored. Of course, now I know that it was an impossibility, because that clip wasn't released until later on.


Indeed. The impact of the North Tower was only* filmed by the French Documentary crew and wasn't released until days later. It is often cited by conspiracy theorists as I believe George W Bush misremembered seeing it happen live and as such these numbskulls think that the new world order had a live feed set up at the school for the President to see it happen before he went on to read My Pet Goat.

*I think there is one more bit of grainy CCTV footage out there somewhere
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Ne1L C
BillyH posted:
Challenger blowing up “live on air” on Newsround is another one falsely remembered, as is the second plane hitting the World Trade Center on BBC1 - both had happened shortly before and were shown when the programme started.



I remember watching "splash" on ITV when they handed over to ITN. Was that the first the news broke on UK News or did the BBC get there first?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09CFfnkjGhM
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Matt7924
Inspector Sands posted:
As I said a few pages ago about false memories, everyone has a slightly different memory about events that evening. We'll probably never know for sure what news did what and when, the only thing that would be definitive is a copy of the bulletin.

All that is definite is that the news did follow the show: https://tvrdb.com/listings/1984-04-15 and one not long after on BBC1: https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbcone/london/1984-04-15

Odd to see that that was the only ITN bulletin that day (or was there one in Weekend World)


Steven O posted:

Incidentally, when the news broke six weeks later of Eric Morecambe's death in almost identical circumstances (though, thankfully, not on live television, I remember thinking "not another one - we've not long lost Tommy Cooper."

Similar. He had a heart attack after coming off stage and died hours later in hospital. His third heart attack.

It happened twice to Dustin Gee, who was also on that episode of Live from Her Majesties. He fell ill on stage a year later with a minor heart attack. He then had another one while performing panto at the beginning of 1996 and passed away in hospital a few days later


Tommy's death always reminds me of a line from an early episode of Knowing Me Knowing You when Alan Partridge is trying to explain Tommy Cooper to a guest who's an American comedian:

'you know. Tommy Cooper, he died at e Palladium'

'Alan, we've all died at The Palladium!'


It was tragic with Dustin Gee as he had a heart condition and he was only in his early 40s. Tommy Cooper drank and smoked heavily all his life and he didn't really change his lifestyle after his first heart attack
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Philheybrookbay
Of course back in the day all we had was "Newsflash" either from BBC or ITV. The one newsflash which I always remember clearly was from March 1987 at the end of Blankety Blank on a cold wet Friday night saying the ferry Herald of Free Enterprise had capsized off Zeebruge.

Then sadly the next big one was Lockerbie....
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robertclark125
Ne1L C posted:
BillyH posted:
Challenger blowing up “live on air” on Newsround is another one falsely remembered, as is the second plane hitting the World Trade Center on BBC1 - both had happened shortly before and were shown when the programme started.



I remember watching "splash" on ITV when they handed over to ITN. Was that the first the news broke on UK News or did the BBC get there first?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09CFfnkjGhM


I was watching splash, and remember the presenter saying "and now we have to go over to itn for a newsflash".

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