I hope I have got the sequnce of these posts right and have managed to cut out the bits that are unrequired!!!
In Digest No 76....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] whose name I think is Jimmy.... Wrote a reply to colin who had got in first with my thoughts of "who the hell is Jim Nabors...... "[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I gathered Jimmmy's post was ajoke but have no idea who Jim Nabors is." AND JIMMY REPLIED... (with edits applied..) "Colin, you don't know who Jim Nabors is?????? I'm sure you do, even if you watched tv as a child, I'm sure you saw some of the US shows. If you still don't know who he is, I'm going to fly over to the UK and flog you :~) Jimmy" YOu have to realise that in the UK, Telly (and for that read BBC followed by the third programme (ITV) was not buying in to American T.V shows a lot in the 50's and 60's except for things like "Mr Ed", "Bewitched" and "I love Lucy" (of course you do.....) Oh and racy childrens stories like.."Champion the Wonderhorse" and the "Lone Ranger". I used to go next door to watch these shows... ALSO we did get a huge mumber of american WEsterns.... Laramie, Wagon Train etc., Mostly us Brits were brought up on a diet of "terribleh clipt" voices saying things like "Oh I say, shall we take our gins on the terrace darling" and the reply would be something like "Oh topping idea".... I don't know when Coronation Street started but it was one of the first "SOAPS" and it is still going!!! (bless!) I am sorry Jimmy but Jim nabors didn't make it to mainstream English telly... remember we only had three channels until 20 years ago (unless you had a sattelite dish and gained the attention of MI5 for possibly being a spy!) We did not have television in our house until 1969 and only got it so that we could watch the moon landings...sorry I mean the "live from our studio in down town Burbank we bring you BUZZZZZZZ..... and his friends pretending to be on the moon....." I think they went but a lot of the photos are studio shots!!! I digress.... I don't think that US telly bought many Brit shows either at this time, so you won't have had such classics as "the Brothers" A ripping tale of banking baddies and boardroom bedlam...with the odd sneaky snog for excitement...... at the time it was being broadcast... So don't feel you have to rush over here and flog Colin whose dogs are covered in snow at the moment...Porr man has enough to cope with... Somehow, I feel we may have NOT lost out by not knowing Jim Nabors..... GOMER PYLE..... what a name!!! It is a cold bright day here in England (Oh shades of Garrison Keillor) dogs to walk and bacon sandwich is calling!!! Lucy
