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Grasshopper Island

Grasshopper Island – 1971

This adventure series for ITV was filmed in two locations, one on the Island of Corsica nd the other in Wales. The cast included the Carry On star Charles Hawtrey and the future Goodie himself Tim Brook-Taylor. The sshow was based on three small brothers who went to live on the island called Grasshopper.
Frank Muir was already appearing on Call My Bluff on the BBC.

Writer
Joy Whitby novel

Producer

Cast
Tim Brooke-Taylor
Charles Hawtrey
Patricia Hayes – Lupus
Frank Muir
Julian Orchard – Cornelius Button

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70’s Televison

What an amazing piece of kit our telly was. Can you imagine having to change channel by turning a knob to tune in BBC2 and forever getting up to realign the aerial and contrast, and the only way to stop the picture from rolling was to give the set a good thump? Do you remember that we only have three channels to watch? Thinking about it, the conversation was better at school next day as everyone seemed to be watching the same thing unlike nowadays where we have too much choice. Aye, the quality of programmes seem to have dwindled when you think back to what we had in our days.

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