Chanteyranger: Thanks for reminding me of Dickens & Fenster - they were hilarious ! They were still on TV ca. 1965 when I started learning German - picturing *Fenster* breaking a *window* (which he often did in the series) was my way of remembering the German word.

Walrus: We must be of exactly the same vintage ! Hope you've looked up Lockhart, your Demon Headmaster now. Also on that whirligig website, you will see photos of Fred Barker, Ollie Beak and Willum -with Muriel Young and the wonderful Wally Whyton. "There's a party here today, there's a party here today, I can tell it by your smiling face, there's a party here today." "ABCDE, goodbye from Willum and me; FGHIJ, we'll see you another day; KLMNO, it's time for us to go; PQRST, and the cat went fiddle-ay-dee..." Remember ? Do you think that seeing Wally Whyton and Bert Weedon (who was also on those programmes) inspired us all, from a tender age, to be the brilliant guitarists we are today ??? When I was 5, I was certainly madly in love with Mr. Whyton. Then I saw my hero a long time later at a recording for a BBC radio programme, where they had a studio audience - would it have been "Country Meets Folk" ? I know this is a TV thread, but people of the same era will remember the radio show "I-S-I-R-T-A : I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again" (Angus Prune and co.) - saw that recorded a few times in the same place, on the Embankment. Then there was "The Pop-Inn" which went out live from the Paris Studios - saw quite a few 60's chart-toppers there (Tom Jones, Wayne Fontana & the Mindbenders, Gene Pitney... loads more.) Best of all, you just had to write off to the BBC for tickets, and it was free !

Before I'm told off - sorry, the last two were radio shows, but they just crept into my stream of consciousness ....

- Jeanie