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3-2-1
''3–2–1'' was a British game show that was made by Yorkshire Television for ITV. It ran for ten years, from 29 July 1978 to 24 December 1988, with Ted Rogers as the host. It was based on a Spanish gameshow called '' Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez'' and was a trio of three shows in one: a quiz, variety and a game show. The show was a huge success, consistently pulling in large ratings. The first series, though intended as a summer filler, attracted up to 16.5 million viewers and subsequent years never peaked below 12 million. The show occupied a Saturday early evening slot for most of its run. The final Christmas special, broadcast on 24 December 1988, attracted 12.5 million viewers, but an eleventh series was not commissioned. Ted Rogers claimed in an April 1996 interview that "The Oxbridge lot got control of TV and they didn't really want it. It was too downmarket for them. We were still getting 12 million viewers when they took it off after ten years. These days if ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ted Rogers (comedian)
Edward George Rogers (20 July 1935 – 2 May 2001) was an English comedian and light entertainment host who started his career as a Redcoat entertainer. He was best known for hosting the Yorkshire Television game show ''3-2-1'' from 1978 to 1988. Early life and career Rogers was born in Kennington, South London, the son of Edward Rodgers, a soap machine operator, and Lily May Rodgers née Cobb, an office cleaner. He went to school in Lambeth. His idol as a youngster was Danny Kaye, and Rogers won a holiday camp talent contest impersonating Kaye as a youngster, but he would later put all showbusiness offers on hold whilst he did his national service in the Royal Air Force. In the early 1960s, Rogers appeared as a stand up comedian on the radio programme '' Billy Cotton Band Show'', alongside singers such as Tom Jones, Cliff Richard and Alma Cogan and comedians Terry Scott and Hugh Lloyd. He went on to host ''Sunday Night at the London Palladium'' in 1974. Rogers also appeared o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dougie Squires
Douglas William Squires (born 1932) is an English choreographer, known best for his work in television from the mid-1950s. He was born in Nottingham. Choreography The groups he has choreographed for television include: *The Young Generation *The Dougie Squires Dancers *Dougie Squires' Second Generation *The Dougie Squires Dozen As well as TV work he has been involved with theatrical productions and fund-raising events. In 2009 he was awarded the Order of the British Empire for his services to the Performing Arts and was appointed Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to choreography and stage direction of royal pageants. The Young Generation The Young Generation were a dancing and singing group created specifically for BBC television in the late 1960s and thus were the first act of their kind to regularly appear on British TV. The troupe were choreographed originally by Dougie Squires who chose the founding members of the troupe. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie St John
Annie St John (born Ann Florence Heywood; 8 September 1954 – 10 December 1990) was a British television broadcaster. Originally from Blackpool, Lancashire, she attended Blackpool Aspire Academy, Blackpool Collegiate Grammar School for Girls and the Rose Bruford College, Rose Bruford Drama School. She worked as a mahout at the Blackpool Tower Circus and in repertory theatre in Bolton, Salisbury and the Young Vic in London. St John first made her name on television in 1978 as a hostess on the first two series of the networked Yorkshire Television, YTV game show ''3-2-1'', before joining HTV West in 1981 as a continuity announcer and newsreader. Her popularity in the Westcountry was as such that viewers launched a ''Save Our Annie'' campaign when she left the station in 1983 to join Tyne Tees Television in Newcastle. During her time at Tyne Tees, St John continued to freelance for HTV West and also for London Weekend Television. She returned to HTV permanently in 1987. As well as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Roper
George Roper (15 May 1934 – 1 July 2003) was an English comedian, best known for his appearances in the long-running UK television series '' The Comedians''. Early history He was born George Francis Furnival in Liverpool to a working-class family of Irish descent, to parents who were staunchly Roman Catholic. In conversation with the writer Ken Irwin in 1972, he remarked that "the rough and ready upbringing of Catholics in Liverpool brings out the humour in a family": He's another comic who has known poverty. There were five children in the Roper family, three girls and two boys. Dad saw a lot of life – he was a window cleaner. 'Times were hard when I started at school, in the early war years,' says George. 'We never went without, but a jam butty was often a meal'. Two of Roper's great-uncles were popular stars of the British Music Hall: Johnnie Cullen of the comedy team Cullen and Carthy, and George Sanford of the dance act Sanford and Lyons. He was also a cousin to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ITV Yorkshire
ITV Yorkshire, previously known as Yorkshire Television and commonly referred to as just YTV, is the British television service provided by ITV Broadcasting Limited for the Yorkshire franchise area on the ITV network. Until 1974, this was primarily the historic county of Yorkshire and parts of neighbouring counties served by the Emley Moor transmitter. Following a reorganisation in 1974 the transmission area was extended to include Lincolnshire, northwestern Norfolk and parts of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, served by the Belmont transmitter. Two consortia applied for the franchise, ''Telefusion Yorkshire Ltd'' and ''Yorkshire Independent Television'', the former having large financial backing (supported by the Blackpool-based ''Telefusion'' television rental chain) and the latter having the better plans but fewer resources. On 1 January 2007, the company transferred its programme production business to ITV Studios Limited. As a consequence, Yorkshire Television Limited ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Cossey
Caroline Cossey (born 31 August 1954) is a British model and actress who often worked under the name Tula, which she also used for two memoirs. She appeared in the 1981 James Bond film '' For Your Eyes Only.'' Following her appearance in the film, she was outed as transgender by British tabloid ''News of the World''. In 1991, she became the first trans woman to pose for ''Playboy''. Cossey has since then fought for her right to legally marry and be legally recognised as a woman. Early life and transition Cossey was born in Brooke, Norfolk. Through puberty, Cossey was distinctly feminine in appearance due to XXXY syndrome. In Cossey's autobiography ''My Story'', she describes an unhappy childhood, where she suffered confusing feelings and bullying by peers due to her femininity. Growing up, Cossey's closest companion was her sister, Pam, with whom she played dress-up in their mother's clothes. Cossey left formal schooling when she was fifteen and found work in a clothing stor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Munro
Caroline Munro (born 16 January 1949)McFarlane, Brian (28 February 2014). ''The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fourth edition''. Oxford University Press. p. 538; is an English actress, model and singer known for her many appearances in horror, science fiction and action films of the 1970s and 1980s. In 2019, she was inducted into the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards' Monster Kid Hall of Fame. Biography Born in Windsor, Berkshire, Munro was the youngest child of a lawyer and a housewife. As a young child, Munro and her family moved to Rottingdean, near Brighton where she attended a convent school. Career Munro's career commenced in 1966 when her mother and a photographer friend entered some headshots of her in '' The Evening News''s "Face of the Year" contest: This led to modelling work for ''Vogue'' magazine at the age of 17. She moved to London to pursue modelling work and became a cover girl for fashion and TV advertisements while there. She had bit parts in films such a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Un, Dos, Tres
''Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez'' (), usually shortened as ''Un, dos, tres...'', and named ''Un, dos, tres... a leer esta vez'' () in its last season, was a Spanish prime-time television game show, created by Narciso Ibáñez Serrador, which was broadcast on La Primera Cadena of Televisión Española for ten seasons from 1972 to 2004. It became the most famous game show in the history of television in Spain and it was the first television show format exported outside Spain, with versions aired in the United Kingdom, Portugal, the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium. Structure Narciso (alias Chicho) Ibáñez Serrador created the show as a mixture of different traditional game show formats. It included a quiz show as the first round (called the question round), a physical competition as the second round (called the elimination round), and a luck and psychological game as the third round (called the auction). The show derives its name from these three parts (un, dos, tres means ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Emmett
Christopher Roderick Emmett (born 13 December 1938 in Nuneaton, Warwickshire) is a British actor and comedian best known for his work in the late 1970s on the BBC Radio 4 comedies ''The Burkiss Way'' and '' Alison and Maud''. He was a regular on various series starring Roy Hudd, including ''The News Huddlines'', ''The Newly Discovered Casebook of Sherlock Holmes'', ''Huddwinks'' and ''Crowned Hudds''. He was also a regular on ''Week Ending'' and appeared in a number of sketches in the television game show ''3-2-1''. In August 2003, he featured in the ''Talking to One Person'' episode of BBC Radio 4 comedy '' Smelling of Roses'', playing the old disc jockey Kenny Truman as he tried to get a job on radio station Gleam FM. He is a member of the showbusiness charitable fraternity the Grand Order of Water Rats The Grand Order of Water Rats is a British entertainment industry fraternity and charitable organisation based in London. Founded in 1889 by the music hall comedians Joe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duggie Brown
Duggie Brown (born Barry Douglas Dudley; 7 August 1940 – 16 August 2022) was an English comedian and actor. He was the younger brother of actress and singer Lynne Perrie. Stage work During the early 1960s, Brown was a guitarist/vocalist in a four-piece group called the "Kool Katz." Brown was a cabaret artist who also appeared on Granada Television's popular series '' The Comedians''. In 2012, ''The Comedians'' celebrated forty years with the release of a DVD, ''The Original Comedians LIVE – 40th Anniversary Show'', recorded live during a summer gig in 2011 held at the Blackpool Grand theatre. The DVD featured new performances from Brown, along with Stan Boardman, Roy Walker and Mick Miller. Brown performed his comedy on various other entertainment shows, including '' The Good Old Days'', where he made appearances between 1971 and 1980. Brown acted on stage in several productions. In 1999, he played "The Fool" in Shakespeare's ''King Lear'' for the Northern Broadsid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Debbie Arnold
Debbie Arnold (born 14 June 1955) is an English actress, producer and voice artist. She is known for her portrayal of April Branning in BBC soap opera ''EastEnders'' between 1995 and 1996. Arnold has portrayed regular characters in ''EastEnders'', ''Coronation Street'', ''Emmerdale'', ''Hollyoaks'' and ''Doctors''. Career Television She began her career on television, in series such as the BBC comedy ''The Liver Birds''. When she was 18 years old, she was given a job impersonating Marilyn Monroe on ''Now Who Do You Do?''.Debbie Arnold Bio ", ''Debbiearnold.com''. URL. Retrieved 25 January 2007. She then pursued voice roles, specialising in British and American s. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Dodd
Sir Kenneth Arthur Dodd (8 November 1927 – 11 March 2018) was an English comedian, singer and occasional actor. He was described as "the last great music hall entertainer", and was primarily known for his live stand-up performances. A lifelong resident of Knotty Ash in Liverpool, Dodd's career as an entertainer started in the mid-1950s. His performances included rapid and incessant delivery of often surreal jokes, and would run for several hours, frequently past midnight. His verbal and physical comedy was supplemented by his red, white and blue "tickling stick" prop, and often introduced by his characteristic upbeat greeting of "How tickled I am!" He interspersed the comedy with songs, both serious and humorous, and with his original speciality, ventriloquism. He also had several hit singles primarily as a ballad singer in the 1960s, and occasionally appeared in dramatic roles. He performed on radio and television, and popularised the characters of the Diddy Men. He wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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