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Dan M
11:50 Tue Jun 20
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A brilliant career in children's telly and he still had time to make all those hurdles.
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SurfaceAgentX2Zero
11:16 Tue Jun 20
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Ian Blackwell will be distraught. HMHB launched an entire career on the back of Trumpton.
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Sarge
8:22 Tue Jun 20
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Loved the trumpton trilogy.
Chigley was my favourite.
Time flies by when I'm a driver on a train.
RIP
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HairyHammer
11:19 Mon Jun 19
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Johnson
What was that joke that Bernard Manning used to tell about a dog being born in a stable ?.
I accept what I am but I am 100% British.
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chim chim cha boo
11:15 Mon Jun 19
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Bungo I saw Playaway live too! First thing the school ever took me to.
I was going to the Roundhouse to watch The Wedding Present last Saturday and my pal asked me the first gig I'd seen there. 'Playaway live' I proudly said. The original line-up of Cant, Benjamin, Griffiths, little Ted, Big Ted before he tragically went at the age all the best rock-stars go-27, Gemima, Humpty- fucking classic and probably changed my life'.
Brian Cant has given me a phrase that has always been there when I am troubled. 'When you think 'I can't', remember Brian Cant could and then remember that there's no such word as 'can't'
Wise, wise words. They fail miserably under any kind of scrutiny whatsoever but wise, wise words.
Rest in peace you massive Cant.
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happygilmore
11:11 Mon Jun 19
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Can't live forever.
RIP
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SurfaceAgentX2Zero
10:49 Mon Jun 19
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Brian Cant always seemed like your best mate's slightly cool dad. Not like your own pervy uncle, which most of the others did, even at the time.
RIP Sir, and thanks for the 'what do you call a camel with three humps joke', which I still use.
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zebthecat
10:48 Mon Jun 19
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Nurse Ratched 9:42 Mon Jun 19
Ha Ha!
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Johnson
10:22 Mon Jun 19
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How is Brian Cant the childhood hero of a 50 odd year old Turkish man, Zoltan?
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HairyHammer
10:12 Mon Jun 19
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R.I.P MY CHILDHOOD LEGEND, NO ONE ON TV WAS BIGGER NO ONE WAS BETTER.
BRIAN CANT DESERVES THE CAPS.
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Nurse Ratched
10:06 Mon Jun 19
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Sorry to keep returning to the topic of Pipkins, but to this day I still have more questions than answers. And a fair few nightmares.
All of the Pipkins puppets looked proper gammy and threadbare pretty much from the very first episodes. Why should this be? Who would set out to make worn-looking and manky puppets for a children's TV show?? Leading theory: the producers were hiring out the puppets for frottage parties for Furries.
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Bungo
9:55 Mon Jun 19
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Remember seeing Play Away live when I was very young with him and Toni Arthur.
I remember realising that she was sexy even before I understood why. Judging by the wolf whistles from the rest of the (very young) audience I wasn't alone.
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Nurse Ratched
9:42 Mon Jun 19
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Dread to think what he did with the ping pong ball seagull. :-(
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Takashi Miike
9:21 Mon Jun 19
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that's a shame, he was a great presenter. also loved watching Derek Griffiths
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zebthecat
9:21 Mon Jun 19
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I'd forgotten about him Nurse - what were they trying to do to us!
Heard on a radio show that the guy who played Yofi (who was a serious country musician) hated doing Fingerbobs and cut fingermouse up with scissors as soon as he had filmed his last scene.
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yngwies Cat
9:16 Mon Jun 19
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Derek is great and so was Floella Bejiman.
I've only just realised Brian did the voice for Tumpton
https://youtu.be/s6YE4PCRNwc
Msn, this last years been shit. Who's next? Keith Chegwin.
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Northern Sold
9:09 Mon Jun 19
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What about Yofti and his fingerbobs?
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bish bash bosh
9:02 Mon Jun 19
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bloody hell can this year get any worse...also least Derek Griffiths is still alive...he made me laugh doing those impersonations when I was a kid
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MikeHammer
9:02 Mon Jun 19
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Lovely man part of my childhood ... and we can still mention him ! ... married to Fern Britton's sister. RIP Brian and sleep well ...
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Nurse Ratched
8:55 Mon Jun 19
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Hamvle had a chilling effect on my childhood viewing.
Much like Hartley Hare. The depressed, flyblown Larry Grayson of puppets.
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