Tonight at 9 - BBC4 - with Trevor Eve; looks good.

Trevor Eve was fantastic - the script was excellent, giving Hughie a lot of credit for terrific TV in the 50's and 60's - the only problem was Mark Benton, who I simply cannot stand as an actor (he always plays that awful man in the bank ads) as Jess Yates.

The curse of comedy season has been excellent. The Steptoe one stands out for me. Couldn't really get along with Ken Stott as Hancock.

Loved it, but as you say Mr Benton was a moment in himself on his arrival as Jess Yates.
Pure tea spitting again, just an insult I`m afraid.

Trevor Eve was great at some points and weaker at others, the script seemed to flow along as he adapted to the character.

Also, props, props, props dept!

For heavens sake, Mr Green would not have been using that particular inhaler at certain dates as it was not invented yet, this would have been relevent had they not featured it so much.
If these programmes are going to be continualy made and left as historical facts about crucial times on peoples lives, all the facts need to be right.

Yes and I have to say Jess Yates "wig" was the worst makeup I have ever seen in my life!

Forgot to record it, but no doubt it will be on again soon. Saw a clip of it on Jon Ross show and it looked good, although, seeing all the other clips they showed of Trevor Eve as Shoestring and Waking the Dead etc. does he do anything other than 'really angry'???

JK2006 wrote:
Yes and I have to say Jess Yates "wig" was the worst makeup I have ever seen in my life!

Worse even than a certain rainbow coloured one??

Oh yes indeed - he's hardly ever "really angry" in Hughie Green - a very, very good performance.

And Westi... tut tut - you would not believe how many people, at the time, thought it was my real hair!

JK2006 wrote:
And Westi... tut tut - you would not believe how many people, at the time, thought it was my real hair!

HeHe, will it ever see the light of day again or is it locked away forever?

JK2006 wrote:
you would not believe how many people, at the time, thought it was my real hair!

I liked it better when you blacked up and called yourself "Disco Tex"

HisWestiness wrote:
JK2006 wrote:
Yes and I have to say Jess Yates "wig" was the worst makeup I have ever seen in my life!

Worse even than a certain rainbow coloured one??


THAT wig should be preserved in a museum alongside the receipt (which JK said a while ago he found and used as evidence of his innocence in his trial) with a caption card stating "This wig helped sell a million!" and alongside it a videoscreen showing the TOTP performance and the moment he took it off on Noel Edmond's show... if that clip still exists!

Excellent programme, balanced the good and bad that existed in Hughie and well portrayed.
Mark Benson was wearing a swimming cap with public hair around the outside by the looks of it! Really awful prop!!

Marcus wrote:
Mark Benson was wearing a swimming cap with public hair around the outside by the looks of it!

Public hair? Not come across that before !