Fortycoats, who then became RTE'S answer to Doctor Who, as they never showed Who, though they did show Blake's 7, Quatermass, Sapphire and Steel, Catweazle, Worzel Gummidge, the Avengers, the Good Old Days, various HTV kids series, various BBC Sunday classics by Barry Letts, Space:1999, most ITC shows...
My first and for many years only panto was a puppets one at the Lambert, hosted by Judge and Eugene, and I have bumped into Pat. It's the equivalent of seeing Johnny Ball selling homemade monograms.
I still see Pat on the streets. It's weird, someone who's books were always in school libraries alongside Johnny Ball, Rolf Harris, et al,and now he's rejected modern society. Surprised none of the Yewtree lot did this earlier.
I find the showband behind the scenes business so much more interesting than the music, same with the Irish country scene and the Northern Soul scene, even to an extent.