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Tripper's Day (Leonard Rossiter) and Slinger's Day (Bruce Forsyth)

Started by gepree, April 13, 2009, 05:32:50 PM

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gepree

Anyone know if Tripper's Day and Slinger's Day (the 80s ITV sitcoms starring Leonard Rossiter and Bruce Forsyth respectively) will be released on DVD at some point?

Although TD sounds like it may not exactly be Rossiter's best performance I think it would still be interesting to watch anyway.

And as for SD I just want to know if Brucie is really as bad as Richie Rich's comment on Filthy Rich and Catflap:
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A performance to rate alongside Olivier's Hamlet, Gielgud's Othello and Bruce Forsythe's brilliantly observed supermarket manager.
Edit: The Filthy Rich and Catflap scene starts at 05:20 here

Tokyo Sexwhale

From memory, Forsyth was rather entertaining (although he seemed to be playing Bruce Forsyth rather than a supermarket manager) he broke the fourth wall rather a lot.

Have you checked alternative sources?

biggytitbo

I enjoyed it when I was 8. But then I also used to like Duty Free.

Lfbarfe

From memory, it was the finest moment of nobody involved, but I'd love to see at least one episode again, preferably the lone Marshall/Renwick effort in Slinger's Day.

biggytitbo

Quote from: Lfbarfe on April 13, 2009, 06:41:43 PM
From memory, it was the finest moment of nobody involved, but I'd love to see at least one episode again, preferably the lone Marshall/Renwick effort in Slinger's Day.

They did an episode of Slinger's day? That sounds like an absolute must see!

Tokyo Sexwhale


Tokyo Sexwhale

Apparently you could say "Evil Bastard" on prime time ITV in the 80s!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFMJJGCXDD0&eur

(about 2:56 in - it's that Irish bloke from Fawlty Towers).

SavageHedgehog

Quote from: Tokyo Sexwhale on April 13, 2009, 06:51:00 PM
Is there nothing that can't be found on youtube?

(Other than porn)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGXI8WRjzSs

This is a hell of a find! (Well, I suspect you just typed "Slinger's Day" into YouTube so I guess it's not a hell of a find in terms of effort but it's still much appreciated) Dig that Filmation cartoon-style music in the opening titles! Thank you very much!

EDIT: Ooh, the Rossiter one has the same music!

biggytitbo

Quote from: Tokyo Sexwhale on April 13, 2009, 06:51:00 PM
Is there nothing that can't be found on youtube?

(Other than porn)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGXI8WRjzSs

Wow what a find! Nice to see the embryonic Forsyth wig.

Also, is that quite an unpleasant racist gag I spot in there?

Lfbarfe

Quote from: biggytitbo on April 13, 2009, 07:48:19 PM
Wow what a find! Nice to see the embryonic Forsyth wig.

Embryonic? That was at least version 2.3.

QuoteAlso, is that quite an unpleasant racist gag I spot in there?

"...father. Er, father figure"? Quite bold for 1986, I thought.

Tokyo Sexwhale

Shameless steal of the "Biggus Dickus" bit from Life of Brian.

Although the name "Cecil Slinger" isn't intrinsically amusing.

biggytitbo

Quote from: Lfbarfe on April 13, 2009, 08:05:24 PM
Embryonic? That was at least version 2.3.
I'm fascinated by his wig. This programme is 1986. He was still persevering with the combover during the Generation Game which finished in 1977. He's really clinging on to the last strands by the time Big Night is broadcast in 1978- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6ZLXGrNooQ

So there's a 8 year period in which he must have adopted the wig. What was he doing 78-86? Did he gradually phase in the wig or did he adopt it overnight and hope nobody would notice? Did he disappear from public life for several years in the hope that people would forget he was bald before?

Quote from: Lfbarfe on April 13, 2009, 08:05:24 PM"...father. Er, father figure"? Quite bold for 1986, I thought.

Yes, fairly late for unironic comedy racism

biggytitbo

Play your cards right from 1980 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aZ69V1Db28

Still no wig. I'm narrowing this down now, I hope to get the debut of the wig down to the exact month.

Lfbarfe

No wig in the Sammy and Bruce special, recorded September 1980. I'd hazard a guess at 1981.

biggytitbo

Quote from: Lfbarfe on April 13, 2009, 09:48:17 PM
No wig in the Sammy and Bruce special, recorded September 1980. I'd hazard a guess at 1981.

According to Wikipedia, Brucie did a failed gameshow called Hollywood or bust in 1984 so I think he may well have introduced the wig with that. Or he slipped the wig in between series of Play Your Cards right perhaps 83, 84 time.

Ballad of Ballard Berkley

And you could still get a (small) laugh from a Harry Worth reference in the mid-1980s. Ah, were we e'er so young/unborn?


Bean Is A Carrot

Am I alone in remembering Forsyth's appearance on Aspel & Co during the Slinger's Day period? He did this act where he tap danced and held the mic near his feet so it could pick up his tapping. The old showbiz pro. Why that's imprinted on my memory I don't know. As you were.

SavageHedgehog

Tripper's Day was released on DVD in the UK to absolutely no fanfare a couple of months ago. It has this not very impressive cover:

Did we settle whether or not this really was that bad up there?

neveragain

Looks like the Slinger's Day clips have vanished as quickly as they materialised.

I know those posts were eighteen months ago, but Brucie started wearing the wig in 1982. I've got a TV Times from that year where he's on the cover with the headline "BRUCE FORSYTH ASKS WHAT'S THE BIG DEAL WITH MY NEW HAIR", and he talks about how he'd had a weave because Fred Astaire had one and if it was good enough for Fred, it was good enough for him, and that he was delighted with it and was now spending more time on stage with his back to the audience so they could marvel at it. So he was upfront about it.

Brundle-Fly

Quote from: Steve Williams on November 28, 2010, 03:19:04 PM
I know those posts were eighteen months ago, but Brucie started wearing the wig in 1982. I've got a TV Times from that year where he's on the cover with the headline "BRUCE FORSYTH ASKS WHAT'S THE BIG DEAL WITH MY NEW HAIR", and he talks about how he'd had a weave because Fred Astaire had one and if it was good enough for Fred, it was good enough for him, and that he was delighted with it and was now spending more time on stage with his back to the audience so they could marvel at it. So he was upfront about it.

I remember him debuting the new hairpiece on Play Your Cards Right. I think at the top of the show he just looked indignantly into camera and said, "Yeah, alright."

millwall32

Quote from: biggytitbo on April 13, 2009, 08:52:33 PMPlay your cards right from 1980 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aZ69V1Db28

Still no wig. I'm narrowing this down now, I hope to get the debut of the wig down to the exact month.
See, I think you're wrong. That 1980 Bruce hair looks like a wig to me.


Gurke and Hare

To be fair, it was only a bit over three months since the last post.

TheMonk

Quote from: Brundle-Fly on November 28, 2010, 08:19:51 PMI remember him debuting the new hairpiece on Play Your Cards Right. I think at the top of the show he just looked indignantly into camera and said, "Yeah, alright."
The answer is he launched his new hair in this episode on 12th September 1982. The first two minutes are all about it. You're welcome.
https://youtu.be/XQkBFFD96Lk

Glebe

Watched a tiny bit of Slinger's Day on YT before. Couldn't manage any more - even with Brucie's involvement!


wrec

Tripper's Day is up on Dailymotion by the looks of it. As a Rossiter fan would I find it mildly amusing / historically interesting or merely depressing?

Armed Traffic Warden

Honestly, only watch 1 episode. It's pretty damn poor. Worth having the one episode in the bank though for when someone asks you about it.

I bought the dvd. I don't think I'll ever watch it again. I remember thinking 'oh, his receptionist was in an episode or two of the comic strip' and 'what a waste of Rossiter'. Oh and a character supports Spurs. That's the highlights.

  On the back of that I didn't waste my money on Brucies version, though I hear it's slightly more fun. Though that sounds like saying like difference between someone sledgehammering ones balls or sledgehammering ones balls whilst whistling Sledgehammer always look on the bright side of life.

shiftwork2

I wonder how the casting of Forsyth came about, and whether he pushed hard for it?  Going from a seasoned comic actor with two classics under his belt to the host of Play Your Cards Right is plain odd.

Gurke and Hare

Quote from: Armed Traffic Warden on August 12, 2022, 01:04:59 AMI bought the dvd. I don't think I'll ever watch it again. I remember thinking 'oh, his receptionist was in an episode or two of the comic strip' and 'what a waste of Rossiter'. Oh and a character supports Spurs. That's the highlights.

You didn't think "Oh, that's Dave Quinnan from The Bill" at one point?