Downes Johnny (2 results)

Postkarte. Condition: Gut. Schwarzweiss-Postkarte von Johnny Downes bildseitig mit schwarzer Tinte signiert mit eigenhändigem Zusatz "To Ken Best Wishes" /// Autogramm Autograph signiert signed signee /// /// Standort Wimregal PKis-Box111-U006 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 10.

21 mimeographed pp., secured with staple to top left (last 2 pp. detached but present). Pencilled and inked running times throughout. Age-toned, a little dusty, otherwise very good. First edition. SERIES SIX, EPISODE NINE. NO RECORDING OF THIS EPISODE EXISTS. The first episode of Crackerjack was transmitted on 30 August 1955; it finally died twenty-nine years later. Hosted for the first ten years by Eamonn Andrews, and subsequently by Michael Aspel, the show was famous for its pencils, its game of Double or Drop (where schoolchildren would answer questions while being loaded up with either prizes or cabbages), and its agonisingly bad parodies of current pop songs. Bestriding the show from the September 1960 episode of this series were Leslie Crowther -- and Peter Glaze, who somehow managed to make a career out of turning to camera and attempting to blow his own eyebrows off. I was six when I first saw him do this, and even then I could see it wasn't funny. From this inauspicious start, Peter Glaze went on to fail to make me laugh for the rest of my childhood. I never ran in to him in later life, which was a pity. I would love to have punched him. This episode, the ninth of Series Six, was transmitted on 19 January 1961. No recording of any pre-1970s episode of Crackerjack is known to exist.