National Treasures
Posted by David Wright on 10 April 2008 - 11:07am.
I was listening to the latest Word podcast last night and have to agree that Bernard Cribbins return to TV on Dr Who is something that should be celebrated.It made me think of another national treasure- Clive Dunn. "Grandad we love you".
He never seems to have aged and was naturally old as "Grandad" when I was a nipper.He may well be immortal. It would be nice to see him making a similar return to TV in a suitable programme (if he is able). These old dogs are always the best. Who else has been away from our screens for too long and are due a second coming? Imagine Ronnie Corbett as the next Dr Who!
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Clive Dunn!
His tiresome "Don't panic" routine marred Dad's Army for me. And before anyone points it out, I know he was following the script, but I'm sure it could have been done much, much better. Wherever you are Clive, stay there.
Poor Clive
I'm sure he's still driving a bread van somewhere!
Or alternatively
A butchers van......!
René François Artois
Gordon Kaye should be on our screens again.
How about having him whisked back through time as a result of a nasty corkscrew incident, to a bar in France in the 1940s?
We could call it "Scary Monsters".
Ronnie Corbett as Dr Who?
'So I said to Davros' (poshes glasses back on nose)
Cribbo
Relistening to the 'cast this morning I remembered Cribbo had a great part in Corrie - he played Blanche's "rich" boyfriend, then got to shag a money struck Tracy Barlow, before she realised he was actually a gardner! Who said great plots are dead.
Cribbo Redux
And he produced a fine 'something in my eye' turn in the Railway Chil;dren. Even a titanium tough battle-hardened punk-rock warlock like me had to blow his nose once or twice.
Wasnt Cribbins in the original Dr Who film, starring the redoubtable Peter Cushing too? Not forgetting Right said Fred.....
Cribbers played the "Ian" character,
who was one of the Doctor's daughter's teachers in the original TV series, though Cribbin's version of the character was not particularly over-endowed with grey cells, I recall.
He couldn't resist hamming some laughs out of the "Roboman" sequences, when, in order to pass scrutiny from the evil Daleks, he was disguising himself as a hapless, lobotomised, semi-human. Something which would have been more easily achieved, decades later, simply by muttering, "and after all, you're my Wonderwall" to himself under his breath.