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Those we have loved: the TV crushes of yesteryear
Posted by David Hepworth on 29 July 2009 - 7:06am.
While luxuriating in a viewing of "Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads" recently I was reminded of the fact that I used to (let's not put too fine a point on it) ADORE Sheila Fearn who played Terry's sister Audrey. The lovely Audrey used to make endless cups of tea for her permanently whinging younger brother while speculating what she would do if she had his freedom and wasn't tethered to a family. I can't have been the only young man for whom she was the ideal Older Woman. She appears to have retired from the business but she still holds a special place in this heart. Anyone else care to confess to a TV crush?
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Sally James off of Tiswas
The denim waistcoats, the, er, flans... she made a programme with Chris Tarrant and Lenny Henry in it essential viewing.
Saturday mornings have never really been the same since.
F....
woooar.
She now runs a company making school uniforms...
I make no further comment
I've been away, so all responses are late!
Yes indeed, Saturday mornings!!
My first crush
was Tin Tin from Thunderbirds.
Er, she was a puppet.
Marina from Stingray
...
Barbara Feldon
esp when she fluttered her eyebrows and said "oh Maaax"
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seconded
She was a treat on both "Get Smart" ,and sometimes on "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" right?
..and what a fantastic bob, a real Louise Brooks.
You mean her?
Yup.
Sexiest puppet ever I reckon.
Reminds me of Fenella Fielding in 'Carry On Screaming'.
Cross eyed puppet..
..cow.
Angharad Rees
can't see it in this picture but the red hair used to make Poldark almost bearable.
Poldark
I had a thing about Angharad Rees too - that cornish accent and those tight bodices !!!!
What a fine way to start the day David
Sally Geeson as Sally Abbott in Bless this house used to make me feel "all funny" when I was about thirteen. She's a schoolteacher now apparently.
You could have powered the national grid...
...with my feelings for her elder sister Judy.
I saw her for the first time in *decades* last week...
... playing a posh older English lady in an episode of US series "Gilmore Girls" on E4. Still instantly recognisable.
Rightity Right!
I was going to nominate Judy Geeson too.
My next choice was going to be Stacy Dorning from Black Beauty. Or was it Judi Bowker? Or was it both of them?
I should add in the name of propriety that I have seen fewer summers than Mr H - otherwise my "pash" on the Black Beauty beauties could be construed as unseemly...
Oh come on...
...we're not having to apologise for *this*, are we?
Relax
I was mostly being facetious and certainly not apologising. That said, if I'd said I really fancied Mischa Barton in Lawn Dogs, people would have been quite justified at finding it a bit peculiar.
This is the 21st century
We have to apologise for everything
Judi Judy
It was Judy/i Bowker
Gabrielle Drake in UFO
Sigh.
seconded
absolute number one for me..she's on t.v at the moment in something?
bloody Emmerdale?
It's only in recent years that i found out that she is Nick's sister.
Discovered on a fansite for UFO,that Michael Billington,is dead..along with Ed Bishop...I thought that Billington was in this pic,but i was mistaken.It's another hunky astro-chappie.
I've not been able to find the clip i saw a while back, featuring Gabrielle,from a BBC art's show,("Arena"?),a short "dramatisation" of J.G Ballard's "Crash"...also featuring the author,and a "Bristol" car, i think.
Companion Of Choice
The gorgeous Jo Grant, the third Doctor's favourite.
Mmmmm
Katy Manning http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katy_Manning
Up to date photo on Wiki but sadly, none of the ones with *cough* the Dalek. Just do your homework...
Doctor's assistance
The old man in the flat downstairs has a copy of the one with *cough* the Dalek blu-tac'd to his *cough* kitchen wall.
Girls and horses
The one from Black Beauty (Stacey Dorning?) and the one from Follyfoot (?)
Oh and Jenny Hanley from Magpie.
And I could never understand why Robin went after Chrissie when (Jo?) played by Sally Thomsett was *the* one
Funny feelings in my tummy. Even now
Another vote for
Jenny Hanley
Unbelievably bagged by Robin Nedwell.
mmmmmmmmm
Dora. Phwoar.(blushes)
How right you are
Sally Thomsettttttt.....I need a lie down
I was going to say Charlie's An......
But this picture is just odd...
She were just champion...
Alexandra Bastedo. Whimper....
Really
wheeling out the big guns now. My Uncle Jim had a serious thing for her.
It looks odd seeing her in colour
But, oh yes. Alexandra Bastedo - even her name was mysteriously exotic!!
Blimey
Thanks
just picking my jaw up from the floor now...
Holy
moly
Alexandra,,,
...looks down her nose at me every day...
I Dreamed of Jeannie
All fade in the company of this woman
For 30 minutes every week I was taken to a happy place.
God I hated that Darwin!
I almost picked her
She truly was the first "woman" to grab my attention (even in black & white). I would only have been 8 or 9 years old, but I knew *something* was going on.
Just in case there was any unbelievers in the massive
I have nothing to say
but I will sit here and sigh heavily for some time.
Sophie Ellis Bextor's Mum
*sigh*
Blimey!
A cold day in the Blue Peter garden, it would seem.
I see
she's wearing her braille t-shirt...
And if you look closely
you can see her badge.
Her husband's a close personal friend
I shall give him your address.
If he puts his hat on
Prior to heading out to hand out a summary duffing-up, we all at least know where it'll be hanging..
Strewth
I think the word for the effect that just had on me is Proustian, at least it would be if Proust was recalling his time as a frustrated adolescent.
Luan Peters
"Sigh!"
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Thanks, Fraser
.
Luan Peters
i did a photo shoot with her once. Sigh indeed.
I used to Dream
of doing a photo shoot with her.
Something tells me I'm gonna be alone on this!
Spent as much time as I could as a 5 year old watching Cilla Black sing 'somthing tells me' for the strange feeling I got in my stomach! I even, blush to recount, used to leave notes beside my bed to remind me to dream about her, much to my families amusement. Looking at it now, I can only presume she epitomised the 'style' of the day, or at least looked like your next door neighbour's 35 year old mum, which was as far as my world stretched at that age!
"I used to leave notes beside my bed....
...to remind me to dream about her." That's what my daughters would called "soooooo swede". Have you thought about writing a song about it?
Not to worry
... surely Morrissey will be along to write one very soon?
Oh where to start...
Sarah Greene (Blue Peter) - not sure why looking back now, too girl next door...
Glynis Barber (Blakes Seven, Dempsey & Makepeace, Jane) but Glynis still looks good now, and back then, well thank ITV3 for repeats of Dempsey & Makepeace...
Diana Rigg....Oh my.
Most of my main crushes though, the slightly secret ones are the ladies of comedy, Dawn French, all the women in Smack The Pony, and Arabella Weir, Josie Lawrence, Caroline Quentin. Something about making me laugh and having a bit of a foul mouth alongside it...
And then there's the more recent Julia Sawalha
Are you ever too old to have a crush?
A bloke I used to play cricket with
was at university not long after Sarah Greene in Hull. There were numerous rumours involving Miss G and a snooker table in one of the halls of residence.
And though they're not 'off the telly', they were on the telly quite a lot when I was in my formative years: Agnetha Fältskog & Kate Bush.
I must agree with Josie Lawrence and Arabella Weir (esp. in the earlier Fast Shows).
And watching Coupling was very pleasant: Sara Alexander, Debbie Isitt and Gina Bellman all at once. Nurse, the screens!
Coupling
Yes. Very much so.
Sarah Greene
Ah yes. The infamous "I've potted Sarah Greene" thing. Which, I seem to remember, was a story attached to EVERY university at that time and was more a product of male students' masturbatory fantasies than any reality.
http://richardblandford.wordpress.com/2008/11/06/the-clara-bowsarah-gree...
Seems to confirm the original Hull claim but confirms the folklore element.
Cottingham to be more precise!
Local folklore has it that the incident took place in Cottingham near to Hull.
Less salacious but true
The time Sarah Greene and her sister modelled 'women's underwear through the ages' for a Blue Peter feature was the talk of the playground for many weeks thereafter.
Sarah Greene in her undies
I always hold that the airing of that programme and my being told that I needed to wear glasses being entirely coincidental.
Do you...
think they'd fit you?
I remember that
only in my memory Maggie Philbin was involved too.
This is one recollection that might have improved a bit on the truth over the years.
You're quite right
MP didn't meet my particular requirements so I had forgotten her, and everyone else in this line-up except the Greene gels.
I should point out that I was young enough to reasonably fancy the younger Greene at the time.
People say Blue Peter isn't what it once was.
Can't think why.
Glynis Barber in 'Jane'
Lit up my childhood.
Glynis Barber in 'Jane'
Glynis Barber
(Sorry, I know Simon L. mentioned her first, this meant to be replying to his post but I'm new at this...)
Valerie Leon
http://www.filmdope.com/Gallery/ActorsL/10218-2990.gif
I have always held a torch for Valerie Leon. I first saw her tempting Charles Hawtrey into a tent in Carry On Camping...I've never been the same since
Never heard called a torch before
Fnaar, fnaar
And there was me leaving out
And there was me leaving out the jokes about helping me with a pole..and erecting things...
Lucky Charlie
just a pity it was wasted on him... ;)
A Podcast participant no less........
Gregory's Girl, Altered Images, Red Dwarf.....still does it nearly 30 years on......phone number perchance???
Sigh..........
Oh yes.
Sigh..
I saw her
only last Saturday in Crouch End.
Steve Lironi, you lucky man
Perfect in every way. Happy Birthday, Her Hooped (Celtic FC) Dream. Father Ted. Is well sound.
Lironi, you live my (teenage) dreams. Chapeaux, sir.
Another splendid filly from the James Bolam stable
Barbara Flynn in The Beiderbecke Affair.
I note, with a wry smile, that this thread is coyly pitched in the past tense. As if fancying girls off the telly is something we’ve left behind us. Mmmm. All I can say is roll on the next series of Lead Balloon. And Outnumbered. As for Smack The Pony.
(Re Audrey: was it just me or was the undercurrent in the Likely Lads: Audrey has a thing for Bob; Thelma, underneath it all, has a thing for Terry.)
I'm pretty sure …
… you're right, Richard. There was, after all, some suspicion of Terry once having had some kind of "thing" with Thelma (on a trip to Blackpool?), and let's not forget Terry's relationship with Thelma's sister, whose name escapes me.
Or have I dreamt all this?
Terry and Thelma
I was given the boxed set of The Likely Lads recently, and having watched it I think you're right about the undercurrents.
And, in one of the discussions of the past (which make up about half of every episode, and make the them tune so right), Terry admits that something went on between Thelma and him on a coach trip when they were younger and Bob was absent.
But it wasn't right. His excuse: "I was inflamed by the brown ale."
"I was inflamed by the brown ale."
That‘s one for the T shirt slogan thread.
There is definitely reference
to some sort of drink fuelled liaison resulting from a coach trip to Blackpool. Don't think I would go so far as to say that Thelma had a thing for Terry though, I'm sure it was an episode she would willingly expunge from the memory.
Thelma's sister Susan, who came home for the wedding, was definitely the looker in the family. Can't remember why things didn't work out with Terry - maybe she just went back to Canada or wherever it was she lived.
Memo to self - will have to watch the second series again.
Back to the thread - good shouts for Tin Tin (to which I add Atlanta from Stingray) and Jan Francis in her "The Long Chase" guise. Surely every lads dream was to come under Servalan's spell? or failing that be the replacement pilot in Captain Scarlet when Symphony had the flu. Now what were they called? I can remember Harmony, Rhapsody amd Melody but can't get the other one!
That would be...
1) "Marina" in Stingray, not "Atlanta", hence the end credit theme, "Aqua Marina" by Gary Miller (a love song to a puppet, hmmmm...)
2) The Angels were (L-R) Symphony, Rhapsody, Destiny, Melody (behind the desk in this pic) & Harmony.
If they don't have strings attached, I'm not interested...
"If they don't have strings attached, I'm not interested..."
Sounds like the story of my life...
No mate.
The one I liked was Atlanta - the bosses daughter. Never understood what Troy Tempest saw in Marina.
That Audrey
was also George and Mildred's pompous neighbour's wife wasn't she?
Yes indeed
"
Hilary Tindall in The Brothers...
...played a world-class bitch, but very alluring, and frequently perky in the manner of Sophie E-B's mum.
Enthusiastically second Barbara Flynn, especially in A Very Peculiar Practice, in her nurse's uniform. Ahem.
*ahem* indeed...
My memory is of one of the other male characters
And his reference to her as an "uppitty dyke".
A Very Pulchritudinous Pole
I have very fond memories of A Very Peculiar Practice (apart from anything else, has Peter Davison ever done anything better?). Some of those memories are of the very lovely Joanna Kanska, who graciously allowed Peter D to share her bed.
Sorry, lost my train of thought there.
I vaguely remember AVPP
It had a sort of David Lodge/Malcolm Bradbury vibe about it. Weren't Barbara Flynn and Joanna Kanska lovers?
I don't think so
I know what you're talking about: Barbara Flynn's character, Rose Marie, was having an affair with a woman, but it wasn't Joanna Kanska (now there's a thought...); it was the wife of the Timothy West character, Professor Fury I think. I don't remember who played her.
Anna Ford
yesterday, today, tomorrow
I'm not sure whether I should admit this...
but Anna Ford was my late aunt's best friend and when I was around 10 years old (1979 or thereabouts) I spent an hour or two sitting as close as possible to her on my mum and dad's couch as she taught me how to do the Rubik's cube. It was not an unpleasant experience.
My aunt had a photo of the two of them taken whilst they were at university and I can only say that the menfolk at that particular educational establishment would have been reduced to gibbering wrecks on a daily basis.
Anna Ford and Rush
you are a man of remarkable taste
Why...
thank you!
Not a crush of yesteryear...
... but I will take this opportunity to admit to having a crush on Stephanie Flanders, the BBC's economics editor. There's just something oddly appealing about her...
As for yesteryear, Clare Grogan, who I once met. She was lovliness personified and I failed to utter a single amusing or interesting thing in her presence, so alarmed was I to be in the presence of someone who I pined for as a young 'un. She's still got it, no doubt.
first crush?
Probably Daphne Blake:
then Leela:
sigh.
Cathy Hargreaves from Grange Hill
And a girl who played wayward Iris in Crossroads.
Can't add pix, but they're quite alike.
Lovejoy
Not him but Phyllis Logan who played Lady Jane Felsham in Lovejoy...
Caroline
Langrishe
Lady Jane
Was played by Phyllis Logan
Carolyn Langrishe came from the later not-very-glory years
An addition, rather
than any attempt at correction. I just remember her as being in Lovejoy at some point.
I just wanted to say her name. Unadorned beauty. Her name itself is like the wind sighing through leaves on a warm summer's day
Lady Jane
Phyllis got 'em both out on a PLAY FOR TODAY I've never forgotten called THE GOODTIME GIRLS about 2 married women, with oilrigger husbands away for long stretches of time, cheating behind their backs. God bless social realism.
Joanne Whalley
In The Singing Detective.....
oh god, yeah
I know exactly the scene you're thinking of...
Ahem.
Yes, that one.
who among us
has not repeated Marlowe's internal recitation of all things bland and banal ("..gardeners' question time...") in similar moments of stress?
Oh yes
the bare bottom in the woods
Apart from the hospital scene I remember the sex scene in the wood and the fuss it caused at the time because it was shown pre-watershed. TV today is far less risky and duller....
Definitely
a sight for psoriasis
Hannah Gordon
in My Wife Next Door always did it for me in my mid teens in the 1970s.
Dame Diana
FOr those of us who watched The Avengers in the 60's there is but one and only crsh - Diana Rigg.
Felicity Kendall
In the good life - nice
Surely the definition of perky
I quite like Penelope Keith in those days.
Robert Lindsay
From his Citizen Smith days. And GBH. Now he's pushing a trolley round Morrisons...
How our heroes let us down... sigh !
Lets remember the good times
I'll second that Citizen
Still have a bit of a thing for Robert Lindsay now...
I seem to have had rather a lot of TV crushes in the 70's & 80's. Adam Faith in Budgie, Hywel Bennett as Shelley (I thought he was sooo sophisticated) and Jeff Conaway and Tony Danza in Taxi. No wonder my homework was always late.
Hurrah! Some ladies amongst the massive...
I liked Mr Roy from Basil Brush - is that terribly wrong? I was only about 6 at the time - he made my tummy feel funny, couldn't work out why etc.
My full awakening arrived seeing John Travolta play Danny Zuko in Grease - just looooved him. In my very sweet girlhood naivete I could only think that I wanted to marry him, as I was utterly unaware of what you might actually have to do with a man.
what you have to do with a man
ban the Fray Bentos? :-p
Ahh, Danny Zuko. ABC cinema Edgware Rd 1978. Gave bad boys a good name.
Another male nomination in...
Richard Beckinsale
*sigh*
My friend Liz used to kiss the TV when John Craven's Newsround came on.
kbhr
I know, right? Oh that it were that simple...
Annette Andre
Who played Jeannie in Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)
Seconded...
We all remember Double Deckers
Featuring a very young Brinsley Forde amongst others. But do we all remember Debbie Russ who played Tiger? I was about eight so I was allowed to fancy her then.
http://www.thedoubledeckers.com/now.htm
Has to be Cleo Rocos from the Kenny Everett years...
(I was about 9. It was quite confusing... enjoyable though!)
Cartoon Characters
Seeing as people above have mentioned them. How about Carla from Captain Kremmen?
It was a, er,
toss up between Carla and Cleo.
(Cleo wins by virtue of being a real live human.)
I met her recently.
She's still lovely, and great fun.
Phwooar!
A few not mentioned so far.
Ayshea (from UFO and Lift Off)
Petra Markham
Prunella Gee
Susan George
Judy Loe (Kate Beckinsale's Mum)
Susan Penhaligon
Madeline Smith
Nina Carter (No wonder old Rick had 3 heart attacks)
Julie Ege
And all those poor virgins who got bitten by Ingrid Pitt.
And...
Cheryl Kennedy
Ayshea ...
couldnt believe she would not get a mention..
cheers... Has to be one the first "non-white" British T.V presenters?
Cant remember her saying more than two words in "UFO",whilst handing someone an important computer printout ,of course.
I've mentioned this before
but she's my next-door neighbour. And she designed my kitchen.
*Ouch*
Which reminds me of that scene with Amanda Donohoe in Ken Russell's The Lair of the White Worm...
Speaking of Cleo
I seem to remember Amanda Barrie in "Carry on Cleo" and Angela Douglas in "Carry on Cowboy" having memorable, er, roles.
Reggie's delectable daughter
and if anyone can find a more flattering pic of Sally-Jane Spencer you will make an old Goth extremely happy
Field Report: Sally-Jane Spencer
You know how it is when you do a regular commute. You cross paths with the same people at the same time every day and, with some, you establish something of a rapport which may even go as far a mumbled “morning”.
When I lived at the tatty end of Wimbledon and was regularly carting an infant in a rickety pushchair down to the childminder’s, Sally-Jane was faffing around trying to shovel a couple of toddlers and attendant paraphenalia into the car a couple of roads away. Once that frisson of anxiety peculiar to vaguely famous people - they’re ever alert to possibility that they’re about to be asked whether they “used to be that lass off Triangle or was it Man About The House?“ - had been calmed we got on like a house on fire. Nods, smiles, knowing fake grimaces when the kids were playing up. I think the reason we hit it off so famously was because I never mentioned that scene on the golf course with Uncle Jimmy or made a joke about a “cock-up on the sprinkler front”. Tempted obviously, but I was resolutely loyal to her mother, the achingly beautiful Pauline Yates.
jealous
You cad, you never got me an autograph!
Oh yes
Sherilyn Fenn, from Twin Peaks
now
you're talking
Yow...
sa!
I second that emotion!
Is it 20 years since Twin Peaks? I still remember the trick
with the cherry stalk.
"That's damn fine coffee."
I've never seen Twin Peaks...
I was simply responding to the twin peaks in the...
Gets coat.
Her Aunty Suzi (not strictly speaking a TV crush, but still)
Suzi
A regular customer of mine back in my bookselling days. I once had a short but invigorating conversation with her about, ahem, a book of an adult nature. She's still lovely, and charming too.
Oh my
those........................................eyebrows
Ding
and furthermore
Dong
Lysette Anthony
She has enlightened numerous bad productions over the years - probably most famously on the 'classic' sitcom Three Up Two Down
And here she is in a much more sultry mode
Hubba hubba
I once shared a train carriage with the fragrant Ms Antony - just me and her you understand - quite the potty mouth I can tell you.
Diane Keen
In the first Sweeney film,1977.
I was 10.
"Poor'em away
dahlin'!"
Sally Thomsett
Dont know why really
My parents didnt watch Man about the house as it was ITV but somehow she made an impression
Sally Thomsett
If ever there was a woman who looked more like she was designed by a committee of perverts, I'd like to meet her.
I think this thread should be brought to a dignified close before we all start to get too excited. Have so many YouTube links ever been clicked on so many times by so many posters?
A bit blonde but tasty
have you noticed he keeps on pulling down his sweater to cover his ......modesty !
Thirded
Too right, my bedroom wall was graced with many a picture of her fine form.
I preferred Paula Wilcox at the time, not sure why looking back
Daisy Duke
Can't believe no-one has mentioned her before. Saturday tea-time was the best part of the week....
even better when Col. Wilma Deering was on the other side...
I was a Boss Hogg man...
myself.
There was a ban on American TV programmes
in my house when I was a kid.
Oddly an exception was made for the Dukes.
I must ask my dad why...
Maybe he was...
a Boss Hogg man too.
I really *must* check now!
:-)
Susan Saint James
http://www.librarising.com/astrology/risingsigns/images/susanstjames.jpg
And Paula Wilcox - in The Lovers
Linda Thorson
and would add to the chorus for Clare Grogan...
I dated a girl (and I liked it)
who looked a lot like the lovely Linda, but with bigger knorks of course
Maya from Space : 1999
...only in Psychon form, obviously.
And not in Moon Zero Two ?
http://www.catherineschell.com/movie_moon%20zero%20two.html
Linda Bellingham
As seen in The Sweeney, and most other things causes similar admiration
http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:ZwnMSxqVe0vLnM:http://www.cinemorgue...
Elisabeth Sladen...
just lovely. This clip is very poor quality but her extreme attractiveness comes across nevertheless.
Thanks
That remark of Baker's about this being the best gig he ever had is so much more resonant in the light of his autobiography.
Alexandra Bastedo
What About Servalan In Blakes 7 ?
Indeed
and Jackie Pearce seems still to be genuinely amused to have caused this mass frisson ...
my own list would include many of the above and also Romana 1 aka Mary Tamm
A Tribute to Mary Tamm
(If you can keep your head while all about you are wearing green rubber costumes etc etc)
the words
'get'
'a'
and
'life'
spring instantly to mind...
(but while i'm here, there was a girl called georgina on grange hill when i was about 14...)
Well, I don't suppose there's any harm in it...
Put me down for... Barbara Flynn... Paula Wilcox... Felicity Kendal... Tina Heath...
Embarrassing I know but
Hayley Mills - more film than TV I suppose.
Dr Roberts
Alice that is. It continues to this day - a grown man of 46 writes.
Mmm...
Dr Alice is, as they say in Bristol, 'gert lush'.
If I were 20 years younger, etc etc
Seconded
We like the Doctor down our way
I don't think anyone else has mentioned
Susan Penhaligon in Bouquet of Barbed Wire. Phew.
Or Caroline Munro, whose tanned cleavage exerted a powerful fascination on me as a lad, most memorably in The Golden Voyage of Sinbad.
Caroline Munro
Oh yes, very nice - I actually saw her in the flesh (well, in real life) about five years ago near Baker Street doing some shopping... she still looked very glam, but like her own mother if you know what I mean. It was her role in "The Spy Who Loved Me" that did it for me...
My favourite Bond Girl...
Watched the Sinbad movie she did on cable at the weekend funnily enough, and own Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter, a Hammer movie she made.
One of my biggest crushes when I was younger, alongside Marilu Henner in Taxi, Jenny Agutter in Logan's Run and American Werewolf, and Kim Wilde.
And the aforementioned tv ones...
And Subject Of
Colin Blunstone's 'Caroline Goodbye'
Deborah Grant
Talking of BOBW - I much preferred Deborah Grant who played Sarah Francis and who was bedded by Frank Frinlay's character. She was tall and had long brown hair & had 'presence'!
Susan Penhaligon's character was a bit dippy for my liking but she was pleasing on the eye.
BOBW
Recently rented this from Lovefilm. It hasn't aged well and was distinctly creepy. Deborah Grant still looked wonderful though.
Me too
I watched it recently and the followup too - you're right, it is quite dark, more so than a blood everywhere type horror - middle class guilt and hurt at its best. And DG (another from the Sally Thomsett mould) is fabulous. Later on she was Mrs Bergerac wasn't she?
This all takes me back
Many of the aforementioned have stirred the Bisto loins in the past. In terms of TV I also remember being quite taken by Bonnie Bedelia in Salem's Lot and by Emma Freud in whatever she was presenting during the 80s.
My earliest recollection of a double-take at the TV was Wanda Ventham in UFO but I also remember being rather affected by a string of comedic ladies: Carol Cleveland (Python), Connie Booth (Python and Fawlty) and then Pamela Stephenson in NTNON. More recently it was Susannah Doyle in Drop The Dead Donkey and Kate Isitt in Is It Legal? and Coupling.
Susannah Doyle
Hellloooo Nurse!
Follyfoot
That lass off of 'Follyfoot' Damn that Steve for breaking Dora's heart! (see, I can remember her character's name) and that other lass from 'The kids from 47a'. All I can remember is tuning in every week to see her and her name (stage only) was Jessica. And of course Judi Bowker in BB and Dracula with Louis Jordan: and Mrs. Peel. I'll have to lie down now...
Jenny Agutter.
Ohh, Jenny Agutter.
The ripples that Walkabout,
The ripples that Walkabout, when shown in the 9:25 monday evening BBC1 film slot, caused at school the next day...
'...she did the backstroke...'
Unfortunately I didn't get to see it. We did read the book at school- far less interesting without the visuals
Debbie Watling
in Danger UXB (which I googled as Danger USB!).
This picture is from Doctor Who however.
A very naughty girl...
but ever so nice. Ornella Muti in 'Flash Gordon'...
Sorry... forgot it was TV crushes. But I think this deserves to remain uploaded on aesthetic grounds.
That looks uncannily like a Roxy Music sleeve
In fact, it could *almost* be a rejected shot for the first album
Purdey
Joanna Lumley in The Avengers. All that jumping over fences with flying skirt etc. And as for Children in Need....beads of sweat break out on top lip at the memory.
Judy Loe
need I say any more?
I think you might have to...
I for one have never heard of her!
and two
but if I said "the Hai Karate lady", surely there would be a few heads as turned my way and nodded in agreement?
Exceelent frontage!
Ample for a regiment
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Extremely Good-Looking Actress
Originally married to the late Richard Beckinsale and also mother of actress Kate Beckinsale.
Actually....
.... is that photo not of Valerie Leon ?
I did wonder - this is she
http://www.aceofwands.net/archive/li7132a.jpg
Judy Loe
Mentioned her ages ago along with Petra Markhan from Ace Of Wands. And as you don't know your Valerie's from your Judy's, well...
Let's Make Love and Listen to Death from Above
In any kind of real world - girls in catsuits would fly fighter jets and their names would be Destiny, Symphony, Rhapsody, Melody and Harmony Angel
http://open.spotify.com/track/3LwJvKPSUZNx7CNl1uZULp
Magpies...
Susan Stranks....knocked these Blue Peter girls for six she did...
one for sorrow, two for joy indeed!
Claire Bloom
Completely agree about Susan Stranks who'll be seventy this year!
Also, not exactly a TV star but, Christine Keeler.
But best of all is actually Bob's schoolboy crush in the Likely Lads.......Claire Bloom.
Three for the ladies
Danny from Grease
Mike from Neighbours
Young Elvis
All three set my girlish heart a-flutter. I still hold a candle for The King, the other two not so much.
thanks !!! we dont seem to
thanks !!! we dont seem to feature in this article
if I was being ironic I would have mentioned brian cant!!!
but surely the crush of the 70s was Paul Michael Glasier aka Starsky!!!
Another for Ms Bastedo
I always blushed inwardly whilst gazing at her in action, compounded by the surname which seemed like a swear word.
Can I cheat and also nominate a Hollywood crush ? Angela Lansbury in Bedknobs and Broomsticks, 1971. I was 9 and she seemed like a glamourous auntie who could set my world to rights with a click of her exquisite fingers.
Jenna from Blake's 7
Astonished no one has admitted to
being glued to the screen whenever Jan Francis appeared in her beret, or even earlier when she was in a long running children's serial called The Long Chase.
So true...
... what you say about Jan. Amazing to realise she's now been on our screen for just over 30 years. Along the way we've had Secret Army, The Good Companions, Just Good Friends, Stay Lucky, The Ghostbusters of East Finchley, Bloodlines and loads of one-offs. Jan fans can indulge their reminiscences at Just...Jan Francis, the Yahoo fan site dedicated to her life and career, to be found at:
http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/justjanfrancis/
But only in the first two movies, weirdly
Oddly, no, but...
...then she kicked in with When Harry Met Sally.
Funny old world.
What the hell is happening in this picture?
The gold bikini thing in Jedi didn't work for you then?
Norman's Conquest
Schoolboy crush? That would definitely be the man who played Mr Grimsdale in the Norman Wisdom films.
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Why has no-one mentioned Fenella Fielding,surely the sexiest woman ever to smoke on screen. Can one of you bodes upload a photo please.
Frying tonight!
A video, not a photo - you need the voice...
she's in the class of Proto Goth Maidens
along with Morticia Addams and Lily Munster - now do you see my fascination with things goth?
Jason issacs
that picture just reminds me of Mr I after his rather wonderous portrayal of mr corbett and he def is worth mentioning.....*dreamy look*
Mr Issacs
Seconded, here. My God, he's beautiful.
I've remembered another big one of my TV crushes, aside from Richard Beckinsale and John Craven mentioned earlier.
Mr Hopwood on Grange Hill, who graduated to become a serial killer on Corrie.
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Thank you Nick. Thats me a happy man for the rest of the day.
Kiki
A girl. A puppet and a frog, but a girl...
but a frog AND a
but a frog AND a puppet...lets examine those concepts before we commit you!!!
Lelsey Ann-Down
My parents loved "Upstairs Downstairs". I hated it but sat through it for the scenes featuring Lady Georgina Worsley.
Anne Aston
What about TV's original "Golden Girl", Anne Aston? Up a bit...Down a bit..Fire!!
Anne has my vote!
Jings!
she was def. a loin stirrer.
Well remembered Sir!
Sadly, a sexy ghost partner
The deletable Caron Keating, (sigh)
Bloody hell...
you've just reminded me of a Blue Peter episode in which she was wearing a swimming costume in the studio (the reason for this I've forgotten, maybe she was testing a jacuzzi). You could hear the cameramen weeping...
this is all a bit male at the moment!!!!
sad but true I rather used to fancy Paul Weller in the style council....
Kelly from Saved By the Bell
Lit up my summer holidays as it was always on Channel 4 at about 10am.
And I'm with Alan Partridge on Jet from Gladiators....
Jet!
Wooo-ooo-ooo wooo-ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo!
All The World Is Waiting For You!
For me it has always been Lynda Carter, my lust even clouded my judgement so much that I genuinely believed that Wonder Woman was the finest sci-fi series ever made.
Now its a bit embarrassing to admit to my crush - for some reason everyone assumes I must 'bat for the other team'
And you are going out fighting crime dressed like that are you?
Oh, it's a distraction technique... Well, as you were then. Thinking about it the household ban on American TV imports was also lifted for Wonder Woman... Loved it!
Wonder Woman
Not surprising she was called Wonder Woman. They've got me wondering....
Who could forget the Bionic Woman...
Lindsay Wagner?
and then of course there was always Mrs Bobby Ewing, Victoria Principal...
Damn!
Oh yes! Pammy, I remember being devestated when Bobby came back from the shower in the dream fiasco - thought she might be available.
Another "Dallas" fave of mine was JR's secretary Sly (Deborah Rennard).
Mandy Winger
JR's girlfriend played by Deborah Shelton
Poison dwarf...
played by Charlene Tilton.
;)
Saw her doing panto in
Saw her doing panto in Southsea last Xmas with Syd Little
Bizarre doesn't even begin to describe it
Little and Dwarf...
sounds great!
Sexy ghost partner: Lest we forget
Farrah Fawcett? Double sigh
Diane Weston
Alluring housewife in "The Upper Hand"
Two words: Emma Samms
Two more: Hubba hubba
"Ooo Betty"
Michele Dotrice
Sarah, Lynda and Barbara
Greene, Bellingham and Flynn.
All mentioned earlier by other admirers.
But all three were mine and mine alone so back off!
Beautiful women who if they'd played their cards right could have had me.
Also there was the even more radiant Madeliene Smith who bobbed around a few sitcoms and TV dramas in the early '80's. Voluptuous. Beautiful word. Beautiful girl.