Charlie had a think and he thought we ought to take off all the handles

[sovay]

Because pop-culturally speaking I grew up in almost any decade but the one I was born in, as soon as I saw the news of the death of Bernard Cribbins, my brain immediately started on loop with "Right Said Fred" (1962), which along with its fellow novelty hit "The Hole in the Ground" was how I first heard of the actor, although it is an almost sure thing that I saw him first in the same episode of The Avengers which double-duty introduced me to Alfred Burke. I was in the vicinity when my father was regularly watching the Tenth Doctor, so I did catch him as Wilf at the time; it took me until much more recently to appreciate him in Carry On Jack (1964), Carry On Spying (1964), and The Railway Children (1970). His presence was an active inducement to watch all three. I am glad he is being remembered so fondly. My internet has not died, but it has slowed to a glacial crawl for the last twenty-four hours and taking off the hinges has produced predictably no results, so I am intermittently around.

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[thisbluespirit]

I have seen parts of or most of that film, I think, but I'm not sure if I've ever actually watched it straight through! I'm glad it lived up to the Daddy-my-Daddy hype. :-)

I do like him in Spying quite a bit actually, although as a child I had very fierce Carry On feelings re. people who were not Proper Carry On people taking Proper Carry On people's places, and he was very obviously a Kenneth Connor replacement, so he still gets glared at by me inner 11-yr-old, no matter what adult!me thinks. XD (Although tbf it is very hard even now not to think of Wombles, and that is distracting, heh.)

[sovay]

I'm glad it lived up to the Daddy-my-Daddy hype.

Look, I'm always happy to see Iain Cuthbertson myself!

(I don't know if I would rate it the best children's film of the twentieth century or whatever, but it is a faithful and evocative version with a lot of nice details, like a fourth-wall curtain call for the credits and heritage trains throughout. I didn't imprint on the book as a child, but I did have feelings about it, and the film did well by it. spatch had never read the book and enjoyed the film, too.)