Bruce Forsyth -'The Spirit of the Seventies'.

[Foxbark]

Greetings Friends,
As I am aware this is a forum dedicated to 'vintage erotica', which for many of us means the type of nudie mag that one first viewed in those strange, magical days before the onset of puberty when sex reared its not so ugly head for the first time and the glimpse of naked female flesh and the racy write-up of a pilfered copy of Mayfair was the holy grail and pinnacle of pseudo-hardman 'grown-up' oneupmanship, yes the days when the poor old action man had to be cast aside and the obsesion with railways and steam engines pushed out of one's consciousness by an even more urgent overwheening obsession.
What hasthis got to do with Bruce Forsyth one might ask?, Well for many of us here at VEF, the halcyon days free of worry, when days seemed to packed with endless joy and adventure happened to be the 1970s, and for that reason the magazine pornography us crafty kids managed to purloin back in the day seem to epitomize the whole era - no, this post isn't the equivalent of a tedious Channel 4 'clip-show', complte with waffling, pontificating micro-celebrities and Raleigh Choppers.
No, for me at least Bruce Forsyth introducing the 'Generation Game'on BBC1 early in the evening of a winter/autumnal Saturday sums up the whole magic of the 70s zeitgeist.One of my fondest recollections of that decade, being of tender years, is coming home with my parents after an afternoon's shopping in the High Street, with the darkwinter evening already looming in, and setting down in the living room with our tea and cake, watching the antics of Brucie and Co. on the 'Generation Game' - the theme tune as sung by Bruce is indelibly stuck on my mind.

[mark1970]

Personally I think 3-2-1 summed up the era perfectly, along with The Dawson Watch and those Summertime Special progs that were popular at the time.

[crazybikerme]

Sale of the century.

Hawaii 5-0

Charlies Angels

TOTP

[Tmee2020]

Originally Posted by Hilts

Sale of the century.

Hawaii 5-0

Charlies Angels

TOTP

Hilts I'll see your TOTP and raise you an OGWT

[mark1970]

Originally Posted by tmee2000

Hilts I'll see your TOTP and raise you an OGWT

Good old Bob Harris!

[crazybikerme]

Originally Posted by tmee2000

Hilts I'll see your TOTP and raise you an OGWT

Damn!! I fold........................

[MaxJoker]

Huh i thought the out of time reprobate had carked it or something , so what`s the point of this thread again i mean apart from being so named as to save Tab the effort of posting "Brucie" (Which Tab i`d say is a much more subtle form of critique )

Just read the topic , ok ok so now i understand

For me it was Play Your Cards Right ,Brucie can be seen here holding that days wages . No wonder the beaver hat wearing chin machine was always grinning , hell he might even have been getting a secret kick out of the thought that his show was going to help glamorize gambling to an entire sickly willed generation and help set them and us on the road to ruin



Not that anybody actually watched it for the game itself or Brucie but rather the "Dolly Dealers " , wonder if that makes Brucie also a glorified pimp alongside a destroyer of English culture



Course the show wouldn`t wear so well now though , not unless the dealers changed into less formal attire



Heeey anybody know the new contact address of the ITV commissioning executive , have already tried my old one but they seemed to have moved from that dumpster

[Foxbark]

Oh, come, come now, (definitely no double entendres intended), don't be so hard on poor (!) old Brucie.
Love him or hate him (I know a that good number of people hate him), dear old Brucie was the quintessential old-school variety act professional a throw-back to an age long gone by (now that the likes of Wossy and that Russell Brand creature rule the air-waves).
Showman - that's the right word to describe Brucie - a performer in the mould of the Victorian carnival barker, you know the type of shyster who exhibited the Elephant Man for a shilling-a-pop, and then ran off with his money.Yes, I know that dear old Brucie evokes this archetype, but there is something undefinably loveable beneath the shameless bark voiced opportunism, the deliberate humiliation of guests, and the familiar mock indignant face-pulling - Brucie represents a great white shark in a loud plaid jacket holding a BBC microphone - vicious, shameless, loudmouthed and definitely mercenary, but bloody good at it.
I realise that our American and Continental friends (never mind a good few Britons), will be completely mystified by the above.

Originally Posted by GreenSkull

Huh i thought the out of time reprobate had carked it or something , so what`s the point of this thread again i mean apart from being so named as to save Tab the effort of posting "Brucie" (Which Tab i`d say is a much more subtle form of critique )

For me it was Play Your Cards Right ,Brucie can be seen here holding that days wages . No wonder the beaver hat wearing chin machine was always grinning , hell he might even have been getting a secret kick out of the thought that his show was going to help glamorize gambling to an entire sickly willed generation and help set them and us on the road to ruin

[crazybikerme]

A couple of years back we saw Brucie at The Channel Tunnel terminal in Kent. Yep, he was there in his flash car but while in the terminal building, he shook every hand proffered, signed autographs and posed for photos.

Like him or like him not, he seemed a pretty genuine bloke to me. I've seen celebs away from the TV cameras, behave like complete twats!!

Fair play to the bloke I say!!

[billybunter]

A true legend! With the worst wig in the world. But he still gets the birds!!!

Remember "the comedians?" very non pc and funny. As an Irish man I loved it even though we got the piss ripped out of us.