Life's a Cavalcade

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I didn't like to get strange kids so I would get the family on and it worked very well, you know, yeah, great! At an age when most people would be content with a quiet retirement, for Glen the show goes on, most recently in his stint on 'Saga FM'. I: If I can be personal for a second, my motto as a Director is [Latin phrase] - 'True Art is to Consume Art'. and so I had visions of this wee fellow inside the lamp doing all the talking and being cheeky to me and that seemed to catch on! I forget the name of the group now but he had hair and everything as a young man and he came on the show.

Well, when we did Francie and Josie recordings, of course we were at the Theatre Royal, the old Theatre Royal, so we used to do the, with a live audience all the time. Clem Ashby again was a very good voice over for all the different things that he did and he was very, very popular so there were identifiable people in STV in my early days which, Bill Tennent was another who did a tremendous amount of work on Here and Now, another programme.Now we've got three questions which STV have asked for and these ones will be probably going out on a compilation programme on the 60th Birthday. R: Clem, of course, was one of STV's Analysisers and had worked with Rikki beforehand in the theatre and he was a straight actor but he had a lovely voice, a lovely voice. R: Yeah, we did the one, a no-smoking thing which, we did a campaign where we had Paladin the Lamp, of course, and Totty the Robot and Rusti the Dog so we did a campaign of "Don't smoke!

I: Do not take this the wrong way but I always felt approaching the show every time was, everything on that screen has got to look lived-in!These adverts enable local businesses to get in front of their target audience – the local community.

When Michael later joined the Royal Air Force, he was put into the medical section, but fearing he would collapse at the sight of blood, he spoke to his father, who, fortuitously, was butler to Air Chief Marshal Sir John Slessor, who was head of the medical services in the RAF. We did thirty-two episodes which, in those days they used to wipe the tapes because they had no, they hadn't got enough tapes so they used to wipe the tapes and put new material on and, of course, they wiped thirty-two episodes of Francie and Josie, which I lost, which is a tragedy because they were brilliant! I was wondering, the reason why I asked the question was, you are talking to your audience on radio and the only gateway is the mike.And the taxi driver got out and he said, "I've taken some fares in my life but I've never taken a robot! Keep people’s spirits up and let them know you are there if they need help by leaving a note with your contact details. Phone your older relatives and friends to let them know you are thinking about them and ask if they need anything. There are lots of ways you can do your bit to brighten up someone's day or help lonely or socially isolated older people.

It is important that we continue to promote these adverts as our local businesses need as much support as possible during these challenging times. I'm trying to think who the Controller was that went to the Think-Tank in London and I can't remember his name. It was designed for children but in those days, of course, everybody had a television set in the corner of the room and everybody, the whole family came, Granny and Granddad and Mother, Father, the kids, all sat in front of this one television. And you spoke in to the camera and you sat on your own and I started to tell the story of Sam, the pig, which I'd got at home and I thought this was ideal for children because this was who the programme was going to be aimed at, I thought, and I got three quarters of the way through the story and then I forgot what I was talking about!Born Cecil Buckland in Devon, Michael changed his name when the boss of a show he was in with Beryl suggested he change it to a stage name. Cavalcade has been broadcast on at least three other ITV stations, Southern Television: 1966–1967, Westward: 1967–69 and Grampian TV also broadcast the series in the early 1970s and again the early 1980s. I: I think because technology's so much more advanced today, it would probably be slightly less difficult than it was in the old days naturally.