Wheeltappers & Shunters Social Club - Granada TV - Series 1 Episode 1
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- Опубликовано: 4 фев 2025
- 1st edition of Granada's Wheeltappers & Shunters Social Club from April 13th 1974, complete with preview.
Stars Colin Crompton & Bernard Manning
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Great stuff! Took me back as a kid watching this on a Fri night with all the Family on our black & white TV with hot cocoa & digestives! Wonderful days. Although life was tough at times in the '70's (remember tepid baths by candlelight in '73 during the power-cuts!), it was simpler and people were more of a community than the crap we have to endure today. Having seen and lived various decades I would go back to this time in a heart-beat. Thank you for posting.
I remember watching this when I was 11yrs old.I’ve not laughed so much in ages, Colin Crompton’s a gem!!..
Colin Crompton is amazing sadly missed
Colin Crompton, seconds before a death-defying knife throwing act: "There's still some pies left!" Brilliant!
I'll be honest, we had nothing like the northern club circuit in the south, but we used to watch this every time it was on. I loved Colin Crompton! Great memories.😊
Yes we used to watch this of a friday night when I was 7 years old. Enjoyed it very much then and still now. Quality.
What a beautiful band, and such great arrangements they played. First class club combo whoever they were. ten out of ten.
agreed
I never knew Bernard Manning could sing. Pretty good too. Who would’ve thought it?
Yeah, he had an album out.
Aye he could hit the notes richt enough.A very talented man.
I think he played the piano too?
He had a voice that could take pastry of your pork pie!
Yeah he was a dance band singer in the 1950s with the Oscar Rabin Big Band.
Excellent post Julie, I loved this show as a kid in the 70s x
Thanks so much for sharing this, it's so bad that it's fantastic! My ribs are sore from laughing, my God.
A shame we can’t have programmes like this today. We don’t have the celebrities or talent anymore.
You’re kidding. Surely.
What nonsense.
@@DDandrums Yeah, name some?
@@boomtish4520You clearly haven't a clue!!
@@boomtish4520 No they are not kidding. We don't have the talent anymore which is why 90% of modern singers *all* use autotune. Also whatever isn't shite reality TV these days is unwatchable woke feminist arse gravy.
Loved this show first time round. Fun entertaining TV the likes of which sadly we do not see now. Happier times than the hell we are living in now. Thank you for this. 😊😊
Really? Happier times, the 1970s. Apart from the music my dad told me it was absolutely shite. Take your rose tinted union jack glasses off.
@@DCDPM they were happier times ,you wouldn’t know unless you lived them , we had a lovely life in the 70s until thatcher got voted in in 79
@@DCDPM Comedians who told jokes instead of offering their political views (and didn't need a team to check if any of it was offensive), proper musicians who played instruments and sang, light entertainment acts with talent. Just look at weekend television these days, there are no light entertainment "stars" anymore. I wasn't even alive back then but I can see how far we've fallen.
I was a kid growing up in the 70s I wouldn't say that it was any better or any worse just different. to us kids the power cuts were quite fun but I doubt my parents saw it that way. my grandfather drove up to Birmingham got bulk candles from an ecclesiastical suppliers we used the last of them in the late 1980s🤣 the biggest thing that affected us was the IRA violence living in London it was bad😕
@@pocketjohnson1820 fair comment but I was happier then than now. We have always had problems but these days just seem evil.
Bernard Manning was so well-behaved on these. I discovered this series at the same time as discovering Bernard Manning comedy.
Bernard knocking out a tune at the start there 👍
Great stuff for a Saturday Night
Freddie Garrity was brilliant! What a great voice he had.
People could never believe this wasn't filmed in a real club - viewers wrote in asking where the show was filmed and were shocked when the reply was Granada Television Studios in Manchester. I think Studio 12 was the one they used. Amazing, as it looks so much like an outside broadcast from a real club.
I thought it was filmed at Bernard's club in Blackley.
@@stephenholmes1036 They really did a great job in making it look like it was a real club. Bernard Manning mentioned it many times that it was filmed in the Granada studios, and the Granada management were very impressed with the production work.
It reminds me of so many clubs I worked in as a musician at the time
Amazing to think that working-class culture once had its own prime time Saturday night show.
You do realise it's a comedy don't you ??
@@Sam_Green____4114 Yes, comedy and music celebrating working-class culture. Not sure what you're point is.
@@Tokiofritz Not sure what your point is either fool !
@@Sam_Green____4114 You're awful angry, Sam. Have a wee lie down.
@@Tokiofritz Your original comment is just an amazing example of snobbery and sneering!! l bet you voted Remain didn't you !?
Decent set of pipes old Bernard!
Great times, I'd go back in a heartbeat.
That Cossack Act: Brilliant. My god, they had to be super-fit. Real Pro's
Thank you variety at its best 😊
I have to say a lot of these acts went onto great stardom xxx
@@lomate1963 Some were on their way down and trading on a name.
Bernard Manning had a decent voice! I'm quite surprised!
That was a lot of fun. Thanks for upload.
I caught an episode of this on TV last night, the one with Frank Ifield and Kathy Kirby.
When the series was originally broadcast in ‘74, I thought it was a bit downmarket. As I watched it last night, it seemed like the highest quality item on any channel.
Thanks for uploading. Classic stuff 😀
Memories of my childhood amazing it was Sunday dinner and bullseye vibe , aunty down the club on a Sunday 🤗
Absolute classic remember this as a child
The guy from Freddy and the Dreamers, it's just nuts
He’s really good I thought.
He was on an early trial of Care in The Community, which was under the academic auspices of Cambridge University but the funding was effectively through the private sector being a bequest endowed through some shady charitable institute. I think Jon Pilger did a program about it .
Good news! This variety show is being repeated on Talking Pictures TV on Sunday nights 10.pm.
When comedy was funny , we greatly miss programs like this
I know two of the Cossack Brotherhood dance troupe the singer is Roman Kalyta and one of the dancers is Roman Pich originally from Oldham and Huddersfield. I used to rehearse with them in London calling themselves The Black sea Cossacks during the 1980s my brother a accordion player and my self a mandolin player. As with show business it only takes one bad apple through greed of one manager to spoil the whole lot . Roman Kalyta later on founded Mazeppa Cossacks while he was still performing from one agent and litigation followed so Kalyta had to pay compensation to leave contract. His new group lasted over 20 years but a bent solicitor who was a dancer was prosecuted for fraud and stealing money from clients shame about it .
Most of those blokes in the audience probably fought in the 1 st and 2nd world wars!
Also the Boer war .Some really laughable comb overs going on.
Brilliant….Freddie after the dreamers had ended…..fascinating.
A genuine variety show.
I'll better watch these quickly as they might get taken off here as mine did
wonderful funny acts not like the shite we have now days
Wonderful stuff from the days when
television was entertaining!
If you’ve ever tried the Cossack dancing you’ll know it takes amazing strength, agility and stamina to dance like that. They were sensational!
Didn't realise what a good singer Bernard was!
I gasped at the knife throwing.
The inimitable Colin "Give order!" Crompton: Frank Skinner's dad, perhaps?! 😊
Iconic series and us Southerners really thought that Lancashire was like that!
£3 was a lot of money then. For £1 I could get into the Stretford End, buy a programme, a meat n potato pie and soft drink and still come out with a couple of 'bob' change. A few years later when, in '76, I got into the Stretford End for 80p when United played Ajax. In the next round, the price of the ticket went up by a staggering 12.5% to 90p when they played Juve. My LMTB (League Match Ticket Book) cost me £21 and there being 21 home games, it equaled £1 a game. The last time I went, my Season Ticket worked out to be £37 per game.
The drunk dad from rita sue & bob too
Willie Ross
Wow Bernard could belt it out. 👍
Breakdancing was invented in Manchester in 1974!
Excellent knife throwing act at the 17:59 mark!
The lovely assisant is that outfit, ooft.
I bet the nearest that the Kosack Brotherhood got to the Ukraine was Uttoxeter!
Think they were from Burnley
Sound like scoucers to me when singing 👍..
Bloody hell the cossacks were superb! Wonder if they were from the Ukraine or Barnsley ....
the latter lol.
Why are people saying that these shows represented happiness and better times. My father told me it was the shits except for the music. Being piss poor and unemployed should not be looked back on fondly and nor should it be seen as aspirational.
well there was always Barbara Law and her nicely toned & tanned body
No they were bad times but as we always do in this country we see the happier side and so on as we did in war i.come.from a Welsh mining town and by due things were hard for my family but come weekend a sing song even without beer was a good time I agree yes that rose cloured glasses as we.look.back but it made.us stronger I feel anyway
Having lived through the 70s as a child I have some fond memories and of course we didn’t know any different. However, I look back on the casual racism and sexism of the times with a degree of incredulity - did we really find these things funny? Then again there was some good stuff back then like punk, Play for Today, and cheap rail fares. Would I want to go back - hell no, and I suspect most of those yearning for a return to these times are forgetting quite how grim much of life was back then.
♥️1970s...
Thank you. x
I'm surprised that no one's mentioned "Phoenix Nights" yet !
P.S. I only am watching this because I wasn't allowed to 'back in the day' and I had assumed that it was because of the 'Strippers' in the show.
(I hope it was worth the wait !)
Wonderful days when we could just go out and enjoy ourselves!!
21:00 can you imagine today's 'producer's' allowing an act like this to throw knives at the shows presenter 🤔🤣🤣
Would love to see Rant and Dic doing the same act with the knife thrower blindfolded 😂😂
Top acts. I watched it as a teenager but only now in my 60s appreciate the shear quality of the acts. No rooms for weak rubbish acts. Sadly we have nothing to compare these days.
I played in the house band in one of those clubs and bad acts really did walk off to the sound of their own footsteps 😊
Bernards got a great voicè.
Barbara Law... my mum!! 💌
really? what's with the bloke giving her the "wicked" gleam ? 😀
beautiful singer and a sexy lady if you dont mind me saying.
This was actually filmed in a studio at Granada TV In Manchester
lots of beer for a studio!
Yeah, same as the other Granada studio which housed the Rovers Return Inn.
@@jubileebaby9787 nice
Also used for Mrs merton where bernard manning appeared so I believe, a lifetime of famous faces no longer with us sadly. Those were the days 🙏❤️🇬🇧❤️🙏 Mar twenty four
Bingo £3 jackpot awesome
My family were blue collar working class but this show was considered vulgar in my house.
Impressive Cossack dancing!
The Italian (Pontefract) mate with the tray + specs is in Rita, Sue and Bob too... GRT film it's Rita's dad he has a fight with Bob GRT British cinema...
Freddie makes me smile
The past is another country. They do things differently there.
Peter Kay nicked this for Phoenix Nights for sure!
Was that Bernard Manning singing at the beginning?
great song I wish I knew what it's called ...
@@NOTODIVERSITY123 It's called Night and Day by Cole Porter.
Is that Willie Ross who was in Rita Bob and Sue
It is mate.
Chicken in a basket for the same price that would only get you a pot of BBQ sauce now.
The Ukrainian Cossack brotherhood all the way from Ramsbottom Lancashire.
That was incredible to watch
2024 and the government and authorities no longer want the working class to enjoy life like we once did. RIP united kingdom!! 😩🏴🇬🇧
Had a good singing voice did "our bernard"
Barbera Law was very good
3 QUID bingo jackpot, you could buy a house near the club now
Did anyone spot an uncredited Liz Dawn of Coronation Street fame as the barmaid carrying drinks around?
Hey, old Bernard could sing a bit couldn't he?
Great voice ..I enjoyed his tune👍
Ukranian dancers ?? Nice culture. Thoughts and prayers. March 2022.
He appeared at the La Scala Milan my arse ! The La Scala Skegness more like !!
Didn't Lamberto Rossini play in midfield for Inter Milan ???
This is grand old light entertainment 👍👍👍
Straight from the Ukraine with a Yorkshire accent !!! How's that done ?
Who's the chick in the yellow dress ? good singer.
barbara law, irish-canadian singer/actress
The Ukrainian Kossak Brotherhood.
I wonder if they are still going?
On the buses would have been on earlier. This is a studio and not a real club of course.
23:00 Freddy on fire!
The days when men with long hair weren’t pretending to be women! 😁
The two dancers may well have been Cossacks, but the farthest east the singer ever got was Bridlington!
Eurovision winners 2023
I only put this on hoping to see Noel Gallagher and his high flying birds.
This is so Ethel Cain coded.I'd loved to have seen Nicole Dollenhanger do her Ena Sharples impression and Grimes...? I'd like to think of doing a damn good comedy skit with Colin Crompton (Lord of the green ringular dingle clqnger): Grimes would be standing at the front of the stage crying , with her head down , pointing at Colin saying 'that man's whole act is worse than the man who sexually assaulted me in the song Oblivion. And his jokes are worse than the bitter, mebbe he should clean his pipes out!
Colin would then take a sup from his foaming pint and roll his clanger on on his prominence, and declaim " Order!Order! There has been an announcement from the Committee, that Wheeltappers will agree to provide funding to support the release of Book2.
All I can say is entertainment in the 70s looked horrific if this was the standard.
you wouldn't say that if u were around then
yeah because drake is so much better
23:00 freddie
Lamberto Rossinni? More like Lambert & Butler :)
What an utter load of garbage.
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Ukrainian b boy breakdance moves 1974..
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The quality of these acts varies enormously.
Colin Crampton(?) is genius.
The knife-thrower was impressive.
The 'Cossack Brotherhood' were OK.
Lambert & Ross were just awful.
And Bernard Manning might be able to sing, but watching him paw the women is 🤮
Barbara Law can belt out a song.
Some seriously cringe worthy stuff here.
i luv it
@@fattymcfatso1083 me 2👌
@@duckman5642 hey - nice!
Love Colin Crompton but Bernard Manning.. no thanks.
Bernard manning Mr Manchester 🇬🇧. the English working class hero
Peter Lambert & Willie Ross, after the duo split, Willie took up acting, his most famous role was the drunk dad in the film, Rita, Sue & Bob Too