Dad was a squaddie in Germany and knew all about Leslie's history as a soldier abroad. When we watched the game show Cluedo back in the 90s, where Leslie was one of the actors playing guests at the Cluedo house...whenever the contestants were debating who did it. Dad would sarcastically say "Leslie Grantham, in the back of a taxi, with a pistol." It was then I learned that Leslie Grantham was a convicted piece of shit murderer.
@@Dripfedmy ex partners dad (now sadly deceased) was stationed in Germany along with Grantham. He was there on the night when Grantham was arrested. Apparently the soldiers cheered when Grantham was taken away. He was well known as a bully and a general scumbag.
Hi Stuart..thanks for this video.Yes im David from the episode and i can confirm that my previous statement was correct. The front row consisted of 4 or 5 of my friends whom we were allowed to come onto the show.The other contestants friends and family made up the rest of the front rows. The application to get on the show was a telephone call which recorded your wish to be on the show. i did a rap and was chosen for the show. I had a meeting with Tv Producers who travelled to Llanelli and informed me that i could lose my car and signed a disclaimer. On travelling to the Afan Lido shopping centre in Port talbot i had reservations about the show knowing "Freddies" reputation.We were told that all cars must be in road worthy condition and driveable .My car was however seeing the VW driven in on a trailer by the other contestants had me more than a little concerned. However we proceded with the show. One part i omitted from the original statement is at one stage the whole power went of leading to a 15 min delay. As for the random reg numbers obviously this was a set up we were sat away from our friend in alloted seats and told to look suprised when the reg came up..Not an easy thing to do i can tell you. The questions were General knowladge and i guessed several correctly somehow. This seemed to knock Freddie as this wasn't the plan.How would a scrap VW getting crushed have got the necessary promotion for the New show? Nope i believe our car was doomed and Freddie constant farting noises along with wafting actions also missing from the final cut "Almost" gave way to the end result. To be honest when i 1st saw my car on the machine i thought its a clone but nope. I can't say whether the other contestants throught the show were genuinely unaware but for me and my partner Lesley at that time we were Not. Unbelievably just kast week a guy stopped by me and said your the guy who had his car crushed..i said yes 23yrs ago.Now thats kool lol.
Fantastic insights, David, thanks. Classic late-90's television production morals at play there. Considering hardly anyone remembers the show existed, it's incredible that you're still being recognised.
As a form of abuse, to ensure I only ever thought and believed what she wanted me to, my mom would figure out whatever my favorite toy was and destroy it. I swear if I'd been on this show and they'd tried to take anything from me, I'd have been arrested for punching Freddy straight in the eye. It'd be a reflex. I remember seeing something about this show years ago and it just making me rage at its very existence. "You can't just take someone's glasses like that! Those cost money! and what if he has to drive home!?" No idea why it occurred to me to remember this and look it up tonight. Thanks for helping reassure me I didn't hallucinate this.
Oh FUCK the boogie board collection! I remember now! In the one I saw, he talked about how much he loved those. And I think his girlfriend "volunteered" them for the show? I would have dumped her. not even at home; in the parking lot outside.
Footnote..Ours was the 3rd programe recorded as the Krusher toured the country it was filmed around June but aired in January for obvious reasons the show recorded with Lesley and Myself were fast forwarded to the 1st episode.I believe the other shows were never aired.
I vaguely remember seeing that episode when it aired, and thinking how mean it was as a 6 year old. I've always tried to find footage. I even emailed someone at SkyOne, who said they don't even have archives of it. Great mini documentary. Keep it up.
im 60 now 😏'in the 1970s some where? I refused to watch anything with members of the public as part of the show' so I never watch much tv at all but for some reason I can still remember all the shows on this youtube chanal 😂😁
Thanks for this review! I remember watching this show in Australia in the early 2000s - it was one of the many repeats on "The Comedy Channel" on pay-tv provider Foxtel. I've always remembered it as being just some silly fun... But wow! I'd forgotten just how cringe and mean-spirited it was!
here are a few I'd love to see you cover for the accursed 90s -Spanish archer (talent show on l!ve tv) -DEF II (like....all of it...) -scavengers -Man o man -ice warriors -spring Hill (some soap opera on sky one) -night and day : admittedly this is from the 2000s but its really weird
This has brought back a seemingly-unverifiable memory of my neighbour/primary school teacher having a statue from their garden crushed for the series All Rise for Julian Clary. Which would have been about 1996. Wondering if there was a wider item crushing based light entertainment genre around this time, & what it's origins were.
There was probably an American show where stuff got crushed and some producer saw it and thought "THIS IS THE FUTURE OF TELLY!" like when Touch The Truck came over here.
And ironically "Touch The Truck" was the focus of Starr's ire in his "all telly is crap now" rant at the end of that infamous Channel 4 documentary, to which the only response could be "Mate. You did Beat The Crusher."
A good reminder why I never had Sky TV in the 90's. Although, that's not entirely true, as I had it as part of a package deal when having cable internet installed, and to be honest, there were only a couple of shows that I watched frequently during that time. Shows that would be shown on terrestrial TV not long after, anyway. Once the contract expired, I kept the internet side of things and took the decoder box that supplied the TV part back to their outlet shop and cancelled it. I wasn't paying for something I hardly ever used. This was obviously Sky's attempt to try and emulate a Noel's House Party type atmosphere, but with bonus vindictiveness thrown in by destroying people's property into the bargain. Had this shed for years and installed it yourself when your kids where still nippers? Tough cheddar, it's off in the crusher!! I know it's hard to get sentimental about a shed, but to have it smashed to smithereens as part of a TV show, without a care has got to have some kind of psychological effect?
I suppose you only ended up getting your shed crushed if you were the sort of person who willingly went to see Freddy Star making shit TV, so it seems like self selection really.
I HATE THIS GAME SHOW. HATE HATE HATE HATE IT. HATE IT. I HATE THE FACT SKY THOUGHT THIS WOULD BE CLASSED AS ENTERTAINMENT. I HATED THAT EVERYONE INVOLVED IN THIS PRODUCTION THOUGHT IT WAS A GOOD IDEA. AND I HATE THE HOSTS FOR NOT OBVIOUSLY HEADING FOR THE HILLS AND NOT SLUMMING IT FOR THE MONEY. AAARRRGGGGHHHHHHH.
It sounds like him, but there's no hard evidence, so I didn't want to commit to the slander of giving him credit. I've seen Simon Greenall suggested too.
Woefully under subbed. I would say under promoted but I'm here so. This is the kind of youtube I would make if I actually had a work ethic or discipline.
I shouldn't worry about the losing contestant getting nothing and being stranded miles from Llanelli; spool back to the Ofcom complaint and the production company say the losers were compensated.
This gameshow is so bad it makes you wonder who the heck thought this was something people would find entertaining? Humilating people under the guise of a gameshow is not entertainment it's mean spirited nastiness and spite.
The adult/cĥild asssault course would be a piece of piss these days for any of us that have had to haul a two year old to the top of a giant soft play?
"Where he is battling with the auto-cue like a man trying to finish a w*** whist falling down stairs".
Every episode has at least one doozy.
"One-star rated Uber passenger Leslie Grantham" haha!
Dad was a squaddie in Germany and knew all about Leslie's history as a soldier abroad. When we watched the game show Cluedo back in the 90s, where Leslie was one of the actors playing guests at the Cluedo house...whenever the contestants were debating who did it. Dad would sarcastically say "Leslie Grantham, in the back of a taxi, with a pistol." It was then I learned that Leslie Grantham was a convicted piece of shit murderer.
@@Dripfedmy ex partners dad (now sadly deceased) was stationed in Germany along with Grantham. He was there on the night when Grantham was arrested. Apparently the soldiers cheered when Grantham was taken away. He was well known as a bully and a general scumbag.
Even Ronnie Pickering is a bigger celebrity than Dirty Den
"the 90s cruel streak". Thank you Stuart, a nasty decade that thought it was so much better than the past, but dressed up in cocaine hubris.
took a lot of acid and speed in the 90s.
"One star rated Uber passenger Leslie Grantham" had me rolling around...🤣
Hi Stuart..thanks for this video.Yes im David from the episode and i can confirm that my previous statement was correct. The front row consisted of 4 or 5 of my friends whom we were allowed to come onto the show.The other contestants friends and family made up the rest of the front rows. The application to get on the show was a telephone call which recorded your wish to be on the show. i did a rap and was chosen for the show. I had a meeting with Tv Producers who travelled to Llanelli and informed me that i could lose my car and signed a disclaimer. On travelling to the Afan Lido shopping centre in Port talbot i had reservations about the show knowing "Freddies" reputation.We were told that all cars must be in road worthy condition and driveable .My car was however seeing the VW driven in on a trailer by the other contestants had me more than a little concerned. However we proceded with the show. One part i omitted from the original statement is at one stage the whole power went of leading to a 15 min delay. As for the random reg numbers obviously this was a set up we were sat away from our friend in alloted seats and told to look suprised when the reg came up..Not an easy thing to do i can tell you. The questions were General knowladge and i guessed several correctly somehow. This seemed to knock Freddie as this wasn't the plan.How would a scrap VW getting crushed have got the necessary promotion for the New show? Nope i believe our car was doomed and Freddie constant farting noises along with wafting actions also missing from the final cut "Almost" gave way to the end result. To be honest when i 1st saw my car on the machine i thought its a clone but nope. I can't say whether the other contestants throught the show were genuinely unaware but for me and my partner Lesley at that time we were Not. Unbelievably just kast week a guy stopped by me and said your the guy who had his car crushed..i said yes 23yrs ago.Now thats kool lol.
Fantastic insights, David, thanks. Classic late-90's television production morals at play there. Considering hardly anyone remembers the show existed, it's incredible that you're still being recognised.
@@StuartMillard Probably because they took one look at it and headed for the hills. Also Cable was more expensive back then.
So you had some chance of losing your car and no chance of winning a new one? I'm not sure why anyone would sign up to that?
Look, I know life can be crueller than we expect sometimes, in Wales. But you're talking garbage.
They got you with that disclaimer, that's a massive red flag.
As a form of abuse, to ensure I only ever thought and believed what she wanted me to, my mom would figure out whatever my favorite toy was and destroy it. I swear if I'd been on this show and they'd tried to take anything from me, I'd have been arrested for punching Freddy straight in the eye. It'd be a reflex. I remember seeing something about this show years ago and it just making me rage at its very existence. "You can't just take someone's glasses like that! Those cost money! and what if he has to drive home!?" No idea why it occurred to me to remember this and look it up tonight. Thanks for helping reassure me I didn't hallucinate this.
Oh FUCK the boogie board collection! I remember now! In the one I saw, he talked about how much he loved those. And I think his girlfriend "volunteered" them for the show? I would have dumped her. not even at home; in the parking lot outside.
Man this channel deserves some more love
Just found your channel last night - I now have something to do for the next few days. Cheers fella.
Footnote..Ours was the 3rd programe recorded as the Krusher toured the country it was filmed around June but aired in January for obvious reasons the show recorded with Lesley and Myself were fast forwarded to the 1st episode.I believe the other shows were never aired.
I had curtains like Alex, now I'm a shadow of the man I was.
I vaguely remember seeing that episode when it aired, and thinking how mean it was as a 6 year old. I've always tried to find footage. I even emailed someone at SkyOne, who said they don't even have archives of it. Great mini documentary. Keep it up.
I bet they do. It will be on tapes somewhere. In storage.
im 60 now 😏'in the 1970s some where? I refused to watch anything with members of the public as part of the show' so I never watch much tv at all but for some reason I can still remember all the shows on this youtube chanal 😂😁
Freddie Starr is like if Meat Loaf were a comedian instead of a singer.
This is an amazing observation.
they are both right-wing bell-ends though.
This has made me realise that the 90s were, in fact, a long time ago.
Thanks for this review! I remember watching this show in Australia in the early 2000s - it was one of the many repeats on "The Comedy Channel" on pay-tv provider Foxtel. I've always remembered it as being just some silly fun... But wow! I'd forgotten just how cringe and mean-spirited it was!
here are a few I'd love to see you cover for the accursed 90s
-Spanish archer (talent show on l!ve tv)
-DEF II (like....all of it...)
-scavengers
-Man o man
-ice warriors
-spring Hill (some soap opera on sky one)
-night and day : admittedly this is from the 2000s but its really weird
I REMEMBERED THIS SHOW
This has brought back a seemingly-unverifiable memory of my neighbour/primary school teacher having a statue from their garden crushed for the series All Rise for Julian Clary. Which would have been about 1996. Wondering if there was a wider item crushing based light entertainment genre around this time, & what it's origins were.
There was probably an American show where stuff got crushed and some producer saw it and thought "THIS IS THE FUTURE OF TELLY!" like when Touch The Truck came over here.
And ironically "Touch The Truck" was the focus of Starr's ire in his "all telly is crap now" rant at the end of that infamous Channel 4 documentary, to which the only response could be "Mate. You did Beat The Crusher."
I want a love wheel.
Love these videos great memories from the 80 90 & early2000s
This show will be on DigiBetas in some air conditioned cavern somewhere! It’s just finding where.
Great channel. Keep up the good work👍
A good reminder why I never had Sky TV in the 90's. Although, that's not entirely true, as I had it as part of a package deal when having cable internet installed, and to be honest, there were only a couple of shows that I watched frequently during that time. Shows that would be shown on terrestrial TV not long after, anyway. Once the contract expired, I kept the internet side of things and took the decoder box that supplied the TV part back to their outlet shop and cancelled it. I wasn't paying for something I hardly ever used.
This was obviously Sky's attempt to try and emulate a Noel's House Party type atmosphere, but with bonus vindictiveness thrown in by destroying people's property into the bargain. Had this shed for years and installed it yourself when your kids where still nippers? Tough cheddar, it's off in the crusher!! I know it's hard to get sentimental about a shed, but to have it smashed to smithereens as part of a TV show, without a care has got to have some kind of psychological effect?
The whole episode was actually on RUclips recently. But it disappeared
All tapes of it got crushed. It deserved it. HORRIBLE show.
@@SanFran51 I bet it’s still in an archive somewhere. 1998 so likely on DigiBeta or perhaps BetaSP, the Masters
This is so good
Crusher crusher crusher
Glad I stopped watching television about 18 years ago
Starr did this a couple of years after he lambasted TV shows for being pointless and mindless.
What Freddie never hosted a game show called Operation Yewtree beats me.
3:32 Did he shoot JR?
Could you do pets win prizes? Or Crank up your grannies?
I suppose you only ended up getting your shed crushed if you were the sort of person who willingly went to see Freddy Star making shit TV, so it seems like self selection really.
I HATE THIS GAME SHOW. HATE HATE HATE HATE IT. HATE IT. I HATE THE FACT SKY THOUGHT THIS WOULD BE CLASSED AS ENTERTAINMENT. I HATED THAT EVERYONE INVOLVED IN THIS PRODUCTION THOUGHT IT WAS A GOOD IDEA. AND I HATE THE HOSTS FOR NOT OBVIOUSLY HEADING FOR THE HILLS AND NOT SLUMMING IT FOR THE MONEY. AAARRRGGGGHHHHHHH.
I HOPE THE CREATORS OF THIS GOT SENT TO A PSYCH WARD. BECAUSE IT'S CLEAR THEY HAVE SHEER CONTEMPT OF THE HUMAN RACE.
It amazes me people thought Starr was funny for so long.
Oh dear oh dear. People actually paid a $ky subscription to watch this car crash (car crush?) drivel? 😱
Is that Jon Culshaw doing commentary on the Yewtree segments?
It sounds like him, but there's no hard evidence, so I didn't want to commit to the slander of giving him credit. I've seen Simon Greenall suggested too.
@@StuartMillard there'd be all kinds of legal hassle to be had there. Discretion is the better part of valour.
Woefully under subbed. I would say under promoted but I'm here so.
This is the kind of youtube I would make if I actually had a work ethic or discipline.
or a brain
I shouldn't worry about the losing contestant getting nothing and being stranded miles from Llanelli; spool back to the Ofcom complaint and the production company say the losers were compensated.
Nope no compensation.
This gameshow is so bad it makes you wonder who the heck thought this was something people would find entertaining?
Humilating people under the guise of a gameshow is not entertainment it's mean spirited nastiness and spite.
Stay away from Japanese game shows and comedy specials then. Hooooooly Jesus.
i could only stand 5 mins of the review, let alone the show !
Freddie Starr never knowingly funny
i weep for john logie baird when i see shit like this.
The adult/cĥild asssault course would be a piece of piss these days for any of us that have had to haul a two year old to the top of a giant soft play?