On the subject of Derek Acorah - one of my sister's friends worked at Llancaich Fawr and they caught him looking at the tourist information leaflets before filming started
This triggered a memory of watching some Paul Daniels show as a kid, where the diminutive warlock dressed as an outrageously Fu-Manchu style caricature and had someone shoot him so he could catch the bullet. IIRC he pretended he'd been shot dead then too, but did a reveal at the end showing he was still alive.
@Howard Kelly Great find. It didn't seem *too bad* at first, but then they did a close-up and I'm almost positive Daniels is wearing prosthetic eyelids.
I'm laughing at the jokes now, but aged 8 watching Paul Daniels doing the ghost thing live I didn't sleep for weeks afterwards. I remember making my parents lives hell by sitting up the entire night in a panic. He was an absolute genius of his time.
"Location, location, location........" [smiles] [nods to film crew] [smile turns to grimace] [regrets turning down that Sci-fi convention in Torquay for a "groundbreaking" TV gig]
Paul Daniels was unfairly portrayed as an annoying character in later years and it's easy to forget he was the absolute best at what he did. I can't think of any modern magician that could do series after series, year after year. And when he performs a routine, he nails it. Card tricks, illusions, escapology, he did it all, brilliantly.
My favorite story about the Paul Daniels spoecial was after it happened, two policemen went to Paul's mum's house and asked her if she was alright she she said "oh yes I'm fine, he's always doing things like that!"
For a moment, I had an awful premonition of a tired and emotional Charles Hawtrey getting the name ‘Pennsylvania’ hideously wrong in front of all those children.
Lovely work, all credit to you for wading through that Ghostwatch live stuff for us! Good to see that "Always finish on a song" still works in this day and age : )
I remember Paul Daniels being somewhat of a cheesy punchline in his later years, but through this videos I'm beginning to think he was...maybe...a master of his art? Something quite moving about him telling Debbie to leave. Sensational work, Millard. Totally done in by the closing seconds. Need a lie down to recover.
I have no idea why Daniels is so maligned, the guy was brilliant. Getting Debbie out was necessary to sell the reality though, because if it was real a) she'd know and b) freak out over the death of her husband. Imagine if the show went off air to Debbie McGee's blood curdling screams and frantic attempts to open the Iron Maiden though? Now that would have got complaint letters.
I genuinely think he's one of the most talented people on television from any era, and nobody had their craft down like him. But by virtue of said craft being considered old-hat and naff once we got out of the mid 80s, and him being a miserable old Tory in a wig, he always gets lumped in with the Keith Harris types.
I saw Paul Daniels at the Olympia theatre. Dublin and he was the best of the old school close up magicians. One of my inlaws got his autograph and had that for years..
@@StuartMillardHe was al ways totally open that what he was doing was an illusion and did t try to paint it as anything else. That probably counted against him in the end. What Derren Brown does is no different to Daniels.
Good Lord, that Daniels bit stayed with me for years after I watched it live. It’s up there with Ghostwatch and the Inside 9 special as the best Halloween TV
Well, presumably Debbie would have seen the work he put into their act and the level of creativity and craft involved. Paul Daniels isn't necessarily a charismatic or photogenic person but you can't underestimate the amount that seeing someone who is passionate and devoted to their work and consistently makes it appear like the impossible has been done can make you feel attraction to them. Debbie was in the glamorous assistant role, but it never felt quite as skeevy as it does with many other magicians, so she probably felt like he legitimately respected her involvement in the act and treated her well, both professionally and as a romantic partner. To a certain extent, I feel like the fact that he looks and acts so unpretentious in his work was a benefit to his career. Most magicians come across like they're putting on a false persona and tend to read as self obsessed egotists who love the sound of their own voice, whereas Daniels really doesn't go over the top and it's much more of a payoff when an elaborate trick is completed and you can't quite tell how he did it. Debbie got to see all of it throughout the process and it must have felt like a privilege to be so closely involved and trusted by him for all the potentially dangerous stunts they performed.
Wonderful stuff! Producer Andrew Mark Sewell had the rights and was trying to remake Blakes 7 at that time IIRC, which would explain Darrow's involvement, if nothing else.
Day release from an institution would seem to explain his involvement better. I know nerves can be a thing on live television but so can being unhinged.
27:12 Hope Production Manager Colin Fay twigged that iron maiden stuff. After, he was the man who had his stomach blown out by Philip Madoc in "The Brain Of Morbius" which got almost as many complaints as this show did.
Brilliant. I was weirdly watching that "ghostwatch" for my book and could barely sit through its cringe enduring naffness. It's a bad day when I long to wash the taste from my mouth with a proper Most Haunted Live.
Man that Ghostwatch Live was hard to watch even in clip form, can't imagine sitting through the whole thing. I thought you were overegging it with the Fox and Fleetwood comparison, but no... Nice to see Runaround again though, I was wondering whether that might pop up at some point on your channel. Have you done Cheggers Plays Pop yet?
One of the most depressing interviews I ever heard was when Claudia Christian was doing a phone interview in which she was promoting a new cure for alcoholism that doesn't require abstaining from alcohol like typical recovery programs. Her voice sounded intoxicated while proclaiming herself cured of alcoholism.
Wow... Ghostwatch Live was something I missed at the time (unlike the real Ghostwatch) and Christ, that was one of the most awkward and cringe inducing things I've ever witnessed.
The Paul Daniels special had much more effect on me than Ghostwatch, possibly because I was a sneering cynical teenager by 1992. Daniels did appear later on that evening (after Monty Python IIRC) to say that he was, in fact, actually alive. It seems odd to me that people love to moan about how Halloween has *suddenly* become a big thing over here, when it clearly always has been, and you wouldn't think it from the TV schedules.
I recall this version of events being corroborated in one of the early TV Cream mailouts, when they had a feature on shows that (supposedly) got banned from being repeated.
reposting from patreon - Belated extra spookyness - over on a Digital Spy thread about the actual non-live Ghostwatch, either he did the same hoax again or somebody's totally misremembered Paul Daniels (not) dying in an iron maiden as him fake burning to death in a knock off wickerman. Just posted my memories of what actually happened from seeing your clips & re-found this video o to link it - skipped to near the end to re-find the Paul daniels bit and genuinely the first word that came out straight from your commentary when I hit play was "Ghostwatch" Ooh spooky.
Tremendous piece of business by Daniels. Would have loved to see the shoot interview where Daniels shits all over modern workers like Blane for exposing the business. Top notch as always sir..just off to order your book for a Christmas present to myself.
What would you suggest as an alternative? W³ (Double-U cubed)? Triple-double-U? For clarity, I just wanted to come up with sillier ways to express "www", not be a knob to you. Your point is reasonable but I thought it would be funny.
I have been binging your videos ... i am Canadian SO tbh i have known of none of your topics... i feel provelaged to be enligtened by such cringe. I also feel genuinely bad for only realising NOW i havent subbed. Pft. I have literally watched you for hours now. THX for your hard work putting these together eh. ❤ PS i subbed 😅🎉
On the subject of Derek Acorah - one of my sister's friends worked at Llancaich Fawr and they caught him looking at the tourist information leaflets before filming started
This triggered a memory of watching some Paul Daniels show as a kid, where the diminutive warlock dressed as an outrageously Fu-Manchu style caricature and had someone shoot him so he could catch the bullet. IIRC he pretended he'd been shot dead then too, but did a reveal at the end showing he was still alive.
I absolutely will not rest until I've tracked this down.
I do remember that too! It's perfect for this channel.
I hope you can find it
@Howard Kelly Great find. It didn't seem *too bad* at first, but then they did a close-up and I'm almost positive Daniels is wearing prosthetic eyelids.
I remember that being a huge thing at the time.
Like the "magician pretending to be killed in trick-gone-wrong" wasn't a cliche? How naive do you have to be?
I'm laughing at the jokes now, but aged 8 watching Paul Daniels doing the ghost thing live I didn't sleep for weeks afterwards. I remember making my parents lives hell by sitting up the entire night in a panic. He was an absolute genius of his time.
When I saw Frankenstein, the True Story (the 70s TV movie) when I was 7 or 8, I had to sleep in the bed with my grandma that night I was so scared.
"Location, location, location........" [smiles] [nods to film crew] [smile turns to grimace] [regrets turning down that Sci-fi convention in Torquay for a "groundbreaking" TV gig]
What I liked about Daniels was he had no time for mediums, psychics, Uri Geller types
Most magicians don't, unless they're grifters. They know the tricks. They also know how to turn water into wine.
Paul definitely had no time for mediums what with Debbie McGee being a small. I’m here all week, try the beef……
I love that Paul Daniels special, it's all a bit proto-Derren Brown in its presentation, it's very well done for its time.
Ohh classic Alan Partridge frustration moment at 3:21 😂😂😂 he even does the gestures
I remember the original Ghostwatch and the Paul Daniels Ghost trick
The Coca-Cola hearse XD I want it
Paul Daniels was unfairly portrayed as an annoying character in later years and it's easy to forget he was the absolute best at what he did. I can't think of any modern magician that could do series after series, year after year. And when he performs a routine, he nails it. Card tricks, illusions, escapology, he did it all, brilliantly.
It was the wig.
Not a lot...
My favorite story about the Paul Daniels spoecial was after it happened, two policemen went to Paul's mum's house and asked her if she was alright she she said "oh yes I'm fine, he's always doing things like that!"
For a moment, I had an awful premonition of a tired and emotional Charles Hawtrey getting the name ‘Pennsylvania’ hideously wrong in front of all those children.
Lovely work, all credit to you for wading through that Ghostwatch live stuff for us! Good to see that "Always finish on a song" still works in this day and age : )
'A veritable Chekhov's armoury of bad tidings' - one for the better end of your audience there.
I remember Paul Daniels being somewhat of a cheesy punchline in his later years, but through this videos I'm beginning to think he was...maybe...a master of his art? Something quite moving about him telling Debbie to leave.
Sensational work, Millard. Totally done in by the closing seconds. Need a lie down to recover.
I have no idea why Daniels is so maligned, the guy was brilliant. Getting Debbie out was necessary to sell the reality though, because if it was real a) she'd know and b) freak out over the death of her husband. Imagine if the show went off air to Debbie McGee's blood curdling screams and frantic attempts to open the Iron Maiden though? Now that would have got complaint letters.
I genuinely think he's one of the most talented people on television from any era, and nobody had their craft down like him. But by virtue of said craft being considered old-hat and naff once we got out of the mid 80s, and him being a miserable old Tory in a wig, he always gets lumped in with the Keith Harris types.
I saw Paul Daniels at the Olympia theatre. Dublin and he was the best of the old school close up magicians. One of my inlaws got his autograph and had that for years..
He fronted my favourite quiz show of all time - Every Second Counts. A great format for the time.
@@StuartMillardHe was al ways totally open that what he was doing was an illusion and did t try to paint it as anything else. That probably counted against him in the end. What Derren Brown does is no different to Daniels.
Good Lord, that Daniels bit stayed with me for years after I watched it live. It’s up there with Ghostwatch and the Inside 9 special as the best Halloween TV
Absolutely agree
I thought it obvious and anticlimactic. There you go.
Paul Darrow is more scarier than the would be ghosts failing to show up! As for the woman presenter she couldn't present a piss up in a brewery!
more scarier!
I can't believe you only have 2k subs. Your channel is hilarious, I've not laughed this much for ages.
You need to get out less.
Keep these videos coming pls. ❤
Wow! I didn't realise you wrote the Smoke and Mirrors book - I love that!!!!! :)
I've always loved _Great Expectations_ and only recently discovered it was written by Charles Dickens.
The biggest magic trick was how how Northern Magician Daniels pulled Debbie McGee?
Calm down Liz Dawn
Not seen Mrs Merton?
That's magic 😂😂
@@pipster1891 yeah
Well, presumably Debbie would have seen the work he put into their act and the level of creativity and craft involved. Paul Daniels isn't necessarily a charismatic or photogenic person but you can't underestimate the amount that seeing someone who is passionate and devoted to their work and consistently makes it appear like the impossible has been done can make you feel attraction to them.
Debbie was in the glamorous assistant role, but it never felt quite as skeevy as it does with many other magicians, so she probably felt like he legitimately respected her involvement in the act and treated her well, both professionally and as a romantic partner.
To a certain extent, I feel like the fact that he looks and acts so unpretentious in his work was a benefit to his career. Most magicians come across like they're putting on a false persona and tend to read as self obsessed egotists who love the sound of their own voice, whereas Daniels really doesn't go over the top and it's much more of a payoff when an elaborate trick is completed and you can't quite tell how he did it.
Debbie got to see all of it throughout the process and it must have felt like a privilege to be so closely involved and trusted by him for all the potentially dangerous stunts they performed.
Wonderful stuff! Producer Andrew Mark Sewell had the rights and was trying to remake Blakes 7 at that time IIRC, which would explain Darrow's involvement, if nothing else.
Day release from an institution would seem to explain his involvement better. I know nerves can be a thing on live television but so can being unhinged.
"Dust, mate." 😂
27:12 Hope Production Manager Colin Fay twigged that iron maiden stuff. After, he was the man who had his stomach blown out by Philip Madoc in "The Brain Of Morbius" which got almost as many complaints as this show did.
i remember watching that! i think i recorded it! Tom , Paul and Claudia they were really trying to hook the sci fi fans
Brilliant. I was weirdly watching that "ghostwatch" for my book and could barely sit through its cringe enduring naffness. It's a bad day when I long to wash the taste from my mouth with a proper Most Haunted Live.
Paul Daniel's last trick, "I liked it a lot",
Man that Ghostwatch Live was hard to watch even in clip form, can't imagine sitting through the whole thing. I thought you were overegging it with the Fox and Fleetwood comparison, but no... Nice to see Runaround again though, I was wondering whether that might pop up at some point on your channel. Have you done Cheggers Plays Pop yet?
ghost watch might have been rubbish, but anything that gives the wonderful
Paul Darrow work is worthwhile
What an earworm!
"Andy has a collection of 35 badges." _Runaround_ was effing brilliant. Simply, one of the best game shows ever made.
One of the most depressing interviews I ever heard was when Claudia Christian was doing a phone interview in which she was promoting a new cure for alcoholism that doesn't require abstaining from alcohol like typical recovery programs. Her voice sounded intoxicated while proclaiming herself cured of alcoholism.
The Paul Daniels intro music reminds me of the theme from World In Action which was truly terrifying.
world in action theme was far better than the actual show
Wow... Ghostwatch Live was something I missed at the time (unlike the real Ghostwatch) and Christ, that was one of the most awkward and cringe inducing things I've ever witnessed.
This didn't turn up on my you tube feed for 3 weeks.... I suspect even RUclips is trying to bury this
The Paul Daniels special had much more effect on me than Ghostwatch, possibly because I was a sneering cynical teenager by 1992.
Daniels did appear later on that evening (after Monty Python IIRC) to say that he was, in fact, actually alive.
It seems odd to me that people love to moan about how Halloween has *suddenly* become a big thing over here, when it clearly always has been, and you wouldn't think it from the TV schedules.
Now a couple of you have pointed out him popping up again later, I think I'm remembering it too. Wonder if I'd stopped crying by then?
I recall this version of events being corroborated in one of the early TV Cream mailouts, when they had a feature on shows that (supposedly) got banned from being repeated.
@@StuartMillard When Daniels reappeared to show he was in fact alive, I thought, "Oh, FFS."
reposting from patreon - Belated extra spookyness - over on a Digital Spy thread about the actual non-live Ghostwatch, either he did the same hoax again or somebody's totally misremembered Paul Daniels (not) dying in an iron maiden as him fake burning to death in a knock off wickerman. Just posted my memories of what actually happened from seeing your clips & re-found this video o to link it - skipped to near the end to re-find the Paul daniels bit and genuinely the first word that came out straight from your commentary when I hit play was "Ghostwatch"
Ooh spooky.
I might nick that Paul Daniel Iron Maiden clip and stick a Liveleak logo in the top corner.
The GhostWatch Live is so dated. Darrow's hamminess makes it too lite and the BS is wonderfully transparent.
Runarooooouuuund nawwwww. I used to love that show as a kid
Tremendous piece of business by Daniels. Would have loved to see the shoot interview where Daniels shits all over modern workers like Blane for exposing the business.
Top notch as always sir..just off to order your book for a Christmas present to myself.
17:00 - more like a Bloody Mary!
When people used to say "double-u, double-u, double-u", the best example of the abbreviation taking much longer to say than the phrase it stands for.
What would you suggest as an alternative?
W³ (Double-U cubed)?
Triple-double-U?
For clarity, I just wanted to come up with sillier ways to express "www", not be a knob to you. Your point is reasonable but I thought it would be funny.
What IS a shadow? No one knows.
any plans to put your book on audible? I want to read it but I don't want to READ it, you get me
God Darrow was actually amazing, I've been missing out not watching him 'act' all these years.
Also FUCK YOU PAUL DANIELS, WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?
Didn't know you was published author
Yeah, uses correct conjugations, articles, full stops and everything.
At 15:18, does Andy have a collection of 35 badgers?
I think he was bullshitting and only had a collection of 3 - 5 badges.
Nah 35 badges of badgers……
I have been binging your videos ... i am Canadian SO tbh i have known of none of your topics... i feel provelaged to be enligtened by such cringe. I also feel genuinely bad for only realising NOW i havent subbed. Pft. I have literally watched you for hours now. THX for your hard work putting these together eh.
❤
PS i subbed 😅🎉
It is Crow..ley,not crauley
I remember how piss poor this was hahaha
'Crow'ley
A collection of 35 badges? Very poor.
Yes, that's exactly what Vic Reeves would say if that little chancer decided to turn up on Novelty Island with that paltry collection.
Paul Daniels is a legend in the world of magic, but come on: like the Beeb would actually air somebody getting killed on-air, lol!
You forgetting Edmonds' Late Late Breakfast Show?
@@craigrobertson1039 Oh shit, that's right.