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Happy Birthday Brucie

(February 2008)

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AN
Andrew Founding member
Did anyone watch Happy Birthday Brucie on BBC1 tonight

A good show but I feel a bit too much Strictly Come Dancing, and not enough stuff from his ITV 1990s shows
:-(
A former member
did it have anything from Play your cards right?
DA
David
Andrew posted:
Did anyone watch Happy Birthday Brucie on BBC1 tonight

A good show but I feel a bit too much Strictly Come Dancing, and not enough stuff from his ITV 1990s shows


Yes, I watched this and enjoyed it. In an early link, Tess Daly mentioned all the things that Brucie (AKA Bruce Forsythe) had done over the years. She mentioned he had been in a sitcom. I was trying to work out what sitcom he was in and it brought back vague memories of Bruce Forsythe (AKA Brucie) playing the part of a supermarket manager. What was that show?
MD
Mr D'Arcy
I thought it was a good show actually although I did think that game with Jonathan Ross went on for an age. Love the Gen Game bit too.

The audience was like a who's who of yesteryear. I noticed June Whitfield, Nicholas Parsons, Kenny Ball and Rosemarie Ford.

Slingers Day was the sitcom Bruce was in.
CY
cylon6
TV Fetish posted:
I thought it was a good show actually although I did think that game with Jonathan Ross went on for an age. Love the Gen Game bit too.

The audience was like a who's who of yesteryear. I noticed June Whitfield, Nicholas Parson, Kenny Ball and Rosemarie Ford.

Slingers Day was the sitcom Bruce was in.


Kenny Ball is still around? I was watching him on an old Morecambe & Wise Christmas Show from 1972, which funnily enough also featured Bruce Forsyth.
PT
Put The Telly On
I thought it was a good tribute but obviously heavily about Strictly Come Dancing being that its a BBC show and that its the only show he hosts often today.

I thought the song he sang was quite emotional - paying tribute to some of his showbiz friends who like him, aren't still around today.
MA
Markymark
TV Fetish posted:


Slingers Day was the sitcom Bruce was in.


http://www.sitcom.co.uk/sitcoms/slingers_day.shtml

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