Saturday 23 January 2016

324 Fred Basset


First  viewed  :  January  1978

This  is  here  because  in  the  early  part  of  1978  I  established  a  pattern  that  Friday  night  was  telly  night. I'd  get  home , have  tea, get  into  pyjamas  and  then  watch  the  box  unbroken  from  the  tail  end  of  Crackerjack  to  the  beginning  of  the  regional  programme  on  BBC1  at  10.15pm.

At  the  start  of  this  period  the  programme  in  the  Magic  Roundabout  slot  was  Fred  Basset  which  had  first  been  shown  in  1976. It  brought  the  character  from  the  Daily  Mail  comic  strip (  which  is  still  going  ) to  the  small  screen. Fred  came  from  an  impeccably  middle  class  household  and  had  the  attitudes  to  match. The  TV  series  was  shortlived  and  made  very  little  impression  on  me.

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