Friday 16 September 2016
494 Sweet And Sour
First viewed : June / July 1981
No stills found for this and I expect that's the way it will stay as it will certainly never be broadcast again.
I wrote the TV Cream entry ( getting the dates wrong I must confess ) so I might as well reproduce it here ; do bear in mind it was written long before news of Mr Hall's transgressions broke
HISTORIANS OF punk rock remain blissfully unaware of the hapless BILL GRUNDY’s twilight career on regional TV, here playing the “sour” in this pre-Grade space-filler in the 10.15pm spot on Friday nights. The ultimate cheapo conceit, it consisted of a weekly face-off in the studio wherein “sweet” STUART HALL would spout bollocks on any subject that came into his head in his usual fashion before the baton was passed to lugubrious GRUNDY for a sober (not a word normally associated with him) putdown. Occasionally it worked the other way – Grundy liked dogs while Hall complained about crap on his lawn. Limited, perhaps wisely, to viewers only in the North West.
I forgot to mention that one episode in the second series had a guest ranter in Crewe MP Gwyneth Dunwoody who vented her spleen on journalists.
The show did have a small cult following at my school where we were fascinated by the cheapness of the conceit and Hall's way over the top verbosity. It's sad that you can only whisper an affection for the latter now.
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