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4 Episodes 1982 - 1982
Episode 1
Pawnbrokers, poverty, policemen and boxers-these are a few of Les's Collyhurst memories. But it was a Manchester community which stuck together and lives on in the minds of those who have left it to the ravages of the developers. Lancashire mill folk and Blackpool landladies are also a fertile source of fun for Les - so they feature in this amiable amble around the people and places of his past. With Roy Barraclough.
Episode 2
'People always seem to think of me and music-hall, but I didn't start in music-hall. I'm not old enough - I know I look it, but I worry a lot! ' In this film Roy goes back to his native Croydon and stages an improbable 'old boys' reunion' with some of the lads who were with him in a Boys' Club concert party. The story continues via the Striptease Vin-Rouge and Butlins to his meeting with Dickie Pounds, who gave him his first professional break in her summer shows, Out of the Blue.
Episode 3
Irene Handl is one of Britain's funniest actresses, appearing in countless plays and films in a succession of working-class parts. Yet her own London background is vastly different. Born of foreign parents over 80 years ago, she grew up in a household staffed with servants, and in this film she talks about the childhood experiences that later became the basis of so many comic roles in films like A French Mistress, Morgan and I'm All Right Jack.
Episode 4
The one-time miner from South Yorkshire, now one of the stars of Hi-De-Hi! shows us round his native Rotherham; retracing his steps from Hovis to Bovis! The school which failed to train him and the colliery which failed to restrain him led to the pub which paid a pittance and the club which proved the pit's answer to his prayers. Rotherham's other famous comic son, Sandy Powell - making his last recorded television appearance -and the town's singing MP, Stan Crowther, join Paul in a celebration of Rotherham old and new.