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Just a helping hand as it's getting lost!

With having loads to do today have just spent time collating some of the answers. Don't know if they are right or not of course and there are still several blanks. Come on folks. (1) You got it straight from the horses mouth. - Mister Ed (2) Battery? This young man was charged with it. – Torchy the Battery Boy (3) Western lawman - strings attached. – Tex Tucker from Four Feather Falls (4) This was an arts programme for everyone. - Omnibus (5) Steptoe drops an aitch to become a puppeteer. – Harry Corbett (6) The game that awarded extra points for orange and black - but in black and white. – The Golden Shot ?????? (7) Archbishop in my past contrived to be a slapstick legend. – Mr. Pastry (8) Early soap oranges grown here. – Grove Family (9) This Hibernian ex-pug asked a question about his descent. - Eamonn Andrews (10) Pressing necessity protected ''Child X'' in medical drama. – Emergency Ward 10 (11) Greek character grants me strange emporium employing new gent, we hear. – Coronation Street OR The Omega Man (12) Mad hatter burns it's expert committee. – The Brains Trust (13) We were told three times to exercise our franchise for him. – Vote Vote Vote for Nigel Barton (14) Why circumnavigation isn't possible in an ex-goons sphere. – Michael Bentine’s Square World (15) Vice? You'll turn to a redheadsallure for me! - I Love Lucy (16) Here's where some 1970's ITV viewers saw the weather forecast for the first time, clear or murky but less right. - (17) Sword, mail....lain asunder to reveal equestrian informer. – Dorian Williams (18) Feed for 'orse named after galaxy, perhaps? – ‘A’ for Andromeda (19) Sad, safe- and popular with children for 40 years. – Blue Peter (20) Remove owl for schoolboy. – Billy Bunter (21) Rex bart - Mondays muddly talker before Murray Walker! – Raymond Baxter (22) Game detective, no digger, gave voice in ultimate state. - (23) Muddy lights, hall unpainted, at a noon variety show. - Sunday Night At The London Palladium (24) Rude teen is only put right when Danes hammer is employed. - Janet

9 - yep Eamon Andrews - and the programme was What's my Line

I think we're still looking for answers to 15, 16, 22, 23, and 24. I've noted all your replies and should be able to fill the form in soon. Couldn't have done it at all though without the help from you all at GC. THANKYOU! Just the last few to get then. I thought the answer to Q19 was Blue Peter, but on the radio today i heard that Play School has been going for 40 years to the day. Do you think it could be that? Tracey

No! Definitely Blue Peter. Blue = sad, Peter = Rock (safe)

Thanks Janet, We'll stick with Blue Peter then!

Someone already got No. 23 - Sunday Night at The London Palladium. (Anagram)

I also think No. 7 is Mr. Pastry. He was on TV a lot - unlike Charlie Chaplin who was mainly films (only occasionally shown) The clue lies in 'my past' (partial anagram)

I still think No 11 is something to do with Coronation Street. Someone else said 'Gamma Garments' which was a company where a Street character called Leonard Swindley (played by Arthur Lowe) worked. He also ran the corner shop at one stage with Emily Nugent (now Emily Bishop)....'new gent' What does everyone else think? I can't see how 'The Omega Man' fits the clue.

The anagram is MY PAST RR (RR= Right Reverend = archbishop) The Greek character (or letter) is Gamma Grants me is an anagram of Garments.

Hi Geoff Was there actually a programme called Gamma Garments then?

Question 11 I can see where the answer The Omega Man comes from - Omega is the 2nd letter of the Greek alphabet and gent - man. However I thought The Omega Man was a 1971 film starring Charlton Heston. Coronation Street - Gamma - is greek, strange emporium, Gamma Garments, employing Emily Nugent (new gent). There was no actual programme called Gamma Garments ( I think) Not sure about Question 6 I can't remember anything about orange and black in the Golden Shot and it was eventually in colour. Janet

As Janet said, Gamma Garments was the emporium which "employed Miss New-gent" in Coronation St. The second letter of the Greek alphabet is Beta (hence alpha-bet). Omega was the last letter ("from alpha to omega" - the full range).

I've been doing a bit of research! There wasn't a programme called Gamma Garments, but there was a spin off called 'Pardon the Expression'. This is what I found:- Pardon The Expression 1 9 6 5 - 1 9 6 6 (UK) 39 x 30 minute episodes This sitcom from Grenada was a spin -off of sorts from the king of all soap operas, Coronation Street . Arthur Lowe starred as Leonard Swindley, the assistant manager of a branch of a national chain department store called Dobson and Hawks. Other characters were played by Joy Stewart, Robert Dorning, Betty Driver and Paul Dawkins (as store manager Walter Hunt). Constant displays of bumbling ineptitude in the retail trade were rewarded when everyone received their dismissal from the store at the end of the series. Script writers included Jack Rosenthal and (the legendary) Vince Powell. I think the answer to this quiz, however, must be 'Coronation Street', as Gamma Garments didn't feature in Pardon the Expression - it was 'Dobson and Hawkes'. Leonard Swindley had left Gamma Garments and Coronation Street and moved on - hence the spin off.

Question No. 20. Can someone explain how the answer Billy Bunter was found from the clue? Am I missing something?

Hi Janet, My, you are keeping busy!! You're not gonna give up with it are you? I'll be honest , i haven't got much of a clue when it comes to old TV programmes but everyone is doing so well to get so far with it! Tracey

This makes me feel very old! I think no.15 may be "I Love Lucy" I can't remember the full name of the actress involved but she had red hair. It's an anagram of Love! You'll. Rosemary(Essex)

Nice one Rosemary! You could be right there. Tracey

Sorry to show my ignorance, but is there an orange ball in Snooker or billiards? There used to be a programme on BBC2 called Pot Black. You don't seem to happy with the Golden Shot so I wondered if Pot Black might fit? Rosemary(Essex)

Hi Rosemary, I don't know about billiards but there isn't in snooker. The colours are yellow, green, brown, blue, pink and black