Pingl
Friday 7th September 2012 5:18pm [Edited]
4,818 posts
Norman Collier, the chicken walk and faulty microphone were mighty
I don't think it's just down to tapes being wiped. Some shows like Dad's Army are repeated constantly, some like The Goodies never repeated. Benny Hill is remembered, Stanley Baxter almost forgotten, along with the likes Harry Worth and Jimmy Edwards; there are existing tapes of all these comedians, none of them are shown on TV, yet Benny Hill is remembered, maybe because he was so reviled in the eighties. Little remains of the work of Max Miller but he is well remembered and highly regarded. In the case of Sid Field you would have a point, but with many others some survive some don't. Think Hancock and Horne against comedians like Charlie Chester, Ted Ray, Arthur Askey all equally popular but now almost forgotten. Maybe cream rises to the top, but is that true in the case of Harry Worth, Jimmy Edwards, Jimmy James, Rob Wilton etc