Comic Roots
- TV documentary
- BBC One
- 1982 - 1983
- 8 episodes (2 series)
Factual series in which a number of top comic names reveal their early lives and what made them so funny.
Episode menu
Series 1, Episode 2 - Roy Hudd's Croydon
In tonight's film Roy goes back to his native Croydon.
Further details
"People always seem to think of me and music-hall, but I didn't start in music-hall. I'm not old enough - know I look it, but I worry a lot!"
In tonight's 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 almost 30 years ago.
The story continues via the Striptease Vin-Rouge and Butlin's to his meeting with Dickie Pounds, who gave him his first professional break in her summer shows, Out of the Blue.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Monday 9th August 1982
- Time
- 6:50pm
- Channel
- BBC One
- Length
- 30 minutes