The Les Dawson Show (1978)

This unflappable fowl walked on, as we say in the trade, during The Les Dawson Show (BBC1), wearing one of his old dress suits cut down, with the confidence of someone who has played the Glasgow Empire and lived to boast about it in bars. Les Dawson, who has precisely the same assurance for precisely the same reason, paid no attention whatsoever, as if passing penguins were a fact of life too common for comment.

Les Dawson (BBC1) is such an engaging fellow that you might wish he could be more adventurous, but his audience probably likes him for sticking to what he knows, which is mainly a verbally evoked Orc-sized mother-in-law and a wife who has to be transported in a cage.