This half-hour afternoon show from Southern Television featured celebrity guests relating personal anecdotes to host Dick Hills (who also devised the show) around specific themes related to their lives – how they started their career; embarrassing moments; life in the armed services; working overseas; showbusiness colleagues; life on tour etc.
Guests over the 44 episodes included Alfred Marks, Arthur Askey, Jim Dale, Millicent Martin, Jimmy Jewel, Spike Milligan, Reg Varney, Roy Castle, Leslie Phillips, Terry Scott, Bernard Cribbins, Jon Pertwee, Thora Hird, Warren Mitchell, Beryl Reid, Henry Cooper, Acker Bilk, Dickie Henderson, Peggy Mount, Diana Dors, Barbara Windsor, Clive Dunn, Yootha Joyce, Bernard Manning, Max Wall, Kenneth Williams, Charlie Drake, Sylvia Sims, Tommy Trinder, Norman Wisdom and Michael Bentine.
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Dick Hills
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This half-hour afternoon show from Southern Television featured celebrity guests relating personal anecdotes to host Dick Hills (who also devised the show) around specific themes related to their lives – how they started their career; embarrassing moments; life in the armed services; working overseas; showbusiness colleagues; life on tour etc.
