How tall are you?
6ft 5&3/4in, can be easliy found in a crowd i suppose. tsk 
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Gavin Scott
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I'm 6'1". I really assumed I would be one of the tallest but my goodness what big members we have round here.
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[/quote]BBC Cult via Google wrote: A very long-running and perennially popular sketch show. Emery's flair with costume and make-up helped him put across a wealth of memorable TV characters - the man-hungry, sexually frustrated Hettie; the very forward blonde Mandy; the toothy vicar; the uncouth skin-head Bovver Boy; the excessively camp Clarence ('honky tonk'); the rocker Ton-Up Boy on his motor-bike; the ageing, breath-catching First World War veteran Lampwick, and numerous others - and these endeared him to the viewing audience and kept his show high in the ratings for nearly 20 years. The vox-pop street interviews conducted with Emery's bunch of eccentrics were developed by the writer David Cumming and they made Mandy a particular favourite, his confused but battling blonde who originally just gave stupefied looks in answer to questions but eventually, assuming a hidden double entendre, developed her own 'Ooh, you are awful' catchphrase, accompanied by an over-heavy push in the stomach - the first part of which gave Emery the title of his 1972 feature film that featured many of the TV characters.
The presence in early credits of American sketch writers (Mel Brooks, Mel Tolkin, Selma Diamond, Lucille Kallen and others) suggests that some sketch scripts were bought in from US shows, probably ones originally written for Sid Caesar. As The Dick Emery Show developed, however, the emphasis moved away from random sketch ideas to concentrate on Emery's cast of characters who would appear in their own segments each week. (A similar technique was used later by Kenny Everett in his shows.) The programmes maintained a high standard throughout, thanks in no small part to Emery's surprisingly effective acting talent.
Note. Emery won his own starring show in July 1963 but he had been set to headline a very similar show a few months earlier, A Touch Of The Sun, announced as a fortnightly piece to run from 20 April 1963. In this, Emery's supporting cast was to have included Joan Sims, Patrick Cargill, singers Mary Millar and Gary Miller, and dancer Una Stubbs. But while listed in Radio Times, A Touch Of The Sun never materialised, although the entire cast (except Cargill) were on board for the first series of The Dick Emery Show.
