Roland Rivron's Sense of Shame Posted Thu Oct 19 09:34:36 BST 2000 by 'Peter O'

In a Young Ones episode, he mimed a few lines from a Bob Dylan song (along with Jools Holland, the other one from Raw Sex, the drummer from the Police and probably half of Dexy's Midnight Runners for all I know) and he looked thoroughly ashamed and embarrassed every time the camera was pointed at him, as well he should have.

And now he's on primary school kid's TV singing a song about how all animals have to build a house. And he hasn't even bothered to shave!

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Posted By 'Squidy' on Thu Oct 19 10:22:52 BST 2000:


>And now he's on primary school kid's TV singing a song about how all animals have to build a house. And he hasn't even bothered to shave!
>

Cat's Eyes! That's brilliant! There are these too puppet cats and one of them has the Brummie voice of Steve Nallon, and occasionaly Dilys Laye turns up. Or was it a different Carry On actress?

Anyone watch Words And Pictures? "El Nombre/Writing numbers in the desert sand/El Nombree-ee!"

How do they work that Magic Pencil? "Up and round, Up and round". Must be twenty years old now, that pencil. Hmmm.




p.s. I am unemployed and watch too much Daytime TV. Still, BBC Schools will always be better than Richard and Judy.

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Posted By TJ on Thu Oct 19 10:33:44 BST 2000:

Gasp... El Nombre finally gets a mention on here!!!

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Posted By 'Squidy' on Thu Oct 19 10:46:58 BST 2000:

"El Nombre/Writing numbers in the desert sand/El Nombree-ee!"

"What ees wrong, Little Juan?"
"El Nombre, I no know how many coins I have"
or
"I no know how to draw a five"
or
"What is Marx's view on the workers's proletariat?"

OK, not the last one (or the last Juan, hee hee)

Kids TV's guh-RATE, isn't it?

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Posted By Justin on Thu Oct 19 23:02:20 BST 2000:

His chat show in the Thames, called...er, "Rivron" (LWT, 1989). A useless idea, appropriately executed.

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Posted By 'Jake Thingy' on Fri Oct 20 05:44:43 BST 2000:

Apparently, at one stage they really were going to call that "Thames Television". One for the idents crowd there...

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Posted By 'Jon' on Fri Oct 20 09:06:35 BST 2000:

It was shown on C4. He also did 'Set Of Six', a completely unfunny series developing the mostly unfunny character of Dr. Martin Stote (remember him?) that Rivron performed on The Last Resort. SOS featured Stote's various brothers, all played by Rivron. It was very poor.

At the time of Rivron, he was going out with Wendy James (remember her?) and interviewed her once.

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Posted By 'tvspaulmoore' on Fri Oct 20 09:23:58 BST 2000:

Mind you I've always thought Raw Sex were very funny in early French & Saunders. And that in character Rivron had more than a passing resemblance to Jimmy White.

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Posted By 'Rob' on Sat Oct 21 00:32:20 BST 2000:

Do you think he gets paid for those useless appearances on 'Later'? Is Jools his dealer and he's run up a tab?

Raw Sex doing 'Aqua Marina' was very good though.

Would love to see 'Groovy Fellers' again.

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Posted By 'Unruly Butler' on Sat Oct 21 01:26:37 BST 2000:

Is Groovy Fellers just a fond Goodies-style memory? If you saw it now would it be rubbish?

I remember thinking it was the funniest thing on telly way back when...

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Posted By TJ on Sat Oct 21 15:19:52 BST 2000:

I thought Groovy Fellers was really good too.

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