Lance Percival Posted Mon Mar 26 16:47:49 BST 2001 by Bent Halo

Has he been spotted in the last five years? Has he done a great deal since 'Lance At Large'/'TW3'/etc, and if not, why not?

I read that he made a FIVE-minute programme for C4 in 1995 ('The Friday Calypso'), which I missed. Anyone know more?

Questions questions questions

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Posted By 'Squidy' on Wed Mar 28 13:10:08 BST 2001:

Lance Percival was on Esther's show yesterday in an edition about the Swinging Sixties. I only saw the last ten minutes which was mainly Nicholas Parsons talking about his Churchill impression. They interestingly showed the first few minutes of TW3's John F. Kennedy tribute (which was shown the week after the one we saw at the NFT), so presumably the whole show still exists in the BBC's archive somewhere.

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Posted By Bent Halo on Wed Mar 28 13:47:15 BST 2001:

There was a second TW3 screening at NFT, eh? Bean! I want a word with you!

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Posted By Bean Is A Carrot on Wed Mar 28 15:10:20 BST 2001:

>There was a second TW3 screening at NFT, eh? Bean! I want a word with you!

News to me Bent me old mate. Why don't you just bloody join the NFT anyway instead of having a go at me all the time?

<GOES OFF IN NON-SERIOUS HUFF>

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Posted By 'Squidy' on Wed Mar 28 16:33:34 BST 2001:

Er... there wasn't a second TW3 screening at the NFT. I meant that it was shown the week after the TW3 we saw was transmitted ORIGINALLY on Saturday the 23rd of November 1963, the day after Kennedy was shot.

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Posted By TJ on Wed Mar 28 16:37:21 BST 2001:

He means the night of the second episode of Doctor Who.

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Posted By Bent Halo on Wed Mar 28 18:42:51 BST 2001:

Lance Percival now does after-dinner speaking. I've looked it up.

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Posted By Bent Halo on Thu Mar 29 11:35:31 BST 2001:

Squidy darling, my programme notes for TW3 tell me that the edition we saw went out on 19/01/63, nowhere near to the death of JFK.

God, you would have thought Humphrey Carpenter could've done a decent programme guide in 'That Was Satire That Was'. Git. all I have is that appalling Dennis Potter biog with an incredible appendix.



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Posted By 'Squidy' on Thu Mar 29 11:45:13 BST 2001:

Hmmm... *thinks* Is it possible I could have been wrong? Very probably, yes.

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Posted By 'pop' on Mon Apr 16 17:54:21 BST 2001:

Lance Percival apparently had a nasty car accident in the Seventies which knocked him out the business for years.

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Posted By 'Tallboy' on Tue Apr 17 10:03:13 BST 2001:

JFK ruined my 5th birthday party by getting shot. When the news broke in the UK all my little mates' mums thought the Russians would start nuking the free world and came to collect their sprogs early so they could all die together.

I don't have any grouse with Lance Percival, though. Top fellow.

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