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Top Flight Time Machine

The Krankies Odyssey - Part 2

Top Flight Time Machine

Andy Dawson & Sam Delaney

Comedy, Sports, Sports & Recreation, Soccer

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

We get sidetracked by an interview with Max Bygraves from 1977 and Hitler’s balls. (Rec: 24/8/22)


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tftimachine.com slash Iron Filing's. Here we go, here we go, here we go, here we go, this is it.

0:35.2

This is top-like time machine. I am Andy Hotbody, Dawson Powell, Powell Powell.

0:40.1

And I am certainly to do 90 so well. Well, I'm along to the cranky odyssey part two. We're

0:48.3

looking at the cranky sort of biography, Fandabby Dozzy, our amazing true story.

0:54.3

Published in 2004 or something. Last week we didn't get any further than the forward,

1:02.0

which was written by Max Bigrives, and was very diveable. I don't think we're going to get any

1:10.0

further into the crankies themselves here, Sam, because we've had some correspondence

1:16.1

from Peter Balder, who is a very well-established and esteemed television and film writer.

1:25.3

Friend of the Shore, you could see. We generally say Friend of the Shore at anybody that doesn't

1:31.6

annoy us, I think. So that's the criteria for that. And he sent us a link to an archive guardian

1:40.7

article from July, 1977 about Max Bigrives. It's an interview with Max Bigrives,

1:45.6

basically. And of course, as we established last week, Max Bigrives' catchphrase was,

1:51.7

I want to tell you a story. He later tried to create another catchphrase, which was

1:58.4

big money, but he didn't take off. Big money. There was only really one man

2:06.1

who was able to ever successfully sustain multiple catchphrases, and that was Bruce Forsyth.

2:13.6

But of course, Bruce Forsyth. The whole point of a catchphrase is that's your phrase.

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