The Krankies Odyssey - Part 2
Top Flight Time Machine
Andy Dawson & Sam Delaney
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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We get sidetracked by an interview with Max Bygraves from 1977 and Hitler’s balls. (Rec: 24/8/22)
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| 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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