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Michelmore is well worth the debate and a good candidate for a couple of years on perhaps, but he looks too well to me. On dullness, another couple of candidates might be Richard Baker (who must be getting on a bit but seems to be still working)and Tony Hart who is now about 80. I never took to Vision On but he did design the Blue Peter badge which makes him exceedingly famous but still a bit dull.

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Tony Hart who is now about 80. I never took to Vision On but he did design the Blue Peter badge which makes him exceedingly famous but still a bit dull.

 

And has his own thread hereabouts.

 

Wonder what a collective noun for a group of vacuous tv celebs like Mitchelmore and Hart would be. How about an ABSENCE of Mitchelmores. Or a LACKLUSTRE of Harts.

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Or a dozen of Bakers. Does he have a thread? I can't find one.

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Tony Hart who is now about 80. I never took to Vision On but he did design the Blue Peter badge which makes him exceedingly famous but still a bit dull.

 

And has his own thread hereabouts.

 

Wonder what a collective noun for a group of vacuous tv celebs like Mitchelmore and Hart would be. How about an ABSENCE of Mitchelmores. Or a LACKLUSTRE of Harts.

Neither Hart or Michelmore are vacuous, both are intelligent well educated men,

 

you may find them insipid, but that probably has more to do with the kind of TV shows they presented, than the individuals themselves.

 

Michelmore and Hart could in reality be sparkling wits, real life of the party types,

granted they're probably not. But compared to someone like Pete Doherty, I know whom I'd rather have a conversation with.

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Both are talented guys and Michelmore has a good sense of humour but I don't recall him ever lighting up the screen or pissing anyone off like Paxman does all the time. Tony Hart is a huge talent but still very dull, as was the Blue Peter badge but maybe that's sour grapes because I never got one, or a Crackerjack pencil (the dream double for tellywatching kids in the sixties).

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Aye

 

It's not as if anyone seems to have gone wild in celebration.

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Yesterday (April 8th) BBC Parliament Channel showed the whole of the BBC TV Election Night coverage for the General Election of 1966. Cliff Michelmore was an excellent Anchor for the coverage.

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Then bring him back and let let the stress of trying to repeat that performance put some life into this dull dull thread. Do you think - like - he ever partied with Frank Bough?

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I think he still crops up on those charity appeal things the BBC does at Christmas. I'm in my late 20s and still remember him but I doubt anyone under 25 would.

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Saw a somewhat misguided reference to necromancy on another thread which prompted me to revive this flagging apology - the thread, not CM himself - to see if any true necromancers out there could breathe anything resembling life into its sorry existence.

 

Personally, I reckon they invented grey suits because creatures like Cliff Mitchelmore roam this earth, end of.

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Cliff Michelmore (no T) was (probably still is) a fine upstanding man. Reliable, authoritative with a mashy sort of a smile and a few strands of hair. He left us too soon, as did most of the presenters of Nationwide where he may or may not have done some presenting since Cliff was really a "Tonight" man in what is now the Newsnight slot. Jeremy Paxman pah! You knew were you were with Michelmore and where you were was somewhere else. He should be deathlisted for 2007.

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DL Ghost, I like the cut of your jib. Fulsome praise for a man before turning, accepting his mortality, and demanding we all share in his demise.

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He's my dad! Fit and well at the age of 86, in fact we are about to teach him how to use the internet so he can continue to inform all those out there that he is alive and well and surfing the net!!!!

 

<_< <--- he's almost 1 of these but with no beard and looks a damn sight better!!

 

:o <--- that's more like it :P

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He's my dad! Fit and well at the age of 86, in fact we are about to teach him how to use the internet so he can continue to inform all those out there that he is alive and well and surfing the net!!!!

 

<_< <--- he's almost 1 of these but with no beard and looks a damn sight better!!

 

:o <--- that's more like it :P

 

 

I was always a fan of your Dad, Jenny. Imperturbable in all situations.

Rather like Guy when he dropped that cup of coffee on his keyboard a couple of seconds before going on-air a few years back.

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No sh*t!

 

Now here's a dilemma, do we have us a genuine celeb relative surfing and joshing with the rest of us or a drive-by case winding us up? Only time, I guess, will tell. When his official site goes live and he links it to us here we'll know Jenny was the real deal. Amazing, real tension and interest surrounding Cliff Mitchelmore!

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S'cuse the pedantry but after an exhaustive Internet trawl I think we have us a mistake here.

 

It's MITCHELMORE and not MICHELMORE as we have it at the top of the thread.

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S'cuse the pedantry but after an exhaustive Internet trawl I think we have us a mistake here.

 

It's MITCHELMORE and not MICHELMORE as we have it at the top of the thread.

 

No it's definitely Michelmore.

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He's my dad! Fit and well at the age of 86, in fact we are about to teach him how to use the internet so he can continue to inform all those out there that he is alive and well and surfing the net!!!!

 

:old: <--- he's almost 1 of these but with no beard and looks a damn sight better!!

 

B) <--- that's more like it ;)

Thanks for the update Jenny. Please keep us posted.

 

regards,

 

ff

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Tempus my good man:

 

I'll bow to your Michelmore knowledge, but there's loads of misguided souls out there in cyberspace disagree.

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If Jenny Michelmore's post is genuine, and I see no need to doubt it, is this the first post by either the topic of a DL thread or their relative? Its certainly very sporting of her to join the dicussion and I look forward to hearing from Cliff. I do hope he's lost that comb-over.

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S'cuse the pedantry but after an exhaustive Internet trawl I think we have us a mistake here.

 

It's MITCHELMORE and not MICHELMORE as we have it at the top of the thread.

 

Super-S'cuse me but I believe that his own daughter Jenny would be better informed on how to spell her own F*****g name.

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If Jenny Michelmore's post is genuine, and I see no need to doubt it, is this the first post by either the topic of a DL thread or their relative? Its certainly very sporting of her to join the dicussion and I look forward to hearing from Cliff. I do hope he's lost that comb-over.

Have a look at the final few posts in the World's Strongest Man thread. Also have a read of Clive Dunn as well.

 

DWB :old:

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Cecil my unregistered drive-by poster of a mate!

 

I take yer point but as someone with a week or two's experience around these parts I know better than to take anything on these boards at immediate face value. Should you decide to stick around you'll find banter - for example - claiming that one poster is Jimmy Page in disguise.

 

Then again, maybe you're an old timer on these boards yourself sneaking under the wire with a new name. And maybe I'm Cliff Michelmore joshing with yers all. I love the Internet me.

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Tempus my good man:

 

I'll bow to your Michelmore knowledge, but there's loads of misguided souls out there in cyberspace disagree.

 

Definitely Michelmore. A HUGE amount of people on the internet are stupid & cannot spell as proved here

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