Victoria Wood - Susie Blake continuity announcer (Rundown)
michtyme3
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Susie Blake as the right-wing continuity announcer in 'Victoria Wood As Seen on TV' from 1986. In this clip she gives "a rundown of what we can expect from sunday's viewing"
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@clyneheretic 17 years ago
She once made a radio commercial for me in the early 1990's and gave me a kiss when we left the studio - it was a defining moment in my life. What a delightful, intelligent, funny, beautiful woman!
@steveforest8385 7 years ago
"so really I think random executions might make these strikers buck their ideas up."
@popazz1 7 years ago
" And we'd just like to apologise to our viewers in the North ...... it must be awful for them ".
@landinglight 19 years ago
Have watched this a million times already, and still find that bit hilarious!
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@InACountryGarden 15 years ago
@grubby740 - Do you know where this 'Sorry for pople in the North' sketch is on YouTube. It's still as funny as ever! (saw it replayed on a great programme re 25 years of V. Wood that was on TV the other day).
@lenamaria4able 7 years ago
This was before she voiced soo the female panda bear and rest of the female characters except katrina in sooty's amazing adventures cartoon series
@RobinCarmody 19 years ago
You couldn't tell me who that announcer was, could you?
My first guess is Brian Nissen (Southern and TVS 1958-87) but maybe that's just stereotyping based on accent/mannerisms. I do suspect it was him who appeared genuinely shocked by one of the mainland European films that Southern used to show (c. 1980/81) late on Friday nights, though.
My first guess is Brian Nissen (Southern and TVS 1958-87) but maybe that's just stereotyping based on accent/mannerisms. I do suspect it was him who appeared genuinely shocked by one of the mainland European films that Southern used to show (c. 1980/81) late on Friday nights, though.
@popazz1 15 years ago
Ah,Susie Blake,absolutely ruddy superb! She went onto,via many other things,Coronation Street as the mother of that barmaid,whatever her name was,who nearly married the psycho builder chap! Not that I watch Corrie much,lol.And I believe Fred,I say,Fred Elliot offered to marry her! Quite cleverly,these continuity sketches held VW:As seen on TV together.I wonder how that worked,lol!
@Mishima505 4 years ago
“He’s not very popular with me but I suppose working-class people find him amusing..”
@RobinCarmody 19 years ago
Obvious that "Snookered" / Ken Burrows are supposed to be "Bullseye" / Jim Bowen (seeing how it's 5.30 on a Sunday). I don't think there was any overtly right-wing politics being put forward by ITV announcers then, but left-wing programme makers clearly thought there was a *subtext*, and were frustrated with the old broadcasting order ... thing is, it was the Tories, *against the wishes of their core support*, who broke that down.
Victoria Wood - Susie Blake continuity announcer (Rundown)
michtyme3
155,272 views
Susie Blake as the right-wing continuity announcer in 'Victoria Wood As Seen on TV' from 1986. In this clip she gives "a rundown of what we can expect from sunday's viewing"