British Comedy Guide

Sam Kydd...

...Day on Talking Pictures TV this Thursday (15 Feb). With interviews between films with his son.

Orlando was one of my first favourite TV programmes as a kid.

A spin-off from Crane (with Patrick Allen) as I recall.

I don't remember that at all. Was it a children's programme?

And sorry Billy. I don't quite understand where this programme will be on.

I think Crane was an adult programme in which Orlando was one of the characters. I remember my mother used to like Patrick Allen. Orlando was a spin off made for children's tv.

Sam Kydd day is on Talking Pictures TV (Freeview/Freesat 81, Sky 343, Virgin 445) next Thursday.

It's not a proper war film without Sam Kydd in the background as a stoker, squaddie or air mechanic.

"Remembering Sam Kydd" next Wed. 6.30pm on TPTV - very good documentary

He turned up again (of course!) for about 5 minutes in the CFF 'Saturday Morning Pictures' film "The Last Load" (1948) on TPTV, as a police station radio controller.

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