Brian Matthew

Brian Matthew

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U.K. Swings Again
Title: U.K. Swings Again
Character: Presenter
Released: July 28, 1965
Type: Movie
Musical short featuring performances by The Hollies, Lulu, The Applejacks and more
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Swinging U.K.
Title: Swinging U.K.
Character: Presenter
Released: August 1, 1964
Type: Movie
Alan Freeman, Brian Matthew and Kent Walton present the 'Top Of The Pops' of 1964 with performances from The Four Pennies, Millie, The Merseybeats and The Migil Five.
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The Punch and Judy Man
Title: The Punch and Judy Man
Character: Radio DJ
Released: April 8, 1963
Type: Movie
Walter Pinner is the titular Punch And Judy Man plying his trade in the seaside town of Piltdown. Unhappily married to his social climbing wife, who gets him to perform at the 60th Anniversary celebrations of the town in front of all the local dignitaries, his hatred of snobbery comes to a hilarious head.
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Title: Thank Your Lucky Stars
Released: April 1, 1961
Type: TV
Thank Your Lucky Stars was a British television pop music show made by ABC Television, and broadcast on ITV from 1961 to 1966. Many of the top bands performed on it, and for millions of British teenagers it was essential viewing. As well as featuring British artists, it often included American guest stars. It would appear from the surviving footage that the bands mimed their latest 45. Occasionally a band was allowed to do two numbers, and if you were pop royalty like The Beatles or The Rolling Stones you could do four numbers. Audience participation was a strong feature of Thank Your Lucky Stars, and the Spin-a-Disc section, where a guest DJ and three teenagers reviewed three singles, is a very well remembered feature of the show. Generally American singles were reviewed. It was on this section that Janice Nicholls appeared. She was a former office clerk from the English Midlands who became famous for the catchphrase "Oi'll give it foive" which she said with a strong Black Country accent. After she was dropped from the show she trained as a chiropodist and ran a practice in Hednesford in Staffordshire. Billy Butler was another reviewer and dozens of teenagers had their fifteen minutes of fame on the show.