One of my very first heroes......
 

Happy Birthday Andy Pandy :o:lol: :wub:

Andy Pandy, the children's TV character, has become a senior citizen 60 years after the show was first broadcast on BBC. The show, which was first aired as part of the BBC's For the Children schedule in July 1950, celebrated its milestone on Sunday.
Since the first broadcast Andy, who started life as a puppet, has become a computer-generated cartoon but he has not aged a day and still wears the same stripy pyjamas. :thumbsup:

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Giving our ages away a bit, but he was one of my heroes too, although I must admit I preferred Teddy!

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Hello Salopian...is your second name tube...?

What about the Flowerpot Men? Much Better.

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This was much more to my liking

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He was too cute to be a hero though, just wanted to cuddle him :o

They're brilliant! I always liked watching them :)

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Preferred Thunderbirds....
Or, my all time favourite.............. Stingray. Sheer class.

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Captain Scarlet was my man!

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Ahhhh, but they all came later.... and they were all brilliant. :)

Fireball XL5 was my first glimpse of Gerry Andersons genius

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I remember admiring John Noakes and that Peter Duncan bloke off Blue Peter who everyone said looked like my brother. And so he does.

One bloke who I admire is Ranulph Fiennes - not the actor - the other one.

My first hero - stop sniggering at the back - was Captain Oates of the Antarctic party in 1912....

Even now when I slip out for the firewood on a cold night I think of him!

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John Lydon, Suggs and Blondie were my first. Even so young, I had good taste ;):D

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I once read that Oates was so dumb that he probably really believed he was just nipping out for a while !!

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That reminds me - I want to reread some of the accounts. I first read one aged 10.

I just reread Fienne's updated autobiography which I first read 20 years ago which reminded me he wrote a fairly recent book to counter a nasty revisionist history of Scott which came out in the late 70s.

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Truly fascinating era and the toughness of some of the men is just startling. Shackleton's walk across South Georgia is unimaginable.

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Recceing your route in 1982?:thumbup:

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I was in a 12,000 ton warship for the most part... and I was bloody cold on deck. God alone knows what it must have been like walking over those South Georgia peaks.