Tony Martin and Mick Molloy had a top-rating radio show Martin / Molloy ( 1995 – 1998 ), before moving into film with Tackle Happy ( 2000 ), Crackerjack ( 2002 ), Bad Eggs ( 2003 ) and BoyTown ( 2006 ).

Stu Francis ( born 1951, Bolton, Lancashire, England ) is a British comedian with a camp style of delivery who achieved celebrity as lead presenter on the children's television programme Crackerjack ( 1979 – 1984 ), on which his catchphrase was " Ooh!

He has also played minor roles in several films ( mostly those of former Late Show colleagues ), including The Castle ( 1997 ), Tackle Happy ( 2000 ), Crackerjack ( 2002 ) and BoyTown ( 2006 ).

In 2002 Clarke appeared in a villainous role in the movie Crackerjack and as a comedy club owner in the award-winning telemovie Roy Hollsdotter Live.

* Crackerjack ( 2002 ) .... Bernie Fowler

Much of the cast and crew, including Molloy, Hunter, Martin and Lucy, had all worked on a previous film Crackerjack ( 2002 ).

In 2004, Crackerjack Television started producing an Australian version of the show, which airs weekly on the Australian ESPN channel and features former Australian Rules footballer Sam Kekovich and radio and television broadcaster Russell Barwick.

* Used in the climactic scene in the Australian film Crackerjack to dramatically highlight a lawn bowl as it rolled down the green in slow motion.

The company acquired various British, American, and Australian production companies including FremantleMedia North America, Grundy Television, Crackerjack Productions ( now merged to become FremantleMedia Australia ), Thames Television and Talkback ( the last two later merged as Talkback Thames ).

On 30 August 2006, FremantleMedia announced they would merge Grundy Television with their other Australian production company, Crackerjack Productions, to form a single ' super ' production company called " FremantleMedia Australia ".

Blackball is a 2003 British comedy sports film, borrowed from the Australian film, Crackerjack.

Crackerjack was a British children's comedy / variety BBC television series.

In film he appeared in Crackerjack ( as a passerby ) and Bad Eggs ( as a police officer ).

It has more pace and edge than Molloy's last film Crackerjack ... as well as a great soundtrack.

* Bookmarks Magazine 101 Crackerjack Sea Books, the best books about the sea.

He is perhaps best known as the presenter of the UK's version of This Is Your Life, between its inception in 1955 and his death in 1987, when he was succeeded by Michael Aspel ( who had also succeeded Andrews as host of Crackerjack 22 years earlier ).

The strand was called " Crackerjack Young Entertainer of The Year " and featured children from throughout the UK who had successfully passed audition stages, get their shot at stardom on the small screen.

He stayed with Radio 1 until September 1976, when he left for America to join his father, who was suffering from Parkinson's disease Around 1975, he briefly hosted Crackerjack on BBC TV with Little & Large.

In Crackerjack sketches, he usually played a pompous or upper-class character, who would always get exasperated with his partner Don Maclean during the course of the sketch.

Don Maclean KSS ( born 11 March 1944 ) is an English actor and comedian, who appeared on the BBC television series Crackerjack with Michael Aspel, Peter Glaze, and Jan Hunt in the 1970s.

Jan Hunt ( born 13 March 1946 ) is a British comedian, actress and Music Hall performer, who appeared on BBC television series Crackerjack with Michael Aspel, Ed Stewart, Peter Glaze and Don Maclean in the 1970s.

The club also maintains the ABAC Crackerjack pulling tractor, an Allis Chalmers 190XT, built in the 1970s by former staff member Jimmy Grubbs.

Almost all of the work building the new tractor and the work needed to maintain Crackerjack is performed by the students in the club.

Michael Terence Aspel, OBE, ( born 12 January 1933 ) is an English television presenter on programmes such as Crackerjack, Aspel and Company, This is Your Life, Strange but True?

Australia's Brainiest is a television game show series produced in Australia by Crackerjack Productions, a FremantleMedia company ; and currently airing on Network Ten.

Among the programmes produced there were Crackerjack, Hancock's Half Hour, The Old Grey Whistle Test, That's Life !, The Generation Game, The Basil Brush Show, Juke Box Jury, This is Your Life, Jim'll Fix It, almost all the BBC's light entertainment music shows, such as those starring Cliff Richard, Lulu, Cilla Black, Spike Milligan, Dusty Springfield, Shirley Bassey, Vera Lynn, Harry Secombe, Petula Clark, as well as the UK's Eurovision Song Contest preliminary heat, A Song For Europe.

The new company is now managed by the management team from Crackerjack, with Mark Fennessy as Chief Executive Officer ( CEO ) and his brother Carl Fennessy as Chief Operating Officer ( COO ).

He appeared in Crackerjack as a regular in its early days, one episode with Winifred Atwell.

Judith Lucy appeared in both Crackerjack and Bad Eggs, and continues to tour with a series of successful one-woman shows and in 2011, appeared in the ABC-TV series Judith Lucy's Spiritual Journey.

* Crackerjack — An egocentric, reckless crime-fighter, with amazing agility and a staff weapon.

In 1982, in a bid to boost flagging ratings, Crackerjack introduced gunge into its games and launched a new game called ' Take a Chance ' in which the celebrity guests could score extra points for the contestant they teamed up with.

Crowther made a name for himself in television in the 1950s, with appearances as presenter of such programmes as Billy Cotton Band Show and The Black and White Minstrel Show, and later the long-running children's institution Crackerjack ( with Peter Glaze ) for the BBC, from 1960 to 1968.

He hosted Crackerjack with Leslie Crowther in the 1960s and with Michael Aspel, Don Maclean, and Bernie Clifton in the 1970s.

Andrew L Urban, for Yahoo, wrote Encouraged by Crackerjack, perhaps I expected too much from Bad Eggs .... There are a handful of good laughs .. but the tone shifts, and shifts again., as if the storyline had taken control of the writing process, elbowing out the sense of humour.

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Creators of artistamps include Donald Evans, Ginny Lloyd ( Gina Lotta ), Crackerjack Kid ( Chuck Welsh ), Reed Altemus, Darlene Altschul ( DKA POST ), Katerina Nikoltsou, Eleanor Kent, Beverly Dittberner, Jim Czyl, Boog, Keith Buchholz, Otto Sherman, Marilyn Rosenberg, Petra Weimer, Peter Netmail, Buster Cleveland, William Rowe, Miguel Jimenez, Dame Mailarta, György Galántai, Carl Chew, Anna Banana, Patricia Tavenner, Jas W Felter, Michael Bidner, Michael Thompson, Michael Hernandez de Luna, Ed Paschke, Clifford Harper, Al Brandtner, Steve Smith, Russell Butler ( buZ blurr ), Alan Brignull, Dennis Jordan, Rachel Scott, Guy Bleus, Arturo G. Fallico, Harley, Hamlet Mateo, Michael Angelo H. Mayo Post 1211, Marlon Vito Picasso ( Rocola ), Kursade Karatas, Bruce Grenville, Natalie Lamanova, Robert Rudine, H. R.

At the BBC he began presenting a number of other programmes such as the series Come Dancing, Crackerjack, Ask Aspel, and the Miss World beauty contest, which he covered 14 times.

Since then he has presented television shows such as Win, Lose, or Draw, Pets Win Prizes and TV Heroes, which was a series of 10-minute homages to some of Baker's entertainment idols including Fanny Cradock, Peter Glaze ( from Crackerjack ) and the Top of the Pops audience.

Hall and Lenny continued to work in variety through the 1970s, appearing on television in programmes such as Crackerjack.

He also appeared in television shows such as The Saint, Crackerjack, Dixon of Dock Green, and The Benny Hill Show.

Perhaps the most famous catchphrase was " It's Friday, it's five to five and it's Crackerjack " used at the beginning of each show.

Crackerjack was cancelled in 1984 at the same time as many other long-running series, in an overhaul of the BBC Children's department.

In 1987 Stu Francis hosted Crush a Grape on ITV, a remake of his era of Crackerjack in all but name.

He also was a DJ on Radio Luxembourg and later on BBC Radio 2, and had appeared in TV shows like the BBC's children's favourite, Crackerjack.