It features competitions and advertisements for overpriced ' limited edition ' tat, such as a cat which " shits its own weight in gold ", as well as obsessions with half-forgotten celebrities from the 1970s and 1980s such as Shakin ' Stevens and Rodney Bewes.

The original show followed the friendship of two working class young men, Terry Collier ( James Bolam ) and Bob Ferris ( Rodney Bewes ), in Newcastle upon Tyne in the mid 1960s.

* Rodney Bewes ( Bob Ferris )

Around the time of its release, however, Rodney Bewes and James Bolam fell out over a misunderstanding involving the press and have not spoken since.

The show followed the friendship, resumed after five years apart, of two working-class young men, Bob Ferris ( Rodney Bewes ) and Terry Collier ( James Bolam ).

* Rodney Bewes ( Robert Andrew Scarborough Ferris, a. k. a. Bob Ferris )

The station also appeared briefly in a 1971 episode of the Rodney Bewes sitcom Dear Mother ... Love Albert.

Bolam's co-star Rodney Bewes revealed in 2005 that the two actors had not spoken since the film had been made, a period of over thirty years.

The show ran until 1973 and showcased many other stars, such as Leslie Phillips, Ian Carmichael, Tony Britton, Jeremy Child, Joyce Carey, Ursula Howells, Terence Alexander, Donald Sinden, Eric Barker, Rodney Bewes, June Whitfield, Richard O ' Sullivan, Bill Fraser, Dandy Nichols, Bill Pertwee, Peter Jones, Joan Sims, Richard Wattis, Jack Hulbert, Hugh Paddick, Roy Kinnear and Beryl Reid.

He appeared in various film roles, including East of Sudan ( 1964 ), Hotel Paradiso ( 1966 ), Frankenstein Created Woman ( 1967 ) and The Smashing Bird I Used to Know ( 1969 ), prior to becoming familiar to British television viewers as ' Mr. Derek ' in the children's series The Basil Brush Show, replacing Rodney Bewes as presenter.

Guest stars include some ITC stalwarts such as Stuart Damon, Jane Merrow, Basil Dignam, Ed Bishop, Anton Rodgers, George Sewell, Philip Madoc and John Gregson ; and such actors as Barbara Shelley, Rodney Bewes, Felicity Kendal, Rupert Davies, Colin Blakely, Ray McAnally, Bernard Lee, Jacqueline Pearce and Donald Sutherland.

It starred James Bolam and Rodney Bewes although only Bolam was featured in location filming at the station, which took place in late 1972.

She also appeared in Dear Mother ... Love Albert playing Rodney Bewes ' screen girlfriend.

A supporting role in the 1983 Rodney Dangerfield film Easy Money and a guest shot on Remington Steele led to his replacing Ian Richardson in Miloš Forman's 1984 adaptation of the Peter Shaffer play Amadeus as Emperor Joseph II ; he received a nomination for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for his performance.

Britain was required to scrap most of her vast First World War fleet ( only two new, oddly-shaped, battleships, Rodney and Nelson were built at this time, known colloquially as the ' Cherry Tree Class ' as they had been ' cut down by Washington ').

Some of the most famous skateboarders, and early pioneers of the sport are Rodney Mullen and Tony Hawk.

Dover was most famously the home of Caesar Rodney, the popular wartime leader of Delaware during the American Revolution.

The Rodney ZIP code also serves the most of the western part of Martiny Township as well as small areas of northeast Austin Township and northwest Morton Township to the south and the southeast corner of Grant Township and the southwest part of Chippewa Township to the north.

Distributed by Koch Records and Sony Music, the album marked Norwood's debut on the Epic Records label, and her reunion with long-time contributor and mentor Rodney Jerkins, who wrote and executive produced most of the album.

This theory has been most notably linked with Norwood ’ s most frequent collaborator, producer Rodney Jerkins, and his own Darkchild imprint, on which many of their collaborations do not include songwriting or production from Norwood herself.

Rodney cites July 1979 – August 1980 as his " most creative time ".

In the 1970s Foodmaker led the Jack in the Box chain toward its most prolific growth ( television commercials in the early 1970s featured child actor Rodney Allen Rippy ), and locations began to be franchised.

After years of fruitless searching, both Del and Rodney found long-term love, in the form of Raquel ( Tessa Peake-Jones ) and Cassandra ( Gwyneth Strong ) respectively ; Del also had a son with Raquel, Damien ( played by five actors, most recently Ben Smith ).

Rodney George " Rod " Laver MBE ( born 9 August 1938 ) is an Australian former tennis player who holds the record for most singles titles won in the history of tennis, with 200 career titles.

He was particularly noted for his conduct at Rochefort, where he had taken the Ile d ' Aix, and was described by George Rodney as performing his duties " with such cool and steady resolution, as has most justly gained him the universal applause of army and navy ".

In a 15 April letter to Lord Germain, who unknown to Rodney had recently lost his position, he wrote " Permit me most sincerely to congratulate you on the most important victory I believe ever gained against our perfidious enemies, the French ".

Rodney was unquestionably a most able officer, but he was also vain, selfish and unscrupulous, both in seeking prize money, and in using his position to push the fortunes of his family, although such nepotism was common ( not to say normal ) at the time.

The cordierite ceramic substrate used in most catalytic converters was invented by Rodney Bagley, Irwin Lachman and Ronald Lewis at Corning Glass, for which they were inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2002.

In 1984, the Centre for Caribbean Studies of the University of Warwick established the Walter Rodney Memorial Lecture in recognition of the life and work of one of the most outstanding scholar-activists of the Black Diaspora in the post World War II era.

Her gunners achieved near misses on Rodney, but the British ships had silenced most of the German guns within half an hour.

On February 24, 2005, he was then sent to the Denver Nuggets along with Luis Flores and a future first round pick in exchange for Nikoloz Tskitishvili and Rodney White, where he would have some of his most productive seasons as an NBA player.

One of the most prominent researchers in the field of biomorphic robotics has been Mark W. Tilden, who has taken Rodney Brooks ' theory of removing the world model from robots to a low hardware level not even using microprocessors.

While Rodney spent most of his legal career in public service, he took on at least one notable case as a private advocate during the year before his appointment as Attorney General.

Moore St was part of the original Fencible village and was sub-divided into one acre ( 4, 000 m² ) allotments down to Rodney St. People will, no doubt, recognise that Wellington and Nelson Sts spring from the most famous of British war heroes, Lord Nelson and the Duke of Wellington and that Selwyn St takes its name from the first Bishop of New Zealand, George Augustus Selwyn.

The Rodney Bay Area further south differs greatly from the small, makeshift housing littering most of the town of Gros-Islet.

He was re-packaged as a villainous manager once again under his full name, and perhaps his most notable managing stint in this period came when managing D ' Lo Brown, Rodney Mack, Christopher Nowinski, Rosey, Mark Henry and Jazz at different times, telling fans to " get Down wit ' da Brown " and to " Back da Mack.

* Rodney Dangerfield's shtick was centered around his famous catchphrase, " I don't get no respect ," accompanied by his characteristic facial gesture and yanking or straightening his scarlet necktie.

Some claim that the question itself is unimportant: the famous neat John McCarthy has said publicly he has no interest in how human intelligence works, while famous scruffy Rodney Brooks is openly obsessed with creating humanoid intelligence.

On the basis of this information, Frost decided to divide the company into five groups of forty men for the raid, each named after a famous Royal Navy admiral: Nelson, Jellicoe, Hardy, Drake and Rodney.

Polly and Cornelius Smith, the parents of Rodney " Gypsy " Smith, the famous international evangelist, are buried in the churchyard at Norton, Polly having died from smallpox while the family was passing through the parish.

One famous cameo role was that of Reg Trotter, father of Delboy and Rodney in the 1983 Christmas special, " Thicker than Water ", an episode of the BBC sitcom, Only Fools and Horses.

Trigger is possibly most famous because he calls Rodney Trotter " Dave ", even though everybody else calls him Rodney.

It was revealed in Class of ' 62, that Trigger used to have a crush on Julie Christie, albeit getting her name muddled with the famous early 1900s crime writer Agatha Christie, after he tells Boycie, Del, Rodney and Denzil that he loved her in the film Dr. Zhivago.

He served as an early patron to his relative George Rodney, later to became famous for his victoriy at the Battle of the Saintes, during his early career in the navy.

Among the endless list of famous skateboarders who appear in the film as Stunt Skaters include Mike McGill, " Gator " Mark Rogowski, Rodney Mullen, Rich Dunlop, Eric Dressen, Lance Mountain, Mike Vallely, Chris Black, Ted Ehr, Natas Kaupas, Chris Borst, and Steve Saiz.

He became a regular at the famous Comedy Store, which also featured such artists as Richard Pryor, Rodney Dangerfield, Roseanne Barr, Jay Leno and Robin Williams.

A famous example of dual state and federal sovereignty is the Rodney King case.

Rodney Lynn " Rod " Temperton ( born October 15, 1947 in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, England ) is an English songwriter, record producer and musician most famous for writing a number of songs performed by Michael Jackson, including " Rock With You " and " Thriller ".

Rodney Esperance ( famous for playing the National Anthem on the gramophone in his office at start of school ).