Arthur Haynes, Harry Worth and Charlie Drake

[Supermike]

Does anyone remember these three comedians and, if so, did you find them funny? I know thy were very popular in their time but they didn't make me laugh.

[FredPuli43]

Too young to remember Haynes. The bumbling Worth specialised in the comedy of misunderstanding,rather like Count Arthur Strong on the radio now,and was quite funny. Charlie Drake was a good slapstick comedian, but didn't appeal to me.

[fourteen85]

I used to like Harry Worth but Charlie Drake reall y got on my wick

[andy-hughes]

I remember all of them - none were very funny as I recall.

I do recall the famous sketch when CD was thrown through a window, and was supposed to stand up and appear in the broken frame and say a line, and nothing happened.

This was 'live' TV, and in fact, Drake was out cold having bashed his head as he fell, so the other actors were left standing there like lemons - forget if they faded it out, or what happened next.

I also know that in Z-Cars, also shown 'live' an actor died on set, and they had to carry on until an ad break before they could move him off the set.

[jno]

didn't know Haynes, didn't like Drake at all, but Harry Worth was ok. (Well, I thought so at the time. I can recall nothing about him now except the shop window thing.)

[factor-fiction]

I didn't know that story about Z-cars, andy.
As I child in the late 1960s I usually watched Harry Worth on TV and, like many others at the time, enjoyed it. I also listened to him on the radio. But I heard a re-run of a radio show on Radio4 Extra and the humour was so predictable and silly that I had to switch off. I expect I'd find his old programmes silly now.

[THECORBYLOON]

It was Gareth Jones who died during a broadcast of Armchair Theatre in 1958 but it happened off-screen.