Kenneth Cope

Carry On Covenience & Brookside is what I remember

Crikey forgot about Brookside Cardinal , 171 episodes as well.

Corrie as well RIP

RIP Jed Stone.Sad news.

Randall & Hopkirk endlessly repeated on Great TV. One of the best 60's theme tunes. Didn't he used to wear a wig?

Randall & Hopkirk endlessly repeated on Great TV. One of the best 60's theme tunes. Didn't he used to wear a wig?

Randall & Hopkirk endlessly repeated on Great TV. One of the best 60's theme tunes. Didn't he used to wear a wig?

Randall & Hopkirk endlessly repeated on Great TV. One of the best 60's theme tunes. Didn't he used to wear a wig?

Apologies don't know how that happened.

Yes me too Hayden.

Good job i'm wearing boxing gloves acey   

Blimey just saw he outlived his co-star there by over 40 years! He died in 1976.

Mike Pratt lung cancer aged 45   

very sad, didn't know that...

He played at least two characters in Minder. His immortal line in Carry On 'everybody out'.

Not a word about his passing on the BBC news website!

I got his autograph as a young boy, when he was Jed Stone in Corrie, think he was Minnie Caldwells lodger, he opened the new Perry Barr Precinct which was a long time ago knocked down, and replaced by One Stop. Think he was also in a series set in Greece or Spain as an ex pat living there, RIP Kenneth.

RIP
Carry on at your Convenience my fav Carry on.

Stephen Porter
Newcastle Chronicle
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Actor Kenneth Cope, who starred in Coronation Street and a number of Carry On films, has died at the age of 93
failed to mention Randall and Hopkirk Deceased? incredible omission

Hopkirk was already deceased a long time ago.

Classic TV. Much better than the rubbish they show nowadays. Love Island, Big Brother etc absolute crap tv for morons.

ITC made some great stuff: Department S, Man In A Suitcase, Danger Man, The Prisoner, The Baron, etc

The list is endless. RIP Marty.

themightymac - generally agree with you, but there have been some more recent classy gems such as ‘Yes, Prime Minister’, ‘Foyles War’ and some others. I agree with you about ‘The Prisoner’ still talked about today!

themightymac - generally agree with you, but there have been some more recent classy gems such as ‘Yes, Prime Minister’, ‘Foyles War’ and some others. I agree with you about ‘The Prisoner’ still talked about today!

Foyles War and Yes, Prime Minister were indeed gems too M. Agreed there are a few gems about but nowadays
mostly reality tv shows, cooking programmes and diverse tv crap.

more shyte coming ....my mum your dad ......the missus watches it

watched allo ,allo bout an hour ago ,missed most of it 1st time around really enjoying it

Sonny Jim.

randell and hopkirk still on tv, great tv channell 50 on freeview, on tonight at 10.00 after the new avengers

HAYDEN, im a big admirer of the gorgeous  Annette Andre as well , but do you know who her boyfriend was in real life , ( without looking it up )

Yes elis it was Benny Hill , guess how i know that ????

Because you told me a while ago on the talking pictures thread

Foyles, I've been cracking on about Allo Allo for ages
All the episodes on every Sunday night
The characters are brilliant, all non pc jokes, who cares
Funniest thing on TV at the moment imo

Foyles, I've been cracking on about Allo Allo for ages
All the episodes on every Sunday night
The characters are brilliant, all non pc jokes, who cares
Funniest thing on TV at the moment imo

So good I said it twice

HAYDEN,     

Reg, ALLO ALLO WAS MY DADS FAV, its brilliant innuendos , ps if you ever get the chance ive seen it , Vicki mitchelle acts in a horror film   VIRGIN Witch  , its quite Hot ,

here it is, its not the english version i saw, but    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD7T_RnnlLE

OK elise, make me feel old!
Vicki Michelle was going out with one of my football team mates about 1980 so met her a few times... She was really nice..... And hot

duffy, my fav carrie on, was Carry on screaming

Carry On Screaming was brilliant. Most of the early ones were great too. Carry On Cowboy and Carry On Cleo were other classics. Right now, I am watching Hugh and I with Hugh Lloyd and Terry Scott. Still as funny now as it was way back in the sixties. They were not just funny but classic comic actors too.

Carry on Cleo , Infamy Infamy They've All Got It In For Me       

differentdrum -- yes, Cope wore a wig in Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased). Remarkably, he wore it backwards in two episodes.


Also, from Cope's Telegraph obituary, he was a writer:-
During his run in Coronation Street, Cope appeared in – and wrote sketches for – all 37 episodes of the satirical BBC series That Was the Week That Was (1962-63).
...
Cope also wrote the children’s football serial Striker (1975-76) and Thingumybob (1968), starring Stanley Holloway as a mischievous pensioner (with a theme tune written by Paul McCartney), as well as episodes of other sitcoms such as The Dustbinmen (1970), The Squirrels (1976-77) and A Sharp Intake of Breath (1978).
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2024/09/12/kenneth-cope-actor-randall-hopkirk-deceased-died-obituary/ (£££)

For those that don't know Allo Allo was a parody of the BBC drama series Secret Army which was televised from 1977-79 and ran for 43 episodes which told the fictional story of the Belgium resistance during WW2, who set out to return shot down British pilots back to Britain.
Some of the scenes in Allo Allo set in Renes' cafe are virtually identical but with a comedic twist to scenes in Secret Army. Allo Allo ran from 82-92, i always felt the first few series were the best before Gordon Kayes accident and the latter series got more and more ridiculous with Francesca Gonshaw and Sue Hodge surely two of the worst actresses ever to appear on TV.

stewarts - short 'perry-barr-shopping-precinct-opened' video (no sound) on the link below.

https://www.macearchive.org/films/midlands-news-28021964-perry-barr-shopping-precinct-opened

It was Minnie Caldwell (Margot Bryant) who cut the ribbon so was she accompanied by Kenneth Cope on the day?

Thank you T2R, that's amazing, if anyone wants to see a snapshot of how Britain has changed in 60 years just compare that to the crowds at the One Stop shopping centre now, somewhat different.
   Don't recall seeing her, not surprised considering the crowd as a little 10 yo boy, but remember queueing up for Kenneth Copes autograph.

Ramruna, thanks for confirming.

Probably in a minority, but I enjoyed The Squirrels. Good cast with Ken Jones, Alan David and Bernard Hepton.

Looks the same as now, stewarts rise. Lots of women with their heads covered, lots of men with beards, no sunshine.

Scooter.