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Tea Vicar?
Richard Gilbert
"Dick" Emery (19/2/1915 - 2/1/1983) was a comedian and actor who
began his career on radio during the 1950s. He successfully
transferred his act onto TV and his popularity grew throughout the '60s and
'70s.
His
role as Private Chubby Catchpole in the final series of ITV's The Army
Game led to an exclusive contract with the BBC, and the long-running
The
Dick Emery Show (BBC, 1963-81) was born.
The sketch show
featured many characters, including the buck-toothed vicar, the
sex-starved spinster "Hettie", and Clarence, an 'outrageously camp' man who
coined the phrase "Hallo Honky Tonk". Other well known roles
were the hapless crusty pensioner "James Maynard Kitchener Lampwick"
and "Mandy", a voracious busty middle-aged blonde woman whose
catchpahrase "Ooh, you are awful ... but I like you!" - became the
title of Emery's own British Lion film release in 1972.
This replica of
a Volkswagen Transporter by Oxford Die cast is model VW032 and is a limited
edition of 2000 models.
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