Dame Hilda Bracket & Dr. Evadne Hinge (at the piano)

These GUYS are wonderful.

[@jimmartin3162]

This is classic entertainment which is very difficult to beat. My generation were lucky to enjoy this and it was so original.

[@mp2040]

This is from an era when television was just harmless entertainment but enjoyable fun. Shame all 3 of these stars are no longer with us . ❤

[@LeonieSmithwithanMinthemiddle]

And Marti Caine! What a delight to see these three performing together.

[@simonf8902]

Marti is absolutely gorgeous of course.

[@flabbybum9562]

Wonderful performance. So sad that they are no longer with us. George the last survivor, passed away less than four weeks ago. Hinge and Bracket were unique and outstanding entertainers, the very best at what they did, raising it to the level of performing art. Marti was by all accounts, a lovely person, a fine comic, and someone who beat the path for later female stand-up acts who followed.

[@simonf8902]

Vale dear Ladies.

[@simonf8902]

Marvellous pianist. No music needed.

[@michaeltreadwell777]

What a double act - NEVER to be likened again. BRILLIANT !

[@Knappa22]

Weapons-grade entertainment. Superb.What do we have now? X-factor and Britain's got 'Talent'

[@gedbill4058]

Hinge & Bracket's Dvd comedy series "Dear Ladies" was absolutely brilliant and very underrated. Hilda & Evadne were meant to be together as one tour de force. Hinge & Bracket put Mrs Browns boys to shame.

[@Reveal32]

Definitely needs a re-run

[@preopdollop]

In 2001 I drove from Edinburgh to Bury St Edmunds to see H&B for two nights and I also see them in "The Importance of Being Hilda" in Edinburgh. Both top class entertainers and so underrated in the UK. I have some of their concerts ripped on mp3 and video if anyone would like some? No charge of course, just happy to share :) Message me .....

[@seanmacleod1724]

Absolutely brilliant... How easy it is to forget talented performers like Hinge & Bracket. Two blokes in dresses, dare I say it, a great British tradition. 😁

[@joannetailor4094]

George Logan and Perry St.Clare. My dearest friends. Happy days at the Rehearsal Club. Archer Street.

[@petergolding5733]

I've never seen this before. It brought back many memories. I lived with Patrick in Putney for a while, having met him when he was touring H&B. We became great friends. I love how he is really naughty in this and obviously doing his own thing on a live (?) tv show to catch Marti out (who kept up brilliantly!)

[@bahoonies]

@Peter Golding Thanks for sharing that. What wonderful memories you must have.

[@nigelwomersley2478]

I once saw their show in Sheffield. They were absolutely fantastic.How terrible for such a talent as Patrick Fyffe to be taken so young. He and George Logan were brilliant together.

[@michaelwalker4022]

Stars and legends truly missed 🥰

[@auskinboy]

As I age (less gracefully) I shall always love Hinge but the more I appreciate the true musical talent of Bracket. My God he was a talented pianist!

[@lapponia77]

You've got it the wrong way round, dear ! (I can just hear Dame Hilda saying that :-) )

[@nickalina]

He?

[@irenemwrench8594]

Loved and miss these two xx

[@yvonneweavers2092]

Loved them . Sadly both gone . xxxx

[@CharlotteinWeimar]

Dame Hilda was the best counter tenor I ever heard, and that was at the Wigmore Hall!

[@seedhillbruisermusic7939]

brilliant! Marti Caine and Hinge and Brackett. Genius.

[@chookaschookas444]

These two (H&B) are just plain great entertainers. They moved on from their individual personas to become an entertainment entity - as real as any light entertainment performers of their day. Their gender was unimportant, because they were in reality two wonderful older ladies with residual technical abilities which gave them their skill at all round entertainment.

[@simonf8902]

Priceless

[@alanbulman8655]

Saw them in The Arkley Barnett Radio Show at the Comedy Theatre , Panton Street , London many years ago , superb !!

[@devonguy02]

Pure class

[@ZXC5000]

Proper entertainment, skill going on here

[@unclelouie3828]

Wonderful fun!!! They're great!!

[@isopath1]

Evadne sure can tickle the ivories

[@tavriadriver]

Happy days!

[@suttonelms1]

Brilliant!

[@ruthsmith2385]

Sensational

[@trevorkeyes7252]

Great double act

[@lynholmes7877]

Sad to see George Logan has died aged 78. May 21st 2023

[@alanbulman8655]

Dear Ladies , written by Gyles Brandreth

[@simonf8902]

Evadne was a great pianist indeed.

[@lynholmes7877]

Just seen that George Logan has died, aged 78

[@simonf8902]

@@lynholmes7877 Vale George

[@lynholmes7877]

@Simon F . Who's that ? Its not the same person.

[@simonf8902]

Superlative

[@grahampalmer9337]

- With of course the late great 'Tomato Caine'. :-) It's hard to know whom I miss the most. :-(

[@simonf8902]

Nice harmonies. Evadne does honky tonk.

[@rachaelbarat8460]

Now this is what I call DRAG

[@simonf8902]

Who is the younger female host ?

[@tomh5762]

Does anyone know what year this is from?

[@drstorm]

Is it just me, or am I the only the one that TOTALLY forgets that these are actually to guys? I've always had a taste for campy, kitschy, over-the-top type humor. So naturally, I'm drawn to drag queens and drag acts - provided their humor is clean. It is so sickening with most of today's drag queens - and well, really any high profile comedian, that feels they have to depend on vulgarity and foul language to be funny. Hinge and Bracket prove that you can have a grand time without uttering the first curse word! Not to mention, they are killer musicians! Evadne tears it up doesn't she?

[@stuartlawson8220]

quite right.

[@mikehudson8884]

+D.R. Storm So agree with you on that. I like the drag humour up to a point but sometimes they can lay into you if they home in on you at a live performance. Then you want the floor to open up and quite honestly it isn't funny anymore. Hinge and Bracket never did that to anyone, I mean, they did include you and draw attention but it was NEVER done in such a way as to make fun of you in a personal way. I experienced being the butt of their humour one evening when I arrived late at Wolverhampton Grand Theatre for their performance of 'The Importance Of Being Ernest' I was told off for being late but it was so funny and innocent and just so funny to be included in the show, bless them. You're right about having a grand time and not at anyone's expense just good old humour.

[@irenemwrench8594]

My late parents-in-law used to love going to see them, not just because they were funny but not nasty, but also because they thought they were great entertainers singing many of the songs they'd known as children in the 20s.

[@ballyhigh11]

TBH what they do is female impersonation which, in the UK at least, is quite distinct from drag. The other great examples of this genre is of course Danny la Rue and Barry Humphries(Dame Edna Everage).Really very different types of performance, despite both generally being about men dressing as women.

[@drstorm]

ballyhigh11 I love Dame Edna, and Danny Larue!

[@paulas27]

I’d forgotten Marti Caine

[@grahampalmer9337]

Two out three great British entertainers taken young by the insidious 'C'. :-(

[@marklola12]

what show was this and the host

[@hazelcooper6731]

The host is the wonderful comedian Marti Caine, who died tragically from cancer at 50 years,

[@SimonSimon-rn3tm]

Who is that dreadful old bore in the sparkling top?