The Cook Report 1987 Close Encounters

A non-confrontational but somewhat eerie episode as Roger Cook investigates the likely cover up behind the strange goings-on at two different properties in the west of England.

[@mattstone12]

This is magic content. I miss the eighties so much it hurts sometimes.

[@lee2217]

Shows like this and world in action

[@Bertiesghost]

ITV make utter crap now.

[@patrickr6505]

TV is gone out with the Indians..no one watches TV except old biddies watching crap soap operas or bloke's watching the odd football match.. everyone nowadays watches the various internet services...the TV is jobs for the same old boys n girls in their own little bubble... pathetic

[@derin111]

I missed quite a bit of the '80s in a haze of Carlsberg Special Brew, Morocco Red, Afghan Gold Seal... and Singapore Special Noodles. 🤓

[@graemenicol6377]

I miss the 1970s I was born 1970 so I'm a old bastard these days

[@kdlofty]

Who else thought Roger Cook was going to doorstep a UFO?

[@idlehour]

I just assumed

[@shazanali692]

Same lol

[@cookimonster1251]

ME 💩

[@oldtimer5283]

Pretty random but true as fuck 🤣🤣🤣

[@stuh1975]

My thoughts exactly!

[@paulfahy9101]

Shout out to Roger Cook !! I met him at a Universe rave in the early nineties , at first we were all taking the piss out of him but by the end of it he was joining in and kickin it , he's a proper safe geezer !!

[@thomasbryan6796]

Sure you did Paul! I know that's a lie because in 1993 I met him at Bowie gig and he told me he hated rave music

[@spookybaba]

@@thomasbryan6796 Cook did go to one rave. It was after meeting Paul what put him off them. 😊

[@krazyk3842]

Baha geezer

[@pommiebears]

Paul Fahy do people honestly still use the word “safe”? 😒

[@briandoyle6188]

Aren't we speaking words that are thousands of years old....the bloke is talking about another era so he's going to use those words ..I think everyone just needs to chill out man....

[@unknownbrokenrobot8423]

That home owner could be a ventriloquist! I’ve never seen someone talk so well without moving their lips.

[@unknownbrokenrobot8423]

I wouldn’t exactly say speaking well, more like mumbling into a bowl of pudding.

[@gypsycream262]

a gottle of gear

[@fredtraylen4311]

Get on the ear wiggling as well🤣

[@User-3O3]

@@gypsycream262 That's no good; I can see your lips move(!) Where's yer dummy?

[@eamonnbyrne8400]

I swear You wrote the words right out of my mind.

[@cBearTV-]

Roger Cook......the king of true journalism.

[@breakit46]

Roger Melley the man on the telly.

[@notthebody]

Roger Cook the man in the book?

[@roblet5047]

Roger is more like Buster Gonad with his huge balls.

[@micktaylor9332]

Viz was a great magazine in its day. I used to buy it all the time as a kid. Roger mellie was funny as hell. And spoilt bastard, Jonny fartpants 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@shaiaheyes2c41]

God bless Rodger Cook. An era slipping through our hands like water.

[@CARLIN4737]

Long gone now.

[@JCTsFascinatingHobbies]

Geek moment, the TV set, near the beginning, is an Amstrad CTV2200, a set not renowned for its reliability. However, it used a Green label A56-540X tube, and....many were scrapped just for the tube!. So, other items aside, they can discount the TV as being affected by weird phenomena :)

[@DaveyMulholland]

What would the tubes be used for?

[@graemenicol6377]

@@DaveyMulholland making crack

[@cassandrajoiner9933]

Thank you. Answering the real questions. Amstrad knew how to make a product look attractive though. I've just heard about them a week ago. Never seen a repair on a PAL tv.

[@delgrady10]

I met Roger Cook once at a charity do he was very funny and surprisingly down to earth...

[@briangallagher3106]

Limmy?

[@AfghanApothecary]

sounds like an alan partridge anecdote

[@paulanthony5274]

@@AfghanApothecary "AHHHHHHHH"

[@geoffjoffy]

Thanks for this. Love the simplicity of the programme.

[@malbig2344]

love the music from A Clockwork Orange during the polygraph test.

[@tonyclifton265]

lol yes! opening scene as Alex looks into the camera and raises his glass of milk plus velocet in the korova milk bar

[@da2ukrager357]

Didn't roger cook have to stop this show as his life was threatened by gangsters ? Not necessarily this episode btw . Classic ambush journalism at its best.

[@EssexAggiegrad2011]

The show was cancelled due to low rating and a dwindling budget

[@rogerferris3720]

I do believe that there was a contract out on him at one time.

[@richardmurray2068]

I heard Ronnie Pickering took a contract oit on him

[@rayhoughton8046]

@@richardmurray2068 who?

[@graemenicol6377]

He died of arse injected disease syndrome in 1997.

[@1000WinstonSmith]

You just don’t see people like that on tv anymore.

[@rogerferris3720]

yeah definitely a cover up going on, either from the military or electricity police.

[@jaylinton300]

I sooooo loved the cook report, it's so great to see tham all over again. I got to be honest I thought Mr Cook stopped the journalism because he got sick through the stresses and strains of the work he was doing, I don't know if I am right or not with this, but I do remember he looked very unwell towards the end just before he stopped. Love to know what happened with him, I just loved watching him

[@themoff5062]

has to be ine of the greatest men of all time our roger cook

[@stephendawe5768]

Richard Hall should investigate.

[@64bakes]

Was that Clockwork Orange music during the polygraph test? Somebody had a sense of humour 😂

[@Slarti]

I spotted that too :)

[@TNT-km2eg]

You find people suffering funny , Bruno ?

[@craiggriffiths6018]

Roger Cook had a lot of bottle or wasn't all the ticket the more dangerous the criminal the more he'd go after them chase em down the street and all sorts just look what happened to Jill Dando unless that was a crazy stalker still takes loads of bravery

[@pamelagregson6449]

What's happened to this family since are strange things still happening at that house??

[@user-vg5rv5xf4u]

9:49 A clockwork orange soundtrack,Nice

[@MikeGreenwood51]

Preparation for the 'Ludivicho Treatment'.

[@christopherdale8201]

Michael Greenwood 🤣🤣🤣

[@derekbee1743]

The intro at first blush looks like a parody. Great show once you realize it’s real.

[@jaapseiye2246]

this is so relevant now it needs to be shared.

[@Getty400]

Roger cook Man of the year, Every year !

[@MyRonnierocket]

Always thought the cook report was interesting, nice to find it on KZbin.

[@briandoyle6188]

20.45 microwave energy was being tested by US and UK military and I'm sure others....his poor wife 22.30 some kind of PTSD or psychological illness....and yes saying anything about the military back then wasn't good for your health....

[@MsVanorak]

it still isn't

[@2Sorts]

I wonder how this all ended up? Did they ever get to the bottom of it? It’s been almost 40yrs since this film was made.

[@TNT-km2eg]

" If it wasn't for a bad luck, i would have no luck at all "

[@anaccount8474]

Have you seen Alan Attack? It's like the Cook Report, but with a more slapstick approach.

[@krazyk3842]

What is the show called.

[@philipbonner6486]

@@krazyk3842 The Cook Report k*don* Enjoy.

[@matthewjones9565]

Was anyone else waiting for someone to say "Get off my land" or "I can't believe it's not butter"?

[@russruss4715]

😂😂😂

[@arkchibald-]

I met Roger Cook in the 90's when I was running a criminal pension fund, the case went to court and Roger had to appear in front of the judge. I got to shake hands before he left the court room and we parted on good terms.

[@graemenicol6377]

Where you found guilty

[@lee2217]

Could do with programs like this nowadays

[@anonymousanonymous5327]

5.14 Mr a price a low tech person..... comes bowling up the road on a steam engine

[@MonstaTrapz]

53 fires and 73 floods in their house! Numerous puppies have died, i mean Wtf! Why didn't they move !

[@gavinpowers1217]

Good old Blighty. Use a bit of untested tech. Hope for the best and blame any effects on the locals. I see you Boris. I see you

[@christopherdale8201]

I love the episode of the costa dal sals where the British crims were and are on the run like Freddie foreman.but in this episode i believe these families why would they go to all this trouble to unearth irregularities especially that Nigel bloke in his Cottage keeping the evidence and then the cops keeping him in custody what a joke. But good on Roger cook

[@martlgr]

Mr. Price reminds me of Oppenheimer when he talks. Like his soul has been destroyed

[@billynomates7347]

Roger Cook is a fucking badman. Nuff respect.

[@20kgdumbell84]

The dramatic music during the lie detector test 😂

[@smokeandmirrors6167]

The intro is top notch!!!

[@davidhatred1583]

3:15 dude, i think your wife has depression!

[@leetlbt]

Lol pmsl

[@j0nnyism]

I would too if I looked like her

[@MsVanorak]

she' permanently cleaning up after fires and floods thats enough to make anyone down in the dumps

[@iancarpenter6298]

watt i find in this programme is revolting and shocking.theres ample proof its not the families fault watts going on.its very confuseing.at least roger gave the family a good plug on tv.ime sure someone will send him a cable or wire to help.i wonder if things are moving on or static.?.perhaps some bright spark could help.perhaps playing to much electric light orchestra or ac dc may be the problem.i wish both families a positive future not negative one.

[@cavalier1231]

Well done 🥴

[@sarahemerson6567]

You need to change your meds

[@stevechristie2569]

@@sarahemerson6567 Miss Emerson, are you a musician?

[@thomaswykes3647]

We've all got this to look forward to when the 5G gets turned on

[@OvercookedOctopusFeet]

@7:16 This is NOT "Dr. Sue Blackburn". It is in fact Dr. Susan Blackmore. And dare i say she is looking as young and feisty here as she still is today. And i do think they didn't use nearly as much footage of her in this programme after what i guess was a few hours of her actual recorded material. And just to mention, she's still doing interesting and thought provoking work today ⭐

[@opencurtin]

Mike Brewer looks like Roger Cook .

[@mrcheese4248]

haha he does, maybe its his dad!! lol

[@2Sorts]

Harry Enfield too

[@TNT-km2eg]

Just listen to all these jojos : I met Cook , Cook , oh that Cook ! It's not about you and your cheap fun , or Mr Cook , people is suffering here , traumatized every day

[@kiezasosa3173]

Damm I was 7yrs old

[@Renwoxing13]

❤ beautiful it was, back in the days ! ❤ I mean one could openly talk about how radio waves, and all forms of Microwave radiation had a possibility ( if not a *certainty* ) to negatively affect & effect not only outcomes like those shown in this video, but also have a detrimental affect / effect upon one’s physical ( & possibly even psychological ) well being & health ! ❤ we can’t talk about such things like that anymore nowadays, & if you do your a : 🖤⚫️⬛️◼️◾️▪️➖ *TINFOIL HAT WEARING KOOK* ➖▪️◾️◼️⬛️⚫️🖤

[@MsVanorak]

well since these people were suffering from microwave beam weapons perhaps he should have made them a hat each in his workshop. small glass marbles put inside the house to concentrate the beam. took my kichen ceiling down and one fell out. house built 1981. show as orbs on photographs with thru-wall technology. low level satellites or drones. have photos of projected images (the alien hoax) from 1968

[@Elvis-guy1973]

when I see roger cook, I keep thinking that the benny hill theme tune is going to start playing.

[@mseven1361]

A polygraph test is actually not as accurate as they make out. It is likely that the home owners were doing it and over exaggerating or someone who was against the transmitter. In one of the investigations said the wires were melted from the outside rather than the inside from the wires in the cables. In these cases it all points to the residents sabotaging their equipment or using equipment which will cause power surges.

[@fluxington]

You're just repeating information from the programme and conflating it with your own doubt.

[@mseven1361]

@@fluxington Yes, that is the idea. The logical explanation is sabotage and it's what the electric company's investigation found too.

[@fluxington]

@@mseven1361 But what about the allegations that the residents would have to operate the main switch or breaker 600 - 700 times a minute, to cause such damage, presumably from back EMF? And you're conveniently ignoring the opinions of Dr Barnaby and Dr Baker, and two other un-named experts, about the use of defence systems that could cause such disruption. It was also suggested that being at the end of the radial supply that fed the house could amplify effects.

[@mseven1361]

@@fluxington The 600 - 700 times would be questionable. In the UK electricity is at 50Hz so it would potentially be impossible to say 600 - 700 times per minute because the equipment would be working at a frequency of switching 50 times per second (3,000 per minute) so I would say the 600 - 700 was pulled out of the air. It could be achievable if they were to short circuit the equipment or putting an external power source such as a car battery which could damage the equipment in this way. 600 - 700 could be consistent with a microwave at the time so potentially using microwave parts to short circuit or cause a power surge could do it. The real way of finding out if it was due to sabotage is revisiting the building after these people left. If it didn't happen in one or more residents in the same way (and the subsequent tenants weren't also doing it) then it was sabotage. EMF would be working at a much higher frequency and would instantly trip the surge protection at the house and substation

[@MsVanorak]

it's beam weapons on low level satellites or drones. i'm wondering if these two families took photos inside their homes would there be the orbs on them. that's glass marbles inside your home being used as a lens. took my kitchen ceiling down and one fell out, about .25 inch round. boy scout stuff to create the fires!

[@robertfish4052]

He did an episode on mercenaries. Can't find it anywhere. Anyone know?

[@marclaw4511]

We were all so innocent back then.

[@humanpotatoes4958]

12:40 legend has it that Mike Newton’s balls eventually dropped in 1993.

[@tonysuley4306]

I can't stop laughing at cook..imagine trying to Rob a bank and he turns up

[@j0nnyism]

I went for a curry with roger cook in 1995. He had a lamb madras and farted seven times

[@gristamshackleford2102]

I wonder what would happen if they used gas generators for power.

[@tonyclifton265]

love the channel name. martin wellbourne was the alias of Reginald Perrin after he faked his own death lol

[@marcopaganotto9125]

Wow remember CRT TVs, they were huge, heavy and blurry!

[@GTI1dasOriginal]

.... Blurry? Sorry to hear yours was broken

[@anonymousanonymous5327]

Roger mellie the mam on the telly

[@_v-.]

The look on that poor dogs face is heartbreaking

[@MsVanorak]

they know it is coming from the sky as they are more electro sensitive than us. i've been subjected to beam attacks and our dog would be under the kitchen table. it got so bad that he was afraid of the moon

[@pommiebears]

Just seeing the cigarette smoking away in the intro......you know it was pre cry baby buntings! Lol! When things were just “normal”!

[@sirandrelefaedelinoge]

@ Pommie bears - I got passive trauma from that smoking cigarette ... it totally ruined my beautiful safe space... ❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄

[@helenwingrave7715]

The world pre political correction

[@ajs41]

@J van Sevenhoven Today people are obsessed with smartphones. I preferred it when they were obsessed with cigarettes.

[@stopgotdamndeletingmycomme8642]

Who can switch a fuse switch up and down 100 times in 60secs?no way 😅😅

[@CaptainMorganxxx]

I hope he sued the police and claimed compensation,

[@briandoyle6188]

Just realized capenhurst,my dad worked there....sorry....never knew it did that just making spent nuclear fuel safe ....this could be pulsing on the electrics not 600/700 times on /off....also my brother was in the royal signals,sinister music....

[@briandoyle6188]

10.12 working hands and that was just the missus.....clockwork orange music ....

[@jemshadow123]

Was waiting for the question..so which one of you was probed by a little green man?

[@bangersnmash4856]

His wife is suffering from the microwave disturbance which has been used and showed by the military to harm the body, its similar to the directional beams used in the war to guide enemy bombers over England, but 1000x more powerful, a friend of mine his neighbour had a swimming pool and was told by the raf it was used as a way point on a targeted terrain following beam over the country as he complained about the low flying aircraft, they also told him not use radio control aircraft as they would never work due to the beam, nice shot of defford at the end, but nothing to do with microwave terrain following radar

[@mseven1361]

That's not how that equipment works or how it would effect someone. People generally don't understand that electromagnetic radiation isn't the same as a nuclear bomb. If you were to suffer an attack like that you would have hairloss like with radio therapy. Her fainting seems over exaggerated suggesting that they might have been against a transmitter and making out it is causing problems as has been done in the past. There has been research however showing that such equipment wouldn't have an effect.

[@johnmc3862]

😂😂😂

[@Noob0perator]

11:50 I want one of those TV sets!

[@kerrydee5285]

I love his podgy bum in those trousers 😂👍🏻

[@thomasbryan6796]

The money shot

[@fernandapartridge5174]

😂

[@tonydoherty2190]

Why didn't they give the family sodium pentethol just to make sure

[@stephendawe5768]

I've had 5 plug socket's blow this week!

[@MikeGreenwood51]

Do you understand fuse ratings? IE are you over loading the sockets? But the fuse box should trip if overloading occurs.

[@craigphillips9383]

Are you growing weed

[@happyuk06]

You mean he didn't get thumped in this episode?

[@frankzappa951]

happyuk06 Think he took some “insurance” to ward off any potential violence.

[@davemcmahon4045]

the aliens were frightened of him

[@CashelOConnolly]

Look at the PC and TV😂

[@somethingbright4268]

Targeting these families and making them out to be guilty what rotten ba**ards. His wife looked like she was in a deep trance and he spoke through a tiny hole in his face 😂 he hardly moved his mouth at all. What a strange family. Maybe they are the aliens 👽😂

[@fredinatub]

I hope their sued the M.O.D

[@jota55581]

Old roger could move for being on the portly side

[@TheJimulike]

Very disappointed with this episode and misleading title!! I fast forwarded, as I always do, to near the end and was greatly disappointed by the lack of a confrontation between Roger Cook and some Martian in a car park!!

[@johnw2758]

Wait, wait........did I hear one of those doctor experts say this island was full in 1987................are you listening Sunak ?!!

[@historex54tamiya]

The gentleman at the beginning looks a lot like Robert Shaw, Quint from Jaws.

[@martinmanifold2241]

HAARP ...or the MOD tinkering with frequiencies or tesla theories

[@krazyk3842]

10:35 wtf hahahah

[@kingwatson9694]

It's 5G

[@kingkong81icloud]

Why don’t they use the house as a charging station if there’s too much power

[@fluxington]

Because there wasn't 'too much power' all of the time.

[@fabiandegussion5134]

What’s he growing in that loft 🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@pommiebears]

Fabian DeGussion does he look like a man growing anything in his loft?? Early 80’s.....most people had no experience with weed past the age of 25! Lol!

[@fabiandegussion5134]

Yo never judge. Book by it cover pal , you don’t know what the fuck ya neighbor is up-to.

[@pommiebears]

Fabian DeGussion back in the early 80’s, Middle aged farmers were not growing weed in their bloody lofts. They’d have just grown it in their field somewhere. Lol! How old are you “pal”? I agree, these days you really can’t make assumptions. But, back then....I’d bet your left nut that I’m right. 😂

[@fabiandegussion5134]

Pommie bears how old am I ! Is’t relevant at this juncture PAL. Like I said , you never know what ya neighbours are upto let alone what these strange cunt where upto back then PAL.

[@paulanthony5274]

@@fabiandegussion5134 They are strange fuckers,I.Q of a turnip.

[@bobbysamra9588]

He could have been a great ventriloquist 🤣

[@stevenorourke6509]

Do you have the roger cook with the horse racing episode?

[@MsVanorak]

yeson youtube

[@herrlip72]

you have the one with the smugglers with that Geordie Guy?

[@Pobsta-de7hb]

12:40 the voice that does not fit the face lol

[@chrisjury6931]

from 11am till 4pm work days only align to probable low power usage times so perhaps excess voltage spikes ripping through the system....the only other conclusion is rats.

[@johnnymeringues987]

12:41

[@TheMiseryIndex]

'Ralph Brain' imagine a baby being christened that today.

[@victwenty2324]

trying to explain events science and not come acros as a weirdo with that acent would be hard LOL

[@Tom-uv7ry]

Go back to sleep Vic you can't even write you div kid

[@royalordinance]

I'm just as fat but I cannot run up stairs!

[@anonymousanonymous5327]

3.15 the guy is so boring his missus has fallen asleep at the table

[@jamesmcneil2472]

Cobra mist

[@tonyquigley6543]

73 fires lol, no matter HOW bad your wires are, in a small house like that/ there AIN'T gonna be 73 fires/

[@dominicseanmccann6300]

Yeah. I'd pay money to see that. The aliens going " why not us? He even doorstopped McGuiness"......" Liquidize the b.....d"!

[@TedBackus]

12:41 A High Talker!!!! LOL he sounds like a lady

[@JoshuaCloyd]

16:23 bet them kids wish they could have gotten out of being filmed too..

[@tomakafrankconlon3207]

Simpletons looking for attention. Nothing special about that.