Whacko! [1960]

[@stevencroson4666]

The picture and sound quality of this program is incredibly terrific!!!!

[@hudois]

Thanks very much indeed gary170459 for this great posting. Very good quality indeed for a VHS rip. Professor Jimmy Edwards!!...Many memories come flooding back. I used to hide behind the setee when he dished out the canings! If you've got any more classics on VHS, please do upload some more here. They will be very gratefully received, I promise. Thanks again

[@chrispascoe8116]

Thank you Gary170459 for uploading these fondly remembered old tv shows.

[@audidude6284]

Never thought I'd see this show again, thank you very much.

[@andrewmartin6445]

Even for the time it was made the title and theme of this "family comedy" was creepy and pervy, centering as it does around an alcoholic sadist who gets his thrills by beating small boys on the bottom. I remember watching this in bewilderment as a child and wondering what was supposed to be so funny about it. Edwards's character was basically a repulsive bully with no redeeming qualities, but we were obviously expected to laugh along with him, rather than at him. I think the BBC had a very unhealthy culture even before the time of Savile.

[@moogdome2562]

Brilliant. Can't beat cosy black and white comedy. Us Brits were so good at it. Better than today's rubbish. Thank you for sharing.

[@Roger.Coleman1949]

Incredible discovery from the past - our English master in 1962 had a striking resemblance to Arthur Howard and was henceforth always known as ' Pettigrew ' !.Many thanks for the upload !

[@rogerargus1]

Can actually remember watching this episode when I was fourteen! Rather strangely cannot remember what I watched last year

[@Paul-010]

Now that’s funny!!!👍🏻😂😂

[@steverhodesvideos6244]

Early onset of Alzheimer's?

[@jamesmcleesh2688]

Good old Whacko Happy memories . R.I.P[ Chislehurst School and all the Staff.

[@morriganravenchild6613]

Great stuff & wonderful memories....thanks,

[@pauldazeley]

Stunning thanks for uploading.

[@patrixspringer2753]

Looks great~! I thought this series was lost; BBC radio 04 extra are restoring the radio series & airing some episodes for the first time since they went out 50 years ago!

[@seltaeb3302]

My Primary school was a Victorian work house, Boys & Girls entered in separate doorways. Learnt zero, got corporal punishment for any misdemeanor. Cruel brutal teachers. Thank god they're gone.

[@JFGryphonNYC]

Another time, another world. We were different people back in 1960.

[@onewishtoyou9179]

Indeed Sir , God is so creative hes the best of the bests

[@StuNeville]

Excellent opening line.

[@TheZodiacz]

"The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there." - L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between (1953),

[@feenix8461]

Seriously, who the hell could 'dislike' this???

[@bigfletch8]

Its not AI responsible for telepathy. I was running on the beach a few weeks ago, and the memory of this series came to mind....'mazin !!!

[@johnfinnegan5453]

Great comedy character; anarchical, swindling, drunken headmaster with a gambling problem! Favourite memory from one episode; bawling out of his study window at a child who apparently made a V sign back at him, so he got a gun and winged him crying out "Now try that again with one finger!"

[@fabricadojoe]

Great stuff. Reminds me of my teaching career. All a bit too P.C. these days: shooting the clientele frowned upon now.

[@TheZodiacz]

Who remembers Will Hay?

[@capt.bart.roberts4975]

It was amazing what got last the censors back then! 🙀

[@capt.bart.roberts4975]

My dad and mum took us out for a lovely family meal. We were sat next to Jimmy, what a hoot of a man.

[@tomkent4656]

Pettigrew was played by Arthur Howard, brother of Leslie Howard and father of Alan Howard. His career took a slight knock in 1961 when he was jailed for importuning.

[@steverhodesvideos6244]

He was also the uncle of Ronald Howard, who played Sherlock Holmes in the 1954 TV series.

[@capt.bart.roberts4975]

"That's a right catalogue of debauchery..." ROFFLMFAO!!!

[@davidskeeterskeeter1835]

Memories Ahhhhh 😇😇😇👌👏👏👏👏👏👍🇬🇧

[@ronaldjillings5069]

Innocent days ,!! Needless to say No darn swearing,!!!:-)

[@TheTheoldgit]

***** What a stupid statement!

[@stephenroney3630]

No, but it was full of sexual innuendo.

[@eastwood1941]

Champagne at four quid a bottle! Happy days!

[@terrywalsh6507]

Brilliant. 🐱

[@Yampers]

Think this was done before a live audience and all in one shoot

[@ianblakesley3349]

This programme was pre-recorded with the broadcast video recording system of the time. Each reel lasted eight and a half minutes and could not be stopped and restarted very quickly, so the actors could not afford to make mistakes. Everyone was word perfect; no cues were missed and the audience applause is live and genuine.

[@robwilde855]

Clock face at 19.20: thirteen numbers, including two fours!

[@taylornotswift8008]

Good old confiscation cupboard...

[@capt.bart.roberts4975]

So bears were a thing, long before there was a thing.

[@stevencroson4666]

That French lady has very beautiful legs!!!!

[@themondayclub9005]

Oh... I came here expecting to see something completely different... I've been misinformed, I do apologise... but while I'm here can the Conservative Party count on your support at the next General Election?

[@peterred]

very good

[@MrUhwoody]

+TheMondayClub vote ukip

[@zthetha]

Robert Browning our noble poet wrote the immortal lines : Then owls and bats Cowls and twats Monks and nuns in a cloister's moods Adjourn to the oak-stump pantry Dirty bugger.

[@Jethrovsky]

"Bend over boy!" was an amusing line often used by Jimmy Edwards when he played the headmaster in Whack-O! Not so amusing when you knew Edwards was homosexual.

[@dickhead3199]

That doesn't mean he was a paedophile though, unless you know otherwise?

[@dickhead3199]

I'll think you'll find he was "Outed" first, and still tried to cover it up by pretending to be in a relationship with another woman after his marriage failed, after all, it was a time where men were imprisoned for their sexuality. I just don't understand where you get this notion that homosexuality and paedophilia go hand in hand, because there is no proof whatsoever that it does, admittedly there was probably a preponderance of sadistic teachers that got their kicks from the flagellation of schoolkids, and that probably led to some pupils being affected in later life, but that still doesn't make Jimmy Edwards a paedophile. He might have been an alcoholic homosexual, but that doesn't mean he should be tarred with the same brush as others that have been caught out or managed to get away with their paedophilic crimes over the years.

[@steverhodesvideos6244]

Jimmy Edwards played a mean trumpet.

[@JohnnyNorfolk]

Jimmy Edwards DFC.

[@fabricadojoe]

I've got £38,000. Not much these days, is it?

[@geoffhummerstone]

Brian Blessed Anyone?

[@wright1875]

That very first line...FFS...you can’t keep saying it was a different time

[@ВасилийАнфилофьев-с8э]

на хрена ютюб рекомендует английскую озвучку ?