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Old 25-01-2008, 06:10 PM
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Wrote the theme toon... sang the theme toon...

Poor Dennis Waterman. I don't think he ever did actually write a theme tune, did he? He sang a few though - apart from Minder and New Tricks, how many others?

What was the best role Den ever played - for me it's George Carter in The Sweeney (and his superannuated close relative in New Tricks). A brighter and more comples character than the parodies allow...

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Wrote the theme toon... sang the theme toon...

Poor Dennis Waterman. I don't think he ever did actually write a theme tune, did he? He sang a few though - apart from Minder and New Tricks, how many others?

What was the best role Den ever played - for me it's George Carter in The Sweeney (and his superannuated close relative in New Tricks). A brighter and more comples character than the parodies allow...
His missus at the time, Patricia Maynard, wrote the lyrics for Minder and the credit for writing them was given to "Waterman"

I think that's the closest he ever got to writing a feme toon (or lyrics)

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Wrote the theme toon... sang the theme toon...

Poor Dennis Waterman. I don't think he ever did actually write a theme tune, did he? He sang a few though - apart from Minder and New Tricks, how many others?

What was the best role Den ever played - for me it's George Carter in The Sweeney (and his superannuated close relative in New Tricks). A brighter and more comples character than the parodies allow...
Hi Graeme,

Your reference to "wrote the theme toon...." of course refers to the Little Britain comedy sketches.

The one thing I could never work out with the LB routine is why they made Dennis look so small? Were they trying to say that Dennis thought himself a bigger star than he really was?

Anyone have an answer?

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Hi Graeme,

Your reference to "wrote the theme toon...." of course refers to the Little Britain comedy sketches.

The one thing I could never work out with the LB routine is why they made Dennis look so small? Were they trying to say that Dennis thought himself a bigger star than he really was?

Anyone have an answer?

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His missus at the time, Patricia Maynard, wrote the lyrics for Minder and the credit for writing them was given to "Waterman"

I think that's the closest he ever got to writing a feme toon (or lyrics)

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She co wrote it with Gerard Kenny (remember him?) 'i made it through the rain' & 'New York , New York'.
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Waterman was in a really rubbish comedy called "On the Up' a few years back and he did indeed sing the theme toon on that one.
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Does anyone remember him in Just William (I don't)? He didn't, er, by any chance, er, did he...
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Waterman was in a really rubbish comedy called "On the Up' a few years back and he did indeed sing the theme toon on that one.
"Just the one, Mrs Wembley?"

Tony Hatch & Jackie Trent's daughter, Michelle, was in it; I quite liked it actually!

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"Just the one, Mrs Wembley?"

Tony Hatch & Jackie Trent's daughter, Michelle, was in it; I quite liked it actually!

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Me too but then again i liked Clarence with Ronnie Barker!
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Me too but then again i liked Clarence with Ronnie Barker!
Yep - so did I! (With Josephine Tewson I believe)

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Yep - so did I! (With Josephine Tewson I believe)

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Correct. The first Mrs Leonard Rossiter.
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Okay, I admit to enjoying watching 'Mind Your Language' when it was on. However, I was 4 years old at the time, so legally not liable for my actions.
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I used to watch Mind Your Language regularly ... but only to take a good look at Francoise Pascal!

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Tut! Now, why doesn't that surprise me..........?

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Waterman was in a really rubbish comedy called "On the Up' a few years back and he did indeed sing the theme toon on that one.
It may have been rubbish but like everything DW appears in it had 'legs'
Thats the joke that killed the Music Hall !
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