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Old 21-05-2008, 02:39 AM
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I'm currently reading Simon Garfield's excellent "The Wrestling", a book about the post WWII British wrestling phenomenon (McManus, Pallo, Kellett, Street, etc). Can anyone name any films/tv shows that featured wrestlers ? I can only think of "Night & The City", there must be much more, no ?

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Jackie Pallo was in The Avengers where he fought with Honor Blackman.
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Pat Roach was in Auf Wiedersehn Pet and did a lot of TV/Films during the 80's and 90's.
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Jackie Pallo also appeared as a wrestler in 'The Reckoning'.
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There was Send in the girls (1978) with Annie Ross.

An episode "The Wild Bunch" featured among others Giant Haystacks,

Brian maxine & Kendo Nagasaki who took his mask off but from memory

it was a darkened room & you couldn't see much!
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There were wrestlers in Night and the City.
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I still remember Women In Love......but I don't suppose that counts, does it?

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Jackie Pallo was in The Avengers where he fought with Honor Blackman.
Famously, she mistimes a kick and knocked him out. As the show was recorded 'as live', this stayed in the finished episode. PM me if you need more details.
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In A Kid for Two Farthings, Sonia (Diana Dors) wants to marry Sam (Joe Robinson) the body builder and wrestler. We see some of the wrestling bouts and there are two wrestlers in the cast list, Charlie Green & Ray Hunter. They don't have any other film credits so could they have been professional wrestlers?

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IIRC Joe Robinson was in the Jackie Pallo Avengers episode.
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Wasn't Jackie Pallo or one of the other great names in an episode of Are You Being Served? I seem to recollect he was to fight Mr Humphries since I recollect john Onman hopping around the ring and being chased by the wrestler and then along came Mrs Slocombe and did the necessary on his behalf? I am sure some of the other great names also appeared in some of the well known sitcoms but I cannot place the exact ones at present.
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Wasn't Jackie Pallo or one of the other great names in an episode of Are You Being Served? I seem to recollect he was to fight Mr Humphries since I recollect john Onman hopping around the ring and being chased by the wrestler and then along came Mrs Slocombe and did the necessary on his behalf? I am sure some of the other great names also appeared in some of the well known sitcoms but I cannot place the exact ones at present.
Yes. he was.

I vaguely recall Mick McManus being in some sort of 'hidden London' film in he 60s and Mrs Bat reminded me of this .....

"Send in the Girls" The Wild Bunch (1978)

..... Floella Benjamin and Kendo Nagasaki - the mind boggles!

If you follow the links you discover that Brian Maxine was in The Bill and that there is a gentleman who we have all forgotten .... Brian Glover, who used to wrestle as 'Leon Arras'.
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There was a storyline in Coronation St years ago that had Stan Ogden ( as

"Ogden the Horrible") grappling with the big Scot Ian Campbell! Seem to

recall Stan didn,t win!!
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there was the sex thief starring diane keen and christopher biggins ,instead of speeded up bonking sequences like the confessions films favoured you got one interspersed with footage of wrestlers ...........so ive been told anyway ! they were your typical world of sport saturday teatime wrestlers at that , so ive been informed
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Thank you all for responding. Anyone know the title of the Pallo v. Blackman Avengers episode ?

Note to Bats - Brian Glover is well featured in Simon Garfield's book, Wasn't he also in Porridge ?
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