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Looking for George Formby proggies if anybody can help tv appearances,documentaries etc. I have the "Best of British" and " The Friday show" (16th December 1960 broadcast) and will hopefully have qiute a few of his movies soon, so its mostly tv stuff i'm looking for and any cinema interviews.

I have a sizeable colection of tv shows of all sorts colected over 25 years or more so should have something to give back to those who can help.

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I have now got an excelllent copy of The South Bank Show George Formby, but I am still looking for the 40 Minutes and any other documentaries, tv appearances,interviews,public appearances etc etc if any nice folk can help please...

Nick Dando

I have an off-air recording of "George on George", a radio documentary about George Harrison's life-long love of the works of George Formby. It's about 30 minutes long and was broadcast in 2004 and repeated in 2005.

Here is what appears on the "Above The Title" production company's website.

George Formby was born George Hoy Booth on 26th May 1904. This programme celebrates the centenary of the birth of the Lancashire entertainer, who attracted a huge, devoted and diverse following. Among them was George Harrison, who listeners will hear for the first time in conversation with Russell Davies, speaking with passion about his hero, the man with the ukulele.


Producer: David Perry
Presenter: Russell Davies

Broadcast:
25th May (Repeated 9th June 2005)

Nick

Mr Pastry Time

If you keep an eye on the auction halls on the net you will see just about anything of George on sale. I also have much on George as been a fan since childhood. Regards

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Yes Thanx Mr Pastry,

I'm making progress and now have the Southbank show and the 1967 Gary Marsh documentary to add to my collection of Formby stuff I am extremely hopeful of getting the Forty Minutes documentary and the Eddie Waring programme soon too.

My lifelong fascination with Formby was awakened a couple of weeks ago when whilst doing a swap for some unrelated tv programmes I was given the wonderful surprise addition of "The Friday Show" on a disc. Until then I had no idea that such an amazing programme existed and it has wetted my appetite to seek out as many recordings of Formby as I can find. Yes via that well known auction site I have obtained some very acceptable dvd's of 19 of his movies. It is such a pity and rather difficult to understand why an enterprising dvd company hasnt officialy released the 21 of his movies that are known to be in existence ( apparently a 22nd one is missing) they could issue them in a boxset with a cluster of the various documentaries and footage of his numerous other filmed appearances as extras and it would be sure to sell like hot cakes. Formby is timeless and his films captured his cheerful brilliance and warmth and his unforgetable ukelele songs like no other star was able to convey via the medium of film ( An interesting little fact I have picked up on my journey so far is that apparently ukelele is an Hawaillan word "uke" means flea and "Lele" means dance so the word ukelele means " Dancing Flea" how wonderful ha ha).

If anybody has any George Formby recordings docos,tv appearances,filmed appearances etc please do drop me a line via my message box.

I wonder did he do many radio shows and are there any of his radio shows in existence and available anywhere ?

I have qiute a collection of tv and radio programmes in my collection of tv and radio shows of all descriptions gathered over many years to swap from so am almost bound to have something to interest you if any Formby fans can help me in my quest.

Soutar

I think i have all of what survives of George Formby's television appearances including the friday show, top of the bill variety show and atlantic showboat spectacular.

DAE

hi,
i would be grateful if anyone could send me a copy of his tv stuff, particularly the Garry Marsh documentary. i will either pay or trade.

also, can someone tell me what the 21st or even 22nd films are - i thought i had all 20 - but now it appears there are more!

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Soutar I have just sent you a private message,

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DAE.

The missing film is a silent horse racing drama called "By the shortest of heads" with George just ten years old in it. Playing his real life occupation at the time a jockey.

This link at the excellent George Formby society website tells more.

By The Shortest Of Heads

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DAE

The George Formby Cavalcade is apparently just a compilation of George's musical numbers from previous films so isnt realy a proper film in its own right so thats probably the one your thinking of.

If you are interested in trades Leave your email address in my private message box and I will come back to you.

Mr Pastry Time

I have Ukelele Man on DVD and also Looking back at George. Two very good docs. Somewhere I have a DVD of Formbys home movies.

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Mr Pastry those are interesting.

I have just replied to your message about the Stewart Granger Sherlock movie if you are interested in trading stuff then just write to me at my email address given in my reply.

aphra

So many fans, so few can spell... Sorry, but once a sub-editor, always a sub-editor!

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Its been interesting discussing things,but I would be grateful if any Formby collectors who can seriously help me with my quest would make contact via the private messaging system. I have been collecting tv shows and radio plays almost since the dawn of time so ought to be able to give you a tv programme to tickle your fancy from my sizeable collection on dvdr.

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I have now added "Remembering George" the extended version of "The Friday show (1960) introduced by Alan Randall and "The Ukulele man" the 1971 programme introduced by Eddie Waring to my collection, but I am still interested in any other recordings of Formby from tv shows and his numerous appearances that were filmed should anybody have any.

If you have any such programmes please leave an email I can contact you at via the private messaging system on this board.

Thanx everybody who has helped so far......