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Originally I did the Stanley Baxter shows with him and David Bell and Bruce McClure, these were all characters who worked for STV. Service in the RAF with Ralph Reader's famous 'Gang Shows', as well as other successes, led to films and a role in the Academy Award Winning Ealing Studios film 'The Blue Lamp'. Glen's career continued with a move to Scotland, where he continued to appear on stage as well as in numerous TV plays and light entertainment shows for the BBC and the fledgling STV. The organisation, long since defunct, was often jokingly referred to as Every Night Something Awful.

I remember the day when he was six years of age and I took him to the studios and sat him on my knee and said, 'How would you like to do this one day? Although he was born in Devon, England, Glen Michael achieved fame mostly in Scotland with this superb show. And, of course, my children appeared on the show and my grandchildren appeared like when we did Christmas shows, anything like that. Michael looks back on these days with great fondness and pictures of both Milroy and Fulton feature in the hallway.Thinking about STV in general, did you feel happy and at ease in everything you were doing within STV in terms of you didn't have to run up hill pushing spaghetti to get things done? The children’s TV presenter Glen Michael has told how he struggled with loneliness after the death of his wife. Originally airing at around 5pm on weekdays, the show moved to a Saturday timeslot in 1972, before moving again to Sunday afternoons in January 1974. And I kept going and I just laughed and made up a bit of story towards the end of it and finished it off and said, "Well, there you are!

But I actually did The Tower, which was another one, with Liam Hood as one of the Executives at STV and he was Producer of that and that was very good, it was all about a television station a way out in the country but that was very good.Upon leaving his native England for the Scottish theatre circuit, he found further success in stage shows with comedians Rikki Fulton and Jack Milroy. He informs me he has just come out of hospital, having been taken in a few nights before with a suspected heart attack that transpired to be a hiatus hernia. Working with Jack Milroy for thirteen years, he found himself in the famous Howard and Wyndham's 'Five Past Eight Show' and subsequently starring with Jack Milroy and Rikki Fulton in the 'Francie and Josie' TV shows. In its early years, the show was also carried in southern England by Southern Television (1966-67) and Westward Television (1967-69), allowing Michael to broadcast to his native Devon.

And I started to do commercials and I did a commercial for carpets, for refrigerators and Jack Radcliffe was actually doing them at the same time and one or two other people but it was a kind of one-off thing and from that I got in to STV. That was the last of the Theatre Royal but they were very, very happy days in the Theatre Royal and recording. As for Paladin, the lamp was auctioned off and according to Glen now lives in Yorkhill Children’s Hospital in Glasgow.Stop and talk to an older neighbour if you pass them on the street or knock on their door if they live alone. And I walked out and the engineer was, there was only one engineer that was there in the ante room checking on it and he looked at me and gave me a funny look and I said, "That wasn't very good, was it? By joining TV Guide, you agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy. written on it and of course, Paladin never lit himself up so he didn't smoke so we did campaigns like that and we did a lot of things with Yorkhill Hospital and so forth so we did a lot of spin-offs to try and do a little bit of good, you know. Hot from Scotland: Gordon Irving: Glen Michael BBC', The Stage and Television Today, 15 March 1962, 4.

I didn't, I've never believed in trying to put an act on in front of the camera because I think you're wasting your time to do that, for good, bad or indifferent. R: I think the best thing I can say about that is that I think the contribution that STV made in their early days was enormous. Anyway, he suddenly appeared with him and he had it all re-done and it was all tolled up and at one end it looked tatty and miserable. I: Do not take this the wrong way but I always felt approaching the show every time was, everything on that screen has got to look lived-in!Michael now spends most of his days at home, doesn't go out much and watches a lot of television - he likes Midsomer Murders and football; he doesn't much rate children's television today - and still hankers for a life in entertainment. I: Right, Glen, the second one they want an answer to is what's the most important contribution STV made to Scotland and why do you think that is? And he sent down Miller, who had a head of hair, who wasn't very pleased to come all the way down to Aberdeen to go in front of a camera to waggle his ears! It was designed for children but in those days, of course, everybody had a television set in the corner of the room and everybody, the whole family came, Granny and Granddad and Mother, Father, the kids, all sat in front of this one television. I had a knock on the door the other day, and a neighbour had left a jar of marmalade on my doorstep for my breakfast!