If you grew up watching any of the following animated shows (and others too numerous to mention), you can thank one person for that:
* Danger Mouse
* Count Duckula
* The Wind in the Willows
* Victor and Hugo, Bunglers in Crime
* Cockleshell Bay
* Jamie and the Magic Torch
* Budgie the Little Helicopter
* The Treacle People
Writer, Voice Actor, TV Presenter. A true powerhouse in children's TV. There'll never be another like Brian Trueman 💔⭐
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RIP to Brian Trueman, writer of many, MANY classic Kids TV shows in the UK since the 1970's including, but by no means limited to, the greatest secret agent in the world: Danger Mouse
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Preview- Danger Mouse: The Complete Collection (DVD)
“Heʼs the greatest, heʼs fantastic, wherever there is danger heʼll be there.”
Under a post box “somewhere in Mayfair” our furry secret agent duly receives his instructions from the spluttering Colonel K. Then itʼs into the Mousemobile with trusty sidekick Penfold in tow – and so begins another adventure for our righteous rodent!
Featuring the voices of David Jason, as our eponymous hero, and…
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Penfold... shush.
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We are deeply saddened to hear that Brian Trueman passed away on Sunday, aged 92. A hugely talented writer and a lovely man, Brian co-wrote The Treacle People with his son Jonathan, as well as lending his voice to Charlie and the nefarious Furness. He will be very sorely missed.
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The Danger Mouse writer Brian Trueman has died aged 92, his representative confirmed to the PA news agency.His son Jonathan Trueman announced the death of his father in a Facebook post, saying said he...
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Brian Trueman, the British writer behind cartoons including Danger Mouse and Count Duckula, has died aged 92, his son has said.
Ben Trueman wrote on the X social media platform: "Some sad news. My father, Brian Trueman, has died.
#dangermouse #mouse #danger #tvshow #classic #cartoon #british #CountDuckula #allthenews
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Animation Professionals Over 90 Still Alive
10 years ago, Cartoon Brew had an article about animators from the Golden Age and beyond over a certain age still living.
https://www.cartoonbrew.com/animators/who-are-the-oldest-living-animation-artists-88196.html
Unfortunately, the lion's share of that group have since passed away, save for a handful of names. For this post, I would like to highlight (in age order) those from studios like Disney, Warner Brothers as well as independent bases that are around today who represent the last living links to old school animation. These include artists, directors and writers. Exclusive voice actors or animated music composers are not counted.
Vera Linnecar (b. 1923) Halas/Bachelor, Bob Godfrey
Enid Wizig (b. 1923) Warner Brothers
Joe Hale (b. 1925) Disney
Lillian Schwartz (b. 1927) Independent
Witold Giersz (b. 1927) Independent
Bob Singer (b. 1928) Warner Bros., Hanna-Barbera
Yoji Kuri (b. 1928) Independent
Robert Verrall (b. 1928) National Film Board of Canada
Peter Maddocks (b. 1928) Independent
Zdeňka Deitchová (b. 1928) Gene Deitch
Art Leonardi (b. 1929) Warner Brothers, MGM
Jules Feiffer (b. 1929) Paramount, Terrytoons
Don Iwerks (b. 1929) Disney
Phil Roman (b. 1930) Chuck Jones, Fox, Independent
Howard Beckerman (b. 1930) Famous Studios, Terrytoons, Independent
R.O. Blechman (b. 1930) Terrytoons, Independent
Stan Hayward (b. 1930) Bob Godfrey
Joseph Koenig (b. 1930) National Film Board of Canada
Jack Heiter (b. 1930) Warner Brothers, Nickelodeon, UPA
Rein Raamat (b. 1931) Independent
Ed Seeman (b. 1931) Paramount
Fred Wolf (b. 1932) Independent
Brian Trueman (b. 1932) BBC
Fumio Kurokawa (b. 1932) Nippon Animation
Yvonne Andersen (b. 1932) Independent
Masaki Tsuji (b. 1932) Mushi, Toen, TMS
Dean Tavoularis (b. 1932) Disney
Doris A. Plough (b. 1932) Disney, Don Bluth, Hanna-Barbera, Fox
Inessa Kovalevskaya (b. 1933) Soyuzmultfilm
Boris Kolar (b. 1933) Independent (no other photo available)
Update (12/23): Adding Virginia Fleener (b. 1922) Disney
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INDIES 8 GREATEST WORLD CRICKET XV's OF ALL TIME !
I. INDIES 1ST CRICKET WORLD XV.....OF ALL TIME !
I.E 'CRICKET'S FOREVER UNBEATABLE XV' !
1. Sachin Tendulkar
2. Don Bradman
3. Rahul Dravid (wk)
4. Mohammad Azharuddin
5. Brian Lara
6. Garfield Sobers (C)
7. Kapil Dev
8. Shane Warne
9. Bishen Singh Bedi
10. Dennis Lillee
11. Joel Garner
12. Viv Richards
13. Anil Kumble
14. Mohinder Amarnath
15. BS Chandrashekhar
II. INDIES 2ND CRICKET WORLD XV....OF ALL TIME !
1. Wally Hammond (wk)
2. Virender Sehwag
3. Zaheer Abbas (wk)
4. Vijay Merchant (C)
5. George Headley
6. Vijay Hazare
7. Sanath Jayasuriya
8. Richard Hadlee
9. Colin Croft
10. Erapalli Prasanna
11. Jeff Thompson
12. S. Venkataraghavan
13. Malcolm Marshall
14. Courtney Walsh
15. Curtly Ambrose
III. INDIES 3RD CRICKET WORLD XV....OF ALL TIME !
1. Saeed Anwar (wk)
2. Sunil Gavaskar
3. Martin Crowe (C)
4. Clive Lloyd
5. Javed Miandad
6. VVS Laxman
7. Imran Khan
8. Wasim Akram
9. Allan Donald
10. Waqar Younis
11. Muttiah Muralitharan
12. Hashim Amla
13. Javagal Srinath
14. Manoj Prabhakar
15. Saqlain Mushtaq
IV. INDIES 4TH CRICKET WORLD XV....OF ALL TIME !
1. Desmond Haynes
2. David Warner
3. Kumara Sangakkara (wk)
4. Ricky Ponting (C)
5. Jacques Kallis
6. Greg Chappell
7. David Gower
8. Ian Botham
9. Lance Gibbs
10. Andy Roberts
11. Glenn McGrath
12. Mohammad Nissar
13. Michael Holding
14. Venkatesh Prasad
15. Mushtaq Ahmed
V. INDIES 5TH CRICKET WORLD XV....OF ALL TIME !
1. Gordon Greenidge
2. Adam Gilchrist (wk)
3. Greg Chappell
4. Aravinda de Silva
5. Sourav Ganguly
6. Kane Williamson
7. Denis Compton (C)
8. Chaminda Vaas
9. Dale Steyn
10. Ian Bishop
11. Pervez Sajjad
12. Dimuth Karunaratne
13. Leary Constantine
14. Khan Mohammad
15. Mushtaq Mohammad
VI. INDIES 6TH CRICKET WORLD XV....OF ALL TIME !
1. Len Hutton
2. David Boon
3. Mark Waugh
4. Michael Bevan (wk)
5. Ross Taylor
6. Angelo Mathews (C)
7. Shaun Pollock
8. Asif Iqbal
9. Chris Cairns
10. Wes Hall
11. Rangana Herath
12. Mohammad Farooq
13. Iqbal Qasim
14. Ijaz Faqih
15. Farooq Hamid
VII. INDIES 7TH CRICKET WORLD XV....OF ALL TIME !
1. Navjot Singh Sidhu
2. Geoff Marsh
3. Mahela Jayawardene
4. Dean Jones
5. Arjuna Ranatunga
6. Inzamam ul Haq (C)
7. Karsan Ghavri
8. Harold Larwood
9. Sydney Barnes
10. Fred Trueman
11. Nathan Lyon
12. Intikhab Alam
13. Graeme Swann
14. Sarfaraz Nawaz
15. Mike Hussey
VIII. INDIES 8TH CRICKET WORLD XV....OF ALL TIME !
1. Alastair Cook
2. Graham Gooch
3. Kepler Wessels (C)
4. Matthew Hayden
5. Mohammad Yousuf
6. Marcus Trescothick (wk)
7. W G Grace
8. Mohammad Rafique
9. Aaqib Javed
10. Mitchell Johnson
11. Abdul Qadir
12. AB DeVilliers
13. Colin Cowdrey
14. Clyde Walcott
15. Frank Worrell
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I have started The Casual Vacancy by JKR and restarted Precious Bane by Mary Webb.
Might just be because I am having a Tolstoy binge at the moment, but the opening to The Casual Vacancy, where we get a large cast of characters introduced very skillfully, strikes me as very Tolstoyish.
I have also taken to listening to Trueman and Riley while I'm pulling up the weeds. (I always have an intense gardening spasm in April/May, before the green stuff wins and I just let it grow where it wants. 😁) It takes absolutely no effort to listen to it, and I can miss five minutes of plot development (if that's the right description, because very little happens) while losing reception in the darkest reaches of the compost heap without losing the jist.
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Preview- The Wind in the Willows (Bluray)
Preview- The Wind in the Willows (Bluray)
1983’s The Wind in the Willows – The Original Movie won a BAFTA for ‘Best Children’s Programme’ as well as an international Emmy Award and set the template for the subsequent hugely successful TV show which ran for 52 episodes on ITV from 1984 to 1988.
Toad decides that motor cars are the only way to travel, however his driving skills don’t match up to his enthusiasm. Ratty, Mole and Badger come…
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Still Take You Home by Arctic Monkeys
From Leeds to Sheffield. Yorkshire, Yorkshire. Born in Derby, lived in Nottinghamshire as an unaware three-year-old but then indoctrinated in South Yorkshire in my formative years. At a very young age I was taken to a Roses match at Headingly to see both Fred Trueman and Brian Statham bowl (the scorecard was knocking around for years - I just checked it on Cricinfo, Lancashire were all out for 176, the names on the scoresheet ring profound bells... Ken Higgs.... Jimmy Binks... Farook Engineer... Ray Illingworth). Dad says that he thought the match was at Bramall Lane, but turned up there to find it was in Leeds, but we went anyway! 1 June 1968, short of my sixth birthday, getting well indoctrinated. For years I was frustrated that I had been born outside of Yorkshire, which meant I could never open the batting for the county.
With football, I was fortunate that Derby were successful when I was still at an impressionable age, winning the league title when I was nine. And then we went to live in Derbyshire, so the relationship was cemented. But the family ties to Sheffield were multiple and then set in stone when Moira moved there. So my mental geography is the green hills and valleys of the Derbyshire Dales and historical geography extends across to South Yorkshire, which is perhaps the least Yorkshire part of Yorkshire. Of course, the main thing about Yorkshire is the way they talk, but since I’ve discovered that there is an East Midlands dialect and accent continuum, I feel a bit more protective about it - it’s not nearly as violently identifiable as Black Country, Scouse or Geordie, but once you know the key factors, it’s every bit as loveable.
Arctic Monkeys - kids being raucous when I could have been their father (in terms of age, not for any actual genetic opportunities), a stunning album which has been one of my most played of all time and is still especially useful for the last hundred kilometres of long and late drives home from distant vineyards.
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