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was the official age limit for having your birthday read out on air, although adults would also send in cards for themselves with a false age on them, such was Gus’ cult following. Quote from: Wacky Homemade Badges on February 15, 2023, 12:01:33 PMOut in the arse end of the UK we had a monstrous tiger thing, described in this amusingly sour-grapesy article.

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Judi continued: “Whoever was on duty doing continuity – which is when you come and say ‘good evening, at six o’clock tonight you can see Westward Diary, but right now it’s time for this’ – at 5:15pm when it was children’s time, Gus would come on and we’d read out birthday requests. Please note if you register and log in the adverts will be far far less obtrusive and all photos will be far easier to see! He was an icon of the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s - and every child in the South West wanted him to read out their birthday messages.Attached to the bulkhead in the corner of the Petty Officers mess on HMS Brazen there was a brass cage with a trapdoor in which lived a Gus Honeybun. So what we did, like a baby bouncer, is to get Gus on the bands and I would come on and whoever was in the studio would let him go, and he’d fly through the air. Lately Roger and Vivianne enjoy a peaceful retirement with family and lovely neighbours dropping in all the time.

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That clock was set to all the clocks in the building, so all the guys in telecine and VTR who were rolling films and pressing buttons were following that clock. For a lot of the other ITV regions, success meant getting big programmes made and broadcast across the network. But of course Ian Stirling was one of them; he was an absolute dear, and very funny, and I really enjoyed the times when he was on, but I had absolutely no idea that he was sending coded messages out to the gay locals!In many ways Westcountry was a very different beast of a TV station without Gus, the announcers and quickly, a lot of the individual programs disappeared too, and changes in the rules by the Government meant that come 1996 it was taken over by London broadcaster Carlton. Gus Honeybun was the station mascot for Westward Television, and later Television South West, from 1961 to December 1992. Both puppets, along with a large collection of film and tape assets, were transferred to the South West Film and Television Archive (now part of The Box) from TSW when it lost the franchise in 1992. One of the Gus puppets (there were four in total) is in our collections and still wears his kilt from the evening. They had a woman in charge that didn’t come from down here, didn’t know what it was all about and there was a number of unsuccessful programmes which they thought would thrill our audience.