![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Everyone is Going to Die
Jan. 18th, 2009 09:04 amI've just woken up to an unusually large pile of of comments on a few of my 80s Youtube videos expressing their condolences about Tony Hart. What a way to find out that he's died - he was an icon of TV when I was growing up and taught our entire generation how to draw (well, he tried his best with me, but it didn't work).
He's the latest in a worryingly long line of people we know from British TV who are slowly dying off. Unfortunately, TV is about the right age for it now - with the end of World War 2 as the starting point, most of the people who joined the BBC in their thirties are at very unstable ages now.
I remember in one of Victoria Wood's shows she had a joke about one of the heap of crime dramas in the 90s suddenly revealing the deaths of John Thaw, Angus Deayton and Richard Whiteley, and that would be the end of television - but with two of those three gone some time ago, that's now sounding a bit too real for comfort.
At least it led to me finding an episode of Turnabout.
He's the latest in a worryingly long line of people we know from British TV who are slowly dying off. Unfortunately, TV is about the right age for it now - with the end of World War 2 as the starting point, most of the people who joined the BBC in their thirties are at very unstable ages now.
I remember in one of Victoria Wood's shows she had a joke about one of the heap of crime dramas in the 90s suddenly revealing the deaths of John Thaw, Angus Deayton and Richard Whiteley, and that would be the end of television - but with two of those three gone some time ago, that's now sounding a bit too real for comfort.
At least it led to me finding an episode of Turnabout.
