0:00:02 > 0:00:04Telly - that magic box in the corner.
0:00:04 > 0:00:07It gives us access to a million different worlds,
0:00:07 > 0:00:10all from the comfort of our sofa.
0:00:10 > 0:00:13'In this series, I'm going to journey through the fantastic
0:00:13 > 0:00:16'world of TV with some of our favourite celebrities.
0:00:16 > 0:00:20'They've chosen the precious TV moments that shed light...'
0:00:20 > 0:00:22The wind almost blew my blank off.
0:00:22 > 0:00:24You're nearly in the telly here.
0:00:24 > 0:00:26'..or the stories of their lives.'
0:00:26 > 0:00:28If you're so blinking clever, you look after him.
0:00:28 > 0:00:29This takes me back completely.
0:00:29 > 0:00:32'Some are funny...'
0:00:32 > 0:00:34# And when they were down they were down... #
0:00:34 > 0:00:35'..some...'
0:00:35 > 0:00:38- Ah, thank you! - '..are surprising.'
0:00:38 > 0:00:39It terrifies the life out of me.
0:00:39 > 0:00:41'Some are inspiring.'
0:00:41 > 0:00:43I wanted to be on telly.
0:00:43 > 0:00:45That's it from me, back to you two.
0:00:45 > 0:00:46'And many...'
0:00:46 > 0:00:49Though this rather futuristic TV...
0:00:49 > 0:00:51'..are deeply moving.'
0:00:51 > 0:00:53And it was heartbreaking. I wept. It was heartbreaking.
0:00:53 > 0:00:55It's not real.
0:00:55 > 0:00:58'So come watch with us, as we hand-pick the vintage telly that
0:00:58 > 0:01:03'helped turn our much-loved stars into the people they are today.'
0:01:03 > 0:01:05Welcome to The TV That Made Me.
0:01:13 > 0:01:15My guest today was born in Jamaica
0:01:15 > 0:01:19but grew up to become one of Britain's greatest ever Olympians.
0:01:19 > 0:01:23Linford Christie sprinted into the history books
0:01:23 > 0:01:26and the nation's hearts with his incredible performances
0:01:26 > 0:01:27on the track.
0:01:29 > 0:01:33The TV that made him includes a world of high kicks...
0:01:34 > 0:01:36Crazy flicks...
0:01:36 > 0:01:38And low blows...
0:01:38 > 0:01:40A reverse double knee hold by Nagasaki...
0:01:40 > 0:01:43A pair of likely lads who couldn't help
0:01:43 > 0:01:45getting into all kinds of romantic bother...
0:01:45 > 0:01:49My wife has left me, I don't give a rat's.
0:01:49 > 0:01:51And a footballing genius who gave us all
0:01:51 > 0:01:55a new definition of the term legend.
0:01:55 > 0:01:59A man who has represented his country with distinction.
0:01:59 > 0:02:03The only runner in history to hold at the same time Commonwealth,
0:02:03 > 0:02:07European, Olympic and World titles.
0:02:07 > 0:02:10It can only be the one and only, the legend that is,
0:02:10 > 0:02:12Linford Christie.
0:02:12 > 0:02:14Truly is a legend, this man.
0:02:14 > 0:02:18Shall we tell them that we once entered the sports day race?
0:02:18 > 0:02:22Because our kids went to the same school, and I entered
0:02:22 > 0:02:25the Father's Day race with Linford Christie,
0:02:25 > 0:02:27who cheated and did win.
0:02:27 > 0:02:29I was very upset.
0:02:29 > 0:02:31It was quite technical.
0:02:31 > 0:02:34Do you remember we had to run along with the beanbag on our head?
0:02:34 > 0:02:37- And I brought my fast legs, I should have left them at home. - Yeah, I know.
0:02:37 > 0:02:40I'll take you on at comedy one day.
0:02:40 > 0:02:41But today is a celebration of you,
0:02:41 > 0:02:45so we're going to have a trip down memory lane now and wind
0:02:45 > 0:02:50the clock way, way back, and this is a very young Linford Christie.
0:02:56 > 0:03:00Linford Christie was born in 1960 on the Caribbean island
0:03:00 > 0:03:04of Jamaica, to Mum, Mabel, and Dad, James.
0:03:04 > 0:03:07Linford's parents joined the half a million people
0:03:07 > 0:03:11who emigrated from the West Indies for a new life in Britain,
0:03:11 > 0:03:15leaving two-year-old Linford behind with his grandmother, Anita.
0:03:15 > 0:03:18Five years later, aged seven,
0:03:18 > 0:03:21Linford moved from sun-drenched Jamaica to just
0:03:21 > 0:03:26plain drenched Britain to be with his mum and dad in London.
0:03:26 > 0:03:28From then on, he grew up in Shepherd's Bush
0:03:28 > 0:03:31with his four sisters and two brothers.
0:03:31 > 0:03:35So, do you get a chance to get back to Jamaica these days?
0:03:35 > 0:03:38I try, I try. I mean, I try to get over every couple of years if I can.
0:03:38 > 0:03:42- Good to get back and... - Has it got a good vibe, Jamaica?
0:03:42 > 0:03:44- (It's the food.) The food.- Really?
0:03:44 > 0:03:46There's no food, for me, like Jamaican food,
0:03:46 > 0:03:47so I've got to go back.
0:03:47 > 0:03:49Everyone's just laid-back.
0:03:53 > 0:03:56So we're taking you to your earliest TV memory now, Linford.
0:03:56 > 0:03:59I'm not going to say anything except watch this...
0:04:01 > 0:04:03- It's the Big Daddy. - Big Daddy, look at him.
0:04:04 > 0:04:09ITV was the home of televised wrestling for a staggering 33 years,
0:04:09 > 0:04:13and the heyday of the half-nelson was the '70s, when millions
0:04:13 > 0:04:18of us spent Saturday afternoon cheering on our Lycra-clad heroes.
0:04:20 > 0:04:24I think it came on about four o'clock and we just sat there
0:04:24 > 0:04:27and the whole family would gather round the TV.
0:04:27 > 0:04:29Just pandemonium, seriously.
0:04:29 > 0:04:32We would just laugh and my dad would be in front of the TV
0:04:32 > 0:04:35making loads of noise. And even my old granny, you know,
0:04:35 > 0:04:38she was normally a really laid-back old lady,
0:04:38 > 0:04:41and she'd be up there throwing a few punches and getting involved.
0:04:41 > 0:04:43I mean, looking back on it now, I think
0:04:43 > 0:04:46we can all tell that it was choreographed, to a degree.
0:04:46 > 0:04:48Or do you still think...
0:04:48 > 0:04:50- Go on, what's your view on it? - I don't know, it was good.
0:04:50 > 0:04:53It was more real than the ones they've got now.
0:04:53 > 0:04:57I mean, they've got the WWF and all that kind of stuff.
0:04:57 > 0:05:00To me, this was more real. And it was entertaining.
0:05:00 > 0:05:03No-one got hurt, at least I don't think.
0:05:03 > 0:05:05No-one got hurt making this programme.
0:05:05 > 0:05:07It was entertaining, no-one got hurt.
0:05:07 > 0:05:10- They were wrestling, but it was... - Great characters.- Yeah.
0:05:10 > 0:05:13The characters were what made the programme.
0:05:13 > 0:05:15What did we have? Mick McManus.
0:05:15 > 0:05:18We always thought the bad guys just wore the leotard
0:05:18 > 0:05:21that came across, and the good guys wore trunks.
0:05:21 > 0:05:23Mick McManus was one of those guys
0:05:23 > 0:05:27and he would always stop you in your tracks
0:05:27 > 0:05:30and then he'd point at something and while the other guy wasn't looking,
0:05:30 > 0:05:33- the referee wasn't looking, he'd hit him.- Yeah.
0:05:33 > 0:05:37You know, we'd shout at the TV and say, "Look, he's hitting him, he's hitting him."
0:05:38 > 0:05:41Mick McManus...in his little blue shorts. There he goes.
0:05:41 > 0:05:43Look at this, it's like the other one's laid down.
0:05:43 > 0:05:46LINFORD LAUGHS See, and nobody knows.
0:05:46 > 0:05:49The referee didn't see it because he was doing something else.
0:05:49 > 0:05:52Mick McManus always got a public warning, there was always one or two.
0:05:52 > 0:05:54I think if you got three, they disqualified you.
0:05:54 > 0:05:58But it's McManus with a second and final public warning there.
0:05:58 > 0:05:59He always made it through.
0:05:59 > 0:06:01Look at that.
0:06:01 > 0:06:05I mean, he looks like he's been eating too many sweets.
0:06:06 > 0:06:09The spectacle of grown men throwing each other around
0:06:09 > 0:06:14and sitting on each other had a surprisingly wide appeal.
0:06:14 > 0:06:17The Duke of Edinburgh and Margaret Thatcher were fans.
0:06:17 > 0:06:22- Oh, here we go. Here's another one. - That's Kendo Nagasaki.
0:06:22 > 0:06:24A reverse double knee hold by Nagasaki...
0:06:24 > 0:06:30What other memories do you have of Saturdays and the build-up?
0:06:30 > 0:06:35On Saturday mornings, we all raced up because the TV was
0:06:35 > 0:06:37in my parent's room.
0:06:37 > 0:06:39And my dad would get up and go to work
0:06:39 > 0:06:43and my mum would be at home, so we'd all run up the stairs,
0:06:43 > 0:06:46get in bed and we'd just sit there and watch Banana Splits,
0:06:46 > 0:06:49- all the cartoons and all that kind of stuff.- Oh, yeah.
0:06:49 > 0:06:51So this is not in your lounge?
0:06:51 > 0:06:52No, no, no, no.
0:06:52 > 0:06:55The lounge was a place where...
0:06:55 > 0:06:57only, I suppose, guests and visitors came.
0:06:57 > 0:06:59My mum kept her best plants in there.
0:06:59 > 0:07:01She had all these plants and everything else.
0:07:01 > 0:07:03You'd go in there and greenflies would kill you, seriously.
0:07:03 > 0:07:05It would be like going through the jungle.
0:07:05 > 0:07:08And she kept all the best crockery and everything in there,
0:07:08 > 0:07:11so that was the privileged few...
0:07:11 > 0:07:12I want to make you feel at home.
0:07:12 > 0:07:15We've got the plants and I've got a few little goodies
0:07:15 > 0:07:19for you now that will take you back to your childhood.
0:07:22 > 0:07:26Now, you being a highly toned, tuned, physical athlete,
0:07:26 > 0:07:30in your younger day, I'm assuming it was fruit,
0:07:30 > 0:07:32- protein shakes...- Yeah, yeah.
0:07:32 > 0:07:33..all that sort of stuff.
0:07:33 > 0:07:35I'm curious.
0:07:35 > 0:07:38Oh, look at it. I can name all these already.
0:07:38 > 0:07:40I could close my eyes, eat them and tell you what it is.
0:07:40 > 0:07:43We've got a Dib Dab.
0:07:43 > 0:07:45- So this was what you used to eat? - Indeed.
0:07:45 > 0:07:47- Go on, tell us. - These are Black Jacks.
0:07:47 > 0:07:50- You could buy four of these for a penny, which...- Yeah.
0:07:50 > 0:07:52What's a penny now in old money?
0:07:52 > 0:07:54- I don't even know.- A penny.
0:07:56 > 0:07:58But, yeah, four of these for a penny, you'd buy these.
0:07:58 > 0:08:01- Are these Mint Imperials or Trebor Mints?- I don't know.
0:08:03 > 0:08:04Go on.
0:08:04 > 0:08:06Oh...
0:08:07 > 0:08:10It's mint. Mint Imperials.
0:08:10 > 0:08:11I'll have one of them.
0:08:11 > 0:08:14So have you still got a sweet tooth?
0:08:14 > 0:08:16I can take it or leave it.
0:08:16 > 0:08:17But in your youth,
0:08:17 > 0:08:21this is obviously before you got into athletics?
0:08:21 > 0:08:22Even during.
0:08:22 > 0:08:24Well, yeah, but you're burning it off,
0:08:24 > 0:08:27you're burning off those calories you're going to need...
0:08:27 > 0:08:30I'd still eat one of these though, trust me. Sherbet Dip Dab.
0:08:30 > 0:08:32With sherbet in it.
0:08:32 > 0:08:35It looks like the Grange Hill tuck shop.
0:08:35 > 0:08:37Look, we don't care. Money's no object on here.
0:08:37 > 0:08:38There we go, look at it.
0:08:38 > 0:08:40There you go, mate.
0:08:45 > 0:08:48So, Linford, we're moving on to your biggest influence now,
0:08:48 > 0:08:49growing up as a young man.
0:08:49 > 0:08:51I suppose we would assume it would be a runner,
0:08:51 > 0:08:53but the person isn't a runner?
0:08:53 > 0:08:57No, well, I'm sure he ran a couple of times from other people.
0:08:58 > 0:09:03Linford's biggest influence was Belfast's golden boy Georgie Best.
0:09:03 > 0:09:05Georgie's footballing skills
0:09:05 > 0:09:08inspired a generation of youngsters...
0:09:08 > 0:09:11thanks, at least in part, to television.
0:09:11 > 0:09:14The start of his career coincided with the first British
0:09:14 > 0:09:17football results show - Match Of The Day.
0:09:17 > 0:09:21It hit our screens in 1964 and showcased his
0:09:21 > 0:09:25incredible talent to the whole nation.
0:09:25 > 0:09:28He became the first global football superstar,
0:09:28 > 0:09:32appearing on chat shows and ultimately being given his own show.
0:09:33 > 0:09:35I loved Georgie Best growing up.
0:09:35 > 0:09:40The thing is, as a kid, I didn't think about being a runner at all.
0:09:40 > 0:09:42I wanted to be a footballer, as most kids do.
0:09:42 > 0:09:44- Oh, really?- Indeed.
0:09:44 > 0:09:46And Georgie Best, you idolised?
0:09:46 > 0:09:51I did because he had skill, poise, he was a ladies' man.
0:09:51 > 0:09:54- I mean, not that that's...part of the reason why I liked him.- No...
0:09:54 > 0:09:57You know, I just wanted to play like him and my mum bought me
0:09:57 > 0:10:01a pair of Georgie Best football boots, which laced up at the side,
0:10:01 > 0:10:04and I'm sure once I put those boots on, I can play like him.
0:10:04 > 0:10:06Just, I wasn't discovered that way, you know?
0:10:06 > 0:10:08I had all the skills of Georgie Best once
0:10:08 > 0:10:10I put on Georgie Best football boots.
0:10:10 > 0:10:14- Shall we have a look at Georgie Best?- Let's do it.- There we are.
0:10:17 > 0:10:20Look at that, the ball looks like it's attached to his feet.
0:10:20 > 0:10:22I know, I know. He was an absolute natural, wasn't he?
0:10:22 > 0:10:25There's a magnet in his shoe and a magnet in the ball
0:10:25 > 0:10:26and it just won't move away from it.
0:10:26 > 0:10:29Do you feel sad, the way it went for him?
0:10:29 > 0:10:32Yeah, I mean, of course...
0:10:32 > 0:10:34He was taken from us at such a young age as well.
0:10:34 > 0:10:39I think he had a lot more to give, but I suppose...
0:10:39 > 0:10:43- Look at that, look. - First superstar of sport, wasn't he?
0:10:43 > 0:10:47- Look at him there.- Smoothie.
0:10:47 > 0:10:49Yeah. Great.
0:10:49 > 0:10:53George Best was the first football star to shine both on the pitch
0:10:53 > 0:10:58and the small screen. And he blazed a trail for others to follow.
0:10:58 > 0:11:02Emlyn Hughes and his infectious laughter had 19 million viewers
0:11:02 > 0:11:05tuning in to A Question Of Sport in the '80s.
0:11:05 > 0:11:09In the mid-'90s, Gary Lineker swapped scoring goals
0:11:09 > 0:11:12as England's captain for getting laughs in a TV studio
0:11:12 > 0:11:14on They Think It's All Over.
0:11:14 > 0:11:17And since the late '90s, he has played the role of the cool,
0:11:17 > 0:11:20calm frontman on Match Of The Day.
0:11:20 > 0:11:23Ian Wright's TV career took him even further
0:11:23 > 0:11:25from the football terraces,
0:11:25 > 0:11:28onto The National Lottery - Wright Around The World.
0:11:28 > 0:11:32And in 2011, Robbie Savage hung up his football boots
0:11:32 > 0:11:37and slipped into his dancing shoes to appear on Strictly Come Dancing.
0:11:37 > 0:11:42So in a way, that got you into sports, Georgie Best,
0:11:42 > 0:11:45or was athletics always there?
0:11:45 > 0:11:49I mean, I got into athletics in a funny way
0:11:49 > 0:11:52because, again, I was playing football at school
0:11:52 > 0:11:55and the teacher looked out his window and he came down.
0:11:55 > 0:11:57I must have been about eight years old, and he said,
0:11:57 > 0:11:59"Oh, you look like you can run.
0:11:59 > 0:12:01"Would you like to try out for the school athletic team?"
0:12:01 > 0:12:03And it all started from there.
0:12:03 > 0:12:06I mean, I had no idea.
0:12:06 > 0:12:09There was no inclination at all that I was going to run.
0:12:09 > 0:12:10Because I didn't even really like it.
0:12:10 > 0:12:13It was just something that they asked me to do and I did it.
0:12:13 > 0:12:15I changed schools from primary school
0:12:15 > 0:12:17and there's always a teacher there telling me I could run.
0:12:17 > 0:12:21And, you know, so... I mean, I joined the club.
0:12:21 > 0:12:24My teacher at school took me down and I joined the running club
0:12:24 > 0:12:27and I went to a championship
0:12:27 > 0:12:30for the English schools, all the schoolboys.
0:12:30 > 0:12:34All the school kids from England took part and I ran the 200.
0:12:34 > 0:12:37I didn't have a coach or anything and I came second.
0:12:37 > 0:12:41And so from there, people kept telling me, "Oh, you could be good."
0:12:41 > 0:12:44Even the guy who won said to me, "If you train, you could be good."
0:12:44 > 0:12:49And so I met my coach, Ron Roddan, and even then
0:12:49 > 0:12:51I was still playing with it,
0:12:51 > 0:12:52and he wrote me a letter and told me,
0:12:52 > 0:12:56"If you change your lifestyle and come down to the track
0:12:56 > 0:13:00"and train more regularly, you could be really good."
0:13:00 > 0:13:02This was most probably in '85,
0:13:02 > 0:13:07and within six months, I won the European Indoor and Outdoor Championships
0:13:07 > 0:13:10and everything else, and broke the British record.
0:13:15 > 0:13:18Linford, I want to talk now about your family favourite.
0:13:18 > 0:13:20- Mm-hmm.- Which...um...
0:13:20 > 0:13:23I believe, I mean, some people would struggle with this,
0:13:23 > 0:13:25especially now, obviously, we've moved on, it is
0:13:25 > 0:13:29- a different era, but I'm talking about the show, Love Thy Neighbour. - Love Thy Neighbour.
0:13:29 > 0:13:32We live next door. I'm Eddie. This is my wife, Joan.
0:13:32 > 0:13:33Oh, nice to meet you, I'm Barbie.
0:13:33 > 0:13:37ITV sitcom Love Thy Neighbour ran for eight series
0:13:37 > 0:13:39from 1972 to '76.
0:13:40 > 0:13:44Its humour came from factory worker Eddie's struggles
0:13:44 > 0:13:47to accept his new neighbours, Bill and Barbara,
0:13:47 > 0:13:49recently arrived from the West Indies.
0:13:49 > 0:13:51You will be careful what you say...
0:13:51 > 0:13:56Although in most episodes, Eddie ended up as the butt of the joke.
0:13:56 > 0:13:58His views might seem out of place now, but at its peak,
0:13:58 > 0:14:0116 million of us tuned in to watch,
0:14:01 > 0:14:04including young Linford and his family.
0:14:04 > 0:14:08They did struggle to find a clip that we could show,
0:14:08 > 0:14:10let's be honest. Let's have a look at the clip.
0:14:10 > 0:14:14# Love thy neighbour... #
0:14:14 > 0:14:16- God, check this.- Yeah.
0:14:18 > 0:14:21- # Love thy neighbour - Thy neighbour... #
0:14:21 > 0:14:23Comes back to you, doesn't it?
0:14:23 > 0:14:26I wouldn't be surprised if he don't come in here tonight, Eddie.
0:14:26 > 0:14:27I hope he doesn't.
0:14:27 > 0:14:30It's bad enough living next door to him and working with him.
0:14:30 > 0:14:33He's not sitting with us. I've enough of him all day.
0:14:33 > 0:14:35Good evening.
0:14:35 > 0:14:38- Hello, Bill.- Hi, Arthur. Can I buy anybody a drink?
0:14:38 > 0:14:40Very nice of you, Bill. Come and sit down.
0:14:40 > 0:14:42LAUGHTER
0:14:42 > 0:14:44What did you enjoy about the show?
0:14:44 > 0:14:47- It was the jokes.- Yeah. - It was the jokes, you know?
0:14:47 > 0:14:50You know, the way the programme was, it was like, there's a black guy
0:14:50 > 0:14:53and a white guy, and they just throw, you know,
0:14:53 > 0:14:55insults at each other.
0:14:55 > 0:14:56- Yeah.- You know, I suppose now,
0:14:56 > 0:15:00- you've got to be too...you wouldn't be allowed to show that...- No, no.
0:15:00 > 0:15:02..because it's not PC, but in those days, you know,
0:15:02 > 0:15:03people didn't care.
0:15:03 > 0:15:07People just watched things for what they actually was,
0:15:07 > 0:15:09- and we enjoyed it. - You enjoyed it?- Yeah.
0:15:09 > 0:15:12- You never saw it as the white guy being racist?- No, not at all.
0:15:12 > 0:15:14- No?- Not at all. You know, and...
0:15:14 > 0:15:17I suppose it was a time when we all got round, again, together.
0:15:17 > 0:15:20Which I suppose, in those days, it was a big thing, you know,
0:15:20 > 0:15:23- for the whole family to sit together.- Yeah.
0:15:23 > 0:15:25Will you stop staring at my wife?
0:15:25 > 0:15:27I was just admiring your garden.
0:15:27 > 0:15:28Oh, it's nice, isn't it?
0:15:28 > 0:15:30Fantastic, love.
0:15:31 > 0:15:33Isn't it time you get the lunch ready?
0:15:33 > 0:15:35I've only been hot out here a few minutes.
0:15:35 > 0:15:38Look, but, the sun's moving round. You'll be in the shade soon.
0:15:38 > 0:15:41We've got plenty of sun over here. We get it all day in our garden.
0:15:41 > 0:15:46In those days, I mean, there was not many black people on TV,
0:15:46 > 0:15:47anyway, so, you know.
0:15:47 > 0:15:52- But, I mean, they allowed black and white minstrels, at the time.- Oh...
0:15:52 > 0:15:54So, you know, I suppose it was... we was a lot worse.
0:15:54 > 0:15:57- Too sensitive, you. That's your trouble.- Oh, am I?
0:15:57 > 0:16:00Well, look, you just ask Joan to put on a bikini and come out here
0:16:00 > 0:16:02and let me have a good look at her.
0:16:02 > 0:16:04You dirty devil!
0:16:04 > 0:16:08This was just, you know, we thought it was fun and it was,
0:16:08 > 0:16:10you know, I suppose, good banter.
0:16:10 > 0:16:13- Oh, it's different for you, is it? - Of course it is, I'm white.
0:16:13 > 0:16:15- And what's that got to do with it? - Everything.
0:16:15 > 0:16:18A white man has white thoughts. White for purity.
0:16:18 > 0:16:21It's from such a different... I feel really awkward.
0:16:21 > 0:16:22- Do you?- Yeah.
0:16:22 > 0:16:25- Ah!- I do.- I loved it.
0:16:25 > 0:16:27I mean, not now. It is wrong. It is.
0:16:27 > 0:16:30- We have moved on, but... - My dad would still love it now.
0:16:30 > 0:16:33If it came on TV, my dad would be the first person in front of the TV.
0:16:33 > 0:16:36- Yeah?- Yeah. I mean, I would still watch it.- Uh-huh?
0:16:36 > 0:16:39I would still watch it. I wouldn't have a problem watching it at all.
0:16:44 > 0:16:47Linford, this is your first...um...
0:16:48 > 0:16:50..your first tears at TV,
0:16:50 > 0:16:55and not tears of sadness, but tears of laughter.
0:16:55 > 0:16:57Have a look at this.
0:16:57 > 0:17:00# Oh, what happened to you?
0:17:00 > 0:17:04# Whatever happened to me?
0:17:04 > 0:17:08# What became of the people
0:17:08 > 0:17:10# We used to be? #
0:17:10 > 0:17:11Oh, this was fun.
0:17:11 > 0:17:14- She's left me. - She hasn't left you for long.
0:17:14 > 0:17:17- Well, how do you figure that out? - Case was too small.
0:17:17 > 0:17:20The Likely Lads were a pair of mismatched Northerners -
0:17:20 > 0:17:24upwardly mobile Bob and working-class Terry -
0:17:24 > 0:17:28struggling to enjoy the '60s on their tiny factory wages.
0:17:28 > 0:17:31In the sequel - Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads? -
0:17:31 > 0:17:35Bob has married Thelma and Terry is home from the army,
0:17:35 > 0:17:39endlessly leading Bob astray and into trouble.
0:17:39 > 0:17:41What would you do in this situation?
0:17:41 > 0:17:43Ah, well, I would never have got into this situation.
0:17:43 > 0:17:45Let me wife leave me?
0:17:45 > 0:17:46I'd have left her.
0:17:46 > 0:17:48LAUGHTER
0:17:48 > 0:17:50At its peak, 27 million of us
0:17:50 > 0:17:55tuned in to watch this odd couple bicker, fall out and make up.
0:17:55 > 0:17:57You do nothing.
0:17:57 > 0:18:01Going round, ringing her up, apologising, sending flowers,
0:18:01 > 0:18:02all that is fatal.
0:18:02 > 0:18:05You just pretend you don't give a rat's.
0:18:05 > 0:18:06Just relax, man.
0:18:06 > 0:18:10Ha-ha-ha! My wife has left me. I don't give a rat's.
0:18:10 > 0:18:12More champagne.
0:18:12 > 0:18:15- The Likely Lads. - God! Check the hairdo!
0:18:15 > 0:18:17Oh, look at that.
0:18:17 > 0:18:20Going back to their mother, they all do that, don't they?
0:18:20 > 0:18:23You've got your whole lives in front of you.
0:18:23 > 0:18:25You're just at the dawn of your disasters.
0:18:25 > 0:18:27LAUGHTER
0:18:27 > 0:18:30You know, at times like this, you really are a great help, Terry!
0:18:30 > 0:18:31I like to think so.
0:18:31 > 0:18:36James Bolam, I mean, he's still out there. He's still...
0:18:36 > 0:18:39- This was classic though, wasn't it? - It was very funny.
0:18:39 > 0:18:45I suppose as we progress into your life and, obviously, you know,
0:18:45 > 0:18:48your career just gets... goes...skyrockets...
0:18:48 > 0:18:51you obviously didn't have much time to watch TV.
0:18:51 > 0:18:55Yeah, and you miss a lot. There was no DVDs or anything else like that.
0:18:55 > 0:18:57- No.- You just missed...
0:18:57 > 0:19:03I mean, athletics is very... I would say, it makes you very reclusive.
0:19:03 > 0:19:07Because, you know, you're always... it is you on your own
0:19:07 > 0:19:08and you're always on your own.
0:19:08 > 0:19:11That must be difficult. That must be tough.
0:19:11 > 0:19:13- You get used to it.- Yeah, of course. - You get used to it.
0:19:13 > 0:19:17I've been doing it so long and, you know, there was a time
0:19:17 > 0:19:19when, I suppose, you hate your own company.
0:19:19 > 0:19:21I didn't like my own company at all.
0:19:21 > 0:19:26Now... I suppose I'm older now, so I LOVE me some me time.
0:19:26 > 0:19:30I like to be on my own and it gives you a chance to think and everything else.
0:19:30 > 0:19:33You know, I realised the longer you leave it, being on your own,
0:19:33 > 0:19:36the more you enjoy it, and that's when it becomes a danger.
0:19:36 > 0:19:37Yeah, yeah, yeah.
0:19:37 > 0:19:41I'm a little bit OCD, so, again, it's...difficult.
0:19:41 > 0:19:44You know, someone comes and moves something and you go,
0:19:44 > 0:19:47- "Oh, no, I can't..."- Really?
0:19:47 > 0:19:49I was unaware of this.
0:19:49 > 0:19:52Do the kids, do they just get to you if they...?
0:19:52 > 0:19:55I think sometimes they make the mess just to annoy me.
0:19:55 > 0:19:57I'm always cleaning, especially the kitchen.
0:19:57 > 0:19:59- Do you enjoy cooking?- I love it.
0:19:59 > 0:20:01- Oh, really?- Yeah, I cook most things. I bake cakes.
0:20:01 > 0:20:03- Oh, really? - Yeah, I do the whole thing.
0:20:03 > 0:20:07- Soak my raisins...- You would make someone a good wife, you know that?
0:20:07 > 0:20:08Oh, definitely. I'd like to think so.
0:20:08 > 0:20:12You're a great cook, you like tidying the house...
0:20:12 > 0:20:13I do everything.
0:20:13 > 0:20:16- The only thing I can't do, I can't do...- Give babies.
0:20:16 > 0:20:19Give babies, there we go. I can give babies but I just can't... THEY LAUGH
0:20:19 > 0:20:21We know where you're going!
0:20:22 > 0:20:24No, I enjoy it.
0:20:24 > 0:20:26I'm a domestic goddess, I love it.
0:20:31 > 0:20:33It's time for a commercial break now.
0:20:33 > 0:20:36It's voted, this advert, as Britain's
0:20:36 > 0:20:38most catchiest advert ever.
0:20:40 > 0:20:42And we might get you to sing along to this one, Linford.
0:20:45 > 0:20:47Oh, look at that.
0:20:47 > 0:20:50# Just one Cornetto
0:20:50 > 0:20:52# Give it to me... #
0:20:52 > 0:20:53And he takes it, doesn't he?
0:20:53 > 0:20:56# Delicious ice cream...
0:20:56 > 0:20:57# Of Italy... #
0:20:57 > 0:20:59My accent's not that great.
0:20:59 > 0:21:02# Delicious ice cream
0:21:02 > 0:21:04# Of Italy... #
0:21:04 > 0:21:07The tune in the advert is based on the Neapolitan operatic song,
0:21:07 > 0:21:09O Sole Mio.
0:21:09 > 0:21:14It proved irritatingly difficult to forget, but I bet the composer
0:21:14 > 0:21:16never imagined it being used
0:21:16 > 0:21:18as an advertising jingle.
0:21:18 > 0:21:19What was it about this advert
0:21:19 > 0:21:20that you liked so much?
0:21:20 > 0:21:23- I suppose because it was catchy. - Yeah.
0:21:23 > 0:21:26It was catchy, you know, and when something sticks in your mind
0:21:26 > 0:21:28all the time and... Again, we used to eat Cornettos.
0:21:28 > 0:21:31So it shows advertising actually works.
0:21:31 > 0:21:35I've learnt a lot today. I've learnt an awful lot about Linford Christie.
0:21:35 > 0:21:37I also know that you can't sing.
0:21:37 > 0:21:38Definitely!
0:21:38 > 0:21:42Can you now identify classic advert slogans?
0:21:42 > 0:21:43Linford Christie...
0:21:43 > 0:21:46I'll give it a try and see how we go on that.
0:21:46 > 0:21:50- I'm going to read the slogan, you're going to tell me the product.- OK.
0:21:50 > 0:21:52"Vorsprung durch Technik?"
0:21:52 > 0:21:53- Oh, that's Audi.- Correct.
0:21:53 > 0:21:55You can play this at home.
0:21:55 > 0:21:57"It's good to talk."
0:21:57 > 0:21:59Er, BT.
0:21:59 > 0:22:00Correct, British Telecom.
0:22:00 > 0:22:02"Put a tiger in your tank."
0:22:02 > 0:22:05- Esso.- Correct.
0:22:05 > 0:22:07You are very good, you've got to get one wrong.
0:22:07 > 0:22:10"Because I'm worth it."
0:22:10 > 0:22:12Oh, that's, er, that make-up...
0:22:12 > 0:22:14One of the make-up... L'Oreal. Is it L'Oreal.
0:22:14 > 0:22:16Absolutely! Your recall is phenomenal.
0:22:22 > 0:22:24Your athletic peak is on the screen right now.
0:22:24 > 0:22:26There you go.
0:22:27 > 0:22:29How does that feel?
0:22:29 > 0:22:32Does it sink in? Something like that, is it before that moment
0:22:32 > 0:22:33that you know you've won the race?
0:22:33 > 0:22:37- The race is won way before the race starts.- Really?
0:22:37 > 0:22:40Because we all get together and they call it a call room.
0:22:40 > 0:22:43All the people you are going to compete against, you're in a room.
0:22:43 > 0:22:45We would be in a little room about the size of this
0:22:45 > 0:22:48and they've got a few chairs there and you have to stare at everyone.
0:22:48 > 0:22:49Like a boxer?
0:22:49 > 0:22:52- It's like being... Who's king of the jungle?- Yeah.
0:22:52 > 0:22:54We all stand and you beat your chest and people walk around
0:22:54 > 0:22:58and look at you, trying to put you off your game.
0:22:58 > 0:23:00- You know...- From experience?
0:23:00 > 0:23:01From experience, yeah.
0:23:01 > 0:23:04This is where the race is won.
0:23:04 > 0:23:07For example, you look in each... Someone looks in your eyes
0:23:07 > 0:23:10and, you know, you put your head down,
0:23:10 > 0:23:13it automatically tells me I've won.
0:23:13 > 0:23:17- So you knew beforehand?- Definitely, yeah. I knew I was going to win.
0:23:17 > 0:23:20These are the games that you're playing with them?
0:23:20 > 0:23:22You play the games with them, it's all in there.
0:23:22 > 0:23:24Again, it's confidence.
0:23:24 > 0:23:27Confidence makes you do some amazing things. You've got to be confident.
0:23:27 > 0:23:30Before, I was... I was as good as I was,
0:23:30 > 0:23:35you'd go to meetings and it would just be the American national anthem
0:23:35 > 0:23:38was played all around. You know, the Brits, we had to sit and keep quiet
0:23:38 > 0:23:40because we had no answer to them.
0:23:40 > 0:23:43You know, so every time you'd go round and they were playing the national anthem,
0:23:43 > 0:23:46you know - America - and you'd sit there and you're thinking,
0:23:46 > 0:23:48"Wouldn't it be nice if I
0:23:48 > 0:23:52"could be good enough to change this, you know, to God Save The Queen?"
0:23:52 > 0:23:55- Yes.- That made me proud.
0:23:55 > 0:23:58We want to show you another career highlight now.
0:23:58 > 0:24:01Um, this is Sports Personality Of The Year.
0:24:01 > 0:24:02Oh...
0:24:02 > 0:24:04In first place,
0:24:04 > 0:24:08the only runner in history to hold at the same time
0:24:08 > 0:24:11Commonwealth, European, Olympic and World titles
0:24:11 > 0:24:16and now adds the BBC Sports Personality Of The Year trophy
0:24:16 > 0:24:18to his glittering list of achievements...
0:24:18 > 0:24:22Ladies and gentlemen, Linford Christie.
0:24:22 > 0:24:24APPLAUSE
0:24:24 > 0:24:26Look how young I was.
0:24:26 > 0:24:28Look at that suit. Look how beautiful you are.
0:24:28 > 0:24:30Oh.
0:24:30 > 0:24:32I couldn't grow a beard then, though!
0:24:32 > 0:24:33I still can't!
0:24:33 > 0:24:36God, you don't know how nerve-racking it is.
0:24:36 > 0:24:40I've been sitting there and I thought, "Well, could it be me, could it be Colin?"
0:24:40 > 0:24:43My legs started shaking and it was almost as bad
0:24:43 > 0:24:45as what it was when I was in Stuttgart.
0:24:45 > 0:24:47How did that feel?
0:24:47 > 0:24:49- I was proud.- Yeah.
0:24:49 > 0:24:52The thing is, like, to be...
0:24:52 > 0:24:56When you are recognised by your peers, I suppose, by your country
0:24:56 > 0:24:59- and everything else, that's when you realise you've done something.- Mmm.
0:24:59 > 0:25:01You know, I always...
0:25:01 > 0:25:02You can go out and win everything
0:25:02 > 0:25:07but when people, you know, your peers and people around actually...
0:25:07 > 0:25:11Well, the public - it's voted for by the public - and you realise,
0:25:11 > 0:25:15you know, that's when you really and truly have won,
0:25:15 > 0:25:17or made something of yourself.
0:25:17 > 0:25:19You know, I've got to thank Carl Lewis
0:25:19 > 0:25:23because without his butt to kick, there wouldn't be no Gateshead.
0:25:23 > 0:25:26The thing is, when I look back, you know, where I came from...
0:25:26 > 0:25:30You know, I came from Jamaica in, what? 1967.
0:25:30 > 0:25:33You know, we came here, we lived in...
0:25:33 > 0:25:36There were seven of us in two rooms and everything else.
0:25:36 > 0:25:39You've got to look back and, for me,
0:25:39 > 0:25:43I can go out and, you know, be happy.
0:25:43 > 0:25:46- Yeah, yeah, yeah.- Yeah, I mean, I could have sat back
0:25:46 > 0:25:51and not do anything, but some of it is what your parents instilled.
0:25:51 > 0:25:53And I grew up with my grandmother, as well,
0:25:53 > 0:25:57and some of the morals and everything else that she instilled in us.
0:25:57 > 0:25:59Yeah, hard work pays off.
0:25:59 > 0:26:01Thank you very much.
0:26:01 > 0:26:03APPLAUSE
0:26:13 > 0:26:17So, Linford, I want to ask - do you watch big athletic events on TV these days?
0:26:17 > 0:26:21- The ones I don't go to. I try to go to most of them.- Mm-hm.
0:26:21 > 0:26:24I try to get to maybe the big championships but, yeah, I watch...
0:26:24 > 0:26:26Because you're commentating on it a lot?
0:26:26 > 0:26:28No, because also now I coach.
0:26:28 > 0:26:31When I coach, because my athletes compete,
0:26:31 > 0:26:34- then it's more for me to be there. - Mm.
0:26:34 > 0:26:36I'm more use.
0:26:36 > 0:26:39They like to have me in the warm-up area and everything else
0:26:39 > 0:26:42and then I can go down and, you know,
0:26:42 > 0:26:45tell them...give them confidence, I suppose,
0:26:45 > 0:26:49and you spend more time at the track,
0:26:49 > 0:26:52with me, rather than you do with your parents...
0:26:52 > 0:26:54your family, so I become...
0:26:54 > 0:26:59I suppose I'm the father, the mother figure, the confidant.
0:26:59 > 0:27:03You know, this is one thing that makes me close.
0:27:03 > 0:27:07Do you get very anxious when these people that you are very close to,
0:27:07 > 0:27:10obviously, are in a race?
0:27:10 > 0:27:11Oh, definitely. I mean...
0:27:11 > 0:27:14I suppose you need a bit of nerves to go out there and perform
0:27:14 > 0:27:18but I was never as nervous for myself as I am for my athletes
0:27:18 > 0:27:21- because when I'm out there doing it, I know what to do.- Mm-hm.
0:27:21 > 0:27:25I'm never quite sure, are they going to do what I tell them to do?
0:27:25 > 0:27:28- You stand there and you do get a bit nervous for them.- Yeah.
0:27:28 > 0:27:32I suppose it's part and parcel, you know, of what you do.
0:27:32 > 0:27:34They say the best thing is doing it yourself,
0:27:34 > 0:27:35the second best is teaching others.
0:27:35 > 0:27:40I really do, you know, enjoy teaching my guys and girls what to do
0:27:40 > 0:27:43- when they go out there. - I think it's inspirational.
0:27:43 > 0:27:45- I've really enjoyed our chat today. - Oh, thank you.
0:27:45 > 0:27:49At this point you get to choose our theme tune to play us out with.
0:27:49 > 0:27:50What's it going to be?
0:27:50 > 0:27:53- Let's go for The Likely Lads. - Likely Lads.- Yeah.
0:27:53 > 0:27:55- It's me and you, isn't it? - We're two likely lads.
0:27:55 > 0:27:57All right, my thanks to Linford and my thanks to you
0:27:57 > 0:28:00for watching the TV That Made Me. We'll see you soon. Bye-bye.
0:28:02 > 0:28:05# Oh, what happened to you?
0:28:05 > 0:28:10# Whatever happened to me?
0:28:10 > 0:28:13# What became of the people
0:28:13 > 0:28:17# We used to be?
0:28:17 > 0:28:20# Tomorrow's almost over
0:28:20 > 0:28:23# Today went by so fast
0:28:23 > 0:28:27# Is the only thing to look forward to
0:28:27 > 0:28:30# The past? #