AS PART OF A PCASUK SERIES of selected rare vintage interviews from television and radio featuring Peter Cushing, here is our latest 'golden nugget' at the . 'The Eamonn Andrews Show' was the UK equivalent, in a most basic format only, of the US 'Johnny Carson Show' and at the time of this BBC broadcast on December 10th 1967, it was a very popular 45 minute mix of chat from guests and live music. Listed often as a 'TALK show', long before the telly-short-hand-term 'Chat' would ever be considered valid or a decent term for printing in the sacred 'Radio Times' publication, the Andrews style often permitted him to rattle off quite weird questions, catching nervous guests off guard, when hoping to generate a bit of spark, from one who was hoped to be an interesting character, was sadly sometimes just a car crash of a snooze, with the dullest of duffers. This show jollied along from 1964 until
1969. Like chat shows today, guests would be there pushing a book, a current release of their film or impending broadcast of THEIR tv show. Andrews was 'johnny-on-the-spot' for a who range of light entertainment in 50's,60's and 70's UK. But will probably be remembered for bringing 'THIS IS YOUR LIFE' concept and show from the US to Brit shores, from 1955 until 1964, and then from 1969 until his death in 1987. It's sad that little of The Eamonn Andrews show, now exist . .
CUSHING IS THERE drumming up business for Corruption. Not of the John Poulson and Reginald Maudling, variety of the time, but the 1967 film, starring both he and Sue Lloyd. This audio recording is now LIVE at the FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE HERE and is certainly worth an ear-full of your attention. Cushing is brisk, entertaining and quite a dab-hand in delivering spins on what was often predictable, dull questions, from lazy tv and radio presenters. December 1967 was just a few short years away, from the quite catastrophic event of Helen, his closest of companions and wife, sadly dying from a long illness with emphysema, on January 14th 1971. In three years time, much of this wonderful and witty energy would be gone in any interviews, for at least the next ten years. Five years previous to this interview, pressures had also taken their toll, resulting in a full 12 months from work, while he puled himself back together following two breakdowns.... Just like his most often fiction team partner, of four movies, Count Dracula . . Cushing took many blows to both his mental and physical constitution, but like The Count, you just couldn't keep a good guy down😏😉
