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A year or so ago, I bought both series of the 1970s TV version of `Billy Liar` starring Jeff Rawle as Billy. In one episode in series two (1974) `Billy` is reading a copy of `Sparky` at his desk! It is one of the late 1973 issues with the black, block lettered logo!

stevezodiac wrote:I'm not so sure - the pages aren't full colour and Clott was always in colour. I think it might be that black and white strip about a Lion. Can't remember the title.

Hmm..the picture isn't the sharpest, but it definitly seems to read "Clott" or something very like it...although the word before it doesn't look like Corporal. I'm not at all sure now lol

It is Corporal Clott- the Steve Bright single page black and white version from er, 1987. Bully Beef on the facing page.

stevezodiac wrote:I'm not so sure - the pages aren't full colour and Clott was always in colour. I think it might be that black and white strip about a Lion. Can't remember the title.

There was Richard the Lion, but that was in the Beano in the 70s.

The Dandy did have a strip about a lion at one point called 'King Dom' but I'm not sure when he debuted and when he finished. He's never had a strip in an annual so he was probably quite short lived, and the strip of him that I've seen was from around 1992 or 93.

Why are you still talking about lions? It's Corporal Clott from November 21st 1987 (filmed dangerously close to transmission date!) drawn by Davey Law admirer Steve Bright with a cameo from another old Dandy star. Hope Rodney enjoyed it.

dishes wrote:Why are you still talking about lions? It's Corporal Clott from November 21st 1987 (filmed dangerously close to transmission date!) drawn by Davey Law admirer Steve Bright with a cameo from another old Dandy star. Hope Rodney enjoyed it.

Wow...how on earth did you identify the actual story? there's so little detail in the pictures on the copy i've got. I am once again in awe of the depth of people's knowledge on here

dishes, even though Steve was wrong about it being a strip about a lion, I'm sure it'll be bugging him what the strip he was thinking of could be! That's why I mentioned Richard the Lion.

And lol at Clott ending up chased by Andrew Glenn and Black Bob!

Just to expand the scope of this thread to include newsreel...

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=47980

In the third instance of a comic featuring in sitcom George & Mildred, the episode entitled Fishy Business, first broadcast 04 December 1979, sees young Tristram reading a Beano.

Well spotted...loved reading Dennis...the good ole days...well the late 70's and 80's Beano..

United on BBC2 tonight showed a copy of Eagle in Bobby Charlton's bedroom, about an hour into the 90 minute drama.

Yesterday's Watchdog on BBC1, one of the Rogue Traders presenters had a copy of the Dandy, issue 3522 (19 Feb 2011).

Digifiend wrote:Yesterday's Watchdog on BBC1, one of the Rogue Traders presenters had a copy of the Dandy, issue 3522 (19 Feb 2011).

Why?

Just saw the Watchdog cameo - luckily it's not part of an investigative report itself, it's just a moment of (oh-ho!) comic relief: