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Jim Bowen

shirty5
shirty5 Posts: 19,220
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RIP
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  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,559
    'super, smashing, great' - RIP Jim, loved Bullseye.
  • JohnBoyUK
    JohnBoyUK Posts: 9,017
    Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Was only watching Bullseye on Challenge TV the other day.

    "Look at what you could have won!"
  • Arry Addick
    Arry Addick Posts: 1,168
    R.i.P. Jim
  • Brendan_O_Connell
    Brendan_O_Connell Posts: 8,938
    RIP
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    RIP
  • Greenie
    Greenie Posts: 9,172
    RIP, he got his BFH.
  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,229
    What a sad few days with Doddy, Hawking and now the great Jim Bowen moving on. RIP Jim, you were such a funny guy.
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,615
    BFH

    RIP
  • Croydon
    Croydon Posts: 12,727
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aloNixbli6g
  • cfgs
    cfgs Posts: 11,476
    RIP, people in landlocked parts of the country winning a speedboat was amazing tv.
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  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,846
    RIP
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,220
    The greatest TV programme ever on a late Sunday afternoon
  • Oakster
    Oakster Posts: 6,812
    Jim Bowen & the guy who kept the score - Tony or something - great double act! RIP
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,733
    RIP Jim
  • church-lane
    church-lane Posts: 934
    RIP. remember seeing him in The Oak before a Burnley game.
  • Chippycafc
    Chippycafc Posts: 14,142
    Oakster said:

    Jim Bowen & the guy who kept the score - Tony or something - great double act! RIP

    Tony Green...yes indeed. Lived in a converted railway station. Was told he had been ill for some time,
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,021
    Don't forget Jim's greatest achievement: representing Charlton in Up For The Cup.

    RIP Jim
  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,839
    Years ago some fellas up my local went to see Freddie Starr and he cancelled; Jim Bowen came on instead, to some grumblings, and told the crowd "Give me five minutes, if you don't like me we can all go home early". About three hours later they let him go home, they said he was absolutely brilliant.

    RIP
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,728
    edited March 2018
    Always seemed like a genuinely nice guy to me - was a great host on Bullseye - couldn't imagine anybody else doing as good a job. R.I.P. Jim - thanks for the happy memories.
  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,103
    About 25 years ago, I met a girl at a party who came from Cumbria. Turns out her family founded Robertson’s Jams and were loaded and lived in a huge country house set in 20 acres. Anyway, the next door neighbour was Jim Bowen who lived about 2 miles away. Went up there for a weekend and when he heard I was up from London, he invited us round for tea and cake. Lovely bloke, as was his wife, made a stranger feel very welcome and yes, we had a game of darts. RIP Jim
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  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,619
    edited March 2018
    Did Jim once represent Charlton in some tv quiz show thingy back in early seventies or did I dream that ?

    RIP

    Edit : sorry stig
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,220
    Stig said:

    Don't forget Jim's greatest achievement: representing Charlton in Up For The Cup.

    RIP Jim

    A minute's applause before kick off this Saturday.
  • ChicagoAddick
    ChicagoAddick Posts: 4,393
    Oh no. My youth is dying. Best Sunday afternoon TV ever. RIP Jim.

    Let's have a look at what you could have won!
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,220
    Stig said:

    Don't forget Jim's greatest achievement: representing Charlton in Up For The Cup.

    RIP Jim

    Up for the Cup (ITV, 1980)
    Then Radio 2 DJ, and Fulham's current matchday announcer, David Hamilton presented what The Guardian called "the soccer fan club variety talent show", which for a few weeks in 1980 was a staple of ITV's peak Saturday early-evening schedules (Since you ask: 5.15pm Worzel Gummidge, 5.45pm Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, 6.45pm Up for the Cup). Its premise was simple: talented football supporters exhibit their skills, before being judged by some of their favoured team's players and managers. It climaxed with "the favourite variety acts from the Charlton and Bolton soccer fan clubs bidding for their own cup", which victorious Bolton duly carried away. Oh yes.
  • Southendaddick
    Southendaddick Posts: 5,314
    RIP Jim

    I bet there are still loads of people in the Midlands trying to sell a speedboat.
  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    shirty5 said:

    Stig said:

    Don't forget Jim's greatest achievement: representing Charlton in Up For The Cup.

    RIP Jim

    A minute's applause before kick off this Saturday.
    OR we could get some "roland out" flights made and throw darts on the pitch!
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,477
    edited March 2018
    A funny man who could (a little like Tommy Cooper) get you in stitches with an exasperated, sarcastic look on his face.
    RIP....Jim.....RIP.
  • Valley_Stroller
    Valley_Stroller Posts: 46
    Stig said:

    Don't forget Jim's greatest achievement: representing Charlton in Up For The Cup.

    RIP Jim


    A bit more info. for those interested.

    Per sensagent.com:

    "In 1980 Bowen was included in a "Charlton Athletic" team of entertainers to appear in an ATV variety game show called Up for the Cup, three winning rounds followed and the team found themselves in the final becoming runners up, no matter game and series over. By this time he had asked the "Charlton captain of the TV show", South London entertainment agent Ray Donn to look after him professionally & to help find him work down South. A few weeks after Up for the Cup had been transmitted in 1981, the then head of ATV casting the late Alec Fyne contacted Donn to enquire what Bowen was doing during the following month, he said "Nothing, I can’t get him out of". Alec Fyne replied "Get him up here as soon as possible as we may have something for him" ……That was how the quiz show Bullseye started and of Bowen's renowned association."

    I believe Ray Donn used to manage "The Valley Club" behind The Covered End during the 70's and early 80's until Mike Bailey took it over. I'm sure someone will correct me if this is wrong.




  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,220
    cafcdave123 said:

    shirty5 said:

    Stig said:

    Don't forget Jim's greatest achievement: representing Charlton in Up For The Cup.

    RIP Jim

    A minute's applause before kick off this Saturday.
    OR we could get some "roland out" flights made and throw darts on the pitch!
    Super, smashing, great
  • Johnnysummers5
    Johnnysummers5 Posts: 8,469
    RIP Jim
    You can't beat a bit of bully

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