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Samuel Ball

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Does anyone think that wordy is a bit moody and stropy in the Boy from space 1.  he doesnt share with cosmo and thinks he is so hard saying "thundering metorites" which makes no sense wat so ever

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Lee nicholson

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Is it me, or do people on this site HATE wordy.


Wordy is the guv'nor


And he was well within his rights to get angry with that welsh scally, Cosmo, for interupting his word collecting on WORDLAB ONE


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Glyn Ingram

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Wordy does my nut a bit, I have to say. He's out of order to TBFS bloke  continuously for no apparent reason, constantly implying that he's being annoying (when, in fact, it's the other way round).


A question about Wordy: How comes he couldn't fly in TBFS "sessions" but was doing it just fine by the time DT came along? Had BBC special effects budget increased??! And just WHO IS the old granny in the library?



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lee nicholson

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I've seen the woman from (the library section in) DARK TOWERS in a old late 80's/early 90's toothpaste/dentist tv commercial.


And i think she pop's up as a bit part actress every now and then.


Oh, and for the record WORDY is the man!!!


Cosmo is an annoying welsh turd, who came along (uninvited) and tried to take over Wordy's wordlab. If i was wordy (apart from pulling all the birds!) i'd have give Cosmo a kick up the arse. Actually, having thought about that, Wordy is probably not the worlds greatest kicker (i'm sure ENGLAND could sign him up???)


Cosmo is almost as annoying as DAVE from SKY HUNTER (with his wacky jumpers, and wild over-acting)


These guys wouldn't have game if it wasn't for big 'W'


Sorry about sounding so 'ghetto'


Peace



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Ben Clarke

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Originally posted by: Glyn Ingram

"And just WHO IS the old granny in the library?"


Oh, so that's who you mean by the granny in Dark Towers! That's Denise Coffey!

She's been involved with tons of comedy and children's shows since the early 60s, acting, writing & creating. She did Do Not Adjust Your Set with David Jason and the Monty Python people in the 60s, and wrote Hold The Front Page in the 70s and C.A.B. in the 80s, which are both very good kids programmes. She's also done loads of radio comedy, theatre, and I believe she used to be a BBC reporter in Scotland. Basically, she's just really great.

"Denise Coffey looks like a doom-laded garden gnome" - TVTimes.

Dave from Sky Hunter was also a versatile presenter of schools and kids programmes (I promise I'm not copying this stuff from any press release or CV or anything!) including Scene and You and Me - he used to do episodes with Duncan the Dragon.

And what's with all this Welsh business?! I may have missed something, but surely the whole point of Cosmo is that he's Russian (a Cosmonaut, d'you see?) - encouraging racial harmony in the kiddie viewers.

As to why Wordy's so different in TBFS than in any other story, well basically it's because (almost) none of Look and Read's normal production staff were involved with the remake, they were all off doing something else. The people who did produce the story were, if anything, more accustomed to making programmes for much younger viewers, infants and preschoolers basically. Also (and this may just be a vicious rumour, don't quote me on it!) Claire Chovil hated puppets, and thought them generally ill-diginifed for children's television. But by this time Wordy has become inextricably linked with Look and Read - kids expected him to be in it - so they were stuck with him. So I suppose they just made him as human-like as possible so they didn't have to bother with puppetry. I'm honestly never sure whether you're meant to "see" his entire black-suited body in that story, or just imagine, like when he goes out into space, that he's just the same floating thing he's always been. How do you all see him?

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Glyn Ingram

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I don't get it. Cosmo is a taff. Is he meant to be Russian then? Perhaps the bloke who played him was English putting on the worst Russian accent in the World (because he sounds 100% taff). Everytime I look at the episodes he appears in, I keep waiting for a sheep to enter the WordLab and watch Cosmo get excited. I was getting the impression that Wordy didn't like taffs, hence the hostility towards him.


I'm not sure about the Russian thing; the Russians were the enemy back in the 70's (well, enemies to the Americans!), what with the cold war and all that so would the BBC have truly "promoted" this?!


Oh, what a stupid post this is. Anyway, the point is, Cosmo has a Welsh accent and there is nothing anybody can do about it. I think Wordy was merely confused as to why a Taff came floating, uninvited, into his wordlab. Someone here should try writing a letter to the bloke who played Cosmo and find out what the intentions were of sending a Welsh spaceman into Wordy's lab.


Is it also worth mentioning that the teacher who did Look&Read with us was Welsh? (probably not) Her name was Mrs Davis, and, even though she was knocking 60 when we did L&R in infant school, I recently learnt that she's still alive. I wonder if she visits this site. Somehow I think not.



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lee nicholson

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Cosmo was welsh, not russian.


Although me and my mate howl at every time cosmo says "mister b-a-a-anting" (meaning 'mr bunting')


But if i were Wordy, i'd have zapped the welsh tresspasser with wordlabs onboard laser


So there!



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lee nicholson

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But i did like Cosmo's (dolemite-like) brazillian tracksuit!

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Nathan hickton

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maby wordy was going through adolescence!


WORDY IS THE BEST



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Samuel

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Well maybe  he was a bit hormonal then or he might have got out of the wrong side of his bed

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if I was gay Id bugger Derrick Griffiths(aka adam)

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He was a bit moody in that one .. Poor thing though, all that time in isolation in deep space and then cosmo comes along and starts fiddling with those glasses that make everything double and generally making a nuisance of himself! Plus the fact that he cant fly anymore, you might be a little moody too!

Puppetry was pretty poor, the black dress he wears to do a space walk was SOO unconvincing!

Cosmo wasn't supposed to be Russian surely?! He's from here and there remember! He says he's e a cosmonaut but I think they just chose that name because Cosmo sounded more like it could be a name rather than astro or something?

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Ben Clarke

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OK, I'll accept that he was some weird alien with a funny voice from nowhere in particular, but no way am I having that he was Welsh. What on earth would be the point of having some Welsh bloke in space?

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if I was gay Id bugger Derrick Griffiths(aka adam)

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Maybe he just wanted to get away from Wales and 'Walking through space', and eventually hanging round with a strange orange thing was preferable to rain, sheep shearing and street signs in two languages! It was to embarrassing to say he was from Cardiff, so saying he was from here and there seemed preferable? And maybe his name was something like Hew or Dafyd and not Cosmo?

(Slightly edited for naughty language. Please keep language & that mild folks! Now, about all this rampant racism...)

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Samuel

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Wordy and Cosmo (not 'Colin'!) from bbc.co.uk

he doesnt look moody

(Edit: fixed link)

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Samuel

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but what is cosmo looking at ??!!!?????

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lee nicholson

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...........Wordy's knees, perhaps?

(tut tut, language!)

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lee nicholson

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Sorry Ben......


I was going to write 'KNOB' of butter, on wordys cheese and pickle sandwich (slightly out of shot) but i was in a rush. What dirty minds you all have?


Wordy hasn't got knees!


 


peace



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