![]() ![]() He was the presenter of Central TV's Gardening Today for fourteen years, and Channel Television's Cyril Fletcher's TV Garden, and ran from 1990 to 1992, for two years. He also appeared as a panellist on the popular panel show on BBC, What's My Line?, that ran from 1951 to 1963. Following this broadcast, he was given a regular programme on Radio Luxembourg it was this show that brought him to national attention. ![]() The first, Odd Ode, was a comic, yet sentimental, reading of Edgar Wallace's war poem Dreamin' of Thee. įletcher came up with the idea when he was short of material for a radio show. He first began performing the Odd Odes in 1937, long before they first appeared on television (though he did appear on pre World War II television). So successful was he however, that he stayed on the show from 1973 to 1981. ![]() He was best known for his "Odd Odes", which later formed a section of the television show That's Life!, a role for which he was approached in error. His catchphrase was 'Pin back your lugholes'. Betty Astell (–2 January 2005 his death) 1 childĬyril Fletcher (25 June 1913 – 2 January 2005) was an English comedian, actor and businessman. ![]()
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