I have met the great man myself when Portsmouth played Real Socidad in a friendly match just before the start of the 1993/94 season.

Send Stewart Morris after it!

Jackie Wilson getting to number one off the back of a BBC2 Arts documentary is impossible to fathom these days

Yes, I will let you discover it for yourself then.

You know about the Christmas 1980 edition of Crossroads which has appeared on YouTube, right?

Though I cannot remember if it is on the huge box set or not.

youtu.be/MpAdalkvsAA?...

I know Policemen had to be tall in those days, but did he have stilts instead of a patrol car to get around?

I misread the caption as you wanted to know more about Derek Griffiths being a British version of Shaft.

This occasion led to the treasured memory of standing in his kitchen as he made me a cup of tea while telling me a story of James Robertson Justice having to go naked on set during the making of Very Important Person. He did the voice perfectly, as you'd expect.

Just a silly joke that people are doing about British versions of American shows.