In its infancy and in my opinion, television output was pretty poor. Look how far it has come in seven decades. For some reason, a British TV character called Mr Pastry appeared in my mind today. I remember him vaguely from the last years of the fifties into the sixties. Played by Richard Hearne, Mr Pastry was a clownish figure whose act harked back to the antics of other clownish characters who appeared in silent films between the wars.
Mr Pastry was more about what he did than what he said. He was very popular and even appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show" in America. It is claimed that Hearne was once offered the role of Dr Who but that offer was withdrawn when he insisted that he would play the famous Time Lord like bumbling Mr Pastry. Richard Hearne was born in Norwich in 1908 and died in Bearsted, Kent in 1979. He also appeared in seventeen full length films. I guess the number of people who can recall his famous television show is dwindling with each passing year.
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