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1962: This is me with a little hedgehog called Spike McPike in my first ever TV appearance, for a show called The Three Scampis. He disappeared off the scene quite quickly, but I do remember him being a little bit prickly. Unlike me, he didn’t have two big ears and a catchphrase and I’ve no idea what his props are here. He’s either got one of those things you eat Chinese food with or he’s trying to poke me up the bottom. Either way, Spike McPike died a death and was never heard of again
1968: I got a spot on The David Nixon Show and it was where my catchphrase, ‘Boom, boom’, was born. Well, it originally comes from the old music hall days, but I remember it coming from a sound operator with a boom mic. He was up in the gantry and just as I did a joke somebody shouted, ‘Boom, boom!’, and the mic hit me on the head. Everybody laughed!