Rod HULL (1935-1999)

Rod Hull This Is Your Life

programme details...

  • Edition No: 591
  • Subject No: 588
  • Broadcast date: Wed 3 Feb 1982
  • Broadcast time: 7.00-7.30pm
  • Recorded: Wed 27 Jan 1982
  • Venue: Royalty Theatre
  • Series: 22
  • Edition: 18
  • Code name: Attack

on the guest list...

  • Sally James
  • Keith Chegwin
  • boys of the Wandsworth School Choir
  • girls of the Arts Educational School
  • Cher - wife
  • Debbie - daughter
  • Philip - son-in-law
  • Danielle - daughter
  • Catrina - stepdaughter
  • Len - father
  • Bill Jarvis
  • Cyril Cackett
  • Beattie Merrick
  • Bill Edwards
  • Reg Wormold
  • Bill Wallace
  • Mavis Wallace
  • Larry Grayson
  • Barbara New
  • Tom Chatto
  • Michael Barrington
  • Carl Wayne
  • Carol Lee Scott
  • Joan - sister
  • Toby - son
  • Amelia - daughter
  • Oliver - son
  • Filmed tributes:
  • Warren Mitchell
  • Michael Parkinson
  • Billy Dainty

production team...

  • Researcher: Cathy Parnall
  • Writers: Tom Brennand, Roy Bottomley
  • Directors: Paul Stewart Laing, Terry Yarwood
  • Producer: Jack Crawshaw
  • names above in bold indicate subjects of This Is Your Life
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Screenshots of Rod Hull This Is Your Life

The Guardian 30 October 1999


A wing and a prayer


Rod and Emu went on to bite the Queen Mother's bouquet. And wrestle Michael Parkinson to the ground. They were a double act, in the old-fashioned sense. "Rod and Emu really belonged together," says Wallace. "It's like they were part of each other. I remember when they did This Is Your Life. At the start of the programme, Rod was doing a children's show in a theatre. Eamonn Andrews arrived, dressed like a bloody great chicken. He took off the head of his costume, and, bloody hell, it was This Is Your Life. Rod was absolutely shocked. He just stood there - a total bloody surprise. But if you look closely, Emu still had movement. Rod was in a state of shock, so Emu actually stepped in and took over."

Series 22 subjects

Bob Champion | Bill Fraser | Wayne Sleep | Ian Botham | Cannon and Ball | Rob Buckman | Angela Rippon
Julia McKenzie | Jackie Milburn | Paul Shane | Peter Adamson | Kiri Te Kanawa | Mickie Most | Anita Harris
Mike Brace | Faith Brown | Robin Bailey | Rod Hull | Bob Monkhouse | John Toshack | Wally Herbert
Joe Gormley | Roger Whittaker | Alan Whicker | Peter Davison | Douglas Bader