In the heady days of the seventies and eighties when we were all living A dream if not THE dream, every Sunday afternoon he would spend an hour in our homes getting people to shoot at firework ridden targets with live crossbows. The health and safety issues alone are historic.
Bob Monkhouse started as a comic in the early fifties and wrote for other comedians such as Bob Hope.
By the sixties he was starring in the first ''Carry On ''film.
then in the seventies he became the man evrybody loved to hate...doing cheezy game shows and making them work.
The Golden shot tried two other presenters before begging Monkhouse to return and add his majic.
During the couple of years that he was out in the television wilderness he returned to the clubs, where he did a very rauchy and for the time risque show.
In later years he managed to get back to doing stand up again which is how he started.
Before he died he was recognised by the new comedy community and did a show for an audience of new comics ...they loved him ...he was a very private man who liked to collect video tape and had the first video recorder that Sony made.
Recently his vast collection came into the public arena shown in a BBC documentary about his life ,using things from his collection to ilustrate.
Check it out at this link.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00x9b7w/The_Secret_Life_of_Bob_Monkhouse/
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