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Gus Honeybun was so identified with regional television in the south-west that, when TSW's managing director Harry Turner presented the station's ITV franchise renewal in 1991, he took Gus with him. However, Gus's "Magic Birthdays" series and his career at the station were cancelled at the start of 1993, when Westcountry Television took over from TSW after winning the franchise. Remember the days when you saw the person introducing the program you were about to watch? It used to be common on TV but these days it’s as rare as a penny-farthing bicycle. Augustus Jeremiah Honeybun first hit the screens of Westward Television in 1961, and at such an age, who can blame him for being a little disgruntled when I asked how old he was.

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Stirling, a stage actor originally from Fife, joined the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in 1974. He also appeared on television in many acting roles, including parts in A Family at War, Budgie, Pathfinders (TV series, one episode) and Crown Court. [1] Stirling freelanced at Westward before becoming a full-time staff announcer in 1975. Alongside announcing duties, he read regional news bulletins and presented the hugely popular children's birthdays spot alongside station mascot rabbit puppet Gus Honeybun.was the official age limit for having your birthday read out on air, although adults would also send in cards for themselves with a false age on them, such was Gus’ cult following.

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The Derry’s Cross Studios in the heart of Plymouth was the home of Westward and TSW from 1961 until 1992 before Westcountry Television took over at the beginning of 1993 from a studio at Langage Science Park in Plympton. As it was broadcast across the ITV Network, a wider audience than the South West got to see the TSW televisual treat that was That’s My Dog, a game show presented by “the general dogsbody” Derek Hobson where the family pet would compete in games to win prizes. While some thought it brilliant, others thought it ridiculous, so it’s probably little surprise that a few years after the TSW show ended, the Americans ended up doing their own version. The last ever Gus Honeybun programme, aired on 31 December 1992, at the tail end of the final TSW Today, which paid tribute to the station's 11 years of service, saw Gus returned to the moor and reunited with his rabbit family with the help of continuity announcers Ruth Langsford and David Fitzgerald. The successor ITV franchise Westcountry did provide a programme called Birthday People, but this was cancelled in 2004. There are all sorts of rumours of him being with other people at all sorts of places, but they were either just relatives or not the original Gus.” During the TSW era, Gus was broadcast twice a day on weekdays (before and after Children's ITV), and usually once a day at weekends. The show usually lasted about 2 or 3 minutes per episode. From 1987 to 1990, TSW used to often opt out of showing the first and last Children's ITV in-vision continuity links of the day so it could fit in Gus' birthday slot on weekday afternoons.Our dad always said the 100 episodes of This is Your Life were what he was proudest of making, with the one-hour special on Sir Douglas Bader being the highlight." It was, however, central to Westward and TSW’s presentation and one thing it gave us are personalities that were effectively our friends on TV, especially when they went out to community events. The show was presented by Liverpudlian comedian, Tom O’Connor, and also starred Hot Gossip and made Strictly judge Arlene Philllips into a household name. The rainbow flag originated in San Francisco in 1978 and was designed by artist Gilbert Baker for the Californian city's Gay and Lesbian Freedom Day Parade. Largely it was run by people who weren’t from the west country who thought they knew better and thought everybody wanted something else. They had a woman in charge that didn’t come from down here, didn’t know what it was all about and there was a number of unsuccessful programmes which they thought would thrill our audience. Then, of course, they were bought by Carlton.”

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