I didn't, I've never believed in trying to put an act on in front of the camera because I think you're wasting your time to do that, for good, bad or indifferent. That's the thing today that drives me up the wall is when you hear this clapping going on and laughter for no reason and you wonder what they're laughing at where in those days you had an audience and if you didn't make them laugh, well, that was it! Anyway, he suddenly appeared with him and he had it all re-done and it was all tolled up and at one end it looked tatty and miserable.

I: I was really, probably, very, very slightly less sorry than you are, you know, about it coming to an end!Glen's career continued with a move to Scotland, where he continued to appear on stage as well as in numerous TV plays and light entertainment shows for the BBC and the fledgling STV. Nowadays, of course, you've got it on your wristwatch, away on your feet, or in your ear or any way you like so I mean that's the reason, I think, a lot of things have disappeared. He greets me from the door of the modest, unassuming cottage in which he lives with his wife Beryl, in the small Ayrshire village of Maidens. Hot from Scotland: Gordon Irving: Glen Michael BBC', The Stage and Television Today, 15 March 1962, 4.

So we had problems but we finished up, I think, we started off at five o' clock at night, just before the News, and that was a terrific slot, you know, but there were good slots.I didn't like to get strange kids so I would get the family on and it worked very well, you know, yeah, great!

The organisation, long since defunct, was often jokingly referred to as Every Night Something Awful.Later, when Michael went on to have a part in the 1950 classic Ealing film, The Blue Lamp, starring Jack Warner and Dirk Bogarde (Michael still has a copy of the original script), the director, Basil Dearden, would say to him, "Don't go anywhere, stay in London.

Thinking about STV in general, did you feel happy and at ease in everything you were doing within STV in terms of you didn't have to run up hill pushing spaghetti to get things done? To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. I: I think, remember STV when they did the shift to the new building and so on, when all that was going on. There, the walls reflect a family man, whose children and grandchildren lie at the heart of his life.I'm trying to think who the Controller was that went to the Think-Tank in London and I can't remember his name. Pepe Le Pew, for instance, was often a bit naughty, so Michael stopped showing it because it got too risque.