Bruce Forsyth entertains in Torquay

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Bruce Forsyth entertains in Torquay


All right my loves? TV reporter David Mudd interviews Bruce Forsyth who reminisces about the Babbacombe Concert Hall where he performed in 1955. Brucie is top billing for the summer season playing Torquay's Princess Theatre in Bernard Delfont's Show Time. In the late 1950s he appears in a variety show called Beat The Clock and is part of Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium, which sees him break into television with one of his first catchphrases, I'm in charge!


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