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Filmed on a set built to resemble a traditional English pub, this series featured traditional British music-hall style entertainment, and attracted a veritable Who's Who of famous guest performers, including Vera Lynn, Max Bygraves and Barbara Windsor, plus local ex-pats and regular guests such as Scottish comedian Billy Meek, and Pearly Queen Anita Scott.

The show was rounded off by the Roland & Romaine dance troupe, and a house band featuring The Carlton Showband, and headed by Musical Director Ken Stanley (who later became the co-host of Ray Sonin's infamous Calling All Britons radio show, along with Ray's widow, June Sonin).

UPDATE

Here's a partial list of additional guest artists, although I have no dates:

Ann Shelton, Billy Dainty, Mike and Bernie, Chic Murray, Joy Shelton, Andy Stewart, Reg Dixon, Diana Dors, Cardew Robinson, Richard Hearne (Mr. Pastry), Dickie Valentine, Tommy Trinder, Hattie Hacques, Tessie O'Shea, Lonnie Donegan

This show invoked unintentional hilarity amongst adolescents and juveniles alike during its opening after the theme song singalong when the camera would centre on host, John Hewer, who would bellow out an emphatic cry of, "Watch your cox!!!!!!!!!!" I believe it was some sort of British expression, which had an entirely innocent meaning, possibly to do with the sport of rowing. Who knows? Maybe it was spelled differently, and had something to do with rooster farming, but I seriously doubt it had anything to do with the double-entendre meaning my fellow adolescents and juveniles (as well as the juvenile-minded) and I, took it to mean. Regardless, I'm sure many a parent reprimanded their kids for snickering during the opening back in the day.