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Parnerships, good or bad

We’ve all  known great partnerships like Morecambe and Wise, Torvill and Dean and Laurel and Hardy. There are some partnership that aren’t so great ...like Ant and Dec(can’t stand ’em  to be honest). How many other partnerships can you name,  good or bad?

Gerry Tan ● 6804d104 Comments

Dalziel and Pascoe, goodBonnie and Clyde, bad

Graham Weeks ● 6804d

Blair and Brown

James de Vivenot ● 6804d

Good or bad?

Graham Weeks ● 6804d

what do you think?

James de Vivenot ● 6804d

Hutton & Washbrook, now that was good when Hutton plastered the 'Convicts' for 364, we could pulverise them then.

Colin Vaughan ● 6804d

I see your Blair and Brown, and raise you Major and Lamont

Gavin Gilbert ● 6804d

Rolls and Royce,Marks and Spencer(?);0)

Jim Lawes ● 6804d

Gavin you struck a chord there! Gilbert and Sullivan, no pun intended!

Colin Vaughan ● 6804d

"Marks and Spencer"keeping it local - Waite and Rose ;)

Gavin Gilbert ● 6804d

Tweedledum and Tweedledeelennon & macartneytom & jerryjekyll & hydedido & aeneusporgy & bessira & george for that matterrogers & hammersteinbrecht & weilrosenkrantz and guildensternfrench & saudersMoses & AaronThat'll do, good night ken & barbie

Sara Nathan ● 6804d

Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice

Peter Wright ● 6804d

Rawitz and Landau brilliant pianists, Gerry do you remember them?? Jimmy Edwards and Dick Bentley. Pearl Carr and Teddy Johnston singers, all now lost in the mists of time. Early TV Silvia Peters and Mcdonald Hobley, oh dear doesn't this silly old s*d go on a bit. I'm off for a wee dram now Gerry and co Good night Ealing Goodnight!!!

Colin Vaughan ● 6804d

"Jimmy Edwards and Dick Bentley" that wasn't a pair. They would have been nothing without June Whitfield (Eff). And of the three the only one still going strong.

Francis House ● 6804d

More of an uneasy truce than a partnership.

Graham Weeks ● 6804d

Trueman ans Statham, the best we ever had.Laker and Locke.

Graham Weeks ● 6804d

David and JonathanAndrew and PeterJames and JohnPaul and Barnabas

Graham Weeks ● 6804d

Flanaghan and AllanMorcombe and WiseThe Two Ronnies

Graham Weeks ● 6804d

Sure they were good, but the bestest ever have to be Rahmadin and Valentine.

Gerry Tan ● 6804d

Janet and John

Penny Crocker ● 6804d

Janet and John

Penny Crocker ● 6804d

Reagan and Thatcher.

Alan Brainsby ● 6804d

Enola Gay and Little Boy!

Alan Brainsby ● 6804d

I'll try to raise you but it's futile.Jeckyll and Hyde

Tony Wood ● 6804d

Tonto and The Lone Ranger.(Not forgetting Silver!)

Gerry Tan ● 6804d

Roy Rogers and Trigger.

Gerry Tan ● 6804d

AJ-J and Upkeep.

Alan Brainsby ● 6804d

I thought that was Joy Nichols, Francis.

Colin Vaughan ● 6804d

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

Gerry Tan ● 6804d

You must have read my thoughts Gerry, beat me to it!!!

Colin Vaughan ● 6804d

Hitler, Mussolini and Franco, well you did say good or bad.

Peter Wright ● 6804d

Peter, you reminded me: Blair and Bush!

James de Vivenot ● 6804d

You got some Windies prejudice there Gerry?

Graham Weeks ● 6804d

Bill and Ben

Graham Weeks ● 6804d

Hitler and Goebells?

Graham Weeks ● 6804d

Lindwall and Miller

Graham Weeks ● 6804d

Noddy and Big Ears (well, they shared the same bed sometimes...).

Alan Brainsby ● 6804d

Yes !

Gerry Tan ● 6804d

Who were the most fearsome Windies quicks? (mind you they tended to come in quartets rather than pairs!)Walsh, Ambrose, Marshall and PattersonRoberts, Holding, Garner and Croft

James de Vivenot ● 6804d

"I thought that was Joy Nichols, Francis."She left before the Glums started.

Francis House ● 6803d

Bill and Ben not forgetting Little WeedSooty and Sweep

Graham Weeks ● 6803d

Steptoe and Son

Graham Weeks ● 6803d

Andy Pandy, Loopy Lou, and Teddy.They had a "menage a trois" didn't they? (Sorry about the gallicism). No wonder Lou was loopy and Andy and Teddy has those fixed smiles!.

Alan Brainsby ● 6803d

Sorry!It's Looby Lou, not Loopy Lou. She must have been a slippery character.It sounds even worse than I remembered, and the 1950s too! They weren't that naive then surely?

Alan Brainsby ● 6803d

Moody and Sankey

Graham Weeks ● 6803d

Harland and Wolff.

Alan Brainsby ● 6803d

Ron and Reggie Kray(not forgetting their brother Charlie).

Gerry Tan ● 6803d

Starsky and Hutch.

Gerry Tan ● 6803d

Rolls and Royce

Graham Weeks ● 6803d

Hylda Baker and her gormless on-stage ‘stooge’ Cynthia (always played by a man).

Peter Wright ● 6803d

Kermit and Miss Piggy.

Gerry Tan ● 6803d

Nelson Eddy and Janette McDonald.

Gerry Tan ● 6803d

Woodford & Woodfall (Tennis)

Colin Vaughan ● 6803d

Allcock and Brown (not to be confused with that 1960s Labour pair).

Alan Brainsby ● 6803d

Sonny & CherEsther & Abi Ofarim (now why woul I remember them?)

Sara Nathan ● 6803d

Murray (J)& Jankowitz (J) 2007 Wimbledon Mixed Doubles Champions.

Colin Vaughan ● 6803d

Lennon&McCartney

Tony Wood ● 6803d

Jennings and DerbyshireDan Dare and DigbyBiggles and Ginger

Graham Weeks ● 6803d

Ealing and a Conservative council.

Alan Brainsby ● 6803d

Dick Barton and Snowey - (not forgetting Jock).

Gerry Tan ● 6803d

Tintin and Snowy

James de Vivenot ● 6802d

Burke and Hare.

Keith Iddon ● 6802d

Best,Law and Charlton.

Keith Iddon ● 6802d

Best,Law and Charlton.

Keith Iddon ● 6802d

Finney and Matthews

Keith Iddon ● 6802d

Warne and McGrath

Keith Iddon ● 6802d

Tom and Jerry

Keith Iddon ● 6802d

Best and CharltonJack and Bobby for England

Graham Weeks ● 6801d

Asterix and Obelix

Graham Weeks ● 6801d

Fortnum and Mason.W H Smith and Son.Gebruder Marklin (OK so you don't like model trains).

Alan Brainsby ● 6801d

Peter Pan and Capt.Hook.

Gerry Tan ● 6801d

Bill Sykes & NancyFagin & The Artful Dodger

Graham Weeks ● 6801d

hinge and brackett (not sure of the spelling)

Emma Daniels ● 6801d

Morse and Lewis.Lewis and Hathaway. New series from this Sunday.

Alan Brainsby ● 6800d

Dempsey and Makepeace

James de Vivenot ● 6800d

rodney & del boy

Emma Daniels ● 6800d

Batman and Robin

James de Vivenot ● 6800d

Booty and Stretch (Eric Butorac and Jamie Murray)

James de Vivenot ● 6800d

MG Rover.Hewlett-Packard.

Alan Brainsby ● 6800d

Abbott and CoselloSuperman and Lois Lane

Graham Weeks ● 6800d

Eve and Adam.

Gerry Tan ● 6800d

"Eve and Adam."Why the reversal? Is it Mrs & Mr in your house Gerry?So I'll folow with not the partnershipCain and Abel.

Graham Weeks ● 6799d

Fuller, Smith, and Turner.

Alan Brainsby ● 6799d

Allen and Hanbury

Graham Weeks ● 6799d

Did not they make a product called 'Radio Malt' years ago Graham?

Colin Vaughan ● 6799d

Mr Marks and Mr Spencer

Gerry Tan ● 6799d

I think so. They became part of Glaxo. I also recall the pleasant taste of Virol.

Graham Weeks ● 6799d

Glaxo and Smith Kline

Graham Weeks ● 6799d

My Father used to sell masses of it. I was brought up on the stuff. Don't know what the 'Health Police' would make of it now though.

Colin Vaughan ● 6799d

My mum and dad - they made me!!!

Alan Brainsby ● 6799d

Partnerships, good or bad - Word Association.Are you going to try for 1001?

Peter Wright ● 6799d

WD and 40. They make the "1001" product range!

Alan Brainsby ● 6799d

Flanders and Swan

Graham Weeks ● 6799d

Popeye and Olive.

Gerry Tan ● 6798d

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.

Gerry Tan ● 6798d

Powell and Pressburger? That's near the beginning of "British" recorded history!

Alan Brainsby ● 6798d

Dowding and Harris.

Alan Brainsby ● 6798d

Not Dowding and Harris Alan, more like Dowding & Park. They after all were instrumental in formating the battle plan for the defence of the UK IN 1940/41. Bomber Harris was very much his own man, different part of RAF Strategy. It took years before Dowding and Park were recognised for what this Country owed to them. Unfortunately one Leigh Mallory got all the praise to start off with, whilst his arrogant interference, and influence with Churchill nearly cost us dear.

Colin Vaughan ● 6798d

Fred and Wilma Flintstone

Graham Weeks ● 6798d

Me and my shadow.

Francis House ● 6798d

Cue for song everyone:ME AND MY SHADOWSTROLLING DOWN THE AVENUEME AND MY SHADOWNO ONE ELSE TO TELL MY TROUBLES TOAND WHEN ITS TWELVE O'CLOCKWE'LL CLIMB THE STAIRSWE'LL NEVER STOP,'COS NOBODYS THEREJUST ME AND MY SHADOWALL ALONE AND FEELING BLUE!

Colin Vaughan ● 6798d

Gin and tonic.

Alan Brainsby ● 6798d

Many thanks for the correction, Colin.

Alan Brainsby ● 6798d

Cliff and The ShadowsFreddie and The Dreamers

Graham Weeks ● 6798d

Bourne and Hollingsworth.Marshall and Snelgrove.Swan and Edgar.Harvey and Nicolls.Lilly and White.

Gerry Tan ● 6798d