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Opportunity Knocks (British TV series), a 1949–1990 UK television and radio talent show; Opportunity Knocks (Australian TV series), a 1976–1978 Australian game show; Opportunity Knocks, a 1990 comedy film; Opportunity Knocks (2002 TV show), a 2002 US TV show hosted by Dave Coulier and Shaune Bagwell; Opportunity Knocks, a 2008 US television ...
Opportunity Knocks is a 1990 American comedy film starring Dana Carvey. It was directed by Donald Petrie. Synopsis. Con men Eddie Farrell and Lou Pesquino need cash ...
Opportunity Knocks is a British television and radio talent show originally hosted by Hughie Green, with a late-1980s revival hosted by Bob Monkhouse, and later by previous winner Les Dawson. From its origin on BBC Radio in 1949 the show provided a platform to fame for acts such as Spike Milligan and Frankie Vaughan. One of the most popular ...
Angie Miller, also known as Angie O'Keefe, is a British singer.She was a member of a band known as New City Sounds, which performed on the BBC television programme Opportunity Knocks.
After the show was cancelled, Green sued the BBC, Carroll Levis, and six friends and family of Levis, alleging a conspiracy to keep his Opportunity Knocks show off the air to preserve Levis's rival show, Discoveries. The case came to trial at the High Court in May 1955, with Green represented by Viscount Hailsham. [5]
One of the regulars was Glynn Poole of the Poole Family, winners of Opportunity Knocks. The show also featured the return of the 1930s music hall character Old Mother Riley, played by Roy Rolland. [3] In a 2001 poll by Channel 4 to find the "100 Greatest Kids' TV shows" Junior Showtime was at number 99.
Robert Sharples (2 July 1913 – 8 September 1987), known as Bob Sharples, was a British musical conductor, composer and bandleader, whose work encompassed films and well-known British television programmes in the 1960s and 1970s, most notably Opportunity Knocks (1964–1978).
Known also as "Wee Neil Reid", he was eight when he was discovered singing at a pensioners' party in 1968. [2] Reid won Opportunity Knocks on 13 December 1971 singing his version of "Mother of Mine", [3] which, when released commercially by Decca Records shortly afterwards, went to number two on the UK Singles Chart following a performance on Top of the Pops.