But over the years as we toured with Jack, we were together for thirteen years and during that tour I was approached by the powers that be in STV and invited to do commercials. He informs me he has just come out of hospital, having been taken in a few nights before with a suspected heart attack that transpired to be a hiatus hernia. But a bit naive, I suppose, in those days, you know but ratings wise, I was always quite keen to look at ratings and I was always quite pleased to see that we held our own in most because we were put opposite things like the main picture on BBC on a Sunday afternoon or something like that, which took a lot of viewers away but it did very well to hold on to it. In fact, Larry Marshall, who did The One o' Clock Gang for many, many years and very successfully, he took over the fact of booking Cavalcade, along with anything else, around and he would say, "I've got a date for you to go so-and-so, would you go and do it? I think the main impact came from the fact that it was actually, without being forced down their throats, it was coming from a venue.

But these were people that, you know, yeah, Lord Forsythe was another one that complimented me on the show and came on to it, I remember. The organisation, long since defunct, was often jokingly referred to as Every Night Something Awful. When Saga FM was bought by Real Radio company GMG Radio, Michael decided not to move across to Smooth Radio.For some unknown reason the boom seemed to have a feeling that I can move anywhere, do anything, this thing round my neck curtailed me and, funny, I wouldn't go forward! He took one of the main parts in the network Thirty-Minute Theatre from STV, The Tower, broadcast on 21 November 1963.

His daughter Yonnie is features editor at the Ayrshire Post and his son Christopher is a film editor in Glasgow. We started off, we used to go, I think somebody put us on to ten o' clock in the morning once and I got letters from a Minister, saying, "Would you please ask them to transfer your show because they won't come to Sunday School while your show's on! Upon leaving his native England for the Scottish theatre circuit, he found further success in stage shows with comedians Rikki Fulton and Jack Milroy. Awesome Movies, timeless Music, a special Fashion sense, plus memorable Toys, Games and TV shows that have remained popular for over 30 years.R: I still talk to children in the street and so forth and they talk to, the mothers and fathers talk to me and introduce me to the children as if they should be continuing, you know, and I look at them and say, "I wish I was doing that today! Oh," he said, "we're quite happy for you to get, I thought perhaps you'd like to come behind the scenes and produce and so forth. I: Right, Glen, the second one they want an answer to is what's the most important contribution STV made to Scotland and why do you think that is? The couple married in 1946, when Michael was 19, and have been together since, through thick and thin. Back in the living room, when I suggest - judging from the photos on the wall - that his family is also one of his greatest achievements, Michael says I'm right.