I always had a vague memory of seeing Richard Rufus on Gamesmaster when I was a kid. Found the episodes today whilst reminiscing about Gamesmaster. He went head to head at Sega Soccer against Michael Duberry and Chris Armstrong. Bit bizzarre!
A good astronomer but completely nuts. some of his best quotes: 'We must take care. There may be another war. The Germans will try again, given another chance. A Kraut is a Kraut is a Kraut. And the only good Kraut is a dead Kraut.' In an interview in 2011. 'The trouble is that the BBC now is run by women and it shows: soap operas, cooking, quizzes, kitchen-sink plays.' 'Just goes to show the dangers of the metric system' when a NASA probe landed in the wrong place.
And finally he was Minister for Extra-Terrestrial Affairs athe Monster Raving Looney Party.
I always had a vague memory of seeing Richard Rufus on Gamesmaster when I was a kid. Found the episodes today whilst reminiscing about Gamesmaster. He went head to head at Sega Soccer against Michael Duberry and Chris Armstrong. Bit bizzarre!
A national treasure who, as has been said, seems to have been around for ever. Should name a star after him if they haven't already done so. RIP Sir Patrick,
My best mate was on the sky at night where we met after me seeing him after losing touch.We both went to Bloomfield Boys,Plumpstead. We we did our first gig as musicians there.I went on to be a pro musician working at the top level and he is now a professor of astro physics .Patrick was a dear friend to both of us and I have tears in my eyes as I'm typing this.
Patrick Moore (and to a lesser extent James Burke) were massive influences on me as a schoolboy, following the space race. Have a lifetime love of astronomy thanks to Patrick. I never met him but I have a photo of me and my daughter standing next to his waxwork figure (I think at the European Space Agency in Holland??)! RIP
Loved Patrick Moore he really fitted the great British eccentric mould to a tee. I was interested to read that the one love of his life was killed in an air raid in 1943 her death devastated him so much he never took up with another woman and gave him a lifelong hatred of The Germans. None the less a great bloke and a fine braodcaster he will be missed by all.
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Mad as a box of frogs.
He went head to head at Sega Soccer against Michael Duberry and Chris Armstrong. Bit bizzarre!
some of his best quotes:
'We must take care. There may be another war. The Germans will try again, given another chance. A Kraut is a Kraut is a Kraut. And the only good Kraut is a dead Kraut.' In an interview in 2011.
'The trouble is that the BBC now is run by women and it shows: soap operas, cooking, quizzes, kitchen-sink plays.'
'Just goes to show the dangers of the metric system' when a NASA probe landed in the wrong place.
And finally he was Minister for Extra-Terrestrial Affairs athe Monster Raving Looney Party.
Last year he said something along the lines of 'Im sure nice Germans exist but i am yet to meet one.'