The Orient Express

[daveg]

I don't understand anything you folk are going on about   

Daft comic with an emu puppet. Made us laugh. Poor chap died falling off his roof fixing his TV aerial.

If you must:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Hull

OTT example of 'his work':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqrg_VCPgAQ

Cheers

Dave G

[Agrippa]

Haven't seen that for ages, amazing how the emu seems
to have a life of its own rather than being just an overgrown
glove puppet.

[Dodger19]

Hello, I watched it last night on Sky record, it was quite interesting and could have told the first part of the trip from London a bit more. I would like to have seen more of how they crossed the English Channel. Now have to find time to watch the Vulcan programe!

[MikeDunn]

I don't understand anything you folk are going on about   

What year did you move over there ?

His first job in television was as a lighting technician with TCN Channel 9 in Sydney, after moving to Australia in 1961. He then began appearing on air, notably as Constable Clot in Channel 9's Kaper Kops with Reg Gorman and Desmond Tester, a regular segment in its children's afternoon programming. Clot proved very popular and soon gained his own segment, Clot in the Clouds, which depicted Constable Clot daydreaming about having other professions, such as a world famous brain surgeon, 'Blood Clot'.

Later he worked with Marilyn Mayo as co-host of a children's breakfast TV programme, The Super Flying Fun Show, playing a wacky character named 'Caretaker Clot', an extension of his Kaper Kops role. Hull first used Emu as a puppet in this show. There are conflicting reports as to how this came about: Hull stated, "Sure I found him in a cupboard but I had put him there in the first place. I concocted him, nobody else." However, a Channel Nine producer, Jim Badger, recalled that he had requested a reluctant Hull to use Emu. The bird subsequently became a regular part of Hull's set on cabarets back in the United Kingdom and Australia.

[Bealman]

I  actually do remember Rod Hull and the emu. 

[EtchedPixels]

Probably can also be beaten by some of the Indian trains like the Royal Rajasthan on Wheels

http://www.palaceonwheels.net/

sorry but the current Orient Express is nothing by comparison In fact I think Lizzie gets a smaller room than that on her personal royal train !