Glen Michael’s Xmas Card Cavalcade
Posted on: Tuesday, December 20th, 2005 at 8:44 PMMy work colleagues and I wrote a Xmas card to Glen Michael, who is now a DJ on Saga FM in Glasgow.
We shall be very sad if he doesn’t send us one back. Perhaps if we don’t get his autograph, then maybe on Friday I should send another card addressed to Cecil Buckland In Devon.
Which is his real name apparently.
Glen Michael presented the show on STV for 26 years. It started as Cartoon Cavalcade in 1966 and changed its name later to Glen Michael’s Cavalcade.
In all there were over 650 Sunday afternoon shows, which also featured Glen’s two dogs, Rudi the dachshund and Rusti the terrier, plus Paladin, an old oil lamp.
Glen, who kept his age secret, was born Cecil Buckland in Devon. He came to Scotland in the early 50s as part of a touring show and never left. He still lives in Ayr.
Orginal source from Evening Telegraph Letter
Cecil Buckland’s Cavalcade doesn’t have that nostalgic ring to it and the information above destroys my parents’ belief that Glen was from Australia.
August 9th, 2006 at 1:30 am
[…] There are also a few blog posts out there — including this from those Consolevania chappies — by people from central Scotland reminiscing about the programme and collecting their threadbare memories. Best of all is this fine MetaFilter thread. If this programme was networked it would undoubtedly be hailed as a cult classic, the sort of programme that would be featured in an I ♥ the 1970s programme. […]