REMEMBERING OLD CELEBRITIES WITHOUT GOOGLING

Here are a few names from the past that I have wrestled from the ether of my farthest and foggiest brain crannies. 

I haven't looked them up at all so what I've put is the very scant info I remember about them, which could very well be wrong! I'm sure you remember more readers! Please let us know, but no googling if you can help it!

Paddy Clark [or is it Hopkirk?]: Monte Carlo rally driver, famous for his mini. I think I had a Dinky die-cast version of it.

Charlie Drake: one of the original Sixties comedians. He had a small breathy voice and wispy hair. I remember him in a TV show called The Worker.

Peter Gordino: a handsome dancer who my Mum fancied. A feature of Saturday night variety shows. He may have been in UFO?

Kathy Kirby/ Sandy Shore: I get these two lady singers mixed up and can say virtually nothing else.

Nana Moskuri: Greek or Czech lady singer famous in the Sixties and Seventies. She had her own TV show and long black hair. She wore glasses too.

Freddy Laker: airline magnate. May have had a famous plane, Skybus?

Annie Nightingale: the prog rockers' totty. I was in love with Annie when she presented the Old Grey Whistle Test, her raspy voice entranced me!

Dennis Gifford: comics expert. He may have been on the telly. I get him mixed up with the guy that presented It'll Be Alright on the Night, who's name I forget!

Ben Guerin: may have got the name wrong. Israeli General who wore an eyepatch. On the news in the Sixties and early Seventies.

Tom Conti/ Barry McGuigan - two British boxers often in the public eye. Conto was on the cover of Band on the Run I think.

Powers Boothe: he was a tough guy soldier in Southern Comfort. He resurfaced in the Avengers much older. Someone else looks like him too.

Lucilla Ball: explosive American comedienne. Starred in TV's I Love Lucy.

Millicent Martin: I get her mixed up with Lucille Ball.

Rowan and Martin: American comics and presenters of TV's Laugh-In, which I watched with my folks on Saturday night.

Pearl and Dean: the makers of cinema adverts, who's ads showed throughout the Sixties and Seventies. The theme tune was memorable.

Olga Korbet/ Nelly Kim: Rumanian gymnasts who scored perfect 10's at the Olympics.

Lena Zavaroni: Greek? singing teenager, who took the world by storm. With what I don't know.

Geoffrey Wheeler: nothing but the name!

That's it for now. Anything you can add readers, without googling?

TV PRESENTERS WHO HAVE VANISHED

TV presenters are a strange yet important breed. 

They seem to be glue which hold many light entertainment shows together. I only need to think of how important John Noakes, Val Singleton and Peter Purves were to me as a kid as I devoured every episode of Blue Peter in the Sixties. 

Because glue is useful presenters may present many types of show at different times of the day and can even swap channels. Neither actors nor newsreaders they ply their craft while the sun shines. Alas, the sun sets and for some so do their careers.

This is a list of modern TV presenters I've noticed aren't on the telly anymore in the UK. There's also one disc jockey and one from the Sixties who my Parents will have listened to and watched. Naturally many fine presenters have died as well but apart from one all of these are still with us. They have just disappeared off the box.

These are just my observations and any remarks are purely my own. Most of these presenters I really like and wish they were back on the box.

Carol Smiley. Once the golden girl of UK TV who brought a smiley smile to everyday topics, she just vanished from the telly box.

Andy Kershaw. The northern voice of indie on the wireless. Relationship issues took him off the air.

Craig Doyle. Once a handsome travel reporter along with Carol Smiley and many others on the Holiday programme, Craig can now be found behind Everest triple-glazing on TV adverts.

Simon Dee. Popular 60's radio and TV presenter. Dee was dropped from everything in 1970.

Justin Lee Collins. Bearded go-to guy of noughties TV, impressively he tried to get the cast of the original Star Wars back together. Relationship issues took him off the air.

Mark Lamarr. Rockabilly anchor of the immensely hip Never Mind the Buzzcocks on TV, Lamarr fell out with Radio 2 in 2010 and vanished.

Simon Anstell. Acerbic and rather irritating golden wit of pop shows, I'd like to say he's off the air but he has become a doyen of stand-up and indie film making.

Miquita Oliver. Erstwhile young co-host of Pop World, she filed for bankruptcy and sadly went off the air.

James Corden. Having conquered the entire light entertainment world in the UK he moved to America.

Adrian Chiles. One time anchor of the One Show and TV sport shows he is now sadly on TV less and less.

Russell Brand. Once the enfent terrible of entertainment, Brand does not seem to be on TV much now. Thank God.

What do you think? Can you think of any presenters whi have vanished readers?