So way back when, I was listening to this LIVE on the radio as it happens in the car park of a Carrefour in Eastleigh, Hampshire. I was maybe 8 or 9 at the time... remember it like it was yesterday. this was the BIGGEST celebrity prank ever at the time. Bigger than Beadle..
This and the Lionel Blair one are the equal greatest Gotchas they ever did. The ones which tended to work best were when they didn't try to push the absurdity too far, and instead just gently built up from a totally believable situation into an absolute nightmare. I'd love to hear the full Radio 1 broadcast of the DLT Gotcha. Surely that got archived? I appreciate that old radio is pretty much 99.9% permanently lost media, but they had to have recorded this one for prosperity. Right? Or at least some keen fans of his show just happened to be taping it off air and kept the recording? It must exist, as far as I'm concerned. Would be great to hear it. What I wonder, is did they play any kind of insert on air to let the listener in on the fact that it was a Gotcha or did the audience go along for the ride not knowing until the reveal?
I've been searching for the full Radio 1 broadcast of that particular DLT show for years. Sadly without success. I can only therefore presume that no-one actually did record it, otherwise it would have shown up by now.
@@argyess It makes me think that they most likely didn't announce to the listeners what was actually occurring during the prank, otherwise hundreds, possibly thousands, of people would have taped it and kept the copy. One thing which does survive, is a video of DLT's off-air reaction which couldn't be shown on Noel's House Party. I don't know if you've ever seen it, it's quite extreme. According to Tony Blackburn in an interview, DLT genuinely didn't find it funny and was furious about it. It very much shows, in that clip. It's on here, but I don't want to link it because its content isn't appropriate for kids.
So way back when, I was listening to this LIVE on the radio as it happens in the car park of a Carrefour in Eastleigh, Hampshire. I was maybe 8 or 9 at the time... remember it like it was yesterday. this was the BIGGEST celebrity prank ever at the time. Bigger than Beadle..
I was expecting the TV licence wind-up.
Best Gotcha ever. LOL at 5:07 5:55 and 11:42 😂
This and the Lionel Blair one are the equal greatest Gotchas they ever did. The ones which tended to work best were when they didn't try to push the absurdity too far, and instead just gently built up from a totally believable situation into an absolute nightmare. I'd love to hear the full Radio 1 broadcast of the DLT Gotcha. Surely that got archived? I appreciate that old radio is pretty much 99.9% permanently lost media, but they had to have recorded this one for prosperity. Right? Or at least some keen fans of his show just happened to be taping it off air and kept the recording? It must exist, as far as I'm concerned. Would be great to hear it. What I wonder, is did they play any kind of insert on air to let the listener in on the fact that it was a Gotcha or did the audience go along for the ride not knowing until the reveal?
I've been searching for the full Radio 1 broadcast of that particular DLT show for years. Sadly without success. I can only therefore presume that no-one actually did record it, otherwise it would have shown up by now.
@@argyess It makes me think that they most likely didn't announce to the listeners what was actually occurring during the prank, otherwise hundreds, possibly thousands, of people would have taped it and kept the copy. One thing which does survive, is a video of DLT's off-air reaction which couldn't be shown on Noel's House Party. I don't know if you've ever seen it, it's quite extreme. According to Tony Blackburn in an interview, DLT genuinely didn't find it funny and was furious about it. It very much shows, in that clip. It's on here, but I don't want to link it because its content isn't appropriate for kids.
You can't get treble top lol