Aunty Beeb has collated the ten greatest TV eccentrics :

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/3927343.stm

Jilly Goolden
Johnny Ball
Patrick Moore
Barbara Woodhouse
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen
Jimmy Savile
John Noakes
Sister Wendy Beckett
Andrew Marr
The late Jennifer Paterson and Clarissa Dickson Wright

Do u agree with this list ?!

Where's ....
Magnus Pyke
David Bellamy
Adam Hart Davis

I'll think of more later.

cols,
I was just about to mention Magnus Pyke, but you beat me to it!

I liked professor Heinz Wolff, on the great Egg Race,too.

(I disagree howerver, with Lawrence LLewellyn Bowen, i think he is just a total wally)

PT

what about the magnificently camp Dickie Davies and his whacked out counterpert Frank (**sniff**) Bough?

And the hilariously barmy John Cleese aka Basil Fawlty?! :lol:

They all seem to be BBC programme presenters, too.

I seem to remember a similar bias with "Britain's best comedy".

What about Fred Dibnah?

He's a legend.