Gus Honeybun... Your Boys Took One Hell of a Beating: A Love Affair in the Lower Leagues

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Gus Honeybun was so identified with regional television in the south-west that, when TSW's managing director Harry Turner presented the station's ITV franchise renewal in 1991, he took Gus with him. However, Gus's "Magic Birthdays" series and his career at the station were cancelled at the start of 1993, when Westcountry Television took over from TSW after winning the franchise. Ian Stirling (28 October 1940 – 30 June 2005) was a British actor and television presenter, best known for his work with Westward Television and TSW. They closed the studios, moved out to Langage Farm and they threw the rabbit out with the bath water. It was a very silly decision,” Judi said. Celebrity Squares was presented by Bob Monkhouse, who regarded Paul as his “go-to” director, and had many regular guests including Willie Rushton, Diana Dors and Larry Grayson. The scene of the vicious crime, a shelter in the park, was a well-known meeting place for homosexual men at the time.

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Apparently there were all sorts of code words and names, things that signalled different people. It's just a nice little story really to think that it was used in that way. Lots of young people didn't realise that was going on at all." Among these was his former co-presenter, David 'Fitz' Fitzgerald, now a presenter for BBC Radio Devon. The Box has two of the four Gus Honeybun puppets that were made in its collections, including the puppet that took part in this final broadcast. Augustus Jeremiah Honeybun, or Gus Honeybun for short, was the station mascot for Westward Television and then Television South West (TSW) from 1961 until 1992.She had an old one of my father’s, and she cut it up and made him a dinner suit. We were on over Christmas, and it was Boxing Day. I said, ‘you know why we call it Boxing Day, don’t you? Well, it was traditional for this…’” The show changed title a number of times and was known variously as The Gus Honeybun Show, The Gus Honeybun Programme, Gus Honeybun’s Playtime and Gus Honeybun’s Birthdays.

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He also directed London Night Out and Wednesday at Eight - a midweek version of Sunday Night at the Palladium - a variety show with a quiz game, Name that Tune, in the middle. But Dr Butler explains he was also iconic in other ways: "Gus became a means of LGBT people in Plymouth being able to communicate with each other. Gus Honeybun first hit the screens of Westward Television in 1961 and later Television South West, from 1961 to December 1992.

Gus’ final television appearance aired on 31 December 1992 at the end of the very last ‘TSW Today’ programme, before Westcountry Television took over the franchise. He then returned to Dartmoor where he’d apparently been discovered so he could be reunited with his rabbit family – or did he……….