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'Cilla' TV series (17 February 1973). Cilla Black wearing a long shiny black PVC mac in a sketch with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. Best viewed on the HD setting (1080 pixels).
Timing: 30'-42" to 33'-26".
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB7p82Z ... m&index=16

Good find rothboy, those mac's on both Cilla and Dudly look silky smooth and soft!

Her autobigraphy records how much she loved her own shiny black pvc mackintosh and how devastated she was when she lost it.

What a fantasy, to wear a shiny black mac in bed and then have Cilla Black get in beside you, also dressed in a PVC mac!

pvculike wrote: July 28th, 2025, 2:06 pm Good find rothboy, those mac's on both Cilla and Dudly look silky smooth and soft!

Cheers! Yeah mate - they don't look like the thicker cotton-backed type that were popular back then.

WealdenMac wrote: July 28th, 2025, 2:07 pm Her autobigraphy records how much she loved her own shiny black pvc mackintosh and how devastated she was when she lost it.

Thanks for that info WM. Wow - you learn something new every day. I'm sure I've got a picture/pictures of her wearing the very mac somewhere - will try and dig it/them out....

rothbhoy wrote: July 29th, 2025, 6:08 pm

WealdenMac wrote: July 28th, 2025, 2:07 pm Her autobigraphy records how much she loved her own shiny black pvc mackintosh and how devastated she was when she lost it.

Thanks for that info WM. Wow - you learn something new every day. I'm sure I've got a picture/pictures of her wearing the very mac somewhere - will try and dig it/them out....

Found it!
https://postimg.cc/RNLMfK7v

Rainworshipper wrote: July 28th, 2025, 2:41 pm What a fantasy, to wear a shiny black mac in bed and then have Cilla Black get in beside you, also dressed in a PVC mac!

Back in the day I can well imagine it was the fantasy of many!

I tell you what: 1973 may have been years before I was even born, but if I had a time machine I'd leave these crappy times for 1973 in an instant! Britain was still British then, and PVC rainwear, made from shiny, squeaky/crackly and soft PVC (it was long before the anti-phthalate and anti-PVC hysteria of modern times), was commonplace.

I can remember Cilla wearing a black pvc raincoat on an episode of 'surprise Surprise' in the 1980's.

Your challenge, should you accept, is to find that clip.