Way back in the '70's here in the UK the BBC had a very popular
comedy show called 'The Goodies'. It revolved around the inept money
making antics of three characters who do "Anything, AnyTime,
Anywhere". There was a layabout hippy, an upper class twit and a
clueless nerdy type. The show ran for nearly ten years and though it
hasn't been seen here for 25 years it is remembered with great
affection.

A month or so ago a DVD was released containing eight episodes (for
those who may be interested it's called "The Goodies...At Last a
Second Helping").

The first episode on the disc, called "Radio Goodies", has the slide
rule. It tells the story of Our Heroes' attempt to make money by
setting up a pirate (i.e. illegal) radio station and post office in
a submarine attached to a rowing boat in the English Channel (it's
funnier than it sounds). The opening scene shows the nerdy one using
a slide rule whilst designing the radio transmitter. He continues to
wave it about for several minutes until near the end of the scene he
places it very carefuly on a table.

The rule is a plastic open frame type with metal end straps and
appears to have an all plastic duplex cursor. At a guess it looks
like one of Faber Castells' products. "Radio Goodies" was first
broadcast 20th December 1970.

Best regards to all

Russell