Talk:Arthur Mullard

message: There seems to be a long-running myth that Mullard and Baker's appearance led to a drop in sales for their single. In fact, if you look at the chart run here you can see that since they appeared on the 7 September 1978 edition, the single actually rose from No.50 to No.22. It was the biggest sales increase the single saw. Yes, the appearance was a disaster, but it did anything but cause a sales drop.--Tuzapicabit (talk) 23:51, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Top of the Pops appearance 

message: He appeared as himself on "Mind Your Language," season 3, episode 7.211.225.33.104 (talk) 11:01, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: guest

message: Are there any other- more reliable- sources for the allegations of abuse made in the source provided? At Wikipedia:Potentially unreliable sources, the Daily Mirror- of which the Sunday Mirror is, of course, a branch- is stated: 'In general, tabloid newspapers, such as The Sun, Daily Mirror, the Daily Mail (see also the February 2017 RFC discussing its validity), equivalent television shows, should be used with caution, especially if they are making sensational claims.' The claims included in this article are, I should say, fairly 'sensational', and so one wonders about whether or not, unless any other published sources deal with the subject, they ought to be quite so unequivocally stated as is presently the case. The only sources I could find online refer to the same Sunday Mirror article, or are forums discussing Arthur Mullard where conversation naturally enough turns to the fact that his daughter allegedly made the accusation.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.2.117.251 (talk) 23:09, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, PART of "his own family"- but it's worth observing that per his younger son, who only had good things to say about him, there was a big falling-out between Mullard and the daughter over Mullard's fortune, following which he decided to leave the majority to charity (as was the case as the article shows, with only very little left to his children). The elder brother had a major argument with the father sufficient to induce him to leave home earlier in life. So, no love lost there it would seem. Whatever the truth of the matter, which will never be known, it cannot be denied that from another perspective- i.e. that supported by the younger brother per the cited sources- the two other siblings had good grounds (even if only in their own minds) to take revenge on the father who denied them a bigger share of his considerable estate. If they never got on with him anyway, why not claim victimhood and seek sympathy? There are sick people out there- not only child abusers, but those with warped minds who will stop at nothing to "win". The accounts provided are inconclusive, and as the article now does, the only thing to do is to present the opposing claims. Looking at it another way: did the daughter, with no legitimate grudge against him, not nurse her father in his final days in hopes of financial reward, and, not receiving it, decided to stick the knife in to the dead man's reputation in revenge at her lost dreams of fortune? Was she not encouraged in this by her elder brother, who long loathed the father with whom he had butted heads and from whose house he had been long absent? Who can say.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.24.237.62 (talk) 02:23, 9 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Abuse allegations