If you’ve looked up bridge videos on YouTube at all, you’ll have seen Join Us for Bridge with Shaw Taylor as one of the first videos advertised.

Over 400,000 views – and about 3 hours’ worth of viewing.

Have you clicked it yet?

It’s one of the longer bridge-related videos on the internet right now, but it’s worth seeing if you haven’t.

Here are some facts about Join Us for Bridge with Shaw Taylor and why it’s worth a watch for fans of bridge with an internet connection everywhere.

• Shaw Taylor (1924 to 2015) was born as Eric Stanley Taylor in Hackney, London. He’s known as both an actor and presenter. (We know him best from Join Us for Bridge with Shaw Taylor.)
  
  
• Shaw Taylor presented several successful quiz-themed shows for British viewers, including Password, Ditto and the pilot episode for Whodunit?
  
  
• Join Us for Bridge was released on VHS in in 1983 as a follow-up to a successful bridge television series (also presented by Shaw Taylor).
  
  
• Join Us for Bridge with Shaw Taylor is just under 3 hours worth of viewing time, and available as a YouTube-upload for anyone who wants to recreate the magic of the original show (and pick up a few strategy tips in the process).
  
  
• Try Bridge with Shaw Taylor was released as a follow-up to the first successful bridge-VHS.

• “Keep ’em peeled,” was his TV-catchphrase, used when he presented a short five-minute segment on real-life crimes called Police 5, which ran until the year 1992.

• Speaking of Police 5, he presented the show again in 2014 when aged 89.
  
  
• His obituary, with more information on his life, was published in The Guardian (2015).