Also, I would love to know exactly what the opening song is. It sounds like a piece Sir Edward Elgar might have written, but I can't find it anywhere. Are there any fellow classical music buffs who could help me?
The Tooth & Claw book sez they stopped making these sketches because kids weren't finding them funny. Rob Grant and Doug Naylor (the Red Dwarf guys) were asked to make the show more "trendy" and straight away the Exchequers and "Herr Wilcox" sketches were dropped
Although Fluck and Law hated making puppets of Rantzen and Norden, they pretty much had to start doing it to make the show more "accessible" to a younger audience
I'm not fond of the first series either. in b4 I get lynched
That's very interesting! It's too bad they were asked to make the show "trendy;" sketches like these were the best part of the series. I mean, a retirement home for ex-PMs. The possibilities are endless, and hilarious. :D
I often wonder what Alec Douglas-Home and Harold Macmillan would have thought of their puppets...
The1985Channel 8 months ago
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I'm Prime Minister of Britain you know!
The1985Channel 9 months ago
"I have been cruelly deceived! Forced to share my twilight years with Tories! There can be no fate worse than that!"
"Hello, Harold."
"...I stand corrected."
MegaJustDucky 1 year ago 2
who is the white hair bloke
SirOneoneselfandone 1 year ago
@SirOneoneselfandone which one?
Macmillan, Wilson, Douglas-Hume or Callaghan
drab100 1 year ago
@drab100 i meant michael foot
SirOneoneselfandone 1 year ago
the laughter track doesn't work at all, I'm glad they got rid of it
redcarsgofaster 1 year ago
i love that bit where Wilson goes Oh My God alex dougles home and the bit where Foot walks in
TheLiviman 1 year ago
is the matron-esque woman meant to be queen victoria?
meganisationlubracat 1 year ago
@meganisationlubracat Yes, that's her. :)
Sparrowmaiden 1 year ago
The Harold Wilson puppet is kind of creepy.
ErnieandBert1 2 years ago
Also, I would love to know exactly what the opening song is. It sounds like a piece Sir Edward Elgar might have written, but I can't find it anywhere. Are there any fellow classical music buffs who could help me?
Sparrowmaiden 2 years ago
The Tooth & Claw book sez they stopped making these sketches because kids weren't finding them funny. Rob Grant and Doug Naylor (the Red Dwarf guys) were asked to make the show more "trendy" and straight away the Exchequers and "Herr Wilcox" sketches were dropped
Although Fluck and Law hated making puppets of Rantzen and Norden, they pretty much had to start doing it to make the show more "accessible" to a younger audience
I'm not fond of the first series either. in b4 I get lynched
XavierTheBobFriar 2 years ago
That's very interesting! It's too bad they were asked to make the show "trendy;" sketches like these were the best part of the series. I mean, a retirement home for ex-PMs. The possibilities are endless, and hilarious. :D
Sparrowmaiden 2 years ago 2
@Sparrowmaiden
You're right. You could probably make a separate series just based on Exchequers. The material is practically limitless.
AKAKArnott 1 year ago
@Sparrowmaiden
If I remember correctly, Macmillan died in 1986. That certainly limited what they could do.
fatoldjew 11 months ago