NUTS IN MAY (part 1)

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From The Internet Movie Database-

'Their Morris packed to the gills, the punctilious Keith and the more spontaneous Candice-Marie arrive at a Dorset campground where they pay £10 in advance for ten nights. It's peaceful: they visit Corfe Castle, eat vegetarian food, and go in search of raw milk. Then a fellow with a loud radio pitches his tent near theirs: Keith is beside himself and it doesn't help when Candice-Marie decides to befriend the young man. Things get worse when a couple arrive on a motorcycle, make noisy love in their tent, and then start an illegal campfire. It's too much for Keith: he loses it. Will our middle-class couple find a bucolic corner, or are they doomed to brawl with the noisy and unwashed?'

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• ChannelEggnog

[highbandroller]

Look at them bleedin bluebells....Fantastic!!!!

[ChannelEggnog]

@andyunderwoodify

Hi, Andy.. It looks like the last bit of your message has gone astray; but never mind I got the gist!

Same as me really, didn't know what it was, but I enjoyed it and used to keep stuff on tape as long as possible those days. And was amazed a few years down the line when a friend seemed to mention it out of the blue- so I did him a VHS to VHS copy!

Ah, them were the days!!

[andyunderwoodify]

@ChannelEggnog wooah! that would explain it! i honestly just ended up watching it and that was how,

[ChannelEggnog]

@andyunderwoodify

That was 'A Night In With Vic & Bob'. I recorded it (on a 4-hour VHS tape) and it was on BBC2, Boxing Day 1994. They selected their favourite TV shows - for example there was also a documentary on Meerkats; to make up their 'Dream TV schedule' for one night.

I kept the whole evening's viewing for many years (don't know what happened to the tape in the end...) for 'Nuts In May'. There was also an episode of Eric Idle's 'Rutland Weekend Television'; featuring George Harrison!

[andyunderwoodify]

@gluepot66 years ago i was watching a vic reeves and bob mortimor show late one night and without any break this came on, i started watchinmg thinking it was gonn a be a sketcth, carried on watching its very very odd, and yeah theyre kinda almost normal bobs a proper plank , but you feel compelled to see what bonkers stuff he should do

[somethingdaft100]

possibly the best film i've ever seen!!! brilliant

[ChannelEggnog]

@gluepot66

Roger Sloman (Keith) keeps cropping up in a lot of British tv & film. Can't ever recall him playing another lead role. There's the episode of The Young Ones (Bomb), where he played a TV licence inspector. That the BBC allowed it to be transmitted- certainly was 'alternative..'. He also appeard in the final episode. Of course, he played a completely different role to his Keith..I guess that Coogan & co took a pinch of inspiration from this for Alan Partridge.

[gluepot66]

@ChannelEggnog a laughter track would have killed it yes but iv loved it since I first saw it in the 80s even now I see Keith prats everywhere maybe that makes me a prat. alternative humour or dark humour is what we would probably call it now

[ChannelEggnog]

@gluepot66

If it was a different 'situation', week on week. Otherwise it would be/have been unsustainable. The main characters could have been developed & explored further, certainly. But a laughter track would kill it totally. And the (sometimes subtle, other times quite cringeworthy) humour may be too laid back for your average sitcom..

[gluepot66]

@andyunderwoodify dont you find it funny though? I do. you really do get prats like him in real life. I used to think this was a pilot episode of a proposed series and if you ask me they could have got a whole series out of it easily.