End of Part One - Episode 1 (Part 2 of 2) - Rare UK comedy series

LWT comedy sketch show from 1978, about the lives of Norman and Vera Straightman (Tony Aitken and Denise Coffey), who want to live a quiet life, but keep having their lives interrupted by television personalities. It has a similar style of humour to other comedy series such as Monty Python's Flying Circus.

Also stars Sue Holderness (before she became famous as "Marlene" in Only Fools and Horses), Fred Harris (from Play School), David Simeon and Dudley Stevens.

It was written by David Renwick and Andrew Marshall, who had success with their Radio 4 sketch series The Burkiss Way.

Directed by Geoffrey Sax (later directed the movie White Noise) and produced by Simon Brett (detective novelist).

It was originally shown on a Sunday afternoon next to children's programmes, has never been released on video and is now mostly forgotten. (This video will be removed from Youtube if either it is released on DVD, or if I am contacted directly by LWT requesting such an action be taken).

Broadcast date: 15th April 1979 on London Weekend Television. Episode 1 of 14 (the 1st episode of the 1st series).

EPISODE NOTE: David Simeon is not in this first episode.

SPOILERS: Includes parodies of: Man From Atlantis, LWT continuity, Superman, Coronation Street.

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Radical SFX for the 70's