The Best of The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine

A collection of the best sketches from Marty Feldman's 1971 TV comedy series "The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine".

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[Johniola1]

Thanks very much for this, this was a fantastic show and I can't to this day figure out why it's never been repeated anywhere. One though: Apart from the opening titles, didn't Terry Gilliam do the animations for the station breaks and the end titles as well?

[FilmFan1982]

@Johniola1 I believe he probably did :)

[DRAINPIPE57]

WHAT A GREAT TV ARCHIVE OF THE MUCH MISSED MARTY FELDMAN IN THIS SHOW FROM ATV THAT IVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE. FILM1982 YOU ARE A ARCHIVE GENIUS UPLADING THIS . THANKS MORE OF THE SAME

[FilmFan1982]

@DRAINPIPE57 Downloaded for free from Filecrop! :)

[darren2514fv]

this was shown on Channel 4 in 1987 as part of ATV Night

[antoniod]

Another reason there weren't repeats might have been all the big-time American guest stars on the series. They'd all have to have been negotiated with.This was why syndicated repeats of variety shows were almost non-existant until the very late 70s.

[antoniod]

This must be the special episode cobbled for Montreaux. The Gilliam "Goodbye" end montage is not used. According to Robert Ross's new book about Feldman, the COMEDY MACHINE was shown in a late slot in Britain and didn't do well in the ratings-but this compilation ep. won an award at Montreaux. Then, a heavily edited/augmented version (added American stand-ups and singing groups)was shown in America, where it didn't really do so well, either-but led to more work in the US.

[DRAINPIPE57]

THERE,S 90MINUTES WORTH OF THIS COMEDY GREAT MARTY FELDMAN ON BBC2 5-30TO 7PM SAT 13TH AUGUST GREAT COMIC FROM THE 70S THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN A SLAPSTICK COMIC FROM THE SILENT ERA OF THE 1920,S

[shebco1]

Thanks for posting this. I remembering watching this when it was on TV. I was a young teenager and my parents couldn't stand the show. But, my grandmother used to sit and watch it with me and we would laugh like crazy.