End of Part One - Episode 13 - Rare UK comedy series

LWT comedy sketch show from 1980, spoofing television personalities and programmes of the day. It has a similar style of humour to other comedy series such as Monty Python's Flying Circus.

Stars Sue Holderness (before she became famous as "Marlene" in Only Fools and Horses), Fred Harris (from Play School), Denise Coffey (from Do Not Adjust Your Set), Tony Aitken, David Simeon and Dudley Stevens.

It was written by David Renwick and Andrew Marshall, who also wrote the Radio 4 sketch series The Burkiss Way and sketches for Not the Nine O'Clock News.

Directed by Geoffrey Sax (later directed the movie White Noise) and produced by Humphrey Barclay (also produced Do Not Adjust Your Set).

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: 16th November 1980 on London Weekend Television. Episode 13 of 14 (the 6th episode of the 2nd series).

SPOILERS: Includes parodies of: Witchfinder General (with Vincent Price), The Hollywood Greats (with Barry Norman), Universal Pictures, Singapore Airlines, David Frost, Vladimir Lenin, Hannah Barbera, Superman, BBC2 ident, Are You Being Served

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[geishasha]

Good God...no comments for one of the forgotten classics of British Comedy?

Many thanks for posting this, it brings back happy memories.