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268 results found for all records.
I’m Sorry I’Ll Read That Again [15/02/1970] (1970 Radio)
- Series
- I’m Sorry I’Ll Read That Again
- Producer
- David Hatch; Peter Titheradge
Classic British radio comedy series. First episode in series eight includes a fifteen-minute parody of The Taming of the Shrew ("Pruneplay of the Week"). A breakneck smattering of silly voices and dreadful...
Carol Channing’s Mad English Tea Party (1970 Television)
- Director
- Colin Clews
A one-off special variety sketch show. The show was taped in London in (ATV’s studios) and satirises the English. Sketches include Carol and Fred as Queen Victoria and Prince Albert; Anne Boleyn writing an...
Spam (1970 Television)
- Series
- Monty Python’s Flying Circus
- Director
- Ian MacNaughton
British television comedy series. Includes a sketch entitled ‘Hospital for Over-Actors’ which parodies Olivier. Dialogue is as follows: Specialist: Most of these cases are pretty unpleasant. Nurse......
Benny Hill Show, The [28/10/1970] (1970 Television)
- Series
- Benny Hill Show, The
- Director
- John Robins
- Producer
- John Robins
Comedy/variety show starring Benny Hill. Includes a sketch in which Hill plays Romeo to Rona Newton-John’s Juliet. In Elizabethan dress Hill recites some made-up Elizabethan verse ending ‘but soft, she...
Junior Showtime [22/04/1969] (1969 Television)
- Series
- Junior Showtime
- Director
- Mike Bevan (2)
- Producer
- Jess Yates
Television variety and talent show for children. Each programme in this series was staged within a single fairy tale setting; in this episode the setting is Sherwood Forest. Bobby Bennett is Robin Hood, Sue...
Liberace Show, The [22/06/1969] (1969 Television)
- Series
- Liberace Show, The
- Director
- Norman Campbell
- Producer
- Colin Clews
Television variety show. In one sketch Eva Gabor reveals an ambition to play Shakespeare but her manservant (Wattis) puts a stop to it. No further details available (6/2007).
Life with Cooper [22/04/1969] (1969 Television)
- Series
- Life with Cooper
- Producer
- Milo Lewis
Comedy series starring Tommy Cooper. Includes a sketch in which Tommy Cooper plays Hamlet. He begins the ‘to be or not to be’ speech which he interrupts with comic banter.
Next Week, East Lynne (1969 Television)
- Series
- Here Come the Brides
American television comedy western series loosely based upon Asa Mercer’s efforts to bring civilisation to old Seattle by importing marriageable women from the east coast of the United States in the 1860s,...
Frankie Howerd Show, The [25/09/1968] (1968 Television)
- Series
- Frankie Howerd Show, The
- Producer
- Peter Frazer-Jones
A one-off special comedy sketch television programme. The episode included a take on the final scene in Othello with Frankie Howerd and Cilla Black.
Journey to Uranus (1968 Radio)
- Series
- Round the Horne
- Producer
- John Simmonds
Classic BBC radio comedy series presented by Kenneth Horne. In each show two out of work gay chorus boys Julian (Paddick) and Sandy (Williams) enact a sketch where their entrepreneurial businesses are...