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  • 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...

  • I’m Sorry I’Ll Read That Again [29/03/1970] (1970 Radio)

    Series
    I’m Sorry I’Ll Read That Again

    Classic BBC radio comedy show. Episode 7 in series 8 includes a fifteen-minute parody of Henry VIII ("Pruneplay of the Week"). A breakneck smattering of silly voices and dreadful puns is held together by...

  • 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...

  • 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......

  • 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,...

  • 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...

  • Don Rickles Show [11/10/1968] (1968 Television)

    Series
    Don Rickles Show

    US comedy variety series hosted by Don Rickles. Includes an item in which Richard Harris recites Hamlet’s ‘to be, or not to be’ speech.