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Producer, The (1966 Television)
- Series
- Gilligan’s Island
- Director
- Ida Lupino
US sitcom about a group of seven castaways. Famous Hollywood producer Harold Hecuba, (Silvers, the guest star) arrives on the island. To impress him the castaways mount a musical version of Hamlet. The play...
Bbc-3 [03/04/1966] (1966 Television)
- Series
- Bbc-3
- Producer
- Ned Sherrin
Television series comprising songs, sketches, and film reports. This episode includes a one-minute sketch ‘Meet Desdemona’ in which Hylda Baker, Fanny Carby and Roy Hudd enact a spoof on Othello. Roy...
I’m Sorry I’Ll Read That Again [09/05/1966] (1966 Radio)
- Series
- I’m Sorry I’Ll Read That Again
- Producer
- Humphrey Barclay
Classic BBC radio comedy show. Episode 9 in the third series includes a fifteen-minute parody of Julius Caesar. A breakneck smattering of silly voices and dreadful puns is held together by funny songs and...
Blackpool Show, The [31/07/1966] (1966 Television)
- Series
- Blackpool Show, The
- Producer
- Mark Stuart
Variety show from the ABC Theatre, Blackpool,introduced by Tony Hancock. This episode includes a ca. 5 min. sketch in which Tony Hancock, wearing costume and wig, performs a Shakespearean stand-up routine,...
Hancock at the Royal Festival Hall (1966 Television)
- Director
- Derek Burrell-Davis
Comedian Tony Hancock performing in sketches at the Royal Festival Hall, London. In one sketch (c. 5mins) Hancock appears as Lear with Joe Ritchie as the Fool, both in cod Elizabethan costume (mid-way...
Bbc-3 [2/4/1966] (1966 Television)
- Series
- Bbc-3
- Producer
- Ned Sherrin
Topical satirical news programme including music, comedy and discussion. Includes a 1-minute sketch entitled ‘Meet Desdemona’, a spoof of Shakespeare featuring Hylda Baker, Fanny Carby and Roy Hudd...
Music of Lennon and McCartney, The [16/12/1965] (1965 Television)
- Series
- Music of Lennon and McCartney, The
- Director
- Philip Casson
- Producer
- John Hamp
Television show in which Paul McCartney and John Lennon were joined by a number of artists, each giving their versions of Beatles’ songs. There is a comic tour de force from Peter Sellers, intoning ‘A...
Trouble with Ada, The (1965 Television)
- Series
- Pardon the Expression
- Director
- William Butler
Television sitcom. A spin-off from the soap opera CORONATION STREET, featuring Leonard Swindley (Arthur Lowe) in the same fussy, pedantic role but now assistant manager of a northern chain store, Dobson and...
Danny Kaye Show, The [03/03/1965] (1965 Television)
- Series
- Danny Kaye Show, The
- Director
- Robert Scheerer
- Producer
- Perry Lafferty
US variety series. This episode includes a sketch on what commercials might look like if they were written by some of the great authors: William Shakespeare (`Macbath’), William Faulkner (`A detergent...
Clissold Saga, Part 2: The Aviator (1965 Radio)
- Series
- Round the Horne
- Director
- John Simmonds
Classic radio comedy series. In this episode, in a running sketch entitled ‘The Backroom Boys of the BBC’ Bill Pertwee, as a military commander, rallies the backroom boys (the laughmakers) who infiltrate...