Author: Simon Dunn
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Come Back Mrs Noah USA?
Come Back Mrs Noah was a sitcom by Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft, who wanted to make a space sitcom before everyone else started doing it, after the huge success of Star Wars. Given carte blanche, they wrote a vehicle for Mollie Sugden. Here’s how the pilot was received in December of 1977 by Kenneth…
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Fawlty Towers: Too Much Of A One-Man Show
Fawlty Towers was announced in The Stage on Thursday 24 August 1975, amidst a cluster of ex-Python production news. I suspect the Chapman project mentioned was Out Of The Trees, which he co-wrote with Douglas Adams. It’s likely that the Palin show became Ripping Yarns. With Q6, Briers in the Barry Took adapted One-Upmanship, and…
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Rik Mayall On Countdown
No, not that Countdown, alas. This is an appearance from Rik Mayall and Ben Elton on the Australian network ABC. It was a music magazine show, with theme music by Brian May. Rik and Ben were promoting their tour.
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Some Comic Strip Continuity
A couple of short trailers for the BBC Two iteration of The Comic Strip Presents …
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A Night Of Stand Up Comedy
Here’s a live show I would give my soul to have seen in person. In 1986, Rik Mayall and Ben Elton toured the UK with their show A Night Of Stand Up Comedy. Here’s what Angela Thomas made of it all in The Stage on the 9th January. By May, they had relocated the tour…
