Category: Sketch Shows
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Craig Ferguson’s Pilot
With thanks to @whydontyoutube, here’s the full pilot episode of Granada’s The Craig Ferguson Show, which aired 30 years ago. It features Helen Atkinson-Wood, Paul Whitehouse, and Charlie Higson. Here’s Craig as his early career alter-ego at the Montreal Festival in 1987. And this is a clip from The Dirt Detective, an STV show from…
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Sower Tubes
It’s always nice to find things you’ve overlooked, or for whatever reason, to see something you didn’t expect to see again. For this, and no other reason, today I found out that David Sowerbutts has his own YouTube channel. This would have been up as part of the marketting for Psychoville, and it’s possible there…
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Vox Pops: Twas Ever Thus
Vox Pops might as well just be this, all the time, looped. It would make as much sense. Or this. And I still think these real ones from ABC’s Four Corners are great. See more of these here.
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A Couple Of Boxing Day Specials
You don’t really associate Boxing Day with specials, but by design, there must be plenty of them out there. Take this one for example, which is Dave Allen’s special from Boxing Day in 1984, and opens with a remarkable sketch. The show was written by Dave Allen and Peter Vincent. After Ronnie Barker retired, Auntie…
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The Day After Yesterday
Let’s have a look, shall we, at what we could watch on our BBC branded screens on May 2nd 1997. I chose this date for no reason, it has no significance. I have no idea what I did that day, but I do remember coming in at about half two in the morning to see…
