Category: Sketch Shows
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Robin Cock – A Not The Nine O’Clock News For The Nineties
This runs the risk of turning into a Simon London’s appreciation piece appreciation piece. It’s fair to say he was an early written champion of The Day Today. On the Saturday before the first episode was broadcast (15th January 1994), he wrote this column. The following week, on the 22nd January, he marked the show…
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Smith, Jones, Hale, Pace, Croft, and Craig (Naked)
Here’s a nice review page from The Stage, dated 29th November 1990, in a week when Smith And Jones, You Rang M’Lord?, and Nicholas Craig – The Naked Actor all aired.
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Alas Clips And Jones
Here’s a great article from the Liverpool Echo, dated 28th January 1984, previewing the upcoming new series of Alas Smith And Jones. Can anyone figure out which sketch it is they’re rehearsing? Good to learn that John Lloyd was the warm up act for the studio recordings.
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Running Wild With Morecambe And Wise
Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise used to carry around clippings of the reviews from their first TV series as a reminder that they needed to do better. So the story goes. One said ‘the definition of TV: the box they buried Morecambe and Wise in last night’ – or words to that effect. Running Wild…
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I’m Sorry?
In an article from The Daily Mirror, dated Saturday 1st November 1980, amongst a weirdly braggadoccio puff about The Two Ronnies‘ possible new show in Australia, there’s a brief mention of an upcoming sitcom for Ronnie Corbett. Either the article is just wrong, or at this stage the sitcom was called I’m Sorry. It would…
