Quote: Mark @ March 11, 2008, 10:42 AM

Whether or not I find someone to write about them is another matter!

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I'm the site's bitch when it comes to that.
 

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At Home with the Snails... Radio 4 with Geoffrey Palmer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_Home_with_the_Snails
 

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OTT (Over The Top)? Early 80s adult Tiswas with Tarrant and Lenny Henry? Or am I imagining that?

Quote: Perry Nium @ March 12, 2008, 11:40 PM

OTT (Over The Top)? Early 80s adult Tiswas with Tarrant and Lenny Henry? Or am I imagining that?

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Nope, it was indeed real. How strange and a bit seedy. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=SKgSe6ermkY&feature=related
 

OTT - such a weird failure - a mix of old school sexist and new wave "alternative" non-racist non-sexist. Alexei Sayle was on it as I recall. And Frank Carson. I think it lacked the charm of Tiswas, and maybe they had too much rope with which to hang themselves.

Sometimes when people are constrained by language etc they are more creative and more funny. From what I've seen of some CBBC programmes, they are at least as funny as lots of mainstream prime time comedy.

Sorry for going off thread.
 

The Beiderbecke Affair
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Sir Henry At Rawlinson End
 

Thanks guys, I've added all of those now.
 

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Don't Stop Now - It's Fundation
Bodgers, Banks + Sparkes
Mr Don + Mr George
S + M
Josie
Paramount City
Aspects of the Fringe
Nick Revell Show
Laugh??? I nearly paid my Licence Fee
Hangar 17
Gagtag
Making Out
1985 (Radio 4 comedy I think)
Crapstone Villas
At Home with Hinge and Bracket
Life with Lederer
The Problem with Adam Bloom
There's a lot of it About
Cold Feet
Do Nothing Till You hear from me
Finkel's Café
The Grimleys
Pond Life
Stressed Eric
I Woke Up Screaming
The Men From the Ministry
Only When I Laugh
Stage Fright
 

The Men From the Ministry and Only When I Laugh are there. Haven't checked all of the others, but thanks for the list - I'll make Mark add them later.
 

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Cheers
 

Potting On (Radio 4)
Ed Reardon’s Week (Radio 4)
Tomorrow Today (Radio 4)
Cowards (Radio 4)
National Theatre of Brent (TV 1984-89, 6 episodes)
The Arts and How They Was Done (Radio 4)
All Bar Luke (Radio 4)
Rudy’s Rare Records (Radio 4)
The Cavity Within (Radio 4)

Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead (1972 Radio...now on Radio 7)

Up The Front (1972 Frankie Howard Film)

 

Galton/Simpson-assisted radio: Happy Go Lucky, Star Bill
 

mostly monkhouse
 

I'll add these to the list too and promise to shut up thereafter:

COMIC ROOTS - early 80s BBC2 series where each episode featured a famed comic (Michael Palin, Alexei Sayle...) humourously recounting his/her upbringing

old radio: Band Wagon, Oop-la, Just Fancy, The Sherrin Report

Monkhouse-aided radio: The Saturday Show, Hello Playmates, Spotlight Revue, Variety Band Box, It's a Great Life, The Showband Show, Leave it to the boys, Mixed Doubles, Fast + Loose, Smash Hits, Punchline

telly: Here's Bob Monkhouse

 

I'm sensing a pattern here!

(Thanks though - I spent the weekend adding thousands of shows to the database, so will add them all later.)
 

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