As every comedy schoolboy should know by now, the Not The Nine O'Clock News "pilot" is something of a misnomer. It was in fact originally intended as the first show of what would have been their first series, recorded on the 31st of March 1979 and scheduled for broadcast on BBC2 on the 2nd of April 1979, but pulled at the eleventh hour due to elections.
Highlights from the first series.
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The first of three programmes re-edited, reorganised, once more as re-edits and now repeated as compilations; entitled ... Not the Nine O'Clock News, providing another opportunity to savour the delights offered by that award-winning team
The second of three programmes re-edited, reorganised once more as re-edits and now repeated as compilations entitled ...
Not the Nine O'Clock News. Providing another opportunity to savour the delights offered by that award-winning team.
The third of three programmes re-edited, re-organised once more as re-edits and now repeated as compilations; entitled....
Not the Nine O'Clock News. Providing another opportunity to savour the delights offered by that award-winning team.
Episode 1 of the best-of collection of Not the 9 O'Clock News. Sketches include:
The Dart Players
Question Time
The Gorilla News Interview
And the cast sing Bouncing
Episode 2 of the best-of collection of Not the 9 O'Clock News. Sketches include:
Game For a Laugh
Because I'm Wet And Lonley
A Come In Rawlinson
Hand built By Roberts
This week's song is Baronet Oswald Ernold Moseley
Episode 3 of the best-of collection of Not the 9 O'Clock News. Sketches include:
Riot Police
The Devil: Is He All Bad?
Public Toilet
Episode 4 of the best-of collection of Not the 9 O'Clock News. Sketches include: Lead Poisoning
Sexism Discussion Hi-Fi Shop
Soccer Violence
General Synod's Life Of Python
Preacher
Unemployment
Episode 5 of the best-of collection of Not the 9 O'Clock News. Sketches include:
Job Creation Scheme / Late Abortion / Not The Parrot Sketch
Episode 6 of the best-of collection of Not the 9 O'Clock News. Sketches include:
Sex Shop / I Like Trucking
Episode 7 of the best-of collection of Not the 9 O'Clock News. Sketches include:
Silly trousers / Licence fee
Episode 8 of the best-of collection of Not the 9 O'Clock News. Sketches include:
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The inside story of the anarchic comedy sketch show, which ran on BBC Two from 1979 to 1982, and launched the careers of Rowan Atkinson, Griff Rhys Jones, Mel Smith and Pamela Stephenson, as well as writers including Richard Curtis, Andy Hamilton and Clive Anderson. This documentary reveals how the series first came about, looks at the casting of the four main players and the dynamic of the team, as well as recalling the show's key moments, its impact at the time and its legacy. Featuring interviews with Smith, Jones, Stephenson and Curtis, as well as celebrity fans including Billy Connolly and Dara O Briain