Comedy sketch series purporting to show the programming of a low key regional television service.Comedy sketch series purporting to show the programming of a low key regional television service.Comedy sketch series purporting to show the programming of a low key regional television service.
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Johnny Cash: [Singing to the tune of 'Folsom Prison Blues'] I hear the teacups rattle, hear the mighty hoover roar, I'm always washing dishes, or polishing the floor, I'm stuck in Mrs Fletcher's...
- ConnectionsFeatured in Saturday Night Live: Eric Idle/Joe Cocker/Stuff (1976)
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Incredibly good
This show is fantastic. Loaded with humor and alot of it is spoofing pop culture of the time. Something Monty Python did not do. Hardly at all anyway.
Rutland Weekend Television manages to mock, Linda Lovelace, Ken Russell, the movie Tommy,Ann Margaret and The Who (via a great spoof by Neil Innes) all in a single skit. Another mocks 70s rock shows and bands. Hawaii five-O, Elton John, Johnny Cash, George Harrison even shows up to lampoon himself singing a pirates shanty in place of My Sweet Lord. The first episode of the 2nd season is also the first we see of the Rutles
There's also plenty of Monty Python's Flying Circus type skits such as the Ill Health Food Store, the poor continuity sketch, prisoners escaping under priest robes, military personnel disguised as carrots, shrimpo (oh-la-la) and if you've seen Python you basically get the idea.
A cut above even Monty Pythons Flying Circus is the inclusion of Neil Innes singing a song or two per episode. The cast is great including Idle with David Battley, Henry Woolf, Gwen Taylor. Terence Bayler and Innes who also appears in the skits. Granted you need to know alot of British TV at the time to recognize the cast. Aside from Idle and Innes, David Battley and Henry Woolf are perhaps the easiest to spot elsewhere. Woolf had a memorable role in Doctor Who's The Sun Makers. He was also in Marat/Sade as one of the inmates and did an early version of the one man show Hancock's Last Half Hour. Woolf plays Hancock in Australia leading up to an including the moment he decides to take his life. Gwen Taylor appears in The Rutles film and has a very active career on British TV and even returns to sketch comedy on the newer Tracy Ullman show.
Highly recommended. The show is described as being low budget but its no less low budget than other British tv shows of the time. They do manage decent production values considering the budget. This has the same format as the original SCTV in that a single half hour episode is meant to represent a single broadcast day. In fact they might've got the idea from watching this show since RWT debuted a year and a half before SCTV.
Rutland Weekend Television manages to mock, Linda Lovelace, Ken Russell, the movie Tommy,Ann Margaret and The Who (via a great spoof by Neil Innes) all in a single skit. Another mocks 70s rock shows and bands. Hawaii five-O, Elton John, Johnny Cash, George Harrison even shows up to lampoon himself singing a pirates shanty in place of My Sweet Lord. The first episode of the 2nd season is also the first we see of the Rutles
There's also plenty of Monty Python's Flying Circus type skits such as the Ill Health Food Store, the poor continuity sketch, prisoners escaping under priest robes, military personnel disguised as carrots, shrimpo (oh-la-la) and if you've seen Python you basically get the idea.
A cut above even Monty Pythons Flying Circus is the inclusion of Neil Innes singing a song or two per episode. The cast is great including Idle with David Battley, Henry Woolf, Gwen Taylor. Terence Bayler and Innes who also appears in the skits. Granted you need to know alot of British TV at the time to recognize the cast. Aside from Idle and Innes, David Battley and Henry Woolf are perhaps the easiest to spot elsewhere. Woolf had a memorable role in Doctor Who's The Sun Makers. He was also in Marat/Sade as one of the inmates and did an early version of the one man show Hancock's Last Half Hour. Woolf plays Hancock in Australia leading up to an including the moment he decides to take his life. Gwen Taylor appears in The Rutles film and has a very active career on British TV and even returns to sketch comedy on the newer Tracy Ullman show.
Highly recommended. The show is described as being low budget but its no less low budget than other British tv shows of the time. They do manage decent production values considering the budget. This has the same format as the original SCTV in that a single half hour episode is meant to represent a single broadcast day. In fact they might've got the idea from watching this show since RWT debuted a year and a half before SCTV.
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By what name was Rutland Weekend Television (1975) officially released in Canada in English?
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