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 television

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 comedy sketch show written by David Renwick

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 and Andrew Marshall

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 and produced by Simon Brett

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, it was made by London Weekend Television

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. It ran for two series on ITV

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, from 1979 to 1980 and was an attempt at a TV version of The Burkiss Way

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. The first series concerned the lives of Norman and Vera Straightman, who had their lives interrupted by various television personalities of the day. The second series was mainly a straight succession of parodies of TV shows of the time, including Larry Grayson

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's Generation Game

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and Nationwide

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.

Cast

The cast included Sue Holderness

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, Denise Coffey

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, Fred Harris

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, Dudley Stevens, David Simeon and Tony Aitken

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. Coffey had appeared in The Burkiss Way's first 6 episodes, but Harris was the only permanent cast members to appear in End of Part One. One of the directors was future feature film director Geoffrey Sax

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.
The regular cast also included memorable British actors Miriam Margoyles, and Tony Robinson (Time team.
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Marshall and Renwick blamed the show's relative lack of success at its being shown on a Sunday afternoon, lamenting in an interview that it was "a show no-one knows about, at a time no-one would watch it anyway". They decided not to write another series because LWT would not move it to a more favourable time slot. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0237963 The series has not been released on video or DVD, although thirteen out of the fourteen shows still exist in the archives in broadcast format, and the remaining episode (S1E6) exists on a domestic video cassette.

Memorable sketches included: 'The Wigfinder General' - spoof of 18th century witchhunts. Parodied most recently by Saturday morning BBC TV 'I've lost my Head'

• Series One was Broadcast from 15, April - 27 June 1979:
• Series Two was Broadcast from 12 October - 23 November 1980

Series One repeats

Some ITV companies did repeat series one at a more favourable time slot. LWT repeated both series during the summer of 1980 and 1981 on Friday nights.

• Grampian Television
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   and Scottish television
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   repeated the series during July and August 1981, around teatime.
• Anglia: During October and November 1981 around 17.15
• Southern: During August and September 1981
• TSW: Thursday Afternoons January - March 1982

Aftermath

The writer David Renwick

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 and Andrew Marshall

Andrew Marshall (writer)

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 continued to work for LWT,by penning the comedy drama serial Whoops Apocalypse

Whoops Apocalypse

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 in 1982m and Hot Metal

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 1986.

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