Not Only... But Also
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Not Only... But Also was a popular 1960s BBC
British television series starring Peter Cook
and Dudley Moore
.
, Peter Cook, to guest in the pilot (along with Diahann Carroll and John Lennon
, who was to make two more appearances during the course of the series). So popular was the double act
— in particular "The Dagenham
Dialogues", that Cook was invited to become a permanent fixture and the show became Not Only Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, But Also Their Guests, though it was only ever really referred to as Not Only... But Also.
Three series were made: January to April 1965 (prod/dir Joe McGrath), January to February 1966 (prod/dir Dick Clement) and February to May 1970 (prod/dir Jimmy Gilbert). John Street produced the (surviving) 1966 Boxing Day Special - despite initial tension with Cook, the results were excellent.
After the first series, episodes usually began with a sketch based primarily around revealing the words "NOT ONLY... BUT ALSO..." in huge letters placed in obscure places (for example, the aircraft carrier
Ark Royal
). Among the most famous items on the show were the "Dagenham Dialogues" between Pete and Dud
, which were rambling, surreal conversations often running for five or even ten minutes, "The Leaping Nuns of the Order of St Beryl", "Superthunderstingcar" (a parody of Thunderbirds
and other Sylvia and Gerry Anderson puppet shows), Moore's interviews with Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling
, and the "rhythmic voodoo" R&B singer Bo Dudley - though the fame of these almost certainly owes much to the fact they still exist in vision, unlike much of the series.
Contrary to popular myth, the Cook perennial "One Leg Too Few
", a classic sketch about a one-legged actor applying for the role of Tarzan
, which had been written by Cook years before and used in Beyond the Fringe, never appeared in Not Only... But Also, although it did feature in one of the Australian shows in 1971. The show always ended with a rendition of their "Goodbyee" song, once memorably with Peter Sellers accompanying on timpani.
The series — in particular the "Pete and Dud" segments — was famous for being presented in a largely unedited form, which allowed Cook the chance to adlib and both, but most famously Moore, the chance to "corpse
" or begin to genuinely giggle. Cook made a habit of trying to crack Moore up in the middle of their dialogues, occasionally forcing himself to corpse in the process.
Between the second and third series, a series was made by the pair for ATV
called Goodbye Again (director Shaun Riordan), which was similar, though it lasted an hour and was edited more heavily. Unlike Not Only But Also, at least, all the tapes survive.
The BBC wiped many editions of Not Only...But Also from its archives in the late 1960s and early 1970s, as it did with many other programmes, including the second series of Dad's Army
and Spike Milligan
's Q5
. Cook and Moore had even allegedly offered to pay for the cost of preservation and buy new videotapes so that the old tapes would not need to be reused, but this offer was rejected. Some telerecordings of the black and white episodes survive, but all of the videotaped footage from the colour series was wiped, so that the only surviving colour sketches are on 16mm film inserts.
A 1971 visit to Australia saw Cook and Moore record two half hour Not Only... But Also specials for Australian television. Though they've come since to be viewed as "Best Ofs" (featuring new versions of "One Leg Too Few", "Shirt Shop", "Colonel Bogey" and possibly "Pseudolene/Job Offer" (see episode guide)), at least half of the material was new. These two also survive intact.
A number of surviving sequences were compiled into The Best Not Only...But Also, screened by BBC2
on 24 December 1974. Cook and Moore persuaded the BBC to piece together six half-hour compilation shows, screened on BBC2 from 4 November to 9 December 1990 as The Best of What's Left of Not Only...But Also and released in 100 minute compilation form under the same title on VHS. In 2003 a 98-minute Region 2 DVD
compilation of surviving sketches was released as The Best of Peter Cook & Dudley Moore; this is the same as the previous video tape but missing the third series opening sequence "Tower Bridge".
A Region 1 DVD of The Best of... What's Left of... Not Only... But Also... was released by BBC Worldwide on 9 September 2008, featuring all six compilation episodes. This still leaves over half the extant material unreleased in any form.
(italics denotes surviving material; an * marks a sketch's soundtrack survives on officially released record album)
First Series (1965) B&W
(Five episodes extant, two missing)
Pilot: Rec. 29/11/64
(John Lennon
, Norman Rossington
)
Initials/Painting on Television/The Ravens/Good Dog Nigel/Pete and Dud – A Spot of the Usual Trouble (AKA Film Stars)/Deaf Ted, Danoota and Me
Music: Diahann Carroll (Humdrum Blues, Brown Baby, Blues In The Night), Dudley Moore Trio (Swingles Theme, Grwmst, Just in Time)
Show 1: TX 9/1/65
(John Lennon, Norman Rossington)
Car Wash Opening/Initials/The Ravens/Good Dog Nigel/Deaf Ted, Danoota and Me
Music: Diahann Carroll (Humdrum Blues, Brown Baby, Blues In The Night), Dudley Moore Trio (Swingles Theme, Grwmst, Just in Time)
Show 2: TX 23/1/65
(Barry Humphries
, Roddy Maude-Roxbury)
One-Man Band Opening/Silent Film extract/Tarquin Mordente – Silent Film Producer/Painting on Television/Roddy Maude-Roxbury monologue/Guide to the North Circular/Pete and Dud – A Spot of the Usual Trouble/Striptease
Music: Goldie & The Gingerbreads
(Can’t You Hear My Heartbeat), Dudley Moore Trio (I Won’t Dance), Dudley and Orchestra (Got a Lot of Livin’ to Do)
Show 3: TX 6/2/65
(Joe Melia
, Bill Wallis
, John Wells
)
Cinema Opening/Sir Arthur At The Tailor/The Great War/Pete and Dud – The Worst Thing in the World/Alan A’Dale
Music: June Christy
(You Came a Long Way from St Louis, Just in Time, Remind Me, My Shining Hour)
Show 4: TX 20/2/65
(Barry Humphries, Anna Quayle
)
Gypsy Violinist Opening/Tramponuns/Tramponuns Film/Anna Quayle Monologue/Prospective Son-In-Law/Incidents in the Life of My Uncle Arly/Pete and Dud – Art Gallery
Music: Marion Montgomery
(The Exciting Mr Fitch, Wasn’t the Summer Short?, Close Your Eyes), Dudley Moore Trio (Indiana)
Show 5: TX 6/3/65
(Mel Torme
)
London Bus Opening (exists as silent film sequence)/Pete and Dud – On the Bus/Canvassing Dracula (exists as silent film sequence)/Job Offer (possibly remade as “Pseudolene” for the second Australian NOBA in 1971)/Privates Cigarettes Advertising (exists as silent film sequence)/Betting Agent
Music: Mel Torme (Limehouse Blues
, My One and Only Highland Fling/Dat Dere Daddy)
Show 6: TX 20/3/65
(Peter Sellers
)
Doomed Pilots Opening/Boxer-Cum-Painter/Pete and Dud – Superstitions/The Gourmets
Music: T-Bone Walker
(Hey Baby, Goodbye Baby), Dudley Moore Trio (I Love You Samantha)
Show 7: TX 3/4/65
(Eric Sykes
, John Bluthal
)
The Grand Order of the Bull/Pete and Dud – Religions*/Making of a B-Movie/Ballroom Dancing Competition
Music: Blossom Dearie
(I Wish You Love), Dudley Moore Trio (Baubles Bangles & Beads)
Second Series (1966) B&W
(Three episodes extant, five missing)
Show 1: TX15/01/1966
(Henry Cooper
, Terry Downes
)
Underwater Pianist Opening/At the Zoo/Fight of the Century/A Bit of a Chat
Music: Cilla Black
(Let There Be Love)
Show 2: TX 22/01/1966
(Alan Freeman
)
Scottish (“Curse of the McLooneys”) Opening/Pete And Dud – Diseases/The Most Boring Man In The World Competition/Interview with the Most Boring Man in the World/Six Of The Best*
Music: Dakota Stanton (High On A Windy Valley, Morning Glory)
Show 3: TX 29/01/1966
Court Jester Opening/Italian Restaurant/Ol' Man River (originally shot for 1.5, later remade for London run of Behind the Fridge. That version was included in the 1990 repeat series)/Blue Movie/Pete and Dud – Music
Music: Blossom Dearie
(You Turn Me On Baby), Dudley Moore Trio (Softly As In The Morning Rise)
Show 4: TX 05/02/1966
Pete and Dud At The Seaside Opening/The Frog And Peach*/Commercials/Slapstick Comedy
Music: Emil Lancey (If I Were A Bell, Rainy Day), Cook and Moore (Isn't She A Sweetie)
Show 5: TX 12/06/1966
Monk Opening/The Psychiatrist*/The Epic That Never Was/Father And Son*
Music: Dionne Warwick
(Walk On By, Unchained Melody)
Show 6: TX 19/06/1966
Student Prince (Drinking Song) Opening/The Music Teacher*/The Walrus and the Carpenter/Pete And Dud – Sex*
Music: Dudley Moore Trio (Summertime), Dusty Springfield
(Wives And Lovers)
Show 7: TX 26/06/1966
Caveman Opening/Bo Dudley/Superthunderstingcar/Pete and Dud – In Heaven
Music: Marion Montgomery
Christmas Special: TX 26/12/1966
(John Lennon)
Fox Hunt Opening/Fairy Cobbler/Pete and Dud – The Unexplained/Swinging London (Lionel Bloab – Destructive Artist, Rev. Gavin Thistle, Penny Ryder, Simon Accrington, “L.S. Bumblebee”, The Ad Lav Club)
Music: Marion Montgomery (“I’ll be Tired of You”, “I’m Old Fashioned”), Dudley Moore Trio
Series Three (1970) Colour
(All episodes missing; most film sequences survive)
Show 1: TX 18/2/70
Tower Bridge Opening/Pete and Dud – The Wardrobe (Dud Dreams)*/Piano Tuner/Bargo/Poets Cornered with Spike Milligan
Music: Nanette Newman
, Dudley Moore Trio, Spike Milligan (On the Ning Nang Nong
)
Show 2: TX 4/3/70
Lavatory Humour Opening/Scriptwriter/The Glidd of Glood/Pete and Dud – 0-0-Dud*/Poets Cornered with Willie Rushton
Music: Nanette, Dudley Moore Trio, Joe Cocker
& The Grease Band
Show 3: TX 18/3/70
Railway Station Opening/Sir Arthur’s World of Worms/Pete and Dud – Racial Prejudice/In the Club*/Poets Cornered with Barry Humphries
Music: Nanette; Dudley Moore Trio; Michael Chapman
Show 4: TX 1/4/70
Not Only… But Psycho Opening/Pete and Dud – The Futility of Life/Permission to Marry/Good vs. Evil Cricket Match/Poets Cornered with Frank Muir
Music: Nanette; Dudley Moore Trio; Alan Price
Show 5: TX 15/4/70
Flowers Opening/Sir Arthur on Flowers/Geriatric Medicine (Undercover Doctor)/Pete and Dud – Heaving Thighs Across Manhattan/Ludwig! (film sections survive – two lengthy studio-based “chat show” sections missing. There is also a fake ad, still extant, which has not been released or repeated)/Poets Cornered with Ronnie Barker
Music: Nanette; Dudley Moore Trio (“Lillian Lust”); Yes
Show 6: TX 29/4/70
Newspaper Opening/Lengths*/The Conman/Pete and Dud – As Nature Intended/Poets Cornered with Denis Norden
Music: Nanette; Dudley Moore Trio; Arrival
Show 7: TX 13/5/70
Birmingham-Mandalay Cycle Race/The Lunch Party/Pete and Dud – Self-Improvement/The Making of a Movie/Poets Cornered with Alan Bennett
Music: Nanette; Dudley Moore Trio; John Williams
(compiled by William Muirhead with reference to Publish and Bedazzled (Peter Cook fanzine); Postings on The Mausoleum Club; Missing Episodes.com and other sources. Sketch order for 1.5 and 1.7 conjecture as episodes no longer exist and scripts have also been destroyed by the BBC. Confirmed off-air audio recordings exist for episodes 2-5 of series two and episodes 1 & 3 of series three - and rumours persist of an audio tape of 1.7 with Eric Sykes, but they don't seem to have gained wide circulation.)
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
British television series starring Peter Cook
Peter Cook
Peter Edward Cook was an English satirist, writer and comedian. An extremely influential figure in modern British comedy, he is regarded as the leading light of the British satire boom of the 1960s. He has been described by Stephen Fry as "the funniest man who ever drew breath," although Cook's...
and Dudley Moore
Dudley Moore
Dudley Stuart John Moore, CBE was an English actor, comedian, composer and musician.Moore first came to prominence as one of the four writer-performers in the ground-breaking comedy revue Beyond the Fringe in the early 1960s, and then became famous as half of the highly popular television...
.
History
The show was originally intended as a solo project for Moore, called Not Only Dudley Moore, But Also His Guests. However, unsure about going it alone, Moore invited his partner from Beyond the FringeBeyond the Fringe
Beyond the Fringe was a British comedy stage revue written and performed by Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Alan Bennett, and Jonathan Miller. It played in London's West End and then on New York's Broadway in the early 1960s, and is widely regarded as seminal to the rise of satire in 1960s Britain.-The...
, Peter Cook, to guest in the pilot (along with Diahann Carroll and John Lennon
John Lennon
John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...
, who was to make two more appearances during the course of the series). So popular was the double act
Double act
A double act, also known as a comedy duo, is a comic pairing in which humor is derived from the uneven relationship between two partners, usually of the same gender, age, ethnic origin and profession, but drastically different personalities or behavior...
— in particular "The Dagenham
Dagenham
Dagenham is a large suburb in East London, forming the eastern part of the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham and located east of Charing Cross. It was historically an agrarian village in the county of Essex and remained mostly undeveloped until 1921 when the London County Council began...
Dialogues", that Cook was invited to become a permanent fixture and the show became Not Only Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, But Also Their Guests, though it was only ever really referred to as Not Only... But Also.
Three series were made: January to April 1965 (prod/dir Joe McGrath), January to February 1966 (prod/dir Dick Clement) and February to May 1970 (prod/dir Jimmy Gilbert). John Street produced the (surviving) 1966 Boxing Day Special - despite initial tension with Cook, the results were excellent.
After the first series, episodes usually began with a sketch based primarily around revealing the words "NOT ONLY... BUT ALSO..." in huge letters placed in obscure places (for example, the aircraft carrier
Aircraft carrier
An aircraft carrier is a warship designed with a primary mission of deploying and recovering aircraft, acting as a seagoing airbase. Aircraft carriers thus allow a naval force to project air power worldwide without having to depend on local bases for staging aircraft operations...
Ark Royal
HMS Ark Royal (R09)
HMS Ark Royal was an Audacious-class aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy and, when she was decommissioned in 1978, was the Royal Navy's last remaining conventional catapult and arrested-landing aircraft carrier...
). Among the most famous items on the show were the "Dagenham Dialogues" between Pete and Dud
Pete and Dud
Pete and Dud were characters played by the comedians and entertainers Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.The dialogue format originated in 1964 when Dudley Moore invited Peter Cook to appear in a television performance, whereupon Peter Cook scripted a conversation between two men from Dagenham in flat caps...
, which were rambling, surreal conversations often running for five or even ten minutes, "The Leaping Nuns of the Order of St Beryl", "Superthunderstingcar" (a parody of Thunderbirds
Thunderbirds (TV series)
Thunderbirds is a British mid-1960s science fiction television show devised by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and made by AP Films using a form of marionette puppetry dubbed "Supermarionation"...
and other Sylvia and Gerry Anderson puppet shows), Moore's interviews with Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling
Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling
Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling was a fictional character played by British comedian Peter Cook throughout his career. Streeb-Greebling was a stereotype of the upper class English duffer. He was usually presented in the form of interviews with various comedians acting as the interviewer...
, and the "rhythmic voodoo" R&B singer Bo Dudley - though the fame of these almost certainly owes much to the fact they still exist in vision, unlike much of the series.
Contrary to popular myth, the Cook perennial "One Leg Too Few
One Leg Too Few
One Leg Too Few is a comedy sketch written by Peter Cook and most famously performed by Cook and Dudley Moore. It is a classic example of comedy arising from an absurd situation which the participants take entirely seriously, and a demonstration of the construction of a sketch in order to draw a...
", a classic sketch about a one-legged actor applying for the role of Tarzan
Tarzan
Tarzan is a fictional character, an archetypal feral child raised in the African jungles by the Mangani "great apes"; he later experiences civilization only to largely reject it and return to the wild as a heroic adventurer...
, which had been written by Cook years before and used in Beyond the Fringe, never appeared in Not Only... But Also, although it did feature in one of the Australian shows in 1971. The show always ended with a rendition of their "Goodbyee" song, once memorably with Peter Sellers accompanying on timpani.
The series — in particular the "Pete and Dud" segments — was famous for being presented in a largely unedited form, which allowed Cook the chance to adlib and both, but most famously Moore, the chance to "corpse
Corpsing
Corpsing is a British theatrical slang term used to describe when an actor unintentionally breaks character during a scene by laughing or by causing another cast member to laugh...
" or begin to genuinely giggle. Cook made a habit of trying to crack Moore up in the middle of their dialogues, occasionally forcing himself to corpse in the process.
Between the second and third series, a series was made by the pair for ATV
Associated TeleVision
Associated Television, often referred to as ATV, was a British television company, holder of various licences to broadcast on the ITV network from 24 September 1955 until 00:34 on 1 January 1982...
called Goodbye Again (director Shaun Riordan), which was similar, though it lasted an hour and was edited more heavily. Unlike Not Only But Also, at least, all the tapes survive.
The BBC wiped many editions of Not Only...But Also from its archives in the late 1960s and early 1970s, as it did with many other programmes, including the second series of Dad's Army
Dad's Army
Dad's Army is a British sitcom about the Home Guard during the Second World War. It was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft and broadcast on BBC television between 1968 and 1977. The series ran for 9 series and 80 episodes in total, plus a radio series, a feature film and a stage show...
and Spike Milligan
Spike Milligan
Terence Alan Patrick Seán "Spike" Milligan Hon. KBE was a comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright, soldier and actor. His early life was spent in India, where he was born, but the majority of his working life was spent in the United Kingdom. He became an Irish citizen in 1962 after the...
's Q5
Q (TV series)
Q... was a surreal television comedy sketch show from Spike Milligan which ran from 1969 to 1982 on BBC2. There were six series in all, the first five numbered from Q5 to Q9, and a final series titled There's a Lot of It About...
. Cook and Moore had even allegedly offered to pay for the cost of preservation and buy new videotapes so that the old tapes would not need to be reused, but this offer was rejected. Some telerecordings of the black and white episodes survive, but all of the videotaped footage from the colour series was wiped, so that the only surviving colour sketches are on 16mm film inserts.
A 1971 visit to Australia saw Cook and Moore record two half hour Not Only... But Also specials for Australian television. Though they've come since to be viewed as "Best Ofs" (featuring new versions of "One Leg Too Few", "Shirt Shop", "Colonel Bogey" and possibly "Pseudolene/Job Offer" (see episode guide)), at least half of the material was new. These two also survive intact.
A number of surviving sequences were compiled into The Best Not Only...But Also, screened by BBC2
BBC Two
BBC Two is the second television channel operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It covers a wide range of subject matter, but tending towards more 'highbrow' programmes than the more mainstream and popular BBC One. Like the BBC's other domestic TV and radio...
on 24 December 1974. Cook and Moore persuaded the BBC to piece together six half-hour compilation shows, screened on BBC2 from 4 November to 9 December 1990 as The Best of What's Left of Not Only...But Also and released in 100 minute compilation form under the same title on VHS. In 2003 a 98-minute Region 2 DVD
DVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
compilation of surviving sketches was released as The Best of Peter Cook & Dudley Moore; this is the same as the previous video tape but missing the third series opening sequence "Tower Bridge".
A Region 1 DVD of The Best of... What's Left of... Not Only... But Also... was released by BBC Worldwide on 9 September 2008, featuring all six compilation episodes. This still leaves over half the extant material unreleased in any form.
Episodes
Series 1-3(italics denotes surviving material; an * marks a sketch's soundtrack survives on officially released record album)
First Series (1965) B&W
(Five episodes extant, two missing)
Pilot: Rec. 29/11/64
(John Lennon
John Lennon
John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...
, Norman Rossington
Norman Rossington
Norman Rossington was an English actor best remembered for his roles in The Army Game, the Carry On films and the Beatles film A Hard Day's Night.-Early life:...
)
Initials/Painting on Television/The Ravens/Good Dog Nigel/Pete and Dud – A Spot of the Usual Trouble (AKA Film Stars)/Deaf Ted, Danoota and Me
Music: Diahann Carroll (Humdrum Blues, Brown Baby, Blues In The Night), Dudley Moore Trio (Swingles Theme, Grwmst, Just in Time)
Show 1: TX 9/1/65
(John Lennon, Norman Rossington)
Car Wash Opening/Initials/The Ravens/Good Dog Nigel/Deaf Ted, Danoota and Me
Music: Diahann Carroll (Humdrum Blues, Brown Baby, Blues In The Night), Dudley Moore Trio (Swingles Theme, Grwmst, Just in Time)
Show 2: TX 23/1/65
(Barry Humphries
Barry Humphries
John Barry Humphries, AO, CBE is an Australian comedian, satirist, dadaist, artist, author and character actor, best known for his on-stage and television alter egos Dame Edna Everage, a Melbourne housewife and "gigastar", and Sir Les Patterson, Australia's foul-mouthed cultural attaché to the...
, Roddy Maude-Roxbury)
One-Man Band Opening/Silent Film extract/Tarquin Mordente – Silent Film Producer/Painting on Television/Roddy Maude-Roxbury monologue/Guide to the North Circular/Pete and Dud – A Spot of the Usual Trouble/Striptease
Music: Goldie & The Gingerbreads
Goldie & the Gingerbreads
Goldie & the Gingerbreads was an all-female American rock band from 1962 to 1967 consisting of 3 musicians and a singer. They were the first all-female rock band signed to a major record label....
(Can’t You Hear My Heartbeat), Dudley Moore Trio (I Won’t Dance), Dudley and Orchestra (Got a Lot of Livin’ to Do)
Show 3: TX 6/2/65
(Joe Melia
Joe Melia
-Films:* Too Many Crooks * Follow a Star * The Intelligence Men * Four in the Morning * Modesty Blaise * Oh! What a Lovely War * Antony and Cleopatra * Sweeney!...
, Bill Wallis
Bill Wallis
Bill Wallis is a British character actor and comedian who has appeared in numerous radio and television roles, as well as in the theatre....
, John Wells
John Wells
John Wells may refer to:People* John C. Wells , British linguist, phonetician and Esperantist* Jonathan Wells , real name John Corrigan Wells...
)
Cinema Opening/Sir Arthur At The Tailor/The Great War/Pete and Dud – The Worst Thing in the World/Alan A’Dale
Music: June Christy
June Christy
June Christy , born Shirley Luster, was an American singer, known for her work in the cool jazz genre and for her silky smooth vocals. Her success as a singer began with The Stan Kenton Orchestra. She pursued a solo career from 1954 and is best known for her debut album Something Cool...
(You Came a Long Way from St Louis, Just in Time, Remind Me, My Shining Hour)
Show 4: TX 20/2/65
(Barry Humphries, Anna Quayle
Anna Quayle
Anna Quayle is an English actress. Her father was the stage actor Douglas Quayle.She has appeared on film, on stage, and on television...
)
Gypsy Violinist Opening/Tramponuns/Tramponuns Film/Anna Quayle Monologue/Prospective Son-In-Law/Incidents in the Life of My Uncle Arly/Pete and Dud – Art Gallery
Music: Marion Montgomery
Marion Montgomery
Marion Montgomery was a United States born jazz singer who lived in the United Kingdom.Born Maud Runnells in Natchez, Mississippi, she began her career in Atlanta working clubs, and then in Chicago where singer Peggy Lee heard her on an audition tape and suggested she should be signed up by...
(The Exciting Mr Fitch, Wasn’t the Summer Short?, Close Your Eyes), Dudley Moore Trio (Indiana)
Show 5: TX 6/3/65
(Mel Torme
Mel Tormé
Melvin Howard Tormé , nicknamed The Velvet Fog, was an American musician, known for his jazz singing. He was also a jazz composer and arranger, a drummer, an actor in radio, film, and television, and the author of five books...
)
London Bus Opening (exists as silent film sequence)/Pete and Dud – On the Bus/Canvassing Dracula (exists as silent film sequence)/Job Offer (possibly remade as “Pseudolene” for the second Australian NOBA in 1971)/Privates Cigarettes Advertising (exists as silent film sequence)/Betting Agent
Music: Mel Torme (Limehouse Blues
Limehouse Blues
Limehouse Blues is a world famous jazz standard , as well as a 1934 crime film is set in London's Chinese district and starring George Raft and Anna May Wong. The film is named after the tune...
, My One and Only Highland Fling/Dat Dere Daddy)
Show 6: TX 20/3/65
(Peter Sellers
Peter Sellers
Richard Henry Sellers, CBE , known as Peter Sellers, was a British comedian and actor. Perhaps best known as Chief Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther film series, he is also notable for playing three different characters in Dr...
)
Doomed Pilots Opening/Boxer-Cum-Painter/Pete and Dud – Superstitions/The Gourmets
Music: T-Bone Walker
T-Bone Walker
Aaron Thibeaux "T-Bone" Walker was a critically acclaimed American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, who was one of the most influential pioneers and innovators of the jump blues and electric blues sound. He is the first musician recorded playing blues with the...
(Hey Baby, Goodbye Baby), Dudley Moore Trio (I Love You Samantha)
Show 7: TX 3/4/65
(Eric Sykes
Eric Sykes
Eric Sykes, CBE is an English radio, television and film writer, actor and director whose performing career has spanned more than 50 years. He frequently wrote for and/or performed with many other leading comedy performers and writers of the period, including Tony Hancock, Spike Milligan, Peter...
, John Bluthal
John Bluthal
John Bluthal is a Polish-born British film and television actor, mostly in comedy. He is best known for his work with Spike Milligan and for his roles in the television series Never Mind the Quality Feel the Width and The Vicar of Dibley.-Early life:Bluthal was born in Galicia, Poland, of Jewish...
)
The Grand Order of the Bull/Pete and Dud – Religions*/Making of a B-Movie/Ballroom Dancing Competition
Music: Blossom Dearie
Blossom Dearie
Blossom Dearie was an American jazz singer and pianist, often performing in the bebop genre and remembered for her girlish voice.-Early career:...
(I Wish You Love), Dudley Moore Trio (Baubles Bangles & Beads)
Second Series (1966) B&W
(Three episodes extant, five missing)
Show 1: TX15/01/1966
(Henry Cooper
Henry Cooper
Henry Cooper may refer to:*Sir Henry Cooper , British Heavyweight boxer*Henry Cooper from Tennessee*Henry Cooper , English recipient of the Victoria Cross...
, Terry Downes
Terry Downes
Terry Downes is a retired British middleweight boxer. He was nicknamed the "Paddington Express" for his aggressive fighting style. As of 2008, Downes was Britain’s oldest surviving former world champion...
)
Underwater Pianist Opening/At the Zoo/Fight of the Century/A Bit of a Chat
Music: Cilla Black
Cilla Black
Cilla Black OBE is an English singer, actress, entertainer and media personality, who has been consistently popular as a light entertainment figure since 1963. She is most famous for her singles Anyone Who Had A Heart, You're My World, and Alfie...
(Let There Be Love)
Show 2: TX 22/01/1966
(Alan Freeman
Alan Freeman
Alan Leslie "Fluff" Freeman, MBE was a British disc jockey and radio personality in the United Kingdom for 40 years.-Career:...
)
Scottish (“Curse of the McLooneys”) Opening/Pete And Dud – Diseases/The Most Boring Man In The World Competition/Interview with the Most Boring Man in the World/Six Of The Best*
Music: Dakota Stanton (High On A Windy Valley, Morning Glory)
Show 3: TX 29/01/1966
Court Jester Opening/Italian Restaurant/Ol' Man River (originally shot for 1.5, later remade for London run of Behind the Fridge. That version was included in the 1990 repeat series)/Blue Movie/Pete and Dud – Music
Music: Blossom Dearie
Blossom Dearie
Blossom Dearie was an American jazz singer and pianist, often performing in the bebop genre and remembered for her girlish voice.-Early career:...
(You Turn Me On Baby), Dudley Moore Trio (Softly As In The Morning Rise)
Show 4: TX 05/02/1966
Pete and Dud At The Seaside Opening/The Frog And Peach*/Commercials/Slapstick Comedy
Music: Emil Lancey (If I Were A Bell, Rainy Day), Cook and Moore (Isn't She A Sweetie)
Show 5: TX 12/06/1966
Monk Opening/The Psychiatrist*/The Epic That Never Was/Father And Son*
Music: Dionne Warwick
Dionne Warwick
Dionne Warwick is an American singer, actress and TV show host, who became a United Nations Global Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization, and a United States Ambassador of Health....
(Walk On By, Unchained Melody)
Show 6: TX 19/06/1966
Student Prince (Drinking Song) Opening/The Music Teacher*/The Walrus and the Carpenter/Pete And Dud – Sex*
Music: Dudley Moore Trio (Summertime), Dusty Springfield
Dusty Springfield
Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'BrienSources use both Isabel and Isobel as the spelling of her second name. OBE , known professionally as Dusty Springfield and dubbed The White Queen of Soul, was a British pop singer whose career extended from the late 1950s to the 1990s...
(Wives And Lovers)
Show 7: TX 26/06/1966
Caveman Opening/Bo Dudley/Superthunderstingcar/Pete and Dud – In Heaven
Music: Marion Montgomery
Marion Montgomery
Marion Montgomery was a United States born jazz singer who lived in the United Kingdom.Born Maud Runnells in Natchez, Mississippi, she began her career in Atlanta working clubs, and then in Chicago where singer Peggy Lee heard her on an audition tape and suggested she should be signed up by...
Christmas Special: TX 26/12/1966
(John Lennon)
Fox Hunt Opening/Fairy Cobbler/Pete and Dud – The Unexplained/Swinging London (Lionel Bloab – Destructive Artist, Rev. Gavin Thistle, Penny Ryder, Simon Accrington, “L.S. Bumblebee”, The Ad Lav Club)
Music: Marion Montgomery (“I’ll be Tired of You”, “I’m Old Fashioned”), Dudley Moore Trio
Series Three (1970) Colour
(All episodes missing; most film sequences survive)
Show 1: TX 18/2/70
Tower Bridge Opening/Pete and Dud – The Wardrobe (Dud Dreams)*/Piano Tuner/Bargo/Poets Cornered with Spike Milligan
Music: Nanette Newman
Nanette Newman
-Early life:Newman was born in Northampton, England. She was educated at Sternhold College, the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts stage school and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.-Career:...
, Dudley Moore Trio, Spike Milligan (On the Ning Nang Nong
On the Ning Nang Nong
"On the Ning Nang Nong" is a poem written by the comedian Spike Milligan. The poem was featured in the book named Silly Verse For Kids which was written in 1968. In 1998 the poem came first in the BBC's poll of top comic poems...
)
Show 2: TX 4/3/70
Lavatory Humour Opening/Scriptwriter/The Glidd of Glood/Pete and Dud – 0-0-Dud*/Poets Cornered with Willie Rushton
Music: Nanette, Dudley Moore Trio, Joe Cocker
Joe Cocker
John Robert "Joe" Cocker, OBE is an English rock and blues musician, composer and actor, who came to popularity in the 1960s, and is most known for his gritty voice, his idiosyncratic arm movements while performing, and his cover versions of popular songs, particularly those of The Beatles...
& The Grease Band
Show 3: TX 18/3/70
Railway Station Opening/Sir Arthur’s World of Worms/Pete and Dud – Racial Prejudice/In the Club*/Poets Cornered with Barry Humphries
Music: Nanette; Dudley Moore Trio; Michael Chapman
Michael Chapman
Michael Chapman may refer to:* Mike Chapman , record producer* Michael Chapman * Michael Chapman * Michael Chapman...
Show 4: TX 1/4/70
Not Only… But Psycho Opening/Pete and Dud – The Futility of Life/Permission to Marry/Good vs. Evil Cricket Match/Poets Cornered with Frank Muir
Frank Muir
Frank Herbert Muir was an English comedy writer, radio and television personality, and raconteur. His writing and performing partnership with Denis Norden endured for most of their careers. Together they wrote BBC radio's Take It From Here for over 10 years, and then appeared on BBC radio...
Music: Nanette; Dudley Moore Trio; Alan Price
Alan Price
Alan Price is an English musician, best known as the original keyboardist for the English band The Animals, and for his subsequent solo work....
Show 5: TX 15/4/70
Flowers Opening/Sir Arthur on Flowers/Geriatric Medicine (Undercover Doctor)/Pete and Dud – Heaving Thighs Across Manhattan/Ludwig! (film sections survive – two lengthy studio-based “chat show” sections missing. There is also a fake ad, still extant, which has not been released or repeated)/Poets Cornered with Ronnie Barker
Ronnie Barker
Ronald William George "Ronnie" Barker, OBE was a British actor, comedian, writer, critic, broadcaster and businessman...
Music: Nanette; Dudley Moore Trio (“Lillian Lust”); Yes
Show 6: TX 29/4/70
Newspaper Opening/Lengths*/The Conman/Pete and Dud – As Nature Intended/Poets Cornered with Denis Norden
Denis Norden
Denis Mostyn Norden CBE is a former English comedy writer and television presenter. After an early career working in cinemas, he began scriptwriting during World War II. From 1948 to 1959, he co-wrote the successful BBC Radio comedy programme Take It from Here with Frank Muir...
Music: Nanette; Dudley Moore Trio; Arrival
Show 7: TX 13/5/70
Birmingham-Mandalay Cycle Race/The Lunch Party/Pete and Dud – Self-Improvement/The Making of a Movie/Poets Cornered with Alan Bennett
Alan Bennett
Alan Bennett is a British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author. Born in Leeds, he attended Oxford University where he studied history and performed with The Oxford Revue. He stayed to teach and research mediaeval history at the university for several years...
Music: Nanette; Dudley Moore Trio; John Williams
John Williams
John Towner Williams is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. In a career spanning almost six decades, he has composed some of the most recognizable film scores in the history of motion pictures, including the Star Wars saga, Jaws, Superman, the Indiana Jones films, E.T...
(compiled by William Muirhead with reference to Publish and Bedazzled (Peter Cook fanzine); Postings on The Mausoleum Club; Missing Episodes.com and other sources. Sketch order for 1.5 and 1.7 conjecture as episodes no longer exist and scripts have also been destroyed by the BBC. Confirmed off-air audio recordings exist for episodes 2-5 of series two and episodes 1 & 3 of series three - and rumours persist of an audio tape of 1.7 with Eric Sykes, but they don't seem to have gained wide circulation.)