The Picnic is a 1976 BBC

BBC

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 film starring The Two Ronnies

The Two Ronnies

The Two Ronnies is a British sketch show that aired on BBC1 from 1971 to 1987. It featured the double act of Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett, the "Two Ronnies" of the title.-Origins:...

, and written by Ronnie Barker

Ronnie Barker

Ronald William George "Ronnie" Barker, OBE was a British actor, comedian, writer, critic, broadcaster and businessman...

 under the pseudonym

Pseudonym

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s "Dave Huggett and Larry Keith".

Introduction

The film followed the extended family of "The General", played by Barker, as they went on an eventful picnic in the Devon

Devon

Devon is a large county in southwestern England. The county is sometimes referred to as Devonshire, although the term is rarely used inside the county itself as the county has never been officially "shired", it often indicates a traditional or historical context.The county shares borders with...

 countryside. The film is notable for being completely free of speech, with the score by Ronnie Hazlehurst

Ronnie Hazlehurst

Ronald "Ronnie" Hazlehurst was an English composer and conductor who, having joined the BBC in 1961, became its Light Entertainment Musical Director....

 and various sound effects in their place. The humour is instead entirely visual, and relies on comic stereotypes (the old randy general, the busty girl, etc.) It had a sequel, By the Sea

By the Sea

By the Sea , is a 1982 BBC film starring The Two Ronnies, and written by Ronnie Barker under the pseudonyms "Dave Huggett and Larry Keith".-Introduction:...

, featuring some of the same characters made in 1982.
The 28-minute film was shown on BBC 2 on January 1 1976, but has rarely been repeated, although in recent times it has been shown several times by ITV3

ITV3

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, who currently hold the rights to the Two Ronnies library. A limited VHS release of By The Sea and The Picnic was available in 1990 and deleted in 1994.