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| | The Best Of Saturday Live: Series 1
Cat No. 7952665
A collection of chaotic comedy from the groundbreaking UK show based on the US institution Saturday Night Live. In 1984/ '85, Channel 4 gathered the cream of the UK's madcap comedy talent and threw them together in a volatile and completely unpredictable mishmash with some sporadic live musical guests. The results were called Saturday Live. Regular guests Ade Edmundson, Rik Mayall, Harry Enfield, Ben Elton, French and Saunders, Fry and Laurie, Pamela Stephenson and Emo Phillips, among others such as, surprisingly, Emma Thompson and Dennis Healey, MP made fun of everything imaginable and a lot of utterly unimaginable stuff for good measure. Viewers never knew quite what or who was coming next and were even introduced to a lot of new comic talent from the US like Sam Kinnison, Steven Wright and Louie Anderson. The show was the springboard for a lot of characters by the British comics involved including Enfield's Stavros and Loadsamoney and Mayall and Edmundson's Dangerous Brothers - it even lauched Ben Elton as a stand up act since he'd been heretofore known only for writing.
Format: 2 DVD (Colour)
Label: Network DVD
Genre: Stand Up Comedy
Barcode: 5027626266547
Category: E
Price: £7.81 (Excluding VAT at 20%)
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| | The Stanley Baxter Television Set
Cat No. 7952941
All six of the popular stand-up comedian and impressionist's ITV specials, recorded between 1973 and 1982, plus his half-hour series from the 1970s and early 1980s, featuring comedy routines and his highly successful send-ups of popular films and television programmes. Also features two classic film comedies. In 'The Fast Lady' (1962), Baxter plays Murdoch Troon, a shy civil servant attracted to the vivacious Claire (Julie Christie), the daughter of a prominent businessman. In an attempt to impress Claire, Troon acquires a vintage Bentley racer, 'The Fast Lady', and undertakes a series of driving lessons to learn how to handle the car. Needless to say, Troon's attempts to impress Claire don't go entirely according to plan. In 'Father Came Too' (1964), Dexter Munro (Baxter) and his new wife Juliet (Sally Smith) get married and decide to escape Juliet's meddling father (James Robertson Justice) by buying a rundown cottage and doing it up themselves. But when the cottage proves to be more ramshackle than they thought, and the scale of the repairs needed far out of their budget, the newlyweds are forced into calling on Juliet's father after all. Before long he's employed incompetent builder Josh Wicks (Ronnie Barker), and the situation goes from bad to worse.
Format: 5 DVD (Colour)
Label: Network DVD
Genre: Stand Up Comedy
Barcode: 5027626294144
Category: 12
Price: £14.00 (Excluding VAT at 20%)
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