"At Last the 1948 Show" (1967) TV series

User Rating:

8.0/10   

Writers:

Graham Chapman (writer)
Marty Feldman (writer)

Seasons:

1 | 2

Release Date:

15 February 1967 (UK)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

Surreal, sketch based TV comedy series. Two series were produced in 1967 by the commercial company Associated Rediffusion...

Plot Keywords:

Sketch Comedy | Number In Title

Cast

John Cleese	...	Himself - Various Characters (13 episodes, 1967)
Graham Chapman	...	Various Characters (13 episodes, 1967)
Tim Brooke-Taylor	...	Various Characters (13 episodes, 1967)
Marty Feldman	...	Various Characters (13 episodes, 1967)
Jo Kendall	...	Various (13 episodes, 1967)
Aimi MacDonald	...	Herself - Host (13 episodes, 1967)

Runtime:

30 min (13 episodes)

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Australia:G | Finland:K-3 (2006)

Company:

Associated-Rediffusion Television

Trivia:

All but three episodes of this show were accidentally erased. By 2003, six complete episodes (of the 13 editions made) now exist. Some film extracts from six of the seven remaining "missing" episodes exist in the form of some "compilation" episodes that were sold to Swedish TV years ago. Complete audio recordings exist for all episodes.

Quotes:

Various Characters: I've got a ferret sticking up my nose. How it got there I can't tell But now it's there it hurts like hell And what is more it radically affects my sense of smell. I've got a ferret sticking up my nose. I can almost stand the noise But at parties it destroys My hard-earned and carefully cultivated social poise...

Movie Connections:

Featured in Bob Monkhouse's Comedy Heroes (2004) (TV)

Proto-Python

Believed lost for decades, this series is finally available on DVD (well, five episodes of it, at least), and it is definitely one of the great comedy finds. Written by and starring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Marty Feldman, it is one of the clearest forerunners of "Monty Python's Flying Circus" (along with "Do Not Adjust Your Set," which has also been given an archival release). Not only that, it shows four bright, young comedians clearly having fun with the medium and producing some high-quality comedy.

The series even features Eric Idle in various bit parts, so some of the cross-pollination that lead to the creation of Python was already taking place. Pity the other eight episodes are still lost.