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A sketch comedy program with a difference!
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One of the most shamelessly corny and hilarious shows ever made - I loved it!
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(Series Cast Summary - 1 of 8) | Nosher Powell | (1 episode, 1984) |
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It's a crying shame that only one series of six episodes was made of the Steam Video Company. For the uninitiated, this was a series that took the 'rep company' idea of the threadbare Carry On Laughing series, married it to a relentless onslaught of jokes (most of them child-like or downright groan-inducing), framed them with Airplane!-style parodies of creaky old B-movies and the amateur dramatics approach of Ernie's "plays what I wrote" from 1970s Morecambe and Wise shows with a touch of I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again anarchy. With new kids on the block Andrew Marshall and David Renwick on script duties, there was also room for heaps of jokey captions, swipes at television presentation, in-jokes (mostly at the expense of cast member Bob Todd, who took it all in his lugubrious stride) and occasional savage parodies of other programmes. Then they put together a truly remarkable cast - former Bond girl Madeline Smith, not looking a day older than she did in 1973's Live And Let Die, urbane actor (and Schweppes tonic advertiser) William Franklyn, comedy legend Barry Cryer, Kenny Everett stooge Anna Dawson, upcoming writer-actor-producer Jimmy Mulville and the aforementioned Todd, then foisted the whole thing on an unsuspecting ITV audience, more used to straight sitcoms and personality comedians than anything else. It couldn't have lasted, but while it did, it was glorious. This series is well worth tracking down and a critical reappraisal is long overdue.