Description
In the mid-1950s, four outstanding Associated-Rediffusion television shows - The Idiot Weekly, Price 2D, A Show Called Fred, Son of Fredand Yes, It’s The Cathode-Ray Tube Show!– adapted the brilliantly bizarre humour of BBC radio comedy The Goon Showinto visual form for independent television. Initially innovatively overseen by director Richard Lester and starring Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan, these supremely silly and surreal sketch shows remain the most uproariously successful attempts to capture the quicksilver genius of the Goons on the telly-box.
This long-overdue box set gathers together all available archival material that still exists from these shows – newly scanned and re-presented in the best possible quality, for new generations of comedy fans to enjoy. Also included is a lavish array of hens’- teeth rarities, featuring members of the Goons or their entourage, also from the Associated-Rediffusion collection, much of which appears here on disc for the very first time.
The Programmes:
- A Show Called Fred: Episode 1 (1956, 26 mins)
- A Show Called Fred: Episode 4 (1956, 28 mins)
- A Show Called Fred: Episode 5 (1956, 27 mins)
- Son of Fred: Episode 3 (1956, 23 mins)
- The Best of Fred (audio only)
- Yes, It’s The Cathode-Ray Tube Show! (Fragments, 4 mins)
- Yes, It’s The Cathode-Ray Tube Show! Cast and script workshop (audio only)
- Yes, It’s The Cathode-Ray Tube Show!:Episode 6 (audio only)
- The Dickie Henderson Show: The Psychiatrist (1960, 25 mins)
- The Dickie Henderson Show: The Stamp Collector (1963, 23 mins)
- The Dickie Henderson Show: The Stately Home (1963, 23 mins)
- The Anne Shelton Show (1959, 23 mins): featuring Michael Bentine, Dick Emery and Graham Stark
- People in Trouble: Stammering (1958, 13 mins): featuring Michael Bentine
- Success Story: Maurice Woodruff (1959, 13 mins): featuring Peter Sellers
Product details
| SKU | 5035673015797 |
| Blu-Ray Region | B |
| Brand / Publisher | BFI |
| Catalogue Number | BFIB1579 |
| Certificate | 12 |
| Countries | UK |
| Director | Richard Lester |
| Format | DVD, Blu-ray |
| Language(s) | English |
| Running time | 180 Mins |
| Subtitles | English subtitles for the deaf and partial hearing |
| Year | 1956-1958 |
| DVD Region | 2 |
| Product contents | 2 Discs: DVD and Blu-ray editions |
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