The inside story of the anarchic comedy sketch show, which ran on BBC Two from 1979 to 1982, and launched the careers of Rowan Atkinson, Griff Rhys Jones, Mel Smith and Pamela Stephenson, as well as writers including Richard Curtis, Andy Hamilton and Clive Anderson. This documentary reveals how the series first came about, looks at the casting of the four main players and the dynamic of the team, as well as recalling the show's key moments, its impact at the time and its legacy. Featuring interviews with Smith, Jones, Stephenson and Curtis, as well as celebrity fans including Billy Connolly and Dara O Briain
We don't have an overview translated in English.
More stinging comedy from the 1980s show
More comedy highlights from the 1980s sketch show
More comedy highlights from the classic 1980s sketch show
More comedy highlights from the classic 1980s sketch show
More vintage comedy highlights
More vintage highlights from the classic 80s sketch show
Highlights from the classic eighties satirical sketch show
Highlights of the satirical series
The third of three programmes re-edited, re-organised once more as re-edits and now repeated as compilations; entitled.... Not the Nine O'Clock News. Providing another opportunity to savour the delights offered by that award-winning team.
The second of three programmes re-edited, reorganised once more as re-edits and now repeated as compilations entitled ... Not the Nine O'Clock News. Providing another opportunity to savour the delights offered by that award-winning team.
The first of three programmes re-edited, reorganised, once more as re-edits and now repeated as compilations; entitled ... Not the Nine O'Clock News, providing another opportunity to savour the delights offered by that award-winning team
We don't have an overview translated in English.
We don't have an overview translated in English.
We don't have an overview translated in English.
We don't have an overview translated in English.
We don't have an overview translated in English.
We don't have an overview translated in English.
We don't have an overview translated in English.
We don't have an overview translated in English.
Highlights from the first series.
As every comedy schoolboy should know by now, the Not The Nine O'Clock News "pilot" is something of a misnomer. It was in fact originally intended as the first show of what would have been their first series, recorded on the 31st of March 1979 and scheduled for broadcast on BBC2 on the 2nd of April 1979, but pulled at the eleventh hour due to elections.
