At Last the 1948 Show
“Pre-Python comedy gold!” – The Daily Mail
“Essential viewing for any Python fanatic.” – Variety
This ground-breaking, splendidly silly and surreal comedy sketch series, written and performed by John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Marty Feldman, was a major milestone on the road to Monty Python’s Flying Circus. Each surviving episode is presented in this definitive collection.
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At Last the 1948 Show - Series 1 Episode 1
Directed by Ian Fordyce • Drama • With Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Marty Feldman, Barry Cryer, Aimi MacDonald • 1967 • 24 minutes
The very first show, which survived in David Frost’s personal archive, still manages to astonish as a bold new departure in television comedy. J...
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At Last the 1948 Show - Series 1 Episode 2
Directed by Ian Fordyce • Drama • With Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Marty Feldman • 1967 • 21 minutes
PLEASE NOTE ABOUT EPISODE TWO: The most incomplete of the episodes, only the opening and first sketch have been recovered as part of the Swedish compilations, plus a brief fra...
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At Last the 1948 Show - Series 1 Episode 3
Directed by Ian Fordyce • Drama • With Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Marty Feldman, Barry Cryer, Eric Idle, Bill Oddie, Aimi Macdonald, Mary Maude, Christine Rodgers • 1967 • 23 minutes
It becomes clear in this show that the number of hostesses is increasing by one every week a...
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At Last the 1948 Show - Series 1 Episode 4
Directed by Ian Fordyce • Drama • With Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Marty Feldman, Barry Cryer, Eric Idle, Aimi Macdonald, Mary Maude, Christine Rodgers, Frances Dean, Jacqueline Rochelle • 1967 • 25 minutes
One of the two shows contained in the archive passed to the BFI after...
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At Last the 1948 Show - Series 1 Episode 5
Directed by Ian Fordyce • Drama • With Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Marty Feldman, Barry Cryer, Aimi Macdonald, Mary Maude, Christine Rodgers, Frances Dean, Penny Brahms, Jo Kendall • 1967 • 26 minutes
The first of the missing episodes which survived at Teddington Studios, thi...
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At Last the 1948 Show - Series 1 Episode 6
Directed by Ian Fordyce • Drama • With Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Marty Feldman, Aimi Macdonald, Mary Maude, Christine Rodgers, Frances Dean, Penny Brahms, Joan Crane, Jacqueline Rochelle • 1967 • 25 minutes
The second of the two shows preserved in the Rediffusion archive co...
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At Last the 1948 Show - Series 2 Episode 1
Directed by Ian Fordyce • Drama • With Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Marty Feldman, Barry Cryer, Aimi Macdonald, Eric Idle, Vicki Muden, Anna Lewington, Natalie Shaw, Jenny Walton, Patricia Franklin • 1967 • 25 minutes
An incomplete episode which was reconstructed using the Swe...
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At Last the 1948 Show - Series 2 Episode 2
Directed by Ian Fordyce • Drama • With Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Marty Feldman, Aimi Macdonald, Eric Idle, Barry Cryer • 1967 • 26 minutes
This show was able to be completely reconstructed from the Swedish compilations and the ABC Australia reels, the latter providing the o...
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At Last the 1948 Show - Series 2 Episode 3
Directed by Ian Fordyce • Drama • With Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Marty Feldman, Aimi MacDonald, Barry Cryer, Dick Vosburgh • 1967 • 25 minutes
The first success of the BFI’s Missing, Believed Wiped campaign was this virtually complete show, donated by a collector from Read...
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At Last the 1948 Show - Series 2 Episode 4
Directed by Ian Fordyce • Drama • With Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Marty Feldman, Aimi Macdonald, Jo Kendall, Barry Cryer, Dick Vosburgh • 1967 • 25 minutes
Parodies of television formats and genres were a regular part of At Last the 1948 Show (as they were later to be of Mon...
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At Last the 1948 Show - Series 2 Episode 5
Directed by Ian Fordyce • Drama • With Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Marty Feldman, Aimi MacDonald, Dick Vosburgh, Barry Cryer, Eric Idle, Marika Rivera • 1967 • 25 minutes
This show takes aim at the television talk programme and The Marvin Bint Programme contains a fairly br...
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At Last the 1948 Show - Series 2 Episode 6
Directed by Ian Fordyce • Drama • With Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Marty Feldman, Aimi Macdonald, Jo Kendall, Dick Vosburgh, Barry Cryer, Dick Holmes • 1967 • 25 minutes
Consideration of the penultimate show will inevitably be dominated by the presence of the original and bes...
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At Last the 1948 Show - Series 2 Episode 7
Directed by Ian Fordyce • Drama • With Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Marty Feldman, Aimi Macdonald, Jo Kendall, Dick Vosburgh, Barry Cryer, Ronnie Corbett [uncredited] • 1967 • 25 minutes
Just as the first episode survived in David Frost’s personal archive, so did the last, alb...
