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. John Cleese’s manic performances as a bullying doctor and an unhinged secret service agent steal the show, but Marty Feldman’s debut as a performer as well as a writer is totally assured, while Graham Chapman gives his signature turn as a wrestler fighting himself. It is only six minutes in before Aimi Macdonald first delivers the immortal linking line “and now for something completely different”.
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At Last the 1948 Show - Series 1 Epis...
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 Epis...
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 Epis...
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...
