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, albeit in a frustratingly incomplete version. A lengthy current affairs parody is followed by one of the show’s finest sketches, in which Marty’s “Mr Pest” torments John’s uptight commuter in a train compartment. However, the series finale, the Rhubarb Tart Song is sadly missing from the print and is provided here from the Frensham recording (and the transmitted version is quite different to the commercially released one). The end credit sequence is there, though, and is interrupted at the end by Ronnie Corbett, trailing the start of his sitcom No, That’s Me Over Here which took the slot being vacated by the 1948 Show. This looks highly unusual, but the fact that it was produced by Marty Feldman and David Frost and created by Graham Chapman (together with Barry Cryer and Eric Idle) offers an explanation