Do Not Adjust Your Set - Episode 2
Do Not Adjust Your Set (series) • 24m
Directed by Daphne Shadwell • Drama • With Denise Coffey, Eric Idle, David Jason, Terry Jones, Michael Palin and The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band • 1967 • 25 minutes
Please note that this episode contains humor, language or other content that reflects the time of its production, but that may cause offense today.
A more adult tone creeps into some of the sketches – notably the initial routine in which Denise Coffey is attempting to identify a ‘filthy beast’ (louchely played by Vivian Stanshall), and in the hospital sketch, as bossy doctor Idle snaps at meek patient Jones ‘you’re not in a strip club’. Elsewhere, we see Denise sending up stuffy BBC-style kids’ TV, the kind of Jones/Palin overgrown schoolboys and suburban Supermen we’ll meet again in Python, disturbingly made-up Bonzos delivering a thoroughly frightening Look Out There’s a Monster Coming and hear some entertainingly extraneous tuba tootles overflowing across the end credits.
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