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    1960s Television Comedy Shows B UK TV 2 Mins Read

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    1 9 6 5 – 1 9 6 6 (UK)
    24 x 60 minute episodes

    BBC3 was a mixture of humorous songs, sketches and newsy satire.

    The son of That Was The Week That Was and a natural successor to Not So Much A Programme . . . More A Way Of Life, the series was produced and directed by Ned Sherrin.

    bbc3_6The main presenters were Robert Robinson, Lynda Baron and John Bird, assisted by Denis Norden, Patrick Campbell, Alan Bennett, Malcolm Muggeridge, Leonard Rossiter, Bill Oddie, Roy Dotrice and John Fortune.

    This late-night satire show is now chiefly remembered for allowing the first known use of the F-word on national television – An event which took place on 13 November 1965 during an interview with Kenneth Tynan about theatre censorship.

    Such frank discussions mingled with sketches, filmed inserts and music in the programme plan, but the show never achieved the heights of TW3 despite employing writers like David Frost, Christopher Booker, John Mortimer and Keith Waterhouse.

    A one-off special called My Father Knew Lloyd George was made by the same team and transmitted in December 1965 featuring an imaginary news scandal at the turn of the century.

    Robert Robinson
    John Bird
    David Battley
    John Fortune
    Bill Oddie
    Alan Bennett
    Leonard Rossiter
    Roy Dotrice
    Harvey Orkin
    Lynda Baron
    Norman St John Sevas
    Denis Norden
    Patrick Campbell
    Malcolm Muggeridge

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