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I’ll cover both the Do Not Adjust Your Set and At Last The 1948 Show. I’m ecstatic to have some of these shows finally available in the U.S. The 1948 Show includes the original Yorkshiremen sketch and Adjust Your Set is a must if only for the Bonzo Dog Band performances (including one with Eric Idle singing lead!). The 1948 Show is the funnier of the two shows, but at only five episodes, it’s a bit brief. There are sketches here not so very different from what Cleese and Chapman would do shortly later in Python. Every bit as good. Tim Brooke-Taylor’s chartered accountant’s dance is brilliant (God knows how many Python sketches that inspired). And seeing Marty Feldman makes me ache to get those shows of his that played in the U.S. one summer decades ago. And of course the Yorkshiremen sketch is one of the great comedy sketches of all time (written by Brooke-Taylor and Feldman! Take that, dead parrot!). Adjust Your Set was designed to be a children’s show and the humor tends to be juvenile for the most part. But every now and then something slips in that screams Python (The shop sketch where ordering a long list of groceries gets you only a can of shoe polish. The famous person hanging from a cliff. A couple other sketches about irritating people where you can just see Eric Idle warming up for Nudge Nudge.) And anyway, I’m a huge Bonzo Dog Band fan, and there are at least a couple performances of songs I’ve never heard before, songs never released on albums.
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My problem here is the DVD packaging. There is NOTHING in the packaging to tell me when exactly these episodes were broadcast. The DVD packaging claims these are all recently discovered episodes. So are these the only 5 surviving episodes of The 1948 Show? Plus just what does recently discovered mean? The first episode of Adjust Your Set I have on tape from years ago, a copy from a copy from a copy, originally recorded off UK Gold before making its way to the U.S. I know for a fact these aren’t all the surviving episodes of Adjust Your Set. Am I to believe these are all the surviving episodes from the first season? The packaging of Adjust Your Set also lists Terry Gilliam as animator. But Gilliam’s name only appears in the credits on episode 3 and there is nothing like the cartoons for which he is famous. There is in fact no animation at all beyond a few special effects for Captain Fantastic. Goofy, too, is that the same Terry Jones and Tim Brooke-Taylor interviews appear on both sets. Why? It feels like a rip-off. Couldn’t there have been a bonus episode of The Frost Report or Marty Feldman’s show? The Do Not Adjust Your Stocking episode?
I’m also curious to know if these episodes are considered to be complete. At least the first episode of The 1948 Show lists people appearing in the show who aren’t in the episode on DVD. Is it just that the credits were wrong? (At least the DVD’s appear to be complete episodes rather than some sort of highlight reel. I appreciate that a great deal.)
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So, complaints, rather than hitting on the head. Nevertheless, I’m hoping they put out the other Adjust Your Set episodes. The Do Not Adjust Your Stocking episode (or was it a special?) is the only other one I’ve seen and it is much funnier than the early episodes. And it actually has some famous Gilliam animation in it. And how about those Marty Feldman shows? Any other 1948 episodes?
I will assume most Americans are seeing these shows for the first time, and the few who even knew it existed probably always heard that DNAYS was a kind of prototypical version of Monty Python. It’s written by and features three of the Python members, but it really is more of a broad and silly show aimed at children. (The later episodes on the set begin to show more fully-developed sketch ideas - so perhaps the second season of DNAYS, which featured Terry Gilliam’s animations - and which are NOT presented here - better represent the show).
Still, DNAYS is fascinating - like discovering a hidden gem from someone else’s past. The best bits throughout this volume are probably the crazy songs by the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band (good enough to make you want to look up one of their CD hit collections). It’s also nice to finally see David Jason (a legend in the U.K., but a virtual unknown in the States) - who is quite good at physical comedy, and Denise Coffey - a likeable actress with a great comic presence. Their `Captain Fantastic’ vignettes are probably the most memorable part of the show.
The future-Pythons (Idle, Jones, and Palin) are predictably good, especially Idle - who shows a gift for musical comedy with great pop lead vocals on the song that ends Episode 7.
Don’t expect Monty Python - but do expect to be fascinated.
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