Rutland Weekend Television - Series One, Episode Four (1975)
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- RWT S01E04: "Rutland Weekend Whistle Test"
Emcee: Bridget Armstrong
First Aired on BBC2: 2 June, 1975
The Old Gay Whistle Test intro removed due to copyright. - Komedie
Sketches: The Old Gay Whistle Test; Rutland Weekend Theatre; Amnesia; Farming Beauty Queens; Showbiz Butchers; A Penny For Your Warts.
Songs: The Fabulous Bingo Brothers, Protest Song
So what's all this "removed due to copyright" stuff? The OGWT segment has been spliced back in, hooray.
"I've suffered for my music, now it's your turn."
Thank you for giving us these brilliant episodes. The protest song had my foot tapping. 10/10
Lemmy on the Whistle Test!
As soon as they announced they all dead singer, I started hoping Beyond hope they were going to do the Psychedelic multicolored quick zoom in and out camera angle excitement shot... And then they did it, and even though I hoped it was coming and wanted it to be coming I still laughed my head off.
Was that Lemmy ??
Looked like him
I vividly remember the opening sting but nothing else!
I remember learning to play Rain on a Tin Roof when I was a teenager.
Eric Idle as Bob Harris: " Wow........Yeah.......I can get off on that !!!"
Hi
Welcome to WHISTLE TEST
Tonight on Whistle Test, we've got Rex Higgins, Steve Flea, The Wretched Admiral Sphincter, Grunties, Hot Nadgers, Red Buttocks, and Toad the Wet Sprocket, so it promises to be really good.
We've also got a preview of the new Vomit album, and I shall be talking as usual, like this. Wow. But first on Whistle Test, here's our studio group, Toad the Wet Sprocket.
was too young to appreciate it when it came out watching it now it really is rather good.
The Bob Dylan/Leonard Cohen cover was classic!
"We spent two years on the title and two weeks on the album."
WHISTLE TEST... Brilliant !!!!
Brilliant send up of mid-seventies rock. I think Neil Innes may have had something to do with it....
"Someone to see you, Sir."
"Oh jolly good, show him in, I'd quite forgotten we'd had a butler."
"You don't, Sir. I'm Someone To See you, Sir."
"Ah... hello!"
Just brilliant
That Neil Innes song at the end is brilliant.
Absolutely couldn't think of a better use for beauty queens.
This episode (1/4) is superb! As good as any MP. No deadwood this episode, unlike the first 3.
The dead rock star predates Douglas Adams character in Restaurant At The End of The Universe, Hotblack Desiato of Disaster Area.wow.
Wow, it's Lemmy
"Is it Mrs. Thatcher?"
I wish...
real Bob Harris at the end!
That beard on idle in the beginning is like all beardy hipsters (including me) look no matter what we think. 😂
Another wonderful upload.....huge thanks again!
Yes! Amnesia, the fun game for....uh... sorry, I've forgotten.
IF only the whole show was Innes doing music
Ace!
The only part of this show that I remembered from its first broadcast was the showbiz butchers skit. Though I thought it involved Tony Blackburn for some reason.
...somebody's having harmonica difficulties XD
Is that Lemmy "playing" Stan Fitch the fist all dead singer ?
I thought so too at first but in the closeups you can tell it's not.
See Miss Scunthorpe, and others in “Beauty Queen Farming”. Growing, training and fattening of Beauty Queens. Animal husbandry.
Neil Innes Protest Song 23:50
Brilliant
***The Agrarian Economic Department reminds you to keep your lint free of contamination***
Hey, it’s Toad the Wet Sprocket!
…before they became a fictitious group in a Monty Python album sketch!
…and went on to become an actual band!
Yeah. I thought they were a real band. Guess they took their name from this show....
Is one of the Bingo Brothers Barry Wom?
dylan delight
Headphone/earbuds listeners, please note, there is a short but piercing tone right at the start.
It's there at the start of most of these RWT uploads and really should have been edited out. It does rather ruin the listening experience.
Toad the Wet Sprocket, Not much to lampoon.
I seriously doubt that a dog is more fun . . .
7:55 Lemmy ??
Yep!
are they making fun of a particular show and show host? i never saw television in rutland. i grew up a few miles away at shit-upon-arse
Is that near shitterton ?
Spoofing Hawkwind.
Barry in BW
And in colour on drums with Splint playing "Bandwagon"! (at 5.00)
I didn't see this the first time round, but to be honest I expected better from Eric. It tries hard to be Python and fails.
I don't think any of them were as good on their own. Each Python show was the product of five (six if Gilliam is included) people trying to outdo each other and/or collaborating together. Thus material that wasn't up to standard was rejected. There are some moments of genius in the RWT shows but then there are bits where you wonder why someone didn't just tell Idle that his script simply sucked.
Solo quality control or lack of it. As it were. Eric! NO! But much of RWT stands up well amusing
I like this better than Python which gets too silly alot of the time. There are actual jokes here instead of premises. Idle is hilarious.
I am re watching these and I have to disagree- I think RWT is really good. There are lots of hit and miss Monty Python material as well.
Ages better, and I could show my kids...