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	Mel Smith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Smith's father Kenneth was born in Tow Law, County Durham, and worked at a coal mine in the Second World War looking after the pit ponies.
		This was followed briefly by Smith and Goody (with Bob Goody) and then the comedy sketch series Alas Smith and Jones, co-starring Griff Rhys Jones, its title being a pun on the name of the American TV series Alias Smith and Jones.
		Smith and Jones were reunited in 2005 for a review/revival of their previous TV series in "The Alas Smith And Jones Sketchbook".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mel_Smith (925 words)

	BBC - Comedy Guide - Smith And Jones
		Smith and Jones switched to BBC1 and returned to the now Alas-less sketch format, the first series being launched one week after the final Smith And Jones In Small Doses comedy playlet on BBC2.
		Similar in format to Alas Smith And Jones, the pair were determined to maintain the new show's contemporary feel, and among the targets of the humour this time was the then current open-ended C4 chat-show After Dark, and modern phenomena such as squeegee-wielding windscreen washers at traffic lights and New Age travellers.
		Smith and Jones performed a 'head to head' routine for A Royal Celebration (ITV, 14 November 1998), an all-star extravaganza performed for Prince Charles on the occasion of his 50th birthday.
	www.bbc.co.uk /comedy/guide/articles/s/smithandjones_7775885.shtml (529 words)

	Film \| Alas Mel Smith
		The standards he measures himself against are tough; Smith is part of that Oxbridge caucus that dominated British film and TV in the 1980s.
		Apart from Rhys Jones, Smith's double-act partner for four years, Smith is most admiring of Amiel and Madden.
		Apart from those years of popularity in the sketch show Alas Smith and Jones, he recently made £20m from the sale of his and Rhys Jones's production company, Talkback, the makers of Da Ali G Show, Never Mind the Buzzcocks and They Think It's All Over.
	film.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4222814-101730,00.html (1472 words)

	Alas Smith and Jones - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alas Smith and Jones was a British comedy sketch series featuring Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones.
		The series was one of the first to be commissioned by the BBC from an independent company, Talkback Television of which Smith and Jones were also directors.
		In 2006 Smith and Jones returned with "The Smith and Jones Sketchbook", recorded in front of a live audience acting as a look back at their earlier shows.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alas_Smith_and_Jones (406 words)

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		Rhys Jones as Bambi Bambi Bambi Gascoigne (with considerable emphasis...
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	Alias Smith and Jones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Alias Smith and Jones really tanked after Pete Duel killed himself and was replaced by Roger Davis.
		Alias Smith and Jones jumped the shark when Pete Duel died and was replaced by another actor whose face I can remember but the name escapes me.
		Alas, as everyone else has said, "Alias Smith and Jones" jumped the shark the day Pete Duel died.
	www.jumptheshark.com /a/aliassmithandjones.htm (3531 words)

	Fine Line Features \| Twelfth Night \| Cast Biographies
		Mel Smith is a comic polymath - a writer, director and performer on stage, in films and on television.
		Smith's stage appearances include "Charley's Aunt" and "The Gambler" in the West End and he and Griff Rhys-Jones have toured internationally.
		Smith has been an associate director of The Crucible Sheffield and The Young Vic and has directed for tours and in the West End.
	www.finelinefeatures.com /twelfth/castbios.htm (1266 words)

	BBC - Comedy Guide - Alas Smith And Jones
		Alas Smith And Jones - the title being a punning twist on the popular US cowboy series Alias Smith And Jones - was an unpretentious sketch show that, at times, touched the heights.
		The principal difference, though, were the 'head to head' - sequences, in which the two men sat face-to-face and pursued abstract conversations about any subject under the sun, Smith being the rather superior know-all (who actually knew very little), Jones, terminally dense, speaking with a 'thicko' voice and employing a bizarre logic and insatiable curiosity.
		Although a double-act, Smith and Jones were not typical of the genre: either - or both, or neither - could play the funny-man or the foil, depending on the material.
	bbc.co.uk /comedy/guide/articles/a/alassmithandjone_1299002882.shtml (568 words)

	screenonline: Smith, Mel (1952-) Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The son of a Chiswick bookie, Smith was already directing plays at six years old, when he staged 'Little Plays for Little People' with his friends.
		Their personas complemented each other perfectly, especially in the 'head to head' conversations between a know-it-all Smith and a bemused Jones.
		Smith's vocal talents can be heard every Christmas in the title role of
	www.screenonline.org.uk /people/id/526237 (453 words)

	Mel Smith
		Mel Smith (born December 3, 1952) British actor, film director, writer, producer born in London, England.
		Made his breakthrough in the topically satirical BBC television series Not the Nine O'Clock News.
		This was followed by the comedy sketch series Alas Smith and Jones, co-starring Griff Rhys Jones, its title being a pun on the name of the American TV series Alias Smith and Jones[?].
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/me/Mel_Smith.html (107 words)

	Alas Smith And Jones (Summary/Cast) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Griff Rhys Jones, who had appeared in the Footlights Review at Cambridge University, was working as a BBC radio producer when Not the Nine O'Clock News first aired.
		After Not the Nine O'Clock News ended, Smith and Jones decided to continue their partnership and were offered a series by the BBC.
		Alas Smith And Jones is probably best remembered for the "head to head" sequences, where a pompous "know it all" (Mel Smith) pontificates about a topical subject while his rather dim friend (Griff Rhys Jones) tries, usually unsuccessfully, to make sense of what's being said.
	www.phill.co.uk /comedy/alas (212 words)

	Lycos Movies - Celebrity - Mel Smith
		Smith gained some notoriety on the trend-setting comedy "Not the Nine O'Clock News" (BBC, 1979-82) with Griff Rhys-Jones and Rowan Atkinson.
		Not unlike the early "Saturday Night Live", the series was an irreverent satirical revue that ran the gamut from purely tasteless to memorably brilliant.
		Smith teamed with Rhys-Jones to write and star in the top-rated sketch comedy program "Alas Smith and Jones".
	entertainment.lycos.com /movies/celebrity.php?id=10865 (128 words)

	The DVD Maniacs - Forum - 'ALAS SMITH AND JONES'
		Two comedians, Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones, worked together on a series of skits over about a 35 minute format.
		Alas Smith and Jones relied on more low key performances than those others, less slapstick.
		Mel Smith has been in a few movies, eg Bean and the Princess Bride.
	www.dvdmaniacs.net /forums/showthread.php?t=20170 (235 words)

	Amazon.fr : To the Baltic with Bob: Livres en anglais: Griff Rhys Jones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Comedian Griff Rhys Jones, and theBob of To the Baltic with Bob, would fall, decidedly, into the "gentlemen" category of mariner: enthusiasts, amateurs in the original sense of the word and therefore, naturally, inept sailors.
		(Rhys Jones pins the blame for his obsession with all things nautical on Arthur Ransome and on his late father, who made the freezing West Mercia boat park the family's home from home.) Luckily for Rhys Jones, his mate Bob is a marginally worse yachtsman.
		The wayward sea, estuary and canal route through Holland, Denmark, Latvia, Finland, Russia and the Turko Archipelago--"so topographically complex that it was expedient not to draw it"--results, predictably, in a slew of map-prodding nautical mishaps and encounters with intransigent boat repairers, officials, restaurateurs and Estonian lap dancers.
	www.amazon.fr /Baltic-Bob-Griff-Rhys-Jones/dp/0141805080 (521 words)

	Forum: Alas Smith, Jones and Lewis - Bob Bagnall has been refining his hypothesis of name and fame - 16 November 1991 - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Forum: Alas Smith, Jones and Lewis - Bob Bagnall has been refining his hypothesis of name and fame
		Two years ago, I proposed in Forum Bagnall's hypothesis of scientific eminence, in which the likelihood of fame was inversely related to the frequency of surname ('The importance of not being Smith', 10 June 1989).
		As examples I gave the surnames Smith, Jones and White, since I could not recall a single scientific law attributable to anyone of these names.
	www.newscientist.com /article/mg13217955.000.html (251 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Opinion - Close call, but no cigar
		Smith, best known for his comic turns on Not The Nine O'Clock News and Alas Smith and Jones, has been receiving praise for his straight role as Britain's wartime leader in Allegiance, which portrays an unlikely friendship with Irish rebel Michael Collins.
		The play is heading to Edinburgh's Fringe and, as we report today, Smith is furious that the Scottish Executive smoking ban means he won't be able to light up a trademark cigar to complete his impersonation of Churchill.
		Exemptions should have protected personal liberty and artistic integrity - the former by permitting smoking in private clubs, the latter, as may yet be the case in England, by allowing smoking on stage when the material justifies its inclusion.
	news.scotsman.com /opinion.cfm?id=1033522006 (1960 words)

	Mel Smith Biography :: Hollywood.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Smith played character parts in films before making the transition to feature directing with "The Tall Guy" (1989), a pleasantly quirky comedy starring Jeff Goldblum and Emma Thompson and featured old colleague Atkinson in a memorable supporting role.
		Smith has also distinguished himself as a comic advertising director, his spots for Carling Black Label received a Silver Lion at Cannes.
		Smith returned to American screens for the little-seen old-fashioned comedy "Brain Donors" (1992), playing the Chico Marx figure.
	www.hollywood.com /celebs/fulldetail/id/195508 (522 words)

	Alas Smith and Jones online - information and memorabilia. 80's TV/Movies, 80's Television and more! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Alas Smith and Jones online - information and memorabilia.
		Now oddly, Alas Smith and Jones was an incredibly funny sketch show featuring Mel and Griff as a variety of characters in amusing situations.
		One consistent piece that appeared in ever episode, was a conversation between Mel and Griff, in which only the profiles of their heads were seen and they'd discuss a random topic.
	www.doyouremember.co.uk /memory.asp?ID=686 (286 words)

	Any Old Actress // Mariel's Favorite Actresses [Miranda Richardson]
		Alas Smith & Jones (1984) in episode: "The Unprepared Version" (episode # 5.6) 1989
		Alas Smith & Jones (1984) in episode: "The Undiscovered Version" (episode # 5.5) 1989
		Alas Smith & Jones (1984) in episode: "The Untouchable Version" (episode # 5.4) 1989
	www.anyoldactress.com /mirandarichardsonfilms.html (298 words)

	Alas Smith & Jones (a Titles & Air Dates Guide) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Alas Smith & Jones (a Titles & Air Dates Guide)
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	epguides.com /AlasSmithandJones (614 words)

	Any Old Actress // Mariel's Favorite Actresses [Brenda Blethyn]
		Alas Smith & Jones (1984) (episode # 6.5) 1990
		Alas Smith & Jones (1984) (episode # 6.4) 1990
		Alas Smith & Jones (1984) (episode # 6.3) 1990
	www.anyoldactress.com /brendablethynfilms.html (222 words)

	Alas.... Smith and Jones - Family History Gone Crazy
		Smith and Jones - Family History Gone Crazy
		You're trying to research your family history and - oh no - you find you're descended from a line of Smiths.
		This website has absolutely no connection with a very old TV programme starring Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones - so there.
	www.alassmithandjones.com (113 words)

	Mel Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Mel Smith was born in Chiswick, London (UK) on December 3, 1952.
		"Smith and Jones in Small Doses" (1989) TV Series
		"World According to Smith & Jones, The" (1987) TV Series....
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	Amazon.co.uk: Smith And Jones - One Night Stand [1984]: Video: Dominic Brigstocke,John Kilby,Martin Shardlow,Graham C. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Amazon.co.uk: Smith And Jones - One Night Stand [1984]: Video: Dominic Brigstocke,John Kilby,Martin Shardlow,Graham C. Williams,Chris Bould,Robin Carr,Mel Smith,Griff Rhys Jones,Sarah Alexander,Annette Lynton,Raymond Mason,Simon Greenall,Andrew Francis (II),Chris Langham,Kim Clifford,Annabel Leventon,Heather Tobias,Robin Driscoll
		Smith And Jones - One Night Stand [1984]
		Smith and Jones filmed live and 18 rated.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Smith-Jones-One-Night-Stand/dp/B000057UCC (111 words)

	Alas, Smith & Jones, searching for golfing acceptance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Alas, Smith and Jones, searching for golfing acceptance
		Welcome to the annals of ” Desperate” Denis Smith and “Luckless" Len Jones - the two most unsuccessful duffers in the history of the Game of Golf.
		And in all the tournaments they played, they never beat anyone.
	www.thebunkerboys.com /Alas.htm (563 words)

	Pete Duel Articles
		"as Smith in the 'Alias Smith and Jones'", The Magazine for Young Age (Japanese), May 1972.
		"'Alias Smith and Jones' Star Ben Murphy: I Was Shocked at What ABC-TV Did After Pete Duel's Death", National Enquirer, April 26, 1972.
		Today, The First Chapter of 'Alias Smith and Jones'", Sunday December 31 (1972), 4:00 PM, "Afternoon for All".
	www.asjcollection.com /current/pdart.html (8309 words)

	Movie Info for Smith and Jones in Small Doses on MSN Movies
		The stars of the British laughfest Alas Smith and Jones briefly abandoned their traditional sketch-comedy format in favor of brief "book" shows.
		The four 20-minute playlets offered herein included "The Whole Hog," "The Boat People," "Second Thoughts," and "The Waiting Room." Exercising their usual prerogative, Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones wrote most of their own material, which sometimes required the services of stunt coordinator Tom Delmar.
		Smith and Jones in Small Doses aired over BBC2 from October 19 to November 9, 1989.
	movies.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=526461 (104 words)

	Reviewed: Alas Smith And Jones - [Sunday Herald]
		The casting of MTV's Ÿbercool skate-dude masochist Johnny Knoxville as a two-headed alien; the token extra scenes for the mildly amusing worm guys of the first movie É there's a joyless cynicism about this sequel.
		The original film's playful use of scale Ð the giant aliens playing marbles with Earth, the galaxy hanging from a cat's collar Ð has been appropriated by MIB II and squeezed until every last drop of delightful surprise has gone.
		It's almost as though Smith pointed his flashing neuraliser device at the audience and erased all memory of anything novel or funny.
	www.sundayherald.com /26529 (1243 words)

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