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	At Last the 1948 Show - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		At Last the 1948 Show was a satirical TV show made by David Frost's Paradine Productions in association with Rediffusion London for Britain's ITV network during 1967, bringing Cambridge Footlights type-humour to a broader audience.
		The shows had no relationship to the year 1948; the title simply referred to the BBC's annoying habit of letting new shows sit on the shelves for months at a time before broadcasting them.
		Several of the show's sketches were later revived by the Monty Python team for their two German TV specials (Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus) and for their stage shows, including the "Four Yorkshiremen sketch", which was performed on the stage show Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/At_Last_the_1948_Show (468 words)

	Moving History
		The 1967 ITV series 'At Last the 1948 Show' was a forerunner to the legendary and anarchic comedy sketch series 'Monty Python's Flying Circus', first screened on BBC in 1969.
		Apart from the 'Monty Python' legacy, 'At Last the 1948 Show' was significant in helping to establish the careers of Marty Feldman who went on to star in his own shows and Tim Brooke-Taylor who went on to form part of 'The Goodies' (1970-77).
		The shows were only broadcast in a small number of ITV regions and only in the London area were all thirteen shown in full and in the correct order.
	www.movinghistory.ac.uk /archives/bt/films/last.html (192 words)

	Four Yorkshiremen sketch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Four Yorkshiremen sketch was originally written for the British television comedy series At Last the 1948 Show, and was co-written by the show's four writers/performers John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Marty Feldman.
		The four creators performing their original "Four Yorkshiremen sketch" is one of the surviving sketches of the program and can be seen on the At Last the 1948 Show DVD.
		This has led to the inevitable result of the "Four Yorkshiremen sketch" now being considered a Monty Python sketch, with the origin of the sketch, and also the co-authorship of the sketch by the non-Monty Python writers Tim Brooke-Taylor and Marty Feldman, being unfortunately overlooked, or forgotten, by many people.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Four_Yorkshiremen_sketch (443 words)

	DVD Talk > Reviews > At Last the 1948 Show
		Audio elements for most of the shows have always existed, but videotape was expensive back in the 60s, and almost all programming suffered the fate of erasure at some point in their tenure.
		At Last, The 1948 Show was considered an unsalvageable memory from the past until a set of filmed kinescopes were discovered recently.
		Throughout At Last, The 1948 Show, he is fantastic and deeply fascinating.
	www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/read.php?ID=16810 (2269 words)

	JS Online: Monty Python precursor from '67 released on DVD
		All five episodes of "At Last the 1948 Show" have been released on a two-disc DVD with modest extras, including interviews with an ebullient Terry Jones and Tim Brooke-Taylor, who was one of the stars of the show.
		"At Last the 1948 Show" is intermittently hilarious, a sort of halfway house of a show that has a lot of the surrealism of the Python shows, but hasn't quite found its rhythm yet.
		The shows seem to derive from decent-quality kinescopes, and there are some good laughs, especially a delightful early version of The Four Yorkshireman sketch ("My father made us eat gravel, then beat us about the heads with broken bottles," says one.
	www.jsonline.com /onwisconsin/movies/video/sep05/352564.asp (288 words)

	PRESS RELEASE See the Python Clan Before Monty Python's Flying Circus in Two of Britain's Funniest Television Shows! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		AT LAST THE 1948 SHOW and DO NOT ADJUST YOUR SET laid the groundwork for the Monty Python's Flying Circus series and starred all of the eventual cast members of Monty Python's Flying Circus, including John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Graham Chapman and Michael Palin.
		Certainly anybody who remembers the shows from the first time around will want to own these classics; as will all fans of "Monty Python." But this is also an opportunity for a brand-new audience, those who have never had the pleasure of laughing incessantly to these examples of comedy genius.
		AT LAST THE 1948 SHOW was written and performed by Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graham Chapman, John Cleese and Marty Feldman (in his first television appearance).
	www.marketwire.com /mw/release_html_b1?release_id=88284 (725 words)

	BBC - Comedy Guide - At Last The 1948 Show
		In the family tree that plots the birth of Monty Python's Flying Circus in 1969, At Last The 1948 Show, from 1967, is the main supporting branch.
		The fifth member of the 1948 team, not a writer, was 'the lovely Aimi Macdonald', a dumb-blonde character who, by way of a long-running premise, thought that she was the star of the show.
		The show's unusual title was, supposedly, a wry comment from Cleese relating to the length of time that it took programme controllers to green-light a show.
	www.bbc.co.uk /comedy/guide/articles/a/atlastthe1948sho_7770420.shtml (359 words)

	Cleese, John
		The quality of invention in At Last the 1948 Show was consistently high and it gave the world of comedy one of its most enduring pieces--the "Four Yorkshiremen" sketch.
		In At Last the 1948 Show, Cleese's appearances with Marty Feldman have a particular resonance.
		The intricate flow of each show, the abandonment of the traditional "punch line" to a sketch, the knowing experimentation with the medium and the general air of silliness combined with obscure intellectualism set a standard which those comedians who followed found it hard to get away from.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/C/htmlC/cleesejohn/cleesejohn.htm (1410 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Special Report \| 1999 \| 10/99 \| Monty Python \| And now for something completely different?
		The TV sketch show was also undergoing change in the 1960s, with comedy writers feeling freer to tackle a wide range of issues.
		At Last The 1948 Show - a title inspired by a Cleese quip about the speed of decisions from TV bosses - became a show within a show.
		Despite these efforts to parody the format of the TV sketch show, the Pythons, who began discussing a new show at the start of 1969, were beaten to the drop by one of the greats of British comedy - Spike Milligan.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/special_report/1999/10/99/monty_python/454442.stm (971 words)

	At Last, the 1948 Show!
		Working on the series helped cement the Python belief that sketches did not have to have punchlines to be successful, because while many 1948 Show sketches were among the best the team ever wrote, they could rarely think of a punchline that merited the orchestral stinger-zoom that always accompanied such last bad jokes.
		Several 1948 Show sketches eventually found their way into Python, including "Four Yorkshiremen" in the live performances, "Bookshop" on the Contractual Obligation album (and "Nude Woman Memory Course" was also performed but cut from the final album), and the "Hearing Aid" sketch in German Show 2.
		V indicates sketch survives in vision; A indicates an audio recording of the soundtrack to the sketch is known to exist.
	orangecow.org /pythonet/1948show (1253 words)

	Daily Llama - NEWS 2005_05_30 - Pre-Python Rarities Coming to DVD
		The show's name was allegedly suggested by John Cleese, commenting on how long it took the BBC to greenlight shows.
		When the shows finally aired, fl and white television was on its way out, so it was remarkable any of the episodes aired.
		The show was intended to be a children's program, but its silliness and clever skits also appealed to adult audiences.
	www.dailyllama.com /news/2005/llama294.html (778 words)

	Movie Titles - Your DVD Search Results (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		I first saw At Last the 1948 Show when it was first screened, and it was a revelation then.
		While pretending to be an airhead who thinks the whole show is about her, she actually made the whole show revolve around her.
		Here are five old half hour television shows that are important only to those interested in the subsequent histories of the participants.
	www.movietitles.com /results.html?id=B0009GX1ZQ (277 words)

	Thrilling Days of Yesteryear : "Nostalgia isn't what it used to be." -- Peter DeVries
		Before John Cleese and Graham Chapman achieved superstardom as part of the troupe known as Monty Python, they honed their comedic talents on a 1967 British sketch comedy series entitled At Last the 1948 Show (so named because Cleese wryly remarked that’s how long it took the network to green-light the series).
		1948 Show was a bubble-headed blonde named Aimi Macdonald who, as part of a running gag, had convinced herself that she was the program’s star and main attraction.
		The other Goldhil offering is Do Not Adjust Your Set (subtitled “The Fairly Pointless Show”), a children’s program which premiered in the same year and featured four future members of Python: Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam (who provided drawings for the show, much in the same way he contributed Python’s animated segments).
	blogs.salon.com /0003139/2005/04/29.html (927 words)

	TV Gold Comedy - At Last The 1948 Show (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		At Last The 1948 Show brought together some of Britian's best comedic talent such as John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Marty Feldman, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Bill Oddie and Barry Crier.
		Produced with the sardonic wit of the 'man of the moment', David Frost, the show broke the mould with its haphazard slapstick approach.
		Although the show may not have been that much of a success, it did pave the way for numerous comedy classics such as Monty Python's Flying Circus and The Goodies.
	www.tvfetish.net /TVGC_AtLast.htm (321 words)

	Television Heaven \| At Last The 1948 Show
		Another show, that alongside The Frost Report and Do Not Adjust Your Set, lead directly to the life of Python, and one that brought together some of the leading comedy writers and performers who would be tickling the public's funny bone for the next two decades or more.
		Years later, when the Python team put together a live show and released an album entitled 'Monty Python Live at Drury Lane', they revived the Yorkshiremen sketch and it became (or was considered) part of Python's repertoire.
		Although by no means complete, added to the two single episodes that managed to survive, and a complete set of audio tapes, in one form or another, the entire two series of At Last The 1948 Show has been preserved for the enjoyment of future generations.
	www.televisionheaven.co.uk /atlast.htm (283 words)

	DVD Review:
		And since the shows were recorded virtually live, its wonderful to see when something goes wrong, such as the Policemen in Drag, where they're all obviously struggling to keep from laughing.
		It might be worth noting that the picture and sound quality of the shows (particularly in the case of "At Last the 1948 Show") were probably a bit clearer than seen on these DVDs.
		Griping aside, the shows are a lot of fun and feature many hilarious sketches including Tim Brooke-Taylor doing the Chartered Accountant Dance; Let's Speak English with Cleese at the top of his form; and the original Four Yorkshiremen.
	www.killermovies.com /dvd/2165.html (1188 words)

	Thrilling Days of Yesteryear : "Nostalgia isn't what it used to be." -- Peter DeVries
		At Last the 1948 Show have a distinctive
		He asks each one of them about the name they’re to use, and apparently the three of them decided to ad-lib something completely different because Brooke-Taylor is completely unable to maintain his composure (he acknowledges that it was unprofessional of him as an actor, but pretty damn funny otherwise).
		I did not realize at the time that this would be difficult to do; in the latest edition of The Radio Times Guide to TV Comedy, editor Mark Lewisohn reveals that only two episodes from that series have survived.
	blogs.salon.com /0003139/2005/08/24.html (581 words)

	Market Wire News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Tango Entertainment is proud to debut AT LAST THE 1948 SHOW and DO NOT ADJUST YOUR SET on July 26.
		Not seen for decades, AT LAST THE 1948 SHOW and DO NOT ADJUST YOUR SET have an appeal across the board and are pure comedy gold.
		The show was originally labeled a children's program, but its silliness and clever skits also appealed to adult audiences.
	www.marketwire.com /mw/release_printer_friendly?release_id=88284&category= (681 words)

	United Kingdom Arts and Entertainment Television Programmes Comedy At Last the 1948 Show (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		BBC Comedy Guide: At Last The 1948 Show - Article providing a concise overview of the show, with broadcast dates, and details of writers and performers.
		Screenonline: At Last The 1948 Show - Brief description of the show's history and impact, with production details and a list of cast and crew.
		TV Gold Comedy: At Last The 1948 Show - Describes the format of the programme, and provides career details for some prominent cast members.
	www.iper1.com /iper1-odp/scat/id/Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/Arts_and_Entertainment/Television/Programmes/Comedy/At_Last_the_1948_Show (209 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - At Last The 1948 Show
		Most of At Last the 1948 Show's 13 episodes remain lost, but these five episodes were recently rediscovered.
		The show is hosted by (the lovely) Aimi MacDonald (Vendetta for the Saint), who fills in the spaces between the sketches but appears in only one across the five episodes.
		On her own, a number of the jokes fall flat, almost as though she was being used to highlight how funny the rest of the team were.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/atlast1948show.php (1062 words)

	DVD Times - Do Not Adjust Your Set (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Along with At Last the 1948 Show you can see the roots of Monty Python’s Flying Circus: certainly the surreal style and lashings of good old English silliness, minus the harder-edged, more adult material that John Cleese and Graham Chapman contributed to Python.
		The fourth show of the first series (the second on this DVD) won a prize at the Prix Jeunesse International TV Festival in Munich in June 1968.
		As I write this (July 2005), nine of the thirteen shows in the first series, produced by Rediffusion, survive in the archive as 16mm film recordings, and these comprise the contents of this DVD.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=57899 (1388 words)

	Marty Feldman @ Filmbug
		For British television they wrote sit-coms The Army Game, Bootsie and Snudge, and most notably the ground-breaking BBC radio show Round the Horne, which starred Kenneth Horne and Kenneth Williams and also benefitted from future Pythonites Michael Palin and Terry Jones co-writing with Barry Took.
		In a memorable sketch for At Last the 1948 Show (1/3/1967) ambiguous date - see Talk Page, (a series which featured Feldman's first screen performances) Feldman harassed a patient shop assistant John Cleese for the (sadly) fictitious book Ethel the Aardvark goes Quantity Surveying.
		He directed and starred in The Last Remake of Beau Geste and died from a heart attack in Mexico filming his last performance in the film Yellowbeard.
	www.filmbug.com /db/34873 (347 words)

	At Last the 1948 Show TV Show - At Last the 1948 Show Television Show - TV.com
		Fresh from their successful writing on The Frost Report were Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graham Chapman, John Cleese and Marty Feldman, the latter of whom made At Last the 1948 Show his television debut.
		Each writer brought his own forte to the scripting of At Last the 1948 Show.
		At Last the 1948 Show Cast and Crew
	tv.com /at-last-the-1948-show/show/11768/summary.html&full_summary=1 (166 words)

	Amazon.com: So You'd Like to... Watch Sketch Comedy on DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Martin Short joins the cast in the last few episodes, filling an empty space that will soon be left by Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas and Catherine O'Hara who all leave after this cycle.
		Show and SCTV, then you can't miss with this.
		Show - The Complete Series (Seasons 1 - 4)': Every episode of HBO's fantastic late-night sketch show.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/guides/guide-display/-/2ZZIO1JOR7ET1 (709 words)

	At Last The 1948 Show - Nostalgia Central (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		At Last The 1948 Show - Nostalgia Central
		This show and Do Not Adjust Your Set in many ways laid the groundwork for the eventual Python series.
		The title of At Last the 1948 Show apparently came from a throwaway remark by John Cleese about the time that it took program controllers to green-light a show.
	www.nostalgiacentral.com /tv/comedy/atlast1948.htm (187 words)

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