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	The Rutles
		The Rutles began life in 1975 as a sketch on a Eric Idle's BBC television series Rutland Weekend Television[?].
		Rutland was the smallest county in England until the local government re-organization of 1974 when it literally ceased to exist (it has since been restored).
		In 1976 BBC Records produced The Rutland Weekend Songbook, an album containing 23 tracks including two Rutles songs "I Must Be In Love" and "The Children of Rock and Roll" (later reworked as "Good Times Roll").
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/th/The_Rutles.html (763 words)

	Wikinfo \| Rutland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Rutland is England's smallest county and is bounded on the west and north by Leicestershire, northeast by Lincolnshire, and southeast by Northamptonshire.
		Historically, Rutland was a disconnected portion of Nottinghamshire, cut off from the remainder of that county by Leicestershire.
		At the centre of the county is a large reservoir, Rutland Water, which is an important nature reserve, serving as an overwintering site for wildfowl and a breeding site for Ospreys.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Rutland (286 words)

	Rutland Weekend Television (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Rutland Weekend Television was a television sketch show on BBC2, written by Eric Idle with music by Neil Innes (formerly of the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, longtime songwriter for and performer with Monty Python, and later to be part of musical acts The Grimms, The World, and The Rutles).
		Rutland had been abolished in the 1974 local government reforms (although it has since been restored), and the siting of the (fictional) TV network there was said to be a convenient tax dodge.
		Rutland The show's title alludes to the real television broadcaster London Weekend Television (London at the time being covered by two ITV franchises, one broadcasting Monday to Friday, and the other on weekends).
	honey.i.shrunk.the.kids.en.ogarnij.com.cob-web.org:8888 /en/Rutland+Weekend+Television (1138 words)

	Rutland Weekend Television - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rutland Weekend Television was a television sketch show on BBC2, written by Eric Idle with music by Neil Innes.
		Rutland Weekend Television or RWT centred on "Britain's smallest television network", situated in England's smallest county, Rutland.
		The show's title alludes to the real television broadcaster London Weekend Television (London at the time being covered by two ITV franchises, Thames Television broadcasting Monday to Friday, and LWT at weekends).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rutland_Weekend_Television (1594 words)

	Rutland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Earl of Rutland and Duke of Rutland are titles in the peerage of England, derived from the traditional county of Rutland.
		The Earl of Rutland was elevated to the status of Duke in 1703 and the titles were merged.
		The registration county of Rutland contained the entirety of Oakham and Uppingham RSDs, which included several parishes in Leicestershire and Northamptonshire - the eastern part in Stamford RSD was included in the Lincolnshire registration county.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rutland (1288 words)

	screenonline: Rutland Weekend Television (1975-76)
		Central to Rutland's output were its documentaries, which comically inverted familiar subjects; notable examples included a farmer breeding beauty queens and suburban streets turned into prisons, with the inmates being visited by
		The first series bowed out after RWT "overspent its budget"; with the penny pinching producers removing the set and costumes, the presenters were left draped in
		Rutland Weekend Television was last heard of in 1980, when the broadcaster unsuccessfully applied, through former cleaner Elsie Harbinger, for one of the 16 available ITV franchises.
	www.screenonline.org.uk /tv/id/1151085 (355 words)

	BBC - Comedy Guide - Rutland Weekend Television (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The title Rutland Weekend Television - both a reference to Britain's smallest county, Rutland, which had disappeared in 1974 with the redrawing of boundaries, and a pun on the ITV Friday-Sunday franchise for the capital, London Weekend Television - was suggested by John Cleese, who, according to Idle, was paid £1 for his trouble.
		The concept of using a television network as a launch-pad for the sketches allowed Idle a great deal of scope to tap various subjects and areas, but, ironically, his elaborate plans were undermined by the small budget allocated to the series by the BBC.
		The film was a triumph from the first frame to the last, and a resounding success not only for Idle but also for Innes, who provided a slew of spot-on Beatles song parodies, leading to a hit album and singles; a very-long-awaited sequel album was issued in 1996.
	www.bbc.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /comedy/guide/articles/r/rutlandweekendte_1299002724.shtml (820 words)

	Rutland Weekend Television NME article
		THAT WAS the song which closed the last episode of Rutland Weekend Television, and a lot of people must have guessed, watching Eric Idle and Neil Innes shivering and aggrieved in their empty TV studio, that the situation they were describing wasn't entirely fictional.
		The idea of Rutland, and its troubles, was born last year when Innes was appearing with the Pythons in their stage show at Drury Lane.
		I asked whether writing exclusively for Rutland brought any lack of inspiration; and he said no, things occurred to him like mad, that it was rather a nuisance really and he sometimes wished it would stop.
	orangecow.org /pythonet/rwt/nme.html (1603 words)

	Am I Right - Artist Summary Rutles
		'Rutland' isn't the smallest town in England, it's the smallest county.
		The Rutles were a regular feature in an ITV show called Rutland Weekend Television - allegedly the local broadcast of the forgotten county of England.
		Eric Idle, after Monty Python, made a TV series called Rutland Weekend Television, which was a spoof on London Weekend Television.
	www.amiright.com /artists/rutles.shtml (122 words)

	I Must Be In Love (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The first time "I Must Be In Love" was seen on T.V. in the U.K. was during episode 1 of the second series of "Rutland Weekend Television" on BBC2 on 12th November 1976.
		Rutland Weekend Television was a program supposedly produced by Britain's "smallest, cheapest independent television station." The clip had actually been recorded almost a year earlier on 24th November 1975, and was first shown during a comedy sequence on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" on October 2, 1976.
		This brief appearance of the bogus "Pre-Fab Four" on American TV caused a minor sensation, and NBC suggested a full-length special be made, for which the network provided both facilities and funding.
	www.jpgr.co.uk /col_k17125.html (308 words)

	screenonline: Rutland Weekend Television (1975-76) Synopsis
		The Rutland titles appear and the female presenter, sitting next to a vase of flowers, welcomes the viewers.
		Rutland's presenter returns with even more flowers and has also lost her memory.
		The Rutland Weekend Documentary follows Ron Grainger, a Worcestershire farmer who breeds beauty queens, feeding them hay and copies of Vogue.
	www.screenonline.org.uk /tv/id/1151085/synopsis.html (411 words)

	Television Heaven
		Although many of their sketches have now gone down in television comedy legend, there were plenty that were instantly forgettable.
		Eric Idle created and starred in Rutland Weekend Television, Michael Palin, in collaboration with Terry Jones made Ripping Yarns, as well as writing sketches for The Two Ronnies and appearing in Alan Bleasdale's GBH, and Cleese went on to co-write and star in another memorable sit-com, Fawlty Towers.
		At its most sublime, it was daring zany humour on a school-boy level, performed expertly by a group of grown up children for a grown up audience ready and eager to once again recapture the -unfettered by logic humour- of their lost childhood.
	www.televisionheaven.co.uk /python.htm (651 words)

	The Rutland Weekend Songbook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Rutland Weekend Songbook contains two early versions of Rutles songs.
		It is longer than the version in the film and has a background of screaming girls plus an intro by Eric Idle.
		It is taken from a sketch from Series 1 ep 3 of Rutland Weekend Television where Ron Lennon (Neil Innes) plays this track then fades away before the piano is removed by a giant hand.
	www.huwselby.com /rutles/rutlandweekendsongbook.htm (108 words)

	Rutland Weekend Television (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The title, (Rutland Weekend Television), was partly chosen because crew members knew they'd be working with very limited resources.
		Innes recalls the press preview at which the BBC bosses were congratulating themselves on producing a whole series for the cost of one Lulu Show.
		In addition to the brilliance of Neil's music and Eric's writing, the cast of RWT were all brilliant performers.
	www.neilinnes.org.cob-web.org:8888 /python/rwt.htm (663 words)

	The Making Of All You Need Is Cash
		NEIL INNES (Musician): I was in the Drury Lane shows with the Pythons when Eric Idle asked me if I'd be interested in doing music for his TV series, Rutland Weekend Television, which was still in the planning stages.
		IAN KEILL (Producer, Rutland Weekend Television): The Rutles were born out of something we did for the TV series.
		It was a miserable day, November 24, 1975, and we took a crew down to Denham Memorial Hall in Buckinghamshire, which we'd hired for £6.75, to film what turned out to be the first Rutles song.
	www.rutles.org /rqmag.html (1280 words)

	IFA in Rutland
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		Rutland is traditionally England's smallest county and is bounded on the west and north by Leicestershire, northeast by Lincolnshire, and southeast by Northamptonshire.
		The highest point of the county is Cold Overton Park at 197m/646ft.
	www.corporateangels.com /IFA-in-Rutland.html (773 words)

	The Rutles - Rutland Weekend Television (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Eric Idle, one of the members of Monty Python's Flying Circus, in 1975 created a programme for BBC2 in the United Kingdom, a show that ostensibly was a product of tiny regional Rutland Weekend Television.
		For many years Rutland was the smallest county in England, being only 152 square miles.
		In April 1974, owing to an appalling planning blunder on the part of the British government, it literally ceased to exist.
	www.rutlemania.org /rutles1.html (251 words)

	The Rutles - Nostalgia Central (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Rutland Weekend Television takes a look at the Pre-fab Four: Dirk, Barry, Stig and Nasty; better known as the Rutles.
		A parody of Beatlemania and the many serious documentaries made about The Beatles, The Rutles originally began as a sketch on Eric Idle's UK TV show Rutland Weekend Television (1975), showing the band (with Idle as Harrison) playing a slower version of I Must Be in Love in their movie A Hard Day's Rut.
		Lorne Michaels aired the clip on Saturday Night Live when Idle hosted in 1975, which led to a deal for the movie.
	www.nostalgiacentral.com /movies/rutles.htm (217 words)

	The Rutles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The band was named after the historic County of Rutland which was the smallest county in England.
		Two years later, when Eric Idle was asked to appear on the American NBC show Saturday Night (later to become Saturday Night Live), he took several video tape extracts from Rutland Weekend Television with him to screen on the show - including the Rutles clip.
		The latter generated a very positive audience response and led to a suggestion by SNL Executive Producer Lorne Michaels that the idea should be extended from a brief skit into a one-hour mock documentary.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Rutles (3613 words)

	"Rutland Weekend Television" (1975) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		from Los Angeles, CA Fans of Monty Python will have a sense of deja vu watching "Rutland Weekend," since Python Eric Idle carted over the same mindset and writing style to the tiny studio in BBC2 where all 14 episodes of Rutland Weekend were recorded.
		Even though many of the sketches fail, the easy wit of Eric's writing sees the audience through.
		Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for "Rutland Weekend Television" (1975)
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0072558 (395 words)

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		The band featured in the innovative children's TV series 'Do Not Adjust Your Set' with such luminaries as Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle and Terry Gilliam, and so began a long creative partnership with Monty Python, which would yield collaborative films, music and concert tours.
		With Eric Idle, Neil Innes co-instigated Rutland Weekend Television and thus the birth of The Rutles.
		This was parodied by NBC's Saturday Night live show, with Dan Ackroyd, John Belushi, Billy Murray, Mick Jagger and Paul Simon participating in the spoof of the Beatles story 'All You need Is Cash'.
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	Eric Idle // Idleized Heaven // Eric Idle: The Rutland Isles
		It's been 20 years since Monty Python's last movie, "The Meaning of Life," and ex-Python Eric Idle hasn't modified his comedic style one whit.
		Python fans will recognize the "Rutle" in Rutland; Idle was responsible for a short-lived TV series called "Rutland Weekend Television" in the '60s and also "The Rutles," perhaps the first spoof music documentary.
		The Rutland Isles are filled with paranoid natives who keep saying, "Look out behind you!" as well as randy Frenchmen, randy scientists, randy soldiers, randy fauna and...
	www.eric-idle.com /interview46.html (312 words)

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		Apologies for the poor quality of this one, but it's the best I could get.
		She's from 'Rutland Weekend Television', Eric Idle's post-Python series on the BBC in the mid-70s.
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	Rutland Weekend Television: Introducing George Harrison as Pirate "Bob" » Needcoffee.com
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	neilinnes.org The Rutles (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Learn the whole story of the Rutles from RWT through Archaeology at John Hazelton's
		Rutland Weekend Television articles and photos and such
		From 1975, a very good article about Rutland Weekend Television.
	www.neilinnes.org.cob-web.org:8888 /rutles.htm (352 words)

	YouTube - Rutland Weekend Television - Gibberish
		Are they spoofing LWT (London Weekend Television) :-P LOL
		Eric Idle and Henry Woolf in a sketch fr Eric Idle and Henry Woolf in a sketch from Idle's post-Python show, Rutland Weekend Television.
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	www.youtube.com /watch?v=hU0QZQRTNr0 (194 words)

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