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THE LAST LAUGH

Director: John Bird
Cast: John Bird, Timothy Birdsall, Eleanor Bron, Peter Cook, Geoff Pattie and Adrian Slade.
Cambridge Footlights revue, for which he contributed, and appeared, in the following sketches:-

Polar Bores

Oedipus Rex

For Fox Sake

Don't Ask Me

Guilty Party

Friend & Neighbours

Mr Moses

Entitytainment

Mr Grole (E.L.Wisty)

The entire political revue was set in an underground nuclear bunker, with the threat of imminent nuclear destruction.

PIECES OF EIGHT

Director: Paddy Stone.
Cast: Kenneth Williams (among others)

The West End revue, for which Peter contributed thirteen of the thirty-two sketches, which were performed by Kenneth Williams. Cook's sketches included (among others):-

Mr Moses

The Laughing Grains

Onu Beeby Frisky (song)

POP GOES MRS JESSUP

Director: John Wood.
Cast: Peter Bellwood, Mike Burrell, Peter Cook, David Frost and Hugh Walters.

Cambridge Footlights revue, of which Cook wrote, and appeared in, sixteen of the twenty-nine. Titles included:-

Peace

Ducks

Interesting Facts

One Leg Too Few

Whose Finger on What Button?

The Ballad of Sir Frederick Snain

Pomegranates, Wild Fish and the -

Forest Melodies of Andalusia

BEYOND THE FRINGE (EDINBURGH)

Cast: Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Jonathan Miller, Alan Bennett.

Official production. Among the sketches:-

Old J.J.
Bollard
Royal Box
Bird Watching
Critics' Choice
Aftermyth of War
Sitting on the Bench
So That's The Way You Like It
Whose Finger on What Button?
So That's the Way You Like It
This is the End of the World

The Prime Minister - Harold Macmillan impersonation was added not long after, and became the centrepiece of the show.
See below for DVD of 1964 version.

ONE OVER THE EIGHT

Director: Paddy Stone
Cast: John Howard, Lance Percival, Kenneth Williams.

West End revue, for which Cook wrote ten of thirty-one sketches for Kenneth Williams. Sketches included:-

Interesting Facts
Critics' Choice

BEYOND THE FRINGE
(NEW YORK & BBC)

Cast: Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Paxton Whitehead (replacing Jonathan Miller), Alan Bennett.

New expanded version had the sketches:-

The Great Train Robbery

One Leg Too Few

Filmed for television on 12th December 1964.

Update: Astonishingly the now recovered
footage is available on DVD (116m)

ON THE BRADEN BEAT (ITV)

Performed twenty monologues as
E.L Wisty on Bernard Braden's ITV comedy series, including:-

Food for Thought

O'er Hill and Dale

Spindly Legs

The Plib

Are You Spotty

C.P. Snow

A Bee Life

Royalty

Man's Best Friend

World Domination League

The Tadpole Expert

Peace Through Nudism

The Man who Invented the Wheel

The E.L. Wisty Festival of the Arts

(released on LP and cassette, see output)
Released on the LP The Misty Mr Wisty (LK 4722), it contains the fourteen sketches above.

Availability: Reissued on An Evening with Peter Cook & Dudley Moore and E.L.Wisty

NOT ONLY . . . BUT ALSO (BBC)

Series 1: 7 x 45m programmes transmitted fortnightly from 9th January 1965.

Episode No. 1
Tour Gastronomique
(de la route Circular du Nord)
Sir Gregory Northumberland
Pete 'n' Dud - "Bloody Greta Garbo"

Episode No. 2
"The "Great War" spoof
Sir Arthur Streeb Greebling visits the
tailor (partially exists)
Pete 'n' Dud - "The worst thing that
could happen to anybody"
Alan A'Dale

Episode No. 3
Order of St Beryl (Leaping Nuns)
Pete 'n' Dud - "The Art Gallery"
Father and Son sketch about
prospective "son-in-law"
Incidents in the Life of my Uncle Arly
(Edward Lear poem)
(Featured Barry Humphries as a grave- digger)

Episode No. 4-7 DESTROYED!
The second half of the series was destroyed by the BBC for posterity. Sketches deleted included Peter Sellers as a boxer, Eric Sykes as a freemason, Old J.J. - the initials sketch and Pete'n' Dud (on failing to pick up girls on busses) among many others.

One sketch remains, set in a restaurant, which ends with Dudley covered in spaghetti. Some of the deleted material exists on soundtrack, however, and, in the case of Pete 'n' Dud, in script form (The Dagenham Dialogues).

ROYAL VARIETY PERFORMANCE (ITV)

London Palladium show with Dudley Moore. Broadcast 11th November 1965.

Included a unique Pete'n'Dud penned for Royalty.

NOT ONLY . . . BUT ALSO (BBC)

Series 2: 7 x 30m programmes transmitted fortnightly from 15th January 1966, and 1 x 52m Christmas special on 26th December 1966.

Episode No.1
The Fight of the Century
Pete 'n' Dud "The Zoo"
A Bit of a Chat

Episodes No. 2 - 6 DESTROYED!
Only The Walrus and the Carpenter remains intact from these episodes. Thankfully some of the best deleted sketches are available on soundtrack:-

Frog and Peach
Six Of The Best
Father and Son
The Psychiatrist
The Music Teacher
Pete 'n' Dud "Sex"

Episode No .7
Superthunderstingcar
Bo Dudley
Pete 'n' Dud "Bloody Hell"

ALICE IN WONDERLAND (BBC)

Producor: Jonathan Miller
Cast: Anne-Marie Mallik (Alice), Peter Cook (Mad Hatter), John Bird (Frog Footman),
Peter Sellers (King of Hearts).

Peter Cook plays a cameo in this faithful, big budget BBC adaptation.

Now available on DVD

THE WRONG BOX (FILM)

Director: by Bryan Forbes.
Cast: Ralph Richardson, John Mills, Michael Caine, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Nanette Newman, Peter Sellers, Tony Hancock and Wilfrid Lawson.

Black comedy set in Victorian England, involves everyone competing for an inheritance.

Based on a Robert Louis Stevenson story.

BEDAZZLED (FILM)

Director: Stanley Donen.
Screenplay: Peter Cook
Cast: Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Eleanor Bron, Michael Bates, Barry Humphries and Raquel Welch.

Extremely funny update of Faust legend is a cult-classic. Peter plays Lucifer (George Spiggott), Dudley plays Stanley Moon.

Now available on DVD.

GOODBYE AGAIN (ITV)

4 x 60m programmes transmitted from 18th August 1968.

Less successful than NOBA and aimed at the US market. Included:-

Sherlock Homes Investigates ...
The Case - of the One-Legged Dog
Aversion Therapy

Some of the best of these sketches have finally been released on DVD.

A DANDY IN ASPIC (FILM)

Director: Anthony Mann.
Screenplay: Derek Marlowe
(based on his novel)
Cast: Laurence Harvey, Tome Courtenay, Mia Farrow, Lionel Stander, Harry Andrews, John Bird, Peter Cook.

Peter appears in a straight role in this unsuccessful spy melodrama.

MONTE CARLO OR BUST (FILM)

Director: Ken Annakin
Screenplay: Jack Davies/Ken Annakin.
Cast: Tony Curtis, Susan Hampshire, Terry-Thomas, Eric Sykes, Gert Frobe, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Jack Hawkins.

Italian/French film pairs Cook and Moor e again in a slapstick vintage motor-rally.

Also known as: Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies.

THE BED-SITTING ROOM (FILM)

Director: Richard Lester
Screenplay: John Antrobus
(Based on the play he wrote with Spike Milligan)
Cast: Rita Tushingham, Ralph Richardson, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Harry Secombe, Arthur Lowe, Roy Kinnear, Spike Milligan, Michael Hordern, Mona Washbourne.

Slightly successful film production of the post-nuclear-holocaust stage play. Cook and Moore play a small part as Police men.