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NOT ONLY . . . BUT ALSO (BBC2)

Series 3: 7 x 45m colour programmes transmitted fortnightly from 18th February'70. All episodes destroyed!

The only sketches to survive intact include:

The Glidd of Glood
Beethoven
(Tom Jones variety show spoof)
The Making of a Movie

A regular part of the show was called "Poets Cornered" and included guests such as Spike Milligan and Ronnie Barker. These all, needless to say, trashed.
Available on various audio compilations:-

Lengths
Pete'n'Dud
(with Dud in a wardrobe which
represents his mothers womb)

THE RISE AND RISE OF MICHAEL RIMMER

Director: Kevin Billington
Screenplay: Peter Cook, Graham Chapman, Kevin Billington.
Cast: Peter Cook, Denholm Elliot, Ronald Fraser, John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Dennis Price.

Unsuccessful film charts the rise to British government of a business efficiency expert (Cook).

WHERE DO I SIT ? (BBC2)

3 X 30m. Started 19th February 1971.

Chat show hosted by Peter Cook.
Originally scheduled for 12 episodes, but cancelled after three.

All episodes were transmitted live.

NOT ONLY BUT ALSO (ABC)

2 x 30m special editions for Australian Broadcasting Commission.

Also transmitted on BBC1 as
Pete and Dud Down Under.

Sketches included:-

Bollards
One Leg Too Few
Shirts
The Funnel-Web Spider
(Streeb Greebling)
Pete'n'Dud with the Australian Cricket
Team

Update: Recovered! These two specials were recovered recently and aired in the UK on a digital channel. Hopefully this means they can be released commercially sometime in the future...

AN APPLE A DAY (BBC1)

Director: John Antrobus
Cast: Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Spike Milligan, Kenneth Griffith.

Dudley played an accountant with aspirations of becoming a doctor.

( Eradicated from the BBC archive.)

BEHIND THE FRIDGE

Director: Joe McGrath
Cast: Peter Cook, Dudley Moore

Stage show first performed in Australia, then to packed audiences in London (Cambridge Theatre).

Sketches performed:-

Hello

Come in

So Much Tolouse

Mini Drama

Gospel Truth

Tea for Two

On Location

Filmed for BBC2 on 7th March'74 - 45m

THE ADVENTURES OF
BARRY MACKENZIE (FILM)

Director: Bruce Beresford
Screenplay: Barry Humphries and Bruce Beresford.
Cast: Barry Crocker, Barry Humphries, Peter Cook, Spike Milligan, Dennis Price.

Peter has a cameo role in this adaptation of the Private Eye cartoon strip. Cult Australian film.

GOOD EVENING (BEHIND THE FRIDGE)

Director: Alexander Cohen
Cast: Peter Cook, Dudley Moore

American version of Behind The Fridge played to ecstatic audiences in Boston and New York.
Described by Groucho Marx as "two of the funniest performers he had ever seen".

Sketches include:-

Soap Opera
Frog and Peach
One Leg Too Few
Sitting on the Bench (Down the Mine)

A POKE IN THE EYE
WITH A SHARP STICK

Director: Roger Graef
Cast: Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller, Alan Bennett, Monty Python.

Amnesty Gala show at Her Majesty's Theatre, London, from 1st April, where he appeared with Monty Python.

Sketches with Peter Cook:-

Trial scene (expanded Python sketch)
Not an Asp (with John Fortune)
Sitting on the Bench
So That's the Way You Like It
(Fringe sketch performed with Jonathan Miller, Alan Bennett and Terry Jones)

Released on film as "Pleasure at Her Majesty's"

DEREK & CLIVE (LIVE)

Official release of the bootleg tape that spawned the memorable catchphrase: "What's The Worst Job You've Ever Had?" regarding the extraction of lobsters from Jayne Mansfield's anus.

Banned from radio, due to high expletive content, it nevertheless (or as a result) went on to become a success world-wide.

THE MERMAID FROLICS

Amnesty Gala at the Mermaid Theatre, London, 8th May performing:-

E.L. Wisty from Beyond the Veil

Sitting on the Bench

THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES

Director: Paul Morrissey
Screenplay: Peter Cook, Dudley Moore and Paul Morrissey.
Cast: Peter Cook (Sherlock Holmes), Dudley Moore (Dr Watson), Denholm Elliot, Joan Greenwood, Terry Thomas, Max Wall, Kenneth Williams, Hugh Griffith, Irene Handl, Roy Kinnear, Penelope Keith, Spike Milligan and Jessie Matthews.

"A mess" Peter Cook.

REVOLVER (ITV)

Director: Chris Tookey
producer: Mickie Most
7 episodes from 22nd July'78.

Punk music show in which he appeared weekly as a disgruntled dance hall manager.

BLACK CINDERELLA TWO (BBC R2)

producer: Douglas Adams
Script: Rory McGrath and Clive Anderson
Cast: Richard Baker, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Rob Buckman, John Cleese, Peter Cook, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie and Richard Murdoch.

1 X 60m for Radio 2

THE SECRET POLICEMAN'S BALL

Director: John Cleese
producer: Martin Lewis
Cast: Peter Cook, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Eleanor Bron, Billy Connolly, Terry Jones, John Fortune, Rowan Atkinson.

Amnesty Gala from June 27-30th which featured a new sketch by Peter Cook, as a Judge, called "Entirely a Matter for You", an extremely hilarious satire of the, then topical, Jeremy Thorpe Trial.

Also performed in:-

Interesting Facts
Pregnancy Test
The End Of The World