A LIFE IN PIECES (BBC2)  

12 X 5m
Interviews with Ludovic Kennedy screened daily, from 26th December, 1990, based on the 'The Twelve Days of Christmas'

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IT'S ROGER MELLIE-
MAN ON THE TELLY (C4)

 

5x10m
Short animated cartoon series based on the Viz character. Voice of Mellie provided by Cook. Other voices by Harry Enfield.

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    GONE TO SEED (ITV)
 

Director: Sandy Johnson, Nick Laughland
Screenplay: Tony Grounds
Produced: Tim Whitby
Cast:
Alison Steadman, Jim Broadbent, Sheila Hancock, Warren Clarke, Peter Cook.

Comedy drama set in a garden centre in London's Docklands ran from 13th November for 6 episodes.

Cook received good notices for his portrayal as con-man Wesley Willis.

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BORE OF THE YEAR AWARDS (BBC2)

 

Director: Janet Fraser
Producer: Ian Hislop, Harry Thompson
Cast: Angus Deayton, Ian Hislop, Michael Palin, Harry Enfield, Richard Ingrams

1 x 60m on 20th March '93

Cook acted as compere and as Robert Maxwell.

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    ARENA - RADIO NIGHT (BBC2/R4)
 
Appeared along with David Attenborough, Professor Asa Briggs, Alistair Cooke and Spike Milligan.

Transmitted simultaneously on BBC2 and Radio 4 on which Cook impersonated 'radio'.
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ONE FOOT IN THE ALGARVE (BBC1)

 

Director/Produced: Susan Belbin
Writer: David Renwick
Cast: Richard Wilson, Annette Crosby and Peter Cook.

1 X 95m Christmas special broadcast 26th December '93

Special edition of the tv-series 'One Foot in the Grave' in which Peter plays an accident-prone photographer called Martin Trout. Good perfomance, although hardly atypical of Cook's comedy.

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CLIVE ANDERSON TALKS BACK (C4)

 

Cook's last major TV appearance is amongst his best work.
This is Cook on top form, performing his own original material on TV for the first time in 10 years. Absolutely unmissable.

Appears as all four guests on this special edition of Clive Anderson.

Norman House - Alien abduction
Alan Latchley - Football manager
Eric Daley - Rock Megastar
Sir James Beecham - Judge

Not commercially available on video.
(See comedy section for transcripts/audio)

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BLACK BEAUTY (FILM)

 

Director: Caroline Thompson
Screenplay: Caroline Thompson
Cast: Sean Bean, David Thewlis, Jim Carter, Peter Davison, Eleanor Bron and Peter Cook

Peter stars as an aristocrat.

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  WHY BOTHER ? (RADIO 3)  

5 x 10m

Chris Morris (Brass Eye/Day Today)
aggressively cross-questions Sir Arthur Streeb Greebling, about his life, in these improvised interviews.

The results are bizarre and surreal; tackling, as they do, subjects like cloning the DNA of Christ, and how he masqueraded as a bear!

Eventually released on BBC tape/cd. Oh..and yes, that IS E.L.Wisty on the cover and NOT Sir Arthur !
Nobody knows why.

 
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