Every Friday I’ll be bringing you a clip from olden times, when televisions only showed television programmes and a fifth terrestrial channel meant tuning in to a snowy picture from a neighbouring ITV region.
This week, a clip from a little-remembered sketch series that spoofed British TV of the 1970s. It was called ‘End of Part One’ – a rare quality offering of comedy from an ITV company (LWT) that was an early result of writing partners David Renwick and Andrew Marshall. They would later go on to write ‘One Foot in the Grave’ and ‘2.4 Children’ among other successful shows.
This clip sends up cheap animation of the kind that was popular in the 1970s. If you’re of a certain age, you might recognise the voice of a stalwart of radio and TV comedy of the time, Fred Harris.
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