I’m Sorry I’ll Read That Again (ISIRTA)

Last Edited: 24-Sep-2015 A Global British Comedy Collaborative document. Edited by John Lucas
Broadcast source is BBC Radio Four unless otherwise indicated. Recording quality is considered good unless otherwise indicated.
Cambridge Circus (1963 UK and 1964 NZ)
Series 1 (1964 UK)
Series 2 (1965)
Series 3 (1966)
Series 4 (1966-1967) The Curse of the Flying Wombat
Series 5 (1967)
Series 6 (1968)
Series 7 (1969) Professor Prune and the Electric Time Trousers
Series 8 (1970)
Series 9 (1973)
25th Anniversary (1989)
LPs, Documentaries and Collateral Material

A very large roster of writers contributed to the show at some point in its lifetime and are listed here rather than under the individual episodes:
Tim Brooke-Taylor, Anthony Buffery, John Cleese, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie, Tony Hendrick, Graeme Garden, Johnny Mossbrough, Brian Cooke, Hugh Wodehouse, John Esmund, Bob Larvey, Peter Vincent, David Macullogh, Eric Idle, Philip Cox, Bernard King, Peter and David Lund, Clive James, Alan Hutchinson, John Esmond, Peter Hutchins, Andy Smith, Don Carroll, Leslie Sellers, Ian Lang, Jeff Hale, Lizzie Evans, Derek Farmer, Ray Butler, Ian Faggleson, Douglas Young, Simon Brett, Graham Chapman, Chris Miller, Peter Kemp, Lizzie Lord, Humphrey Barclay, Les Liddy, Chick Jacob, John Mortimer, David Tate, Rowling Baker

NOTE: The Transcription Service edited for time and overseas sensitivities. The order of the segments may be altered. In general, one of what was usually two songs was omitted in the TS editions.

Series numbering follows Tatchell's Guide and differs from the numbering of the original GBCC webpage.
Cambridge Circus (1963 UK and 1964 NZ)
A Cambridge University revue in 1963, then a West End stage show, followed by a tour to NZ and US. A highlights program was edited for BBC broadcast.
Date Episode Title Cast Parameters
BBC Home
30-Dec-1963
 0
 Cambridge Circus
Broadcast:
Taking in a Show? – Green Line Bus (Transport
Song) (group) – Robotic Hospital Attendant –
You Know What To Do (Kendall) – Talking
About People – I’m In Love With a Lion (Kendall)
– BBC-BC (Biblical News) – Asia Vision Song
Contest (Oddie) – Bossa Nova (Oddie) –
Elizabethan Music Hall – Stage Doorkeeper –
Swap a Nest – Football Results – John and Mary
in Malaya – OHMS (I Got a Letter) (Oddie) –
Judge Not
LP:
BBCBC (Biblical news) – Asia-vision song
contest - Pop Song – Oscar Wilde take-off
– Stage-door keeper (Oddie solo) – Jazz Song
- 'Millicent' (Kendall) – Elizabethan Music-hall –
Football results – John and Mary - Malaya – On
Her Majesty's Service – Judge Not
 Humphrey Barclay, Graham Chapman, John
Cleese, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie,
Tim Brooke-Taylor
 Broadcast

LP
29:37, 17358, M
RNZ
1964



RNZ
1964



RNZ
1964



RNZ
1964



Series 1 (1964 UK)
Date Episode Title Cast Parameters
03-Apr-1964
BBC R7
 1-1
 The Bishop of Dorking – Top of the Form – Jack
of the Beanstalk – Inward Bound – Cricket
Commentary – Jim (Kendall) – News – Performing
Hamsters / Wine Tasting – Butterworth Lads –
Horrible Hairy Spiders #1 – Bank Manager -
The Transport Song
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, Anthony Buffery, John
Cleese, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie, Hugh MacDonald
Musicians directed by Bert Rhoads
Producers: Humphrey Barclay, Edward Taylor

 30:16, 28378, s
10-Apr-1964
BBC R7		 1-2
 English lesson –  Intellectual – Apres-ski – Whistle
A Happy Tune – Which way to Munich? –  Meek
week – Pillar of salt – Perry Como –  Traffic
Island Song – German Satire – Scrapbook for
Nineteen-Thirty-Foot
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, Anthony Buffery, John
Cleese, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie, Hugh MacDonald
Musicians directed by Bert Rhoads
Producers: Humphrey Barclay, Edward Taylor		 29:33, 27709, s
17-Apr-1964
BBC R7		 1-3
 Let's Call The Whole Thing Off – Big Race –
Country And Western –  Vetted – Cabinet
interview – Farmyard impersonations (Buffery solo)
– Secret Service – Safari Time – Westphalia –
Headmaster
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, Anthony Buffery, John
Cleese, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie, Hugh MacDonald
Musicians directed by Bert Rhoads
Producers: Humphrey Barclay, Edward Taylor		 30:02, 28170, s
Series 2 (1965)
Date Episode Title Cast Parameters
Light Programme
04-Oct-1965
R4X (Keith
Wickham
restoration)
 2-1
TS #1
 Light Programme (KW):
Rheingold – Weather Forecast – Ins and Outs –
Country and Western Song (Jean Hart and
Oddie) – RAF Briefing 1942 – Bus Conductor –
She’s Gone (Oddie) – TV Complaint (tomato
eating) – Marriage Bureau – The Critics
TS:
Rheingold – Weather Forecast – Ins and Outs –
Country and Western Song (Jean Hart and
Oddie) – RAF Briefing 1942 – Bus Conductor –
She’s Gone (Oddie) – Marriage Bureau –
The Critics
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, David
Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie, Jean Hart
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
Producers: Humphrey Barclay
 Lt.Prg./KW:
29:55, 28058, s
TS:
24:13, 22705, s
need ABC/TS
Light Programme
11-Oct-1965
BBC R7 (Keith
Wickham
restoration)		 2-2
 Light Programme (KW):
Universal Challenge – Spot Announcement /
Status Symbols – the Ascetic / Monk Joke
– Don’t Touch the Duke – News flash – Busker
– Ain’t Got Rhythm (Oddie) – No Cover Charge
/ Louis Armstrong Joke – Were You Looking for
Something Special? – Cricket Match –
Tillingbourne Folk and Madrigal Society: The
House of the Rising Sun (group) – Dear Sir or
Madam: Ballet Commentary
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, David
Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
Producers: Humphrey Barclay
 Lt.Prg./KW
30:02, 28168, s
Light Programme
18-Oct-1965
BBC R4X
10-Sep-2014
 2-3
TS #2
 Light Programme:
Audible Road Signs – Reach for the Sky (Astronaut
Quiz) – In the Army Now – Spot Joke / Black Magic
– Busker (Knitting Song) – Father and Son: Missing
Banana – The Sunset – BLIMPHT – The Case of
the Workington Shillelagh (Sherlock Holmes)
TS:
Audible Road Signs – Reach for the Sky (Astronaut
Quiz) – Spot Joke / Black Magic – Busker
(Knitting Song) – Father and Son: Missing Banana
– The Sunset – The Case of the Workington
Shillelagh (Sherlock Holmes)
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, David
Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
Producers: Humphrey Barclay
 Lt.Prg. (R4X)
KW restoration
30:02, 28159, s
TS:
24:15, 22744, s
need ABC/TS
Light Programme
25-Oct-1965
BBC R7
 2-4
 Light Programme:
Radio Crossword – Fire-eating dwarf –
Extra-Terrestrial visitor – Father (Hatch solo) –
Spot the difference – Rent-a-Pet – Jolly Boating
Weather – Grave-Digger – Busker – Work Song -
The Battle of Whispering Mouse
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, David
Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
Producers: Humphrey Barclay		 Lt.Prg.
29:33, 27717, s
Light Programme
01-Nov-1965
BBC R7
 2-5
 Light Programme:
Pamela Pickup's Poodles – Fogy (a magazine) –
father (Hatch solo) –  Old School pickpocket –
Square Bashing Dance – The Adventures of
Little Martin Copperwick
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, David
Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
Producers: Humphrey Barclay		 Lt.Prg.
29:45, 27898, s
08-Nov-1965
 --
 no programme

Light Programme
15-Nov-1965
BBC R7
 2-6
 Young Inventors – Customs Sketch – Caring
About Things – Movie-Go-Sound: Adam and
Eve – This Week’s Good Cause: Lord Clumpwit’s
Appeal – Tillingbourne Folk Song and Madrigal
Society – The Wind – An Old Evening’s
Entertainment – Busker – Freedom Day (Oddie
and Hart) – Mike Spanner, Private Eye – The
O’Rafferty Case
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, David
Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie, Jean Hart
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
Producers: Humphrey Barclay		 Lt.Prg.
30:08, 28256, s
Light Programme
22-Oct-1965
BBC R4X (Keith
Wickham
restoration)		 2-7
TS #7
 Light Programme:
Thirty Minute Interlude / Schmurtot Yach
Proxyl? – Whitehall Bison – Don’t Let It Rain
on My Baby (Oddie) – The News with a Studio
Audience – Prehistoric Men: Flying – Busker –
London Bus – England Our England: The Village
of Nibbling-on-the-Bone
TS:
Thirty Minute Interlude / Schmurtot Yach
Proxyl? – Whitehall Bison – Don’t Let It Rain
on My Baby (Oddie) – Prehistoric Men: Flying –
Busker: London Bus – England Our England:
The Village of Nibbling-on-the-Bone
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, David
Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
Producers: Humphrey Barclay
 Lt.Prg.
29:56, 28971, s
TS:
26:59, 12652,
M
Light Programme
29-Oct-1965
BBC R4X (Keith
Wickham
restoration)		 2-8
TS #8
 Light Programme:
Long Range Weather Forecast – Nature Study
– Let There be Love (Oddie) – Prehistoric
Woo-man – Dear Sir – HMS Dreadful (On the
Bottom in a Submarine) – Dr. Why and the
Thing – For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow (audience
anarchy)
TS:
Long Range Weather Forecast – Nature Study
– Let There be Love (Oddie) – Prehistoric
Woo-man – HMS Dreadful (On the Bottom in a
Submarine) – Dr. Why and the Thing – For
He’s a Jolly Good Fellow (audience anarchy)
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, David
Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
Producers: Humphrey Barclay
 Lt.Prg.
29:53, 28025, s
TS (ABC):
27:04, 12697,
M
Light Programme
04-Oct-1965
BBC R7
 2-9
 What Do You Know about the BBC? – The
Story of Radio – Universal Family Favourites
Song – The Story of Radio (continued)
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, David
Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
Producers: Humphrey Barclay		 Lt.Prg.
30:10, 28283, s
Series 3 (1966)
Date Episode Title Cast Parameters
Light Programme
14-Mar-1966
BBC R4X (Keith
Wickham
"censored"
restoration)
29-Oct-2014
 3-1
TS #3
 Relaxation – BBC Statements – Rat Catcher –
Hypothetical Plane Crash – Muezzin / Father and
Son: Off His Food – Newsflash / Park Seat:
Sensitive Hearing – Down at the Old Boutique
(Oddie) – Britain for the British: Ireland
TS:
Relaxation – BBC Statements – Rat Catcher –
Hypothetical Plane Crash – Muezzin / Father and
Son: Off His Food – Newsflash / Park Seat:
Sensitive Hearing – Down at the Old Boutique
(Oddie) – Britain for the British: Ireland
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme
Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Song: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
Producers: Humphrey Barclay
 Lt.Prg. (KW)
26:53, 25214, s
TS (ABC):
27:07, 22658, s
Light Programme
21-Mar-1966
BBC R4X
05-Nov-2014
 3-2
TS #5
 Round Britain Quiz: Who or What Were the Three
Little Pigs? – Friendly Inn – I Love You – Biology
for Schools  – Drown All Your Troubles Away
(Oddie) – Train Robbers in the Sky –
Moll Flounders
TS:
Round Britain Quiz: Who or What Were the Three
Little Pigs? – Friendly Inn – I Love You – Biology
for Schools – Drown All Your Troubles Away
(Oddie) – Moll Flounders
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme
Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: John Cameron, Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
Producers: Humphrey Barclay
 Lt.Prg. (KW)
29:13, 27399, s
TS (ABC):
27:06, 12719,
M
Light Programme
28-Mar-1966
BBC R4X
12-Nov-2014 		3-3
TS #4
 Student Prince –  Consult the Diary – Zookeeper
– A Secular Religious Pop Song – In-flight
Entertainment for Small Airlines – Mr. Plumrose’s
Reincarnations – Just One of Those Things –
Ali Baba
TS:
Student Prince –  Consult the Diary – Zookeeper
– In-flight Entertainment for Small Airlines – Mr.
Plumrose’s Reincarnations – Just One of Those
Things – Ali Baba
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme
Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
Producers: Humphrey Barclay		 Lt.Prg. (KW)
30:04, 28189, s
TS (ABC):
27:03, 12689,
M
Light Programme
04-Apr-1966
BBC R7
 3-4
 “The Archers” – I’m Worried, Doctor – Radio Strip
Club – Travel Song (Oddie) – The Actual Fairy –
Pride and Joy (Kendall) – Nelson
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme
Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
Producers: Humphrey Barclay		 Lt.Prg.
29:26, 27609, s
Light Programme
11-Apr-1966
BBC R7
("TS" shortened
version)
BBC R4X (KW)
26-Nov-2014		 3-5
 Big B News - Radio Listeners - Czar of Backward
Islands - Ping Pong - Frozen at the Wheel -
Rhubarb Tart Song - Dr. Heckle and Mr. Jibe
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme
Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie and John Cleese
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
Producers: Humphrey Barclay		 Lt.Prg. (KW)
29:36, 27763, s
Light Programme
18-Apr-1966
BBC R4X
(KW censored)
02-Dec-2014
 3-6
TS #6
 Stereo Sound – Raspberries – Human Traffic
Inspector – Stop It, I Like It (Oddie) – Jerusalem
– Do You Love Me? – These Foolish Things
(Oddie) – Angus Prune: Soccer Legend
TS:
Stereo Sound – Human Traffic Inspector – Stop
It, I Like It (Oddie) – Jerusalem – Do You Love
Me? – These Foolish Things (Oddie) – Angus
Prune: Soccer Legend
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme
Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Song: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arrangements by Leon Cohen
Producers: Humphrey Barclay
 Lt.Prg. (KW)
26:09, 24520, s
TS (ABC):
27:06, 12719,
M
Light Programme
25-Apr-1966
BBC R4X
10-Dec-2014
3-7
TS #11
 The Auctioneer – The Archbishop of Canterbury
– Housemaster Sketch – Nature Is Wonderful –
Opportunity Flops – Flat Hunting – Animal
Question Time – A Man’s Best Friend Is His Hound
(Oddie) – Tomorrow – Rogue Budgie – Agatha
Sotheby’s Detective Thriller “Ten Little Emergent
Nationals”
TS:
The Auctioneer – The Archbishop of Canterbury
– Housemaster Sketch – Nature Is Wonderful –
Opportunity Flops – Flat Hunting – Animal
Question Time – A Man’s Best Friend Is His Hound
(Oddie) – Rogue Budgie – Agatha Sotheby’s
Detective Thriller “Ten Little Emergent Nationals”
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme
Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Song: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arrangements by Leon Cohen
Producers: Humphrey Barclay		 Lt.Prg. (KW)
29:57, 28079, s
TS (ABC):
27:05, 12701,
M
Light Programme
02-May-1966
BBC R7
 3-8
 Cor, Sarge – Animal News – Hans and Grottie
Smith – Don’t Laugh at Me ‘Cos I’m a Fool –
Three Babies – Baby Talk – Museum Piece –
The Old Folk – Living on My Old-Age Pension
– The World of Sport
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme
Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Song: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arrangements by Leon Cohen
Producers: Humphrey Barclay		 Lt,Prg.
29:31, 27686, s
Light Programme
09-May-1966
BBC R7
 3-9
TS #12
 Rat Catchers’ Strike – Compulsive Knitter –
Traffic Warden – Promenade Concert /
Tillingbourne Folk and Madrigal Society: There
Was a Ship – The Doctor – The Lawman (Oddie)
– Marriage Guidance Bureau – Julius Caesar
TS:
Rat Catchers’ Strike – Compulsive Knitter –
Traffic Warden – Promenade Concert /
Tillingbourne Folk and Madrigal Society: There
Was a Ship – The Doctor – The Lawman (Oddie,
shortened version) – Marriage Guidance Bureau
– Julius Caesar
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme
Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie, Eric Idle, John Cameron
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arrangements by Leon Cohen
Producers: Humphrey Barclay
 Lt.Prg.
29:42, 27858, s
TS (ABC):
27:09, 12733,
M
Light Programme
16-May-1966
BBC R4X
07-Jan-2015		 3-10
TS #9
 Radio Quiz Game – Police Message / Old Dark
House – Rhubarb Tart Blues (Oddie) – The
Supernatural, the Occult and the Unexplained
TS:
Radio Quiz Game – Police Message / Old Dark
House – Rhubarb Tart Blues (Oddie) – The
Supernatural, the Occult and the Unexplained
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme
Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Song: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arrangements by Leon Cohen
Producers: Humphrey Barclay
 Lt.Prg. (KW)
29:33, 27717, s
TS (ABC):
27:05, 12699,
M
Light Programme
23-May-1966
BBC R4X
14-Jan-2015		 3-11
TS #10
 Defusing a Bomb – Dwarf Olympics – Play Little
Piccolo Man – Girls School Address – Show
Jumping – My Baby’s Become a Folksinger
(Oddie) – Robin Hood
TS:
Defusing a Bomb – Dwarf Olympics – Girls School
Address – Show Jumping – My Baby’s Become a
Folksinger (Oddie) – Robin Hood
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme
Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Song: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arrangements by Leon Cohen
Producers: Humphrey Barclay		 Lt.Prg. (KW)
30:07, 28243, s
TS (ABC):
27:08, 12727,
M
Light Programme
30-May-1966
BBC R4X
21-Jan-2015		 3-12
TS #15
 Songwriter and Agent with Beethoven – John
and Mary: Alone in the Country – My Identikit
Girl  -- Stories from Shakespeare, told by David
Pushoff – The End of the World – Take It Off
Slimming Song (Oddie) – Tim Brown’s Schooldays
TS:
Songwriter and Agent with Beethoven – John
and Mary: Alone in the Country – Stories from
Shakespeare, told by David Pushoff – The End of
the World – Take It Off Slimming Song (Oddie) –
Tim Brown’s Schooldays
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme
Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Song: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arrangements by Leon Cohen
Producers: Humphrey Barclay		 Lt.Prg. (KW)
29:48, 27940, s
TS (ABC):
27:04, 12696,
M
Light Programme
06-Jun-1966
BBC R4X
28-Jan-2015		 3-13
TS #16
 Liverpool’s Oldest Citizen – Liverpool Tour – Ferry
Across the Mersey (Oddie) – The Docklands –
Liverpool Song (Oddie)
TS:
Liverpool’s Oldest Citizen – Liverpool Tour – Ferry
Across the Mersey (Oddie) – The Docklands –
Liverpool Song (Oddie)
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme
Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Song: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arrangements by Leon Cohen
Producers: Humphrey Barclay		 Lt.Prg. (KW)
28:39, 26865, s
TS (ABC):
27:07, 12721,
M
Series 4 (1966-1967) The Curse of the Flying Wombat
Date Episode Title Cast Parameters
Light Programme
03-Oct-1966
BBC R4X
04-Feb-2015
 4-1
TS #41
 In 1411 John of Gaunt … -- Cricket Commentary
– Vet sketch – Fractured Italian – The Good
News from Ghent to Aix – Three Babies #2:
Outside the Supermarket – The Ferret Song
(Cleese) – Curse of Flying Wombat 1
TS:
In 1411 John of Gaunt … -- Vet sketch –
Fractured Italian – Three Babies #2: Outside
the Supermarket – The Ferret Song (Cleese) –
Curse of Flying Wombat 1
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, David
Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: John Cleese, Graham Chapman
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
Producers: Humphrey Barclay
 Lt.Prg. (KW)
29:47, 27927, s
TS (ABC):
26:54, 12617,
M
Light Programme
10-Oct-1966
BBC R4X
11-Feb-2015
(KW censored)
 4-2
TS #42
 Miss Bedsock, Mr. Prune – Sitar Player – Scottish
Show – I’m Small – Animal Impressions – Languid
Summer Days – Nude Ladies Handicap – Rhythm
and Prunes (Oddie) – Curse of Flying Wombat 2
TS:
Miss Bedsock, Mr. Prune –Scottish Show –Animal
Impressions – Languid Summer Days – Nude
Ladies Handicap – Rhythm and Prunes (Oddie) –
Curse of Flying Wombat 2
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, David
Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
Producers: Humphrey Barclay
 Lt.Prg. (KW)
28:10, 26419, s
TS (ABC):
26:55, 12621,
M
Hybrid variant?
31:06, 21870, M
Light Programme
17-Oct-1966
BBC R4X
18-Feb-2015		 4-3
TS #43
 John Cleese’s Bath Night – School Art Tour –
Actor-soldier – We Like Working for the BBC –
John and Mary: Goodnight – Great Big Waterproof
Boots / Disintegrating Minister – Teeth Song
(Oddie) – Curse of Flying Wombat 3
TS:
John Cleese’s Bath Night – School Art Tour –
Actor-soldier – John and Mary: Goodnight –
Great Big Waterproof Boots / Disintegrating
Minister – Teeth Song (Oddie) – Curse of
Flying Wombat 3
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, David
Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
Producers: Humphrey Barclay		 Lt.Prg. (KW)
29:56, 28065, s
TS (ABC):
26:57, 12639,
M
Light Programme
24-Oct-1966
BBC R4X
25-Feb-2015		 4-4
TS #44
 Musical Glasses – International Trade Exhibit –
Curse of Flying Wombat 4 – Sing Beethoven’s Fifth
– The Family’s on the Rocks – Battle of
Hastings 1066
TS:
Musical Glasses – International Trade Exhibit –
Curse of Flying Wombat 4 – Sing Beethoven’s Fifth
– Battle of Hastings 1066
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, David
Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
Producers: Humphrey Barclay		 Lt.Prg. (KW)
29:15, 27429, s
TS (ABC):
26:57, 12641,
M
Light Programme
31-Oct-1966
BBC R4X
04-Mar-2015		 4-5
TS #45
 Experiment with Time – The Spy with My Cold –
Gentlewomen’s Protection Action Group – Jane
Brown’s Schooldays – Men at Work – One for My
Baby – Appeal for Distressed Bumblebees – Just
to Keep Warm – Curse of Flying Wombat 5
TS:
Experiment with Time – The Spy with My Cold –
Gentlewomen’s Protection Action Group – Jane
Brown’s Schooldays – Men at Work – One for My
Baby – Curse of Flying Wombat 5
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, David
Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
Producers: Humphrey Barclay		 Lt.Prg. (KW)
30:18, 28407, s
TS (ABC):
27:00, 12665,
M
Light Programme
07-Nov-1966
BBC R4X
11-Mar-2015		 4-6
TS #46
 Colour Radio/ Music for Schools – Irish Song –
Jungle Sketch / The Managing Director Will See
You Now – News flash / Animal Child – Curse of
the Flying Wombat 6
TS:
Music for Schools – Jungle Sketch / The
Managing Director Will See You Now – News
flash / Animal Child – Curse of the Flying Wombat 6
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, David
Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
Producers: Humphrey Barclay		 Lt.Prg. (KW)
29:52, 28000, s
TS (ABC):
26:58, 12645,
M
Light Programme
14-Nov-1966
BBC R4X
18-Mar-2015		 4-7
TS #47
 Fastest Show on Earth – Movie-Go-Flat – John and
Mary: Policeman – Prime Minister’s Speech to the
French – Tillingbourne Folk Song and Madrigal
Society: Singing the Blues and All that Jazz – Curse
of Flying Wombat 7
TS
Fastest Show on Earth – Movie-Go-Flat – John and
Mary: Policeman – Tillingbourne Folk Song and
Madrigal Society: Singing the Blues and All that Jazz
– Curse of Flying Wombat 7
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, David
Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
Producers: Humphrey Barclay		 Lt.Prg. (KW)
29:43, 27872, s
TS (ABC):
26:59, 12651,
M
Light Programme
21-Nov-1966		 4-8
TS #48
 Dearly Salacious – The Day After Tomorrow
(Hovercraft & Sloths) – Survey Time: British Law –
Ferrets of Olde England – Curse of Flying Wombat 8
TS:
The Day After Tomorrow (Hovercraft & Sloths) –
Survey Time: British Law – Ferrets of Olde England
– Curse of Flying Wombat 8
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, David
Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
Producers: Humphrey Barclay		 Lt.Prg.
29:11, 20519, M
TS (ABC):
26:55, 12625,
M
Light Programme
28-Nov-1966		 4-9
TS #49
 Radio Oscar Awards – International Cabaret:
Fortescue and Fritz, Zorba the Creep: On Ilkla Moor,
Franquie ‘Owerd – John and Mary: Burglars –
Humour from the Intelligentsia (Timmy and Teddie) –
Rocking Lullaby (Oddie) – Rolf Ferret Song – Curse
of Flying Wombat 9 – The Bonzo Angus
Prune Experiment
TS:
Radio Oscar Awards – International Cabaret:
Fortescue and Fritz, Zorba the Creep: On Ilkla Moor,
John and Mary: Burglars, Humour from the
Intelligentsia (Timmy and Teddie) – Rocking Lullaby
(Oddie) – Curse of Flying Wombat 9 – The Bonzo
Angus Prune Experiment
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, David
Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
Producers: Humphrey Barclay		 Lt.Prg.
28:48, 20259, M
TS (ABC):
27:02, 12681,
M
Light Programme
05-Dec-1966
BBC R4X
08-Apr-2015		 4-10
TS #50
 Air My Grudge – Sorry Survey: Royal Navy –
Hiccup Song – Fly of Cursing Bomwat 10
TS:
Sorry Survey: Royal Navy – Hiccup Song –
Fly of Cursing Bomwat 10
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, David
Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
Producers: Humphrey Barclay		 Lt.Prg. (KW)
29:32, 27697, s
TS (ABC):
27:00, 12663,
M
Light Programme
12-Dec-1966
BBC R4X
15-Apr-2015		 4-11
TS #51
 Angus Prune Experiment – For Better or For Worse
& Son – Teddy & Tommy: Blues – Beekeeping – A
Man’s Best Friend Is His Duck (Oddie) – Old Time
Radio and Benjamin Disraeli – Curse of Flying
Wombat 11
TS:
Angus Prune Experiment – For Better or For Worse
& Son – Teddy & Tommy: Blues – Beekeeping – A
Man’s Best Friend Is His Duck (Oddie)– Curse of
Flying Wombat 11
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, David
Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
Producers: Humphrey Barclay		 Lt.Prg. (KW)
30:08, 28263, s
TS (ABC):
27:00, 12659,
M
Light Programme
19-Dec-1966
BBC R4X
22-Apr-2015		 4-12
TS #52
 The Ark Is Full – The Aristocracy of Great Britain –
The Driving Test – 3 Babies #3 – Hangover – The
Yodeling Goatherd (Oddie) – Did You Know? –
Curse of Flying Wombat 12
TS:
The Ark Is Full – The Aristocracy of Great Britain –
The Driving Test – 3 Babies #3 –The Yodeling
Goatherd (Oddie) – Curse of Flying Wombat 12
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, David
Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
Producers: Humphrey Barclay		 Lt.Prg. (KW)
29:47, 27927, s
TS (ABC):
26:55, 12625,
M
Light Programme
26-Dec-1966
BBC R7
 4-13
TS #53
 Pre-fabricated Bungalow – The Cole Rhubarb
Story – Petula Clark Sings – Curse of Flying
Wombat 13
TS:
Pre-fabricated Bungalow – The Cole Rhubarb
Story – Petula Clark Sings – Curse of Flying
Wombat 13
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, David
Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
Producers: Humphrey Barclay		 Lt.Prg.
29:52, 28014, s
TS (ABC):
26:56, 12631,
M
Light Programme
02-Jan-1967
BBC R7		 4-14
 Pantomime – Jack and the Beanstalk
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, David
Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
Producers: Humphrey Barclay		 Lt.Prg.
29:41, 28014, s
Series 5 (1967)
Date Episode Title Cast Parameters
Light Programme
23-Apr-1967
BBC R4X
13-May-2015
 5-1
TS #13
 The Royal Family Wellington Boot Dancers – John
and Mary: Magic – M.O.T.H. – 3 Babies #4 –
Counting and Alphabet – Are You 6’5”? / There is
a Walrus in My Soup (Oddie) – The Knights of the
Round Table
TS:
John and Mary: Magic– 3 Babies #4: Counting
and Alphabet – Are You 6’5”? / There is a Walrus
in My Soup (Oddie) – The Knights of the
Round Table
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, David
Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie, Dave Lee
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: Humphrey Barclay
 Lt.Prg. (KW)
29:58, 28100, s
TS (ABC):
27:07, 12717,
M
Light Programme
30-Apr-1967
BBC R4X
20-May-2015		 5-2
TS #14
 ISIRTA Waltz – Spring including Spring Song
(Oddie) – John and Mary: Humpty Dumpty –
Champion theWonder Mouse
TS:
ISIRTA Waltz – Spring including Spring Song
(Oddie) – John and Mary: Humpty Dumpty –
Champion the Wonder Mouse
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, David
Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: Humphrey Barclay
 Lt.Prg. (KW)
29:27, 27614, s
TS (ABC):
27:04, 12697,
M
Light Programme
07-May-1967
BBC R4X
27-May-2015		 5-3
TS #19
 Modern Music – Crime Prevention Lecture – Faith
Healer – I’ve Forgotten the Words (Oddie) –
Estate Agent – What Will Be Will Be – William Tell
TS:
Modern Music – Crime Prevention Lecture – Faith
Healer – I’ve Forgotten the Words (Oddie) –
Estate Agent – William Tell
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, David
Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: Humphrey Barclay		 Lt.Prg. (KW)
30:00, 28138, s
TS (ABC):
27:10, 12743,
M
Light Programme
14-May-1967
BBC R7
 5-4
TS #20
 Calypso – Greyhounds – Before the Race – If I
Were the Only Girl in the World (Kendall) – John
and Mary – Our Son Stink – Myxamatosis Joke -
Professional Work Song (Oddie) – The Lost
Eskimos of the South Pole
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, David
Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: Humphrey Barclay		 Lt.Prg.
29:13, 27407, s
TS (ABC):
27:05, 12699,
M
Light Programme
21-May-1967
BBC R4X
10-Jun-2015		 5-5
TS #17
 Hints for Motorists – Drilling for Moles –
Gardening Club (I’m Sorry I’ll Weed that Again) –
The First of May – Toy Shop – I Like Singing in
the Bathtub (Oddie) – The History of the
British Army
TS:
Hints for Motorists – Drilling for Moles –
Gardening Club (I’m Sorry I’ll Weed that Again) –
Toy Shop – I Like Singing in the Bathtub (Oddie)
– The History of the British Army
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, David
Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: Humphrey Barclay		 Lt.Prg. (KW)
29:15, 27435, s
TS (ABC):
27:06, 12711,
M
Light Programme
28-May-1967
BBC R4X
17-Jun-2015		 5-6
TS #18
 Did You Miss It? – Bank Manager (Traveler’s
Cheques) – Folk Dancing – John and Mary:
Tibbles the Cat – Underground Underwear –
Drinking Song (Oddie) – The Decline and Fall of
the Entire Roman Empire Including Cleopatra
TS:
Did You Miss It? – Bank Manager (Traveler’s
Cheques) – Folk Dancing – John and Mary:
Tibbles the Cat – Drinking Song (Oddie) –
The Decline and Fall of the Entire Roman
Empire Including Cleopatra
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, David
Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: Humphrey Barclay		 Lt.Prg. (KW)
29:36, 27756, s
TS (ABC):
27:09, 12731,
M
Light Programme
04-Jun-1967
BBC R7		 5-7
TS #23
 The Vulture Song (Cleese) – Horrible Hairy
Spiders #2 – Russian Eurovision Song – Gas
Meter Reader – Late Cricket News / Garcon,
Garcon (Oddie) – Grimm Fairy Tales: Princess
Goldilocks and the Perverted Goblins
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, David
Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: Humphrey Barclay		 Lt.Prg.
29:30, 27672, s
TS (ABC):
27:12, 12753,
M
Light Programme
11-Jun-1967
BBC R4X
01-Jul-2015		 5-8
TS #24
 Club El Caraway / ISIRTA Tango – The Pill /
Britain for the British: Wales Travelogue –
The Operating Theatre – A Very Sad Case /
I’m Gonna Live! (Oddie) – Spit – All Hands
on Venus
TS:
Club El Caraway / ISIRTA Tango – The Pill /
Britain for the British: Wales Travelogue –
The Operating Theatre – A Very Sad Case /
I’m Gonna Live! (Oddie) – All Hands
on Venus
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, David
Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: Humphrey Barclay		 Lt.Prg. (KW)
29:44, 27881, s
TS (ABC):
27:04, 12695,
M
Light Programme
18-Jun-1967
BBC R7		 5-9
TS #21
 British Courts of Justice – Touring Britain in
Four Minutes – John and Mary – Will you
Marry Me and My Moles? – Francis
Chichester Song “Sir William Grimbling” –
Three Babies #5 – When We are Fifty –
Cricket Calypso – Tales of the Wild West,
starring the Lone Stranger
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, David
Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: Humphrey Barclay		 Lt.Prg.
29:50, 27981, s
TS (ABC):
27:06, 12710,
M
Light Programme
25-Jun-1967
BBC R4X
15-Jul-2015		 5-10
TS #22
 Your Radio Could Explode – Film Censorship –
The Dentist – I Can Hear the Wombats
Dancing – Portuguese Love Song (Oddie) –
The Ghost of Objectionable Manor
TS:
Your Radio Could Explode – Film Censorship –
The Dentist – Portuguese Love Song (Oddie)
– The Ghost of Objectionable Manor
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, David
Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: Humphrey Barclay		 Lt.Prg. (KW)
29:50, 27976, s
TS (ABC):
27:09, 12731,
M
Light Programme
02-Jul-1967
BBC R4X
22-Jul-2015		 5-11
TS #27
 Osteopath – Round the World Quiz – Buying a
Stocking – No, No, But Seriously Though
(Oddie) – Othello
TS:
Osteopath – Round the World Quiz – Buying a
Stocking – No, No, But Seriously Though
(Oddie) – Othello
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, David
Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: Humphrey Barclay		 Lt.Prg. (KW)
29:55, 28060, s
TS (ABC):
27:10, 12743,
M
Light Programme
09-Jul-1967
BBC R4X
29-Jul-2015		 5-12
TS #28
 Memory Lane (BBC Sound Archives) – House
on Fire – Zoo Time / I Am a Carnivore (Oddie)
– The Inimitable Grimbling
TS:
Memory Lane (BBC Sound Archives) – House
on Fire – Zoo Time / I Am a Carnivore (Oddie)
– The Inimitable Grimbling
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden,
David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: Humphrey Barclay		 Lt.Prg. (KW)
29:29, 27642, s
TS (ABC):
27:07, 12717,
M
Light Programme
16-Jul-1967
BBC R7		 5-13
TS #25
 Radio Circus – Record Spin / Directory, 999
(Oddie) – John and Mary: Jumbo – I Do Like
to be Beside the Seaside (Oddie) – Ulysses
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, David
Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: Humphrey Barclay		 Lt.Prg.
29:51, 27990, s
TS (ABC):
27:03, 12683,
M
Light Programme
23-Jul-1967
BBC R7		 5-14
 The Desert Song, or the Sand of Music or
Dune Is Busting Out All Over
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, David
Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie, Eric Idle,
Graeme Garden
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: Humphrey Barclay		 Lt.Prg.
29:15, 27438, s
Series 6 (1968)
Date Episode Title Cast Parameters
BBC R2
14-Apr-1968
 6-1
TS #26
 The David Hatch Show – Why Was ISIRTA Taken off
the Air? Dave’s Diary – ISIRTA Song: Magical
Mystery Ball – Solicitor Sketch – Play of the Century
– Bunny and Claude
TS:
The David Hatch Show – Why Was ISIRTA Taken off
the Air? Dave’s Diary – ISIRTA Song: Magical
Mystery Ball – Solicitor Sketch – Play of the Century
– Bunny and Claude
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme
Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: David Hatch, Peter Titheradge
 R2
missing
TS (ABC):
27:01, 12667, M
BBC R2
21-Apr-1968		 6-2
TS #29
 Mr. & Mrs. Bunny Rabbit – What is It Panel Show
(Going for a Burton) – Fishpaste – Rock with the
Policemen – Jack Mulberry and the Weather –
Taking My Oyster for Walkies (Oddie) – Dentisti
TS:
Mr. & Mrs. Bunny Rabbit – What is It Panel Show
(Going for a Burton) – Fishpaste – Jack Mulberry
and the Weather – Taking My Oyster for Walkies
(Oddie) – Dentisti
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme
Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: David Hatch, Peter Titheradge		 R2
missing
TS (ABC):
27:05, 12703, M
BBC R2
28-Apr-1968		 6-3
TS #30
 Military Jokes – Television Cookery Experts (Pots
and Puns) – The Good Old Days (Oddie and
Garden) – The Vikings
TS:
Television Cookery Experts (Pots and Puns) – The
Good Old Days (Oddie and Garden) – The Vikings
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme
Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: David Hatch, Peter Titheradge		 R2
missing
TS (ABC):
26:55, 12627, M
BBC R2
05-May-1968		 6-4
TS #31
 Desert Island Jokes – Report on Schools – Police
Message / Army Chums – The Trio Los Banditos -
Incompetence (Trouble at the Mill)
TS:
Desert Island Jokes – Report on Schools – You’ll
Feel Much Worse  –The Trio Los Banditos -
Incompetence (Trouble at the Mill)
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme
Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: David Hatch, Peter Titheradge		 R2
missing
TS (ABC):
27:01, 12669, M
BBC R2
12-May-1968
BBC R7
 6-5
TS #32
 Experiments With Sound – ISIRTA Report on
Joke-Swapping – Here Comes the One-Man
Band – Bank Loan Sketch – I Am Not Sadistic
– Man’s Hour – Roger’s Keep Fit Class (Group)
– 10,000 B.C.
TS:
Experiments With Sound – ISIRTA Report on
Joke-Swapping – Bank Loan Sketch – I Am
Not Sadistic – Man’s Hour:Roger’s Keep Fit
Class (Group) – 10,000 B.C.
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme
Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: David Hatch, Peter Titheradge		 R2
missing
TS (BBC R7):
25:23, 23812, s
BBC R2
19-May-1968		 6-6
TS #33
 Bits and Pieces – Great Men of Our Time: Sir Ruddy
Shame – The Facts of Cash – Champion Boxer
Interview – I Wish You Love (Oddie) – Has Anybody
Seen my Teeth? – Ghost Story of McMuckle Manse
TS:
Bits and Pieces – Great Men of Our Time: Sir Ruddy
Shame – The Facts of Cash – Champion Boxer
Interview – I Wish You Love (Oddie)– Ghost Story
of McMuckle Manse
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme
Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: David Hatch, Peter Titheradge		 R2
missing
TS (ABC):
27:09, 12733, M
BBC R2
26-May-1968
BBC R7
 6-7
TS #34
 Football Results – Squealbase – Continental Coach
Trip – Julie Andrews – [You’ll Feel Much Worse] –
Operation Chocolate
TS:
Squealbase – Continental Coach Trip –
You’ll Feel Much Worse – Operation Chocolate 		Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme
Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: David Hatch, Peter Titheradge		 BBC R7
29:44, 13939, M
TS (ABC):
27:04, 12697, M
BBC R2
02-Jun-1968		 6-8
TS #35
 Forgotten Folklore – Theatre Bar – Persecuting
Pigeons in Trafalgar Square (Oddie) – John and
Mary: Breakfast in Bed – Il Budgerigar from
Covent Garden – Beau Legs
TS:
Theatre Bar  – John and Mary: Breakfast in Bed –
Persecuting Pigeons in Trafalgar Square (Oddie)
 – Beau Legs
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme
Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Graeme Garden (opera), Bill Oddie
(song)
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: David Hatch, Peter Titheradge
 R2
missing
TS (ABC):
27:05, 12705, M
BBC R2
09-Jun-1968		 6-9
TS #36
 Spokesman for the GPO (CD) – Kevin Mousetrap
Show – What a Wonderful World (Oddie) – Take
Your Clothes Off – Melody Farm (Oddie)(CD) /
Warning to Motorists – Macbeth
TS:
Kevin Mousetrap Show – What a Wonderful
World (Oddie) – Take Your Clothes Off – Melody
Farm (Oddie)(CD) / Warning to Motorists – Macbeth
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme
Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: David Hatch, Peter Titheradge		 BBC R7
29:35, 27750, s
TS (ABC):
26:57, 12637, M
BBC R2
16-Jun-1968		 6-10
TS #37
 Joke Doctor – Problem Corner, with Marjorie Droops
– The Doctor Will See You Now – Bounce! –
Courtroom Sketch: The Accusative Case –
Robinson Prunestone
TS:
Joke Doctor – Problem Corner, with Marjorie Droops
– The Doctor Will See You Now – Bounce! –
Courtroom Sketch: The Accusative Case –
Robinson Prunestone
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme
Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: David Hatch, Peter Titheradge		 BBC R2
29:38, 20847, m
TS (ABC):
27:03, 12683, m
BBC R2
23-Jun-1968		 6-11
TS #38
 Puzzle Corner – The Countryside in Spring – Cow
Conversation – We’re Going to a Football Match –
Controversy – The Roaring Twenties
TS:
The Countryside in Spring – Cow Conversation –
We’re Going to a Football Match – Controversy –
The Roaring Twenties
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme
Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: David Hatch, Peter Titheradge		 BBC R2
29:19, 17458, m
TS (ABC):
27:01, 12673, m
BBC R2
30-Jun-1968		 6-12
TS #39
 Thirty Second Theatre: Retribution – Oil Riggers in
Arabian Desert – The Doctor: Getting Fat –
Chartered Accountant (Oddie) – The Schoolboy
and the Headmaster’s Daughter – Lady Godiva
TS:
Oil Riggers in Arabian Desert – The Doctor:
Getting Fat – Chartered Accountant (Oddie) –
Lady Godiva
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme
Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: David Hatch, Peter Titheradge		 BBC R2
29:13, 20550, m
TS (ABC):
26:58, 12647, m
BBC R2
07-Jul-1968
 6-13
TS #40
 The History of the Cinema
Aloysius Film – The deCoverlet Sisters – Passé
/ News – On the set of Carry On Moses – Walt
Disney: Let’s Laugh – Censorship: Dubbing –
Academy Awards Presentation to The Curse of
the Flying Wombat – The show must go on and on…
TS:
Aloysius Film – The deCoverlet Sisters – Passé
/ News – On the set of Carry On Moses – Walt
Disney: Let’s Laugh – Censorship: Dubbing –
Academy Awards Presentation to The Curse of
the Flying Wombat – The show must go on and on…
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme
Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: David Hatch, Peter Titheradge		 BBC R2
29:22, 20658, m
TS (ABC):
26:58, 12649, m
BBC R2
26-Dec-1968
 special
 Christmas Pantomime –
Dick Whittington and His Wonderful At (announced)
Dick Cinderella up the Beanstalk or Something
(Radio Times)
including Spring Song, We’re All Going to a
Football Match, Six o’ Clock in the City, and
I Love You
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme
Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: David Hatch, Peter Titheradge		 BBC R2
58:17, 57922, m
Series 7 (1969) Professor Prune and the Electric Time Trousers
Date Episode Title Cast Parameters
BBC R2
12-Jan-1969
BBC R4X
 7-1
TS #55
 Revised ISIRTA Script Rules – Dave’s Diary,
including Knees – Police Message – Three Babies
– Holidays – Professor Prune and the Electric
Time Trousers #1
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme
Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: David Hatch, Peter Titheradge		 BBC R2
28:50, 35738, s
TS (R4X):
25:12, 23634, s
BBC R2
19-Jan-1969
BBC R4X		 7-2
TS #56
 Pick of the Week – ISIRTA Reports on the Army
– We’re All Going on a Hovercraft Ride – Police
Message – Your Favourite Cereal – Our Favourite
Serial — Professor Prune and the Electric Time
Trousers #2
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme
Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: David Hatch, Peter Titheradge		 BBC R2
28:55, 39721, s
TS (R4X):
25:11, 23613, s
BBC R2
26-Jan-1969
BBC R4X		 7-3
TS #57
 Eleven-Way Family Favourites – ISIRTA Looks
at the Population Explosion – Fog Warning –
We Love Jimmy Young – The Psychiatrist Will
See You Now – Police Message – On Ilkley
Moor Baht ‘At – Party Political Broadcast on
Behalf of the Labour Party – Professor Prune
and the Electric Time Trousers #3
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme
Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: David Hatch, Peter Titheradge		 BBC R2
29:16, 20581, M
TS (R4X):
25:15, 23683, s
BBC R2
02-Feb-1969
BBC R4X		 7-4
TS #58
 Tommy the Tuba – ISIRTA Report on Hobbies
– The Ballad of Oliver Cromwell (Cleese) –
Police Message – The Farm Hand -- Professor
Prune and the Electric Time Trousers #4
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme
Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall
Songs: Graham Chapman, John Cleese
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: David Hatch, Peter Titheradge		 BBC R2
29:02, 20424, M
TS (R4X):
25:14, 23662, s
BBC R2
09-Feb-1969
BBC R4X		 7-5
TS #59
 Opening Talent Contest – ISIRTA Reports on
Travel – My Baby’s Gone – News Flash –
Quizmaster Husband (John and Mary?) –
French Song – Professor Prune and the
Electric Time Trousers #5
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme
Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: David Hatch, Peter Titheradge		 BBC R2
29:11, 20531, M
TS (R4X):
25:31, 23932, s
BBC R2
16-Feb-1969
BBC R4X		 7-6
TS #60
 Petticoat Lane – ISIRTA Reports on Industry –
If Mao Tse-Tung Were a Scotsman – News
Flash – Professor Prune and the Electric Time
Trousers #6 (including Barbarella)
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme
Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: David Hatch, Peter Titheradge		 BBC R2
29:29, 20741, M
TS (R4X):
25:19, 23744, s
BBC R2
23-Feb-1969
BBC R4X		 7-7
TS #61
 German for Beginners (missing beginning) –
ISIRTA Survey on Money – Poogie-Poogie Poo
– Police Message – Professor Prune and the
Electric Time Trousers #7
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme
Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: David Hatch, Peter Titheradge		 BBC R2
29:20, 20632, M
TS (R4X):
25:15, 23681, s
BBC R2
02-Mar-1969
BBC R4X		 7-8
TS #62
 All My Yesterday – Sports Yawn – the most
tedious sporting moments of the week – Police
Message – Marcella’s Lane – John and Mary –
Wedding Anniversary – Psychic Society
Announcement – David Hatch Goes Mad –
Professor Prune and the Electric Time Trousers #8
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme
Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: David Hatch, Peter Titheradge		 BBC R2
29:16, 20585, M
TS (R4X):
25:11, 23620, s
BBC R2
09-Mar-1969
BBC R4X		 7-9
TS #63
 Radio Prune, the Local Radio Station –
Listening to the Flowers  -- Police Message –
Radio Prune Quiz Show – Professor Prune and
the Electric Time Trousers #9
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme
Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: David Hatch, Peter Titheradge		 BBC R2
28:38, 20141, M
TS (R4X):
25:21, 23769, s
BBC R2
16-Mar-1969
BBC R4X		 7-10
TS #64
 Shopping News – ISIRTA Report on Housing –
Eurovision Song – Police Message – Professor
Prune and the Electric Time Trousers #10
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme
Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: David Hatch, Peter Titheradge		 BBC R2
29:16, 20678, M
TS (R4X):
25:15, 23678, s
BBC R2
23-Mar-1969
BBC R4X		 7-11
TS #65
 Great Cities of the World – London - Reptile
Joke - Give Me a Song That Has Nothing To
Do with a Melody - Professor Prune and the
Electric Time Trousers #11
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme
Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: David Hatch, Peter Titheradge		 BBC R2
28:21, 19940, M
TS (R4X):
25:16, 23695, s
BBC R2
30-Mar-1969
BBC R4X		 7-12
TS #66
 Going for a BONGGGG… - ISIRTA Probe on the
Aristocrats - The Henry V Song – Professor
Prune and the Electric Time Trousers #12
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme
Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: David Hatch, Peter Titheradge		 BBC R2
29:36, 20820, M
TS (R4X):
25:15, 23678, s
BBC R2
06-Apr-1969
BBC R4X		 7-13
TS #67
 The Radio Conjurer – ISIRTA Survey on Love,
Sex and Marriage, including John and Mary –
A  Love-Hate Relationship – Denmark Street –
Professor Prune and the Electric Time Trousers
Final Episode, including The Grimbling Song
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme
Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: David Hatch, Peter Titheradge		 BBC R2
29:31, 32958, s
TS (R4X):
25:23, 23800, s
BBC R2
25-Dec-1969		 special
TS #54
 Christmas Special
Carol Singers – Christmas at the BBC:
Superparson, Schedule, Turkey Strangler,
Christmases of Yesteryear – Message from John
and Yoko –Christmas Around the World: Choir of
the Delhi Telegraph with Yogi Bear Sings Hari
Krishna – A Christmas Carrot
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, David
Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: David Hatch, Peter Titheradge		 R2
missing
TS (ABC):
27:02, 12675, M
Series 8 (1970)
Date Episode Title Cast Parameters
BBC R2
15-Feb-1970
BBC R7
 8-1
 Broadcasting the Seventies – Introducing Radio
Prune – Statement of Intentions by Radio Prune
– Censorship – Prune Flash – Prune Play of
the Week: The Taming of the Shrew
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, David
Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Leon Cohen
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: David Hatch, Peter Titheradge		 R2/R7
29:42, 27856, s
BBC R2
22-Feb-1970
BBC R7		 8-2
 Radio Prune Goes Commercial – The Fairy Puff
Man – Home This Afternoon A-Go-Go /
Commercial Break – The News – Sunday
Evening Song – Prune Play –
The Canterbury Tales
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, David
Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: David Hatch, Peter Titheradge		 R2/R7
29:48, 27944, s
BBC R2
01-Mar-1970
BBC R7		 8-3
 Top of the Charts – Radio Prune: Countrywide
– Commercial break – Listerners’ Letters –
Endless Soap Opera – Commercial Break – El
Tarantula Wine – Courtroom Drama – Regina v.
Radio Prune in re. Illicit Commercials – As I Sit
Here in the Silence – Prune Play – The
GPO/Telephone
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, David
Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Graeme Garden
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: David Hatch, Peter Titheradge		 R2/R7
29:39, 27804, s
BBC R2
08-Mar-1970
BBC R7		 8-4
 Programmes in Your Mind – Radio Prune: Mrs.
Forsyte’s Ambridge Newcomers – Full Frontal
Nudesroom – Sprot (Big Fight) – Schools Trailer
– Trailer for “Not In Front of the Adults” –
Ironing My Goldfish – Prune Play – Circus Life
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, David
Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: David Hatch, Peter Titheradge		 R2/R7
29:11, 27366, s
BBC R2
15-Mar-1970
BBC R7		 8-5
 The Stars at Night, with Patrick Bore – The
Wireless Doctor – 9 O’Clock Honours List – News
in Welsh / Minority Programmes / Message from
the Director-General / Musical Football Results –
Nigel Carter-Smith’s Society Band (Oddie) –
Prune Play – Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, David
Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: David Hatch, Peter Titheradge		 R2/R7
29:06, 27286, s
BBC R2
22-Mar-1970
BBC R7		 8-6
 People We Shall be Offending This Week – Radio
Prune: Warning to Motorists, Complaint Letter,
Rolf Harris, Letter to the Queen, 3 Babies:
NSPCC Inspector – Is This Your Life: Arnold
Gibbon – If You have Seen This Man / Police
Warning – Tillingbourne Folk and Madrigal
Society: Stuffing the Gibbon – Murder on the
3:17 to Cleethorpes
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, David
Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: David Hatch, Peter Titheradge		 R2/R7
29:19, 27488, s
BBC R2
29-Mar-1970
BBC R7		 8-7
 Listeners’ Strike – Radio Prune: Cooking Hint –
Recipe Time – Full Frontal Newsroom – Army
Take Over Newsroom – Battered Babies  –
Violence Today – The MCC Song – Prune Play:
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, David
Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: David Hatch, Peter Titheradge		 R2/R7
29:28, 27634, s
BBC R2
05-Apr-1970
BBC R7
 8-8
 There’s No Business Like Show Business –
Parliamentary Committee on the Common
Market – Radio Prune: International Music
Hall, Dear Sir, Tom Jones Suitably Censored,
Guerres Sans Frontières – Today’s Honours
List / Police Messages – Thud-Bang-Bang-
Wobble-Wobble-Bong (Eurovision Song)
(Oddie) – Jorrocks, the Memoirs of a
Fox-Hunting Man
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme
Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: David Hatch, Peter Titheradge		 R2/R7
29:53, 28026, s
BBC R2
12-Apr-1970
BBC R7		 8-9
 Radio Prune Is Nine Weeks Old – Radio Critics
Write – Set-up-a-sketch competition –
Broadcasting Changes – Listen With Mother –
The Brew That We All Love the Most (Irish
Folk Song) – Prune Play – The Return of the
Son of the Bride of Frankenstein
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme
Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: David Hatch, Peter Titheradge		 R2/R7
29:43, 27868, s
BBC R2
19-Apr-1970
BBC R7		 8-10
 The Black/Yellow/Pink-and-White Minstrel
Show – The Radio Prune Awards – Bradford
Girls – Prune Play – The Harder They Fall,
The More They Hurt Themselves
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme
Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: David Hatch, Peter Titheradge		 R2/R7
29:45, 27898, s
BBC R2
26-Apr-1970
BBC R7		 8-11
 The Bear and Cookie Joke – Radio Prune –
Teapot (catchphrase) – Pop Roundup –
The Julie Andrews Songbook (expurgated)
– Police Message – The Money Programme
– TV Themes Song (Oddie) – Prune Play –
20,000 Leaks Under the Sea
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme
Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: David Hatch, Peter Titheradge		 R2/R7
29:44, 27882, s
BBC R2
03-May-1970
BBC R7		 8-12
 Combined Bank Holidays – Holidays Nights
with the Stars – Crosstalk Newscasters –
White Feather Club – Holiday Traffic Report
– Latest Brian Rix Farce – Tillingbourne Folk
and Madrigal Society – Football Chants –
Prune Play – Greek Tragedy
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme
Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: David Hatch, Peter Titheradge		 R2/R7
29:31, 27688, s
BBC R2
10-May-1970
BBC R7		 8-13
 Programme Changes – Full Frontal Radio
Prune – The Raymond Nostril Story, including
Stuffing That Gibbon, In the Silence, Nigel
Carter-Smith’s Society Band, The Rhubarb Tart
Song (Cleese), The David Frost Song, I’m Going
to Make It One Day, The MCC Song & The
Angus Prune Tune
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme
Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: David Hatch, Peter Titheradge		 R2/R7
29:53, 28024, s
BBC R2
31-Dec-1970		 special
TS #68
 A Warning to Shipping – TV v. Radio – Radio
Prune Takes Over, including Full Frontal Radio
– Miss World Contest – Les Girls – Censored
Christmas Songs – Retrospect of 1970 –
Pantomime – Aladdin/Dr. Zhivago
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme
Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: David Hatch, Peter Titheradge		 R2
46:08, 39809, M
Series 9 (1973)
Date Episode Title Cast Parameters
BBC R2
04-Nov-1973
BBC R7		 9-1
TS #69
 “Whoops! Not in Front of the Buses…” / David
Hatch vs. the BBC Controller / How Did the Angus
Prune Tune Go? – Since the Last Series – Latest in
Pop Music, including A String of Pearls / Latest in
Topical Satire, including The Kaiser Song -- The
Terrapin Song – Prune Playhouse – Lawrence of
Arabia on Ice and Scott of the Sahara
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme
Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: David Hatch, John Cassels
 BBC R2
rebroadcast
29:33, 26029, M
TS (R7):
27:22, 25658, s
BBC R2
11-Nov-1973
BBC R7		 9-2
TS #70
 Ask the Family – Radio Prune: Terrapin Joke, So
You Think You’ve Got a Feed Line, Prune Forum, A
Kick in the Arts, Twerp Special – Country Meets
Folk: The Midnight Cowboy Sings Cactus in My
Y-Fronts (Oddie) – Jack the Ripper
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme
Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: David Hatch, Bob Oliver Rogers
 BBC R2
rebroadcast
29:13, 6849, M
TS (R7):
27:26, 25722, s
BBC R2
18-Nov-1973
BBC R7		 9-3
 Stereo Experiment – Prune’s Alternative to Radio 1 –
Sick Man’s Blues – Star Trek
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme
Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: David Hatch, Bob Oliver Rogers		 BBC R2
rebroadcast
30:16, 7096, M
TS (R7):
27:51, 26126, s
BBC R2
25-Nov-1973
BBC R7		 9-4
TS #71
 SOS Announcement – Audio Porno Fair –
Masochist’s Rag – Prune Play – The Search for
the Source of the Nile
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme
Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: David Hatch, John Cassels		 BBC R2
rebroadcast
29:46, 6981, M
TS (R7):
27:37, 25904, s
BBC R2
02-Dec-1973
BBC R7		 9-5
 Miss United Prune – Mary Whitehouse Joke – Radio
Prune Festival of Light / Clean Up Yourself – Prune
Symphony Orchestra, including Up-To-Date Toy
Symphony – Prune Productions – Song of the South,
including Rust
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme
Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: David Hatch, John Cassels		 BBC R2
missing
TS (R7):
27:02, 25348, s
BBC R2
09-Dec-1973
BBC R7		 9-6
TS #72
 Election Results – Radio Prune’s New Programmes,
including Watergate Tape – Ten Commandments –
Nappy Love – Oklahoma!
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme
Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: David Hatch, John Cassels		 BBC R2
missing
TS (R7):
24:23, 22868, s
BBC R2
16-Dec-1973
BBC R7		 9-7
 The Royal Family – Radio Prune: Wedding of the
Year Show / It’s a Cock Up / Russell Harty Plus –
Alice In Wonderland
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme
Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: David Hatch, John Cassels		 BBC R2
rebroadcast
29:26, 6902, M
TS (R7):
27:04, 25388, s
BBC R2
23-Dec-1973		 9-8
 Ministerial Broadcast to the Nation: Shortages -
Childhood Remembered (Cleese fired, defects to
Radio Terrapin) – Radio Terrapin: Cooking/
Gardening/Yoga – Radio Prune: Your 3,000,000
Best Tunes: Just My Bill / Radio Terrapin: News
– David Hatch Down and Out / Radio Terrapin
on the Rocks – Bring Back Brian Clough (Oddie)
– Ice Cubes Down My Cleavage or the Colditz Story
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme
Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
arranged by Leon Cohen
Producers: David Hatch, John Cassels		 BBC R2
rebroadcast R4
30:00, 7034, M
TS (R7):
27:26, 25734, s
25th Anniversary (1989)
Date Episode Title Cast Parameters
BBC R2
25-Dec-1989
 special
 25th Anniversary Special
The Name’s Hatch / Emergency Meeting of the BBC
Board of Governors - Today Programme / Friends
of the Earth Spokesman / Jonathan Porridge:
Spring, Spring, Spring (Oddie) – Recycling Old
Radio Programmes / Recruiting the Writers: Graeme
Garden and Bill Oddie – John Cleese on Board the
Space Shuttle the Ferret I / John and Mary:
Eleanor and Armadillos - Tim Brooke-Taylor in
Milton Sitcom – Jack the Ripper – Listeners’ Letters
/ Cast Meeting with the Managing Director David
Hatch / John Cleese’s Silly Walk – BBC Radio
Auction / Ferret Duncleese: Late Arrivals at the
Barbecue The Ferret Song
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme
Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
Songs: Bill Oddie, John Cleese
Musicians: directed by Dave Lee
Producers: Richard Wilcox
 54:43, 51308, S
hiss
LPs, Documentaries and Collateral Material
Date
 Title
 Cast
 Parameters

The Wonder Show of BBC Radio
  1. The Auctioneer (Opening) [Brooke-Taylor,
    Music: Lee]
  2. The Day After Tomorrow's World [Garden,
    Music: Lee]
  3. The Doctor [Oddie-Cleese, Music: Lee]
  4. BLIMPHT [Oddie]
  5. John And Mary [Cleese-Oddie, Music: Lee]
  6. Robin Hood [Garden-Cleese, Music: Lee]
  7. Identikit Gal [Oddie]
  8. Baby Talk [Hatch, Music: Lee]
  9. Family Favourites [Introduction: Brooke-Taylor,
    Song: Oddie]
  10. The Curse of The Flying Wombat [Garden-Oddie,
    Music: Lee] 
  11. Closing announcements and Angus Prune Tune
    [Lee-Evans-Barclay]


Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme
Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
The Music By Dave Lee and His Lads


1: 1:35, 749, M
2: 3:31, 1657, M
3: 3:51, 2823, M
4: 1:09, 542, M
5: 4:36, 2159, M
6: 12:45, 5984, M
7: 2:34, 1208, M
8: 3:09, 1480, M
9: 5:02, 2363, M
10: 17:00, 7976, M
BBC Records
1978
 I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again
Side 1
 1. Opening Credits - TBT, GG, DH, JK, BO & DL
 2. Full Frontal Radio,
 3. Prune Manifesto &
 4. Buffers - Complete Cast
 5. Critics - Complete Cast
 6. Motoring Flash - DH
 7. Quickie - JC & DH
 8. Honours List,
 9. News in Welsh
10. & Minority Programmes - GG, DH, JK & DL
11. Home This Afternoon A Go Go - JC, GG, DH, BO & DL
12. News Flash - DH
13. Listening To The Flowers - BO, Cast Chorus & DL

Side 2
 1. Opening - JC, DH & DL
 2. Talent Contest - Complete Cast
 3. Eddie Waring Impersonation - GG, DH & DL
 4. Sick Man's Blues - BO, Cast Chorus & DL
 5. Taming Of The Shrew &
 6. Closing Credits - Complete Cast
 Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme
Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
The Music By Dave Lee and His Lads
Script by Graeme Garden & Bill Oddie
Songs by Bill Oddie (Oddsocks Music)
Musical Links by Dave Lee
Arrangements by Leon Cohen
Radio Production by David Hatch &
Peter Titheradge
Record Production by David Hatch
 BBC Records / Pye
Mono REH342

1: 18:12, 8534, M
2: 19:23, 9091, M
08-Aug-2000
 In Conversation With…
 Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden
 Interviewer: Paul Jackson
Producer: Joe Clank
BBC R4X
09-Mar-2013
 ISIRTA 50th Anniversary Special -- I'm Sorry I'll Read
that Again, Again
  • 2-5 The Adventures of Little Martin Copperwick
  • 6-9 Macbeth
  • 7-13 Professor Prune and the Electric Time
    Trousers Final Episode
  • 25th Anniversary Special
 Bill Oddie, Humphrey Barclay,
Graeme Garden
produced by Nick St. George
178:37, 167503, S
BBC R4X
07-Feb-2010		 Keith Wickham -- restoration of comedy classics
 Keith Wickham
 3:25, 3210, S