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The Kenny Everett Television Show Collection

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The Kenny Everett Television Show (BBC 1981-1988)

Everett fell out with Thames regarding the management of his show, including the scheduling against the BBC's top-rated Top of the Pops on Thursday evenings. The BBC offered him a live-audience sketch-format comedy programme, starting with a Christmas special on BBC One in 1981, followed by five primetime series. The writing team was bolstered by the addition of Andrew Marshall, David Renwick and Neil Shand, and the production standards were raised by the heavier investment from the Corporation.

Thames Television claimed copyright on Everett's characters, and tried to prevent their use by the BBC. Whilst this action failed, it led to the creation of new characters such as Gizzard Puke (intended to replace Sid Snot), and the spooneristically named Cupid Stunt, an American B-movie actress with pneumatic breasts, and played with no attempt to disguise Everett's beard, who told a cardboard cutout of Michael Parkinson lurid tales of life on set with Burt Reynolds and other male stars of the era. Her original name, Mary Hinge, was vetoed by the Corporation as too obvious, and announcers were encouraged to refer to her as Cupid to prevent mispronunciation. Inept TV handyman Reg Prescott became another firm viewers' favourite, as each week he managed graphically and bloodily to injure himself with tools whilst attempting to demonstrate DIY tips.

Brazilian-born Cleo Rocos co-starred in the BBC series. She often appeared in nothing more than frilly underwear and high heels, and her figure was used to great comic effect as a focus for drooling, lascivious men.

Complete list of joke-making characters

  • Gizzard Puke, a punk.
    "Hullo I'm Gizzard Puke... the first one that says Punk's dead, will be".

  • Cupid Stunt, an American sex-kitten B-movie star.
    "(pre-laughter) Any way, let me tell you about my new movie. It's called 'Balclava' gang-bang and it stars Burt, my leading man!"
    "Any way, I'm telling you the plot! Go see it - you'll love it! And its all done in the best puussible taste!" (legs crossed and then uncrossed revealing knickers)

  • A game show host, with Blankety Blank style microphone.

  • Reg Prescott, inept DIY on TV-presenter.

  • US Army General (Brig. General Hiram P. Bombthebastards).
    Huge shoulder pads containing intercontinental ballistic missile launch-pads. Monologue blaming world Communism for various ills, always climaxing with:
    "We'll round 'em up – and put 'em in a field – and bomb the bastards!".

  • Super-Jew, bespectacled, in a kosher superman with star-of-David symbol:"Up, up and Oi-vey!"

  • Julian Mince, a drunken, champagne-swilling upper-class twit.
    Telling hoary jokes on what appears to be the lawn of a stately home.

  • Sid Snot, an aging rock-n-roller.
    "Hullo mersey-tunnel mouths.".

  • Marcel Wave, a lecherous Frenchman.

  • Alvin Redneck, an 'American' redneck with an enormous straw hat.

  • Beau Diddley of the (French Foreign) Legion.




The Kenny Everett Television Show Series Four

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Disc One:

Type Movie
Platform VIDEO_TS folder
Burn Yes
Video Format MPEG2/720+576/4x3/PAL
Aspect ratio 4/3 material
Audio Format Dolby 2.0 stereo ac3 192kbps
Main Movie Runtime 119 Minutes
Movie Format PAL
Genre Comedy
Size 4.34 GB (4,666,406,912 bytes)
Number of Episodes 4


Disc Two:

Type Movie
Platform VIDEO_TS folder
Burn Yes
Video Format MPEG2/720+576/4x3/PAL
Aspect ratio 4/3 material
Audio Format Dolby 2.0 stereo ac3 192kbps
Main Movie Runtime 116 Minutes
Movie Format PAL
Genre Comedy
Size 4.31 GB (4,632,098,816 bytes)
Number of Episodes 4

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