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Not the Nine O’Clock News

Not the Nine O’Clock News – 1979

This was must watch TV, and for it’s time it broke all the rules. The BBC had several high level requests to take it off air, but it syayed on our screens for several years It was a BBC2 huge success and made so many spin offs that also went down in to TV hsitory.
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Rowan Atkinson became Mr Bean and Blackadder in the 1980s, Chris Langham went to prison for obscene materials on his PC, and Pamela Stephenson marrid Billy Connoly and later became a pychatrist.

Griff Rhys Jones became Alas Smith and Jones in the 1980s with Mel Smith.

 

Directors
Geoff Posner
Bob Spiers
Bill Wilson

Writers
Douglas Adams
Clive Anderson
Rowan Atkinson
Ray Binns
Colin Bostock-Smith
Richard Curtis
Dick Fiddy
Stephen Fry
Kim Fuller
Colin Gilbert
Andy Hamilton
Sean Hardie
John Henderson
Guy Jenkin
Terry Kyan
John Lloyd
Andrew Marshall
Rory McGrath
Guy Meredith
Craig Nicholls
Victoria Pile
Nigel Planer
Roger Planer
Philip Pope
David Renwick
Griff Rhys Jones
Peter Richardson
Laurie Rowley
Pete Sergeant
Mel Smith
Paul Smith
Mark Wallington
Ruby Wax
Nick Wilton

Producers
Sean Hardie producer
John Lloyd producer

Cast
Rowan Atkinson
Pamela Stephenson
Mel Smith – Various roles
Griff Rhys Jones – Various
Chris Langham – Various
Griff Rhys Jones

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What an amazing piece of kit our telly was. Can you imagine having to change channel by turning a knob to tune in BBC2 and forever getting up to realign the aerial and contrast, and the only way to stop the picture from rolling was to give the set a good thump? Do you remember that we only have three channels to watch? Thinking about it, the conversation was better at school next day as everyone seemed to be watching the same thing unlike nowadays where we have too much choice. Aye, the quality of programmes seem to have dwindled when you think back to what we had in our days.

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