As there doesn't seem to be a 'radio' thread, I'll put this here because it sort of fits.
In the words of Max Miller, "Here's a funny thing". The other day I installed Radio Garden on my phone. By chance one of the first stations it located was "ROK -British Comedy (London, United Kingdom)". In the car today, fed up with the usual crap on radio I switched over to the Bluetooth and, blow me down, there was Kenneth Horne and gang doing a spoof of Night Of The Big Heat. First broadcast on 24th June 1960 (therefore still Beyond Our Ken), they were obviously sending up the teleplay shown on ITV just ten days previously. Horne's neighbour has a bad case of nerves and explains that she'd been watching 'The Fantastic Heat', leading in to Horne, Kenneth Williams (in the role played in the later film version by Christopher Lee!), Hugh Paddick and Betty Marsden doing their condensed, gag filled take on the story - complete with jokes about giant alien insects, the 'original' monsters which were replaced by slithering jellies in the 1967 movie. A couple of nuggets: " I don't remember it ever getting so hot!" Are you forgetting that weekend in Brighton?" and "What about those horrible things out there?" "If one of those things gets me it'll just be one of those things"Shame the TV play is apparently lost.
As there doesn't seem to be a 'radio' thread, I'll put this here because it sort of fits.
In the words of Max Miller, "Here's a funny thing". The other day I installed Radio Garden on my phone. By chance one of the first stations it located was "ROK -British Comedy (London, United Kingdom)". In the car today, fed up with the usual crap on radio I switched over to the Bluetooth and, blow me down, there was Kenneth Horne and gang doing a spoof of Night Of The Big Heat. First broadcast on 24th June 1960 (therefore still Beyond Our Ken), they were obviously sending up the teleplay shown on ITV just ten days previously. Horne's neighbour has a bad case of nerves and explains that she'd been watching 'The Fantastic Heat', leading in to Horne, Kenneth Williams (in the role played in the later film version by Christopher Lee!), Hugh Paddick and Betty Marsden doing their condensed, gag filled take on the story - complete with jokes about giant alien insects, the 'original' monsters which were replaced by slithering jellies in the 1967 movie. A couple of nuggets: " I don't remember it ever getting so hot!" Are you forgetting that weekend in Brighton?" and "What about those horrible things out there?" "If one of those things gets me it'll just be one of those things" Shame the TV play is apparently lost.