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At Last the 1948 Show (Series 1 episode 4)

Highlights include Tim Brooke-Taylor's one-man battalion, Graham Chapman as a government minister literally falling to pieces and a four-handed ‘Cops in Drag’ sketch.

Comedy 1967 23 mins

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Overview

One of the two shows contained in the archive passed to the BFI after the demise of Rediffusion, highlights here include a solo turn from Tim Brooke-Taylor as the one-man battalion, Graham Chapman as a government minister literally falling to pieces and a classic Marty Feldman template in which he plays an employee (engine driver Spriggs) being taken to task for an escalating series of misdemeanours. But it is the four-handed ‘Cops in Drag’ sketch that catches the eye and which the cast clearly enjoyed performing the most, playing tricks on each other and unable to contain their own laughter.

Genres

Comedy

Certificate

Contains mild language

Country

United Kingdom

Language

English

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