Do Not Adjust Your Set

30min

Comedy

Innovative and influential, and originally envisaged as children’s show, Do Not Adjust Your Set was a madcap early-evening comedy sketch show that quickly acquired a cult following with Swinging Sixties adults, who rushed home from work to see it. Written by and starring Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, with great performances and additional material by David Jason and Denise Coffey, it also provided an early showcase for the hilarious animations of Terry Gilliam, and the brilliantly bizarre musical antics of the legendary Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band.

Episodes

Cast

Rediffusion Show 1 - Boxing Day Pilot

1. Rediffusion Show 1 - Boxing Day Pilot

30min

26th Dec 1967

The pilot was a Boxing Day special screened the same day as the Beatles 'Magical Mystery Tour'. Previously thought lost, the songs and sketches include: Boxing Day dance, Bonzo's Jollity Farm and Captain Fantastic.

Rediffusion Show 2

2. Rediffusion Show 2

30min

4th Jan 1968

Intro, King Lear, Musicians At Work, Family Grocer, Science For Sixth Forms, Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Monster Mash, Maternity Ward, On Guard, The Wonder of Words, Stool Pigeon, Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, The Sound Of Music, An Extraordinary Sight, Captain Fantastic, The Tartan Thistle Club

Rediffusion Show 3

3. Rediffusion Show 3

30min

11th Jan 1968

Intro, Identity Parade, Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Brief, Patient Noughts & Crosses, Time for Fun (Fivers Club), Captain Fantastic, Star of Tomorrow, Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Look Out There's a Monster Coming, Concorde, Miss Pringle, "Two of Us" song

Rediffusion Show 4

4. Rediffusion Show 4

30min

18th Jan 1968

Rediffusion Show 5

5. Rediffusion Show 5

30min

25th Jan 1968

Intro - Good evening - Captain Fantastic - Great Discoveries Of Our Time - Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band perform Ali Baba's Camel - Myrtle Goodbody Classes - An Old Time Victorian Burble Drama

Rediffusion Show 6

6. Rediffusion Show 6

30min

1st Feb 1968

Intro, How To Eat, Musicians At Work, Happy Grin Insurance, Flying Doctor, Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, The Equestrian Statue, Take Your Clothes Off, Bus Stop, Cookery Class, Help!, Captain Fantastic, Sailors Song, A Personal Note

Rediffusion Show 7

7. Rediffusion Show 7

30min

8th Feb 1968

Intro, Traffic Warden, Round Up, Thank You, Burglary Prevention, Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Hunting Tigers, Thou Shalt Not, Royal Opera House, Morning Madam, Scenes of Village Life, Captain Fantastic, Miss World

Rediffusion Show 8

8. Rediffusion Show 8

30min

15th Feb 1968

Rediffusion Show 9

9. Rediffusion Show 9

30min

22nd Feb 1968

Rediffusion Show 10

10. Rediffusion Show 10

30min

29th Feb 1968

Intro, Sport, Whackfield Wanders, Chairback Banana Grabbing, Angling, Frogmen Routine, The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Hello Mabel, Fortune Teller, Miniskirt, Captain Fantastic, Romeo & Juliet

Rediffusion Show 11

11. Rediffusion Show 11

30min

7th Mar 1968

Intro, Economic Axe, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Espionage, Custard Factory, Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Love is a Cylindrical Piano, Miss Pringle, Rehearsal, Cinderella, Captain Fantastic, British Food

Rediffusion Show 12

12. Rediffusion Show 12

30min

14th Mar 1968

Intro, Holiday Club, Welcome Home, Death Cab for Cutie, Has Anyone Seen the Invisible Man ?, The Vosbourgh Art Gallery, Captain Fantastic

Rediffusion Show 13

13. Rediffusion Show 13

30min

21st Mar 1968

Intro, Instrumental, The Problems Of Falling Over, The Wild And Woolly West, Weather, Hamster Allergies, Post Early for Christmas, It's Lucy! You're Fired, Announcement, Tubas in the Moonlight, Fancy Dress For Two, Dog Food, Captain Fantastic, Musicians At Work

Rediffusion Show 14

14. Rediffusion Show 14

30min

28th Mar 1968

Intro, Television Planning, The Beginning Of The End, Spotters Corner, Backwards, Cookery Class, Arthur The Amazing Performing Dog, Come Out To Play, Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Metaphorically Speaking, Miss Pringle, Pre-History, Captain Fantastic, The End

Rediffusion Special Edition!

15. Rediffusion Special Edition!

30min

29th Jul 1968

A slightly longer summer special which mixes new material with remounts of previous sketches and the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band performing 'I'm the Urban Spaceman'.

Do Not Adjust Your Stocking

16. Do Not Adjust Your Stocking

30min

25th Dec 1968

Intro - Gags - Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band carol singing - Turnaround with Eric Idle - Christmas cookery hints with Ivor Clarke - St. Herbert's - The Circus Lecture - Beauty Desk - Royal Father Christmas College - Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band perform By A Waterfall - Ron and Norma - Terry Gilliam's The Christmas Card - World pantomime speed record - Captain Fantastic - Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band perform I'm The Urban Spaceman - Party Games - Merry Merry Christmas song

First air date

26th Dec 1967

Last air date

14th May 1969

Status

Ended

Type

Scripted

Original language

en

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