Round the Horne

30min

Comedy

A radio comedy sketch show, presented as a local variety show with Kenneth Horne as the host.

Episodes

Cast

Episode 1

1. Episode 1

30min

7th Mar 1965

Featuring: The BBC backroom boys: the programme planners The Clissold Saga [part 1/5]

Episode 2

2. Episode 2

30min

14th Mar 1965

Featuring: Isambard Kingdom Fortinbras, inventor of the doorknob The BBC backroom boys The Clissold Saga: The aviator [part 2/5]

Episode 3

3. Episode 3

30min

21st Mar 1965

Featuring: BBC sound effects department The Clissold Saga: A pantomime horse [part 3/5]

Episode 4

4. Episode 4

30min

28th Mar 1965

Featuring: Robert Capability Lackwind, inventor of toad in the hole BBC censorship department The Clissold Saga: Egyptology [part 4/5] Rentachap (Julian and Sandy)

Episode 5

5. Episode 5

30min

4th Apr 1965

Featuring: Richard Serendipity Mountbasket, inventor of the Christmas Pudding BBC personnel department: Gruntfuttock applies for a BBC job The Clissold Saga: films [part 5/5] Gent’s Boutique in Chelsea (Julian and Sandy)

Episode 6

6. Episode 6

30min

11th Apr 1965

Featuring: Tammany Wilkinshaft, inventor of the crumpet BBC complaints department Inspector Horne's casebook – The Tap-dancing Monk Bona Bistro (Julian and Sandy)

Episode 7

7. Episode 7

30min

18th Apr 1965

Featuring: Nemesis Fothergill, Ornithologist BBC audience research department "Edwin Braden Is Missing": Horne investigates Bona scriptwriters (Julian and Sandy)

Episode 8

8. Episode 8

30min

25th Apr 1965

Featuring: Edwin Chattleforth, inventor of forced meat BBC auditioners 'Who killed the Amazing Proudbasket? Private Fever – Noël Coward parody Bona Tours (Julian and Sandy)

Episode 9

9. Episode 9

30min

2nd May 1965

Featuring: Friar Wacker Biscuit, inventor of the hip bath The Spy Who Came in with a Cold: Kenneth Horne meets Chou en Ginsberg Bona Bouffant (Julian and Sandy)

Episode 10

10. Episode 10

30min

9th May 1965

Featuring: Gruntfuttock, King of Peasmoldia Kenneth Horne, Master Spy: Famous People Are Turning Into Animals Rambling Syd Rumpo

Episode 11

11. Episode 11

30min

16th May 1965

Featuring: From Russia With Love and Kind Regards to Auntie Mabel Blithe Laughter Bona Homes, estate agents (Julian and Sandy)

Episode 12

12. Episode 12

30min

23rd May 1965

Featuring: Kenneth Horne, Master Spy: The Man with the Golden Thunderball Bona Homes and Landscape Gardens (Julian and Sandy)

Episode 13

13. Episode 13

30min

30th May 1965

Featuring: Dictator ex-King Gruntfuttock Kenneth Horne, Master Spy: The Missing Eiffel Tower Lover, Come Back to Me, Romberg, Hammerstein Present Encounter Bona Pets (Julian and Sandy)

Episode 14

14. Episode 14

30min

6th Jun 1965

Featuring: Dictator ex-King Gruntfuttock Special agent Kenneth Horne probes a pirate invasion of the BBC It's a Lovely Day Today Irving Berlin Studio Bona photographers (Julian and Sandy)

Episode 15

15. Episode 15

30min

13th Jun 1965

Featuring: Special agent Kenneth Horne investigating a Rocket Site in Haiti Bitter Laughter Nice Work If You Can Get It George and Ira Gershwin Bona Seats, ticket agency (Julian and Sandy)

Episode 16

16. Episode 16

30min

20th Jun 1965

Featuring: Kenneth Horne, Special Agent: Traffic wardens in outer space Forbidden Encounter This Can't Be Love, Rodgers and Hart Bona Productions: melodramas (Julian and Sandy)

First air date

7th Mar 1965

Last air date

9th Jun 1968

Status

Ended

Type

Scripted

Original language

en

Networks