SERIES ONE

ONE - Titled: "Whither Canada?"

Recorded on 7th September 1969 and first shown on 5th October 1969.

• 'It's Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart'
• Famous deaths
• Italian lesson
• Whizzo butter
• 'It's the Arts'
• Arthur 'Two-Sheds' Jackson
• Picasso/cycling race
• The funniest joke in the world.

TWO - Titled: "Sex and violence"

Recorded on 30th August 1969 and first shown on 12th October 1969

• Flying sheep
• French lecture on sheep-aircraft
• A man with three buttocks
• A man with two noses
• Musical mice
• Marriage guidance counsellor
• The wacky queen
• Working-class playwright
• A Scotsman on a horse
• The wrestling epilogue
• The mouse problem.

THREE - Titled: "How to recognize different types of tree from quite a long way away"

Recorded on 14th August 1969 and first shown on 19th October 1969

• Court scene (witness in coffin/Cardinal Richelieu)
• The Larch
• Bicycle repair man
• Children's stories
• Restaurant sketch
• Seduced milkmen
• Stolen news reader
• Children's interview
• Nudge nudge.

FOUR - Titled "Owl-stretching time"

Recorded on 21st September 1969 and first shown on 26th October 1969

• Song ('And did those feet')
• Art gallery
• Art critic
• It's a man's life in the modern army
• Undressing in public
• Self-defence
• Secret Service dentists.

FIVE - Titled: "Man's crisis of identity in the latter half of the twentieth century"

Recorded on 3rd October 1969 and first shown on 16th November 1969

• Confuse-a-Cat
• The smuggler
• A duck, a cat and a lizard (discussion)
• Vox pops on smuggling
• Police raid
• Letters and vox pops
• News reader arrested
• Erotic film
• Silly job interview
• Careers advisory board
• Burglar/encyclopedia salesman.

SIX - (Untitled)

Recorded on 5th November 1969 and first shown on 23rd November 1969

• 'It's the Arts'
• Johann Gambolputty... von Hautkopft of Ulm
• Non-illegal robbery
• Vox pops
• Crunchy frog
• The dull life of a City stockbroker
• Red Indian in theatre
• Policemen make wonderful friends
• A Scotsman on a horse
• Twentieth-century vole.

SEVEN - Titled: "You're no fun any more"

Recorded on 10th October 1969 and first shown on 30th November 1969

• Camel spotting
• You're no fun any more
• The audit
• Science fiction sketch
• Man turns into Scotsman
• Police station
• Blancmanges playing tennis.

EIGHT - Titled: "Full frontal nudity"

Recorded 25th November 1969 and first shown on 7th December 1969

• Army protection racket
• Art critic - the place of the nude
• Buying a bed
• Hermits
• Dead parrot
• The flasher
• Hell's Grannies.

NINE - Titled: "The ant, an introduction"

Recorded on 7th December 1969 and first shown on 14th December 1969

• Llamas
• A man with a tape recorder up his nose
• Kilimanjaro expedition (double vision)
• A man with a tape recorder up his brother's nose
• Homicidal barber
• Lumberjack song
• Gumby crooner
• The refreshment room at Bletchley
• Hunting film
• The visitors.

TEN - (Untitled)

Recorded on 30th November 1969 and first shown on 21st December 1969

• Walk-on part in sketch
• Bank robber (lingerie shop)
• Trailer
• Arthur Tree
• Vocational Guidance Counsellor (chartered accountant)
• The first man to jump the Channel
• Tunnelling from Godalming to Java
• Pet conversions
• Gorilla librarian
• Letters to 'Daily Mirror'
• Strangers in the night.

ELEVEN - (Untitled)

Recorded on 14th December 1969 and first shown on 28th December 1969

• Letter (lavatorial humour)
• Interruptions
• Agatha Christie sketch
• Literary football discussion
• Undertakers film
• Interesting people
• Eighteenth-century social legislation
• The Battle of Trafalgar
• Batley Townswomens' Guild presents the Battle of Pearl Harbour
• Undertakers film.

TWELVE - (Untitled)

Recorded on 21st December 1969 and first shown on 4th January 1970

• Falling from building
• 'Spectrum' - talking about things
• Visitors from Coventry
• Mr. Hilter
• The Minehead by-election
• Police station (silly voices)
• Upperclass Twit of the Year
• Ken Shabby
• How far can a minister fall?

THIRTEEN - (Untitled)

Recorded on 4th January 1970 and first shown on 11th January 1970

• Intermissions
• Restaurant (abuse/cannibalism)
• Advertisements
• Albatross
• Come back to my place
• Me Doctor
• Historical impersonations
• Quiz programme - 'Wishes'
• 'Probe-around' on crime
• Stonehenge
• Mr. Attila the Hun
• Psychiatry - silly sketch
• Operating theatre (squatters).

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