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I watched it. Quite enjoyed it although, as stated above, it seemed to be slightly out of sync. I switched my freeview box on and off a couple of times and it seemed to make it a bit better - although that may have been my imagination. The humour was only mildly funny, although I did keep saying to myself 'I bet this was quite funny in 1965.' Some of the Cliff/Shads bits I'd already seen... some I hadn't. All good stuff. Nice to see that they were given quite a lot of time.

Jimmy Tarbuck's gags were very topical for late 1965.

There was a bakery strike going on and the Rhodesia crisis was just coming to the boil. A week earlier (and this also seemed to form the bulk of Charlie Drake's act), Kenneth Tynan, film critic of the Observer and a National Theatre administrator, had managed to say the word "fuck" on BBC television. The programme was called "BBC3", which also got a mention in Tarbuck's patter.

Hansard (I kid you not) re the bakers' strike: https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1965/nov/25/bakery-industry-dispute

As I recall it, Tynan was coyly reported in the papers as having used “a word” on TV. Should that be the style on this site, do you think?

Better than we get on Facebook and similar social media where such words are used to add emphasis - or to illustrate the poster's small vocabulary.

Freddy Parrot Face Davies didnt' thing his thong and I was a bit pithed thoff !!!!
The Pamela Devis Dancers were excellent too!!!

Mike

Iain Purdon wrote: ... I remember watching double bass players going mad with excitement but to no audible effect whatever ...

You make that sound like a bad thing!