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Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life

1964
Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life

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EP1 Show 1 Nov 13, 1964

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EP2 Show 2 Nov 14, 1964

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EP3 Show 3 Nov 15, 1964

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EP4 Show 4 Nov 20, 1964

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EP5 Show 5 Nov 21, 1964

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EP6 Show 6 Nov 22, 1964

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EP7 Show 7 Nov 27, 1964

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EP8 Show 8 Nov 28, 1964

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EP9 Show 9 Nov 29, 1964

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EP10 Show 10 Dec 04, 1964

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EP11 Show 11 Dec 05, 1964

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EP12 Show 12 Dec 06, 1964

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EP13 Show 13 Dec 11, 1964

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EP14 Show 14 Dec 12, 1964

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EP15 Show 15 Dec 13, 1964

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EP16 Show 16 Dec 18, 1964

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EP17 Show 17 Dec 19, 1964

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EP18 Show 18 Dec 20, 1964

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EP19 Show 19 Jan 02, 1965

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EP20 Show 20 Jan 03, 1965

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EP21 Show 21 Jan 08, 1965

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EP22 Show 22 Jan 09, 1965

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EP23 Show 23 Jan 10, 1965

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EP24 Show 24 Jan 15, 1965

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EP25 Show 25 Jan 16, 1965

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EP26 Show 26 Jan 17, 1965

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EP27 Show 27 Jan 22, 1965

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EP28 Show 28 Jan 23, 1965

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EP29 Show 29 Jan 24, 1965

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EP30 Show 30 Jan 29, 1965

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EP31 Show 31 Jan 30, 1965

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EP32 Show 32 Jan 31, 1965

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EP33 Show 33 Feb 05, 1965

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EP34 Show 34 Feb 06, 1965

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EP35 Show 35 Feb 07, 1965

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EP36 Show 36 Feb 12, 1965

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EP37 Show 37 Feb 13, 1965

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EP38 Show 38 Feb 14, 1965

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EP39 Show 39 Feb 19, 1965

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EP40 Show 40 Feb 20, 1965

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EP41 Show 41 Feb 21, 1965

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EP42 Show 42 Feb 26, 1965

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EP43 Show 43 Feb 27, 1965

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EP44 Show 44 Feb 28, 1965

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EP45 Show 45 Mar 05, 1965

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EP46 Show 46 Mar 06, 1965

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EP47 Show 47 Mar 07, 1965

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EP48 Show 48 Mar 12, 1965

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EP49 Show 49 Mar 13, 1965

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EP50 Show 50 Mar 14, 1965

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EP51 Show 51 Mar 19, 1965

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EP52 Show 52 Mar 20, 1965

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EP53 Show 53 Mar 21, 1965

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EP54 Show 54 Mar 26, 1965

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EP55 Show 55 Mar 27, 1965

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EP56 Show 56 Mar 28, 1965

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EP57 Show 57 Apr 02, 1965

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EP58 Show 58 Apr 03, 1965

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EP59 Show 59 Apr 04, 1965

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EP60 Show 60 Apr 09, 1965

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EP61 Show 61 Apr 10, 1965

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EP62 Show 62 Apr 11, 1965

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Released: 13 November 1964 Ended
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Country: United Kingdom
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Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life is a BBC-TV satire programme produced by Ned Sherrin, which aired during the winter of 1964–1965, in an attempt to continue and improve on the successful formula of his That Was The Week That Was, which had been taken off by the BBC because of the coming General Election. It too featured David Frost as compère, with two others, William Rushton and the poet P. J. Kavanagh joining him in the role. In addition to Saturdays, there were also editions on Fridays and Sundays. It saw the first appearances on television of John Bird, Eleanor Bron, Roy Hudd, Patrick Campbell and John Fortune. Michael Crawford also featured as 'Byron'. Whereas TWTWTW had had a dark nightclub atmosphere, the new programme used predominantly white sets. The programme lacked the impact of TW3 and lasted only one season before being replaced by the Robert Robinson-fronted BBC-3.

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F Gwynplaine MacIntyre The ground-breaking TV series 'That Was the Week that Was', dealing in political satire, was officially put on hiatus by the BBC (cancelled, more like) for Britain's 1964 general election. 'Not So Much a Programme', premiering on Friday the 13th of November after the election, was Auntie Beeb's attempt at two bites of the same cherry.The series was transmitted each week on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday, with a different female singer recounting the headlines for each night: Barbara Evans (Friday) was pleasant enough. Jo Blake, on the Saturdays, gave me the Joe Blakes. Cleo Laine, on Sundays, was easily the best of the three.John Wells, already established as a writer, made his performing debut on NSMAP. Eleanor Bron performed some of her own material, as well as appearing in a recurring role (a Tory Aunt Sally) scripted by Peter Cook, with the punning name Lady Pamela Stitty.Whilst 'TW3' featured bare-bones sets in an obvious studio, 'NSMAP' splurged on some occasionally elaborate settings and props. One sketch, written by John Fortune and John Bird, called for a statue sixty feet high! Since this was well higher than the studio's sightlines (no exterior filming here), the sketch was ultimately performed with a pair of legs a mere 20 feet high, representing a much taller statue. Can this be where Monty Python got their inspiration for the enormous foot?NSMAP's most notorious sketch remains the one depicting a Catholic priest in Liverpool's lower-class Irish community, chastising poor Mrs O'Hara (Patricia Routledge) for failing to become pregnant again after leaving off at only 16 children. Looking directly into the camera, he smirks: 'We'll catch the Chinese up yet.' At this late date, and from our modern permissive viewpoint, 'Not So Much a Programme' seems quite tame, but it was daring for its time: sometimes more so than the more notorious 'TW3'. Despite this programme's awful title, I'll rate 'Not So Much a Programme' 8 out of 10