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Old 14-10-2005, 02:32 PM
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I saw The Plank years ago, and loved it. It was quite short, and definitely black and white, hilarious and silent. I just got it on DVD and it's in colour, longer, lots of talking and not as funny!!! I thought I was going mad, but my husband says that he also saw the other one as a child. I have read a few discussions about it, and there's been lots of conflicting opinions, some say both were in colour, some say there were 3 versions, can anyone give a definite answer to this one? And where to get the one that I saw all those years ago?

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2, one b&w, one colour, both directed and starring Eric Sykes.
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Thanks for that... now, I'm presuming the b&W came first (I've been told otherwise!) ...? Any ideas what years they were done?
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1967 and 1979
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I have both versions of The Plank on video and they're both in colour. Maybe he did a similar storyline in one of his early 'Sykes and a...' shows?
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There must be three versions of this film 'cause I've seen two different colour ones! [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mellow.gif[/img]
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I've just checked in the 'Radio Times Guide to TV Comedy' by Mark Lewishohn and there are three versions of 'The Plank'.


Sykes and A Plank from 1964 which was in black and white.
The cinema version from 1967 and the Thames version from 1979 both in colour.
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Yay! Thought I was right.
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