Rutland Weekend Tv

[Aenima]

Hi all,

Anyone remember Eric Idle's Rutland Weekend TV. I wish they'd broadcast it again, maybe on BBC4. I wonder will they ever release it on DVD?

Cheers,

A

[Harbottle]

I vaguely remember this show, and would definately like to see a DVD release or repeats. Link to some info on this show here :



http://www.neilinnes.org/python/rwt.htm

[DB7]

I was only 8 when it was broadcast so I've only seen clips but it's one I've been keeping an eye out for.

[smudge]

One episode was re-shown last year on BBC for as part of their 60s season.



Odds n ends have been reshown at other times, too - so there are one or two episodes in circulation.



SMUDGE

[Tony Pendrey]

And of course, it was that marvellous series that spawned the now legendary, prefab four, The Rutles.

If anyone needs a copy please PM me. Or meet me in 'Doubleback Alley' with Leggy Mountbatten. "It was the trousers... they were ever so tight you see? Left nothing to the imagination." :surprise

I thought it was quite tragic that Leggy Mountbatten moved to Australia.

[Jim]

who is Leggy Mountbatten?

[Tony Pendrey]

]Hi Jim - The spoof "Rutles" film is a parody of the career of The Beatles. Leggy Mountbatten was The Rutles manager.



The film is a work of sheer comic brilliance.

[Jim]

Cheers TP. I remember seeing the shows but can't remember anything about them contents wise. Ah! old age is wonderful!

[Jim]

Surprised you don't know about The Rutles, Jim. They were, after all, a legend in their own lunchtime.

I think the reason they broke up was because they all dabbled in tea and it affected their brains. Before that, they influenced every other band when they released their album, 'Sgt. Rutter's Only Darts Club Band'. Their lasting testament is with us still in their wonderful last two albums: 'Shabby Road' and 'Let It Rot'. Here they are on a London rooftop playing 'Get Up And Go' and in a shot for the cover of 'Shabby Road'.

I do remember seeing the shows advertised, but now I come to think of it, I really don't think I ever saw them! I wonder what I was doing in those days that I missed the shows?



1978 was it? Ah! yes I remember now. I was mortgageless and out every night, and there were no video recorders in those days that I could af ford!

[David Challinor]

Smashing series. Last seen in a brief clip involving George Harrison tribute in 2001 (Big pal of Idol) when the ex-Beatle was given a big introduction before playing a tinny-sounding folk song in true Rutland style. I am the proud owner of a Rutle Weekend annual - rather like the Python boks - which had a rather risque cover. I am proud to say I recall buying it at a secondhand book shop in Arundel over ten years ago, much to the disgust of my prudey ex-girlfriend, though now it languishes in my loft with all my other stuff I don't have room to display in Challinor Mansion....chances of an airing on BBC 4? Nil I'd expect, but costly DVD, maybe.

[David Savage]

Originally posted by smudge@Jul 17 2005, 04:45 AM

One episode was re-shown last year on BBC for as part of their 60s season.



SMUDGE

It wasn't, you know. It was, after all, a mid to late '70s show. The last time it got screened was on the no longer existing BBC 'Arena' channel a few years back. They showed the first series, but it was badly edited to fit in adverts. Before that, there was just a not very inspired and unrepresentative 25 minute compilation shown on 'At Home With Vic'n' Bob' way back in Christmas '93 (which people seemed to mistake for the Rutland Weekend Christmas special.)



It was a great series, though, and deserves a good DVD release. It's a pity that people often only seem to remember The Rutles as the series that spawned them was just as good. Full of parodies of 70s BBC stuff, and Idle expertly helped by Henry Woolf, David Battley and Neil Innes. The 'Rutland Dirty Weekend Book', as mentioned, is probably better than the two Python books - really inspired.

[DB7]

I saw an off-air Series 1 RWT dvd go through ebay only the other day selling for over $40.

[David S.]

Originally posted by DB7@Jul 23 2005, 05:52 PM

I saw an off-air Series 1 RWT dvd go through ebay only the other day selling for over $40.

I wonder if it was the butchered-for-ads UK Arena broadcast. If it was off-air, I expect so. It's never been shown in the States at all, and there can't have been many people taping it off BBC2 in the mid-Seventies.

[DB7]

Managed to pick up Series 1 & 2 DVDs (including xmas edtition) from ebay.