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Les Dawson's Funniest Moments

Les Dawson's Funniest Moments

  • TV documentary
  • Channel 5
  • 2022
  • 1 episode

A celebration of legendary comedian Les Dawson's career. Also features Tracy Dawson, Charlotte Dawson, Brian Conley, Syd Little, Roy Walker and more.

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Key details

Genre
Documentary
Broadcast
2022
Channel
Channel 5
Episodes
1
Features
Tracy Dawson, Charlotte Dawson, Brian Conley, Syd Little, Roy Walker, Gloria Hunniford, Vicki Michelle, Anita Harris and more
Directors
Adam McLean
Producers
Adam McLean, Emma Clarke and Matt Crook
Company

A celebration of legendary comedian Les Dawson's career, featuring shaggy dog stories, classic sketches and his collaborations with stars such as John Cleese, Shirley Bassey and Roy Barraclough.

The programme reveals how he came to play the piano badly and the childhood incident that enabled him to pull such miraculous faces, and the show also has his earliest surviving TV appearance on The Cilla Black Show from 1968 and his last-ever appearances, from Surprise Surprise and his posthumous hologram appearance in Les Dawson: An Audience With That Never Was.

Proving he was as funny off screen as on, Les's family have given us unique access to home movie footage, shot to commemorate the birth of his daughter Charlotte. Featuring classic archive and contributions from family and friends, including his wife Tracy and daughter Charlotte, along with Brian Conley, Syd Little, Roy Walker, Gloria Hunniford, Vicki Michelle, Anita Harris, Linda Lusardi, Jon Culshaw and Rufus Jones.

Catch-up

Additional details

Also known as
  • Les Dawson: 30 Greatest Moments (Billed title)
Picture
Colour

Broadcast details

First broadcast
Saturday 6th August 2022 at 8pm on Channel 5
Episode length
120 minutes
All previous repeats
  • Monday 26th December 2022 at 8:00pm on C5
  • Friday 12th August 2022 at 11:30pm on C5

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