Rutland Weekend Television
- TV sketch show
- BBC Two
- 1975 - 1976
- 14 episodes (2 series)
Sketch and satire show starring Eric Idle and Neil Innes. Also features David Battley, Henry Woolf, Gwen Taylor, Carinthia West and Terence Bayler
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Louis Barfe, The Guardian, 4th December 2019Eric Idle to resurrect Rutland Weekend Television
Eric Idle is teaming up with Professor Brian Cox to bring back Rutland Weekend Television for a one hour Christmas special.
British Comedy Guide, 23rd August 2016Still, it is a cheap and melancholy show and it points out tricks of the trade like TV announcers always dropping their eyes after their announcement, presumably to a monitor. Perhaps to the floor manager on the floor again. And I did and still do like Neil Innes' songs very much.
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 17th June 1975I do believe I like the songs on Rutland Weekend Television best and there's an odd thing, for, in general, I feel the chief function of a comic is to stop the soprano singing twice. I particularly enjoyed Neil Innes as Stoop Solo, the awful pop idol.
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 13th May 1975