The Stanley Baxter Picture Show
- TV sketch show
- ITV1
- 1972 - 1975
- 7 episodes (1 series)
Hit series and string of specials starring Scottish comedian and impressionist Stanley Baxter.
Episode menu
The Stanley Baxter Big Picture Show
Sketches
The Movie Makers: The Joe Woodbine Lecture At The NFT
- The Love Of Moses
- Love's A Tonic
The Pundits
Annals Of Scotland Yard
Liza Memammy
Airline fuel
Aquarium
A Pete Smith Nostalgiality
Nationwide
George Formby
Her Grace the Duchess of Brendagh's Broadcast for Guy Fawkes Day
Broadcast details
- Date
- Friday 21st December 1973
- Time
- 9pm
- Channel
- ITV1
- Length
- 60 minutes
- Recorded
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- Monday 6th August 1973 at The London Studios
Cast & crew
| Stanley Baxter | Various |
| Ken Hoare | Writer |
| David Bell | Director |
| David Bell | Producer |
| Ray Weedon | Editor |
| Bill McPherson | Production Designer |
| Harry Rabinowitz | Musical Director |
Press
Baxter's programme consisted exclusively of movie and TV parodies, and once again his formidable powers of lampoon were aimed mainly at women. As with Benny Hill and Dick Emery, it is almost impossible to keep Baxter out of high heels: he hurdles into drag at the snap of a compact. Unlike them, however, he tries to be specific, and the first encouraging thing about this latest show was the new accuracy with which he zeroed on the target and started throwing in the heavy iron.
Clive James, The Observer, 30th December 1973You are perfectly entitled to your own favourite sketch. Feel free. It was a rich pudding for the show with a plum in there for everybody. Baxter's programme deserves some kind of award for industry. Knowing, possibly, that he was by no means the biggest name in television, he tried harder. Never has a man done so many for so long.
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 22nd December 1973