Geoff Posner
Director
Not the Nine O'Clock News (1979)
Specials
Classic sketch comedy show satirising the news and culture of the late 70s and early 80s which introduced Rowan Atkinson, Mel Smith, Griff Rhys Jones and Pamela Stephenson.
Released Oct. 16, 1979
Episode 23 min
None+
Genres: Comedy
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Watch Providers: Britbox Apple TV Channel
Network: BBC Two
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S0E3 - The Best of Not the Nine O'Clock News
Sept. 9, 1980, midnight
S0E4 - Twenty-Five Years of Not the Nine O'clock News
Sept. 16, 1980, midnight
S0E14 - NOT 1
Episode 1 of the best-of collection of Not the 9 O'Clock News. Sketches include:
The Dart Players
Question Time
The Gorilla News Interview
And the cast sing Bouncing
Oct. 27, 1995, midnight
S0E15 - NOT 2
Episode 2 of the best-of collection of Not the 9 O'Clock News. Sketches include:
Game For a Laugh
Because I'm Wet And Lonley
A Come In Rawlinson
Hand built By Roberts
This week's song is Baronet Oswald Ernold Moseley
Nov. 3, 1995, midnight
S0E16 - NOT 3
Episode 3 of the best-of collection of Not the 9 O'Clock News. Sketches include:
Riot Police
The Devil: Is He All Bad?
Public Toilet
Nov. 10, 1995, midnight
S0E17 - NOT 4
Episode 4 of the best-of collection of Not the 9 O'Clock News. Sketches include: Lead Poisoning
Sexism Discussion Hi-Fi Shop
Soccer Violence
General Synod's Life Of Python
Preacher
Unemployment
Nov. 17, 1995, midnight
S0E18 - NOT 5
Episode 5 of the best-of collection of Not the 9 O'Clock News. Sketches include:
Job Creation Scheme / Late Abortion / Not The Parrot Sketch
Nov. 24, 1995, midnight
S0E19 - NOT 6
Episode 6 of the best-of collection of Not the 9 O'Clock News. Sketches include:
Sex Shop / I Like Trucking
Dec. 1, 1995, midnight
S0E20 - NOT 7
Episode 7 of the best-of collection of Not the 9 O'Clock News. Sketches include:
Silly trousers / Licence fee
Dec. 8, 1995, midnight
S0E21 - NOT 8
Episode 8 of the best-of collection of Not the 9 O'Clock News. Sketches include:
Dec. 15, 1995, midnight
S0E23 - Not Again: Not the Nine O'Clock News
The inside story of the anarchic comedy sketch show, which ran on BBC Two from 1979 to 1982, and launched the careers of Rowan Atkinson, Griff Rhys Jones, Mel Smith and Pamela Stephenson, as well as writers including Richard Curtis, Andy Hamilton and Clive Anderson. This documentary reveals how the series first came about, looks at the casting of the four main players and the dynamic of the team, as well as recalling the show's key moments, its impact at the time and its legacy. Featuring interviews with Smith, Jones, Stephenson and Curtis, as well as celebrity fans including Billy Connolly and Dara O Briain
Dec. 28, 2009, midnight
S0E1 - Unbroadcast Pilot
As every comedy schoolboy should know by now, the Not The Nine O'Clock News "pilot" is something of a misnomer. It was in fact originally intended as the first show of what would have been their first series, recorded on the 31st of March 1979 and scheduled for broadcast on BBC2 on the 2nd of April 1979, but pulled at the eleventh hour due to elections.
S0E2 - Not The Least Of Not The Nine O'Clock News
Highlights from the first series.
Dec. 28, 1979, midnight
S0E5 - Not the Lot of Not the Nine O'Clock News
Sept. 23, 1980, midnight
S0E6 - Not the Nine O'Clock News Christmas
Dec. 30, 1980, midnight
S0E7 - Not Another Not the Nine O'Clock News
Oct. 9, 1981, midnight
S0E8 - An Eighth Chance to See Not the Nine O'Clock News
Oct. 16, 1981, midnight
S0E9 - Last of the Summer Repeats
Oct. 23, 1981, midnight
S0E10 - Not the World Cup
June 19, 1983, midnight
S0E11 - Not the Nine O'Clock News (1)
The first of three programmes re-edited, reorganised, once more as re-edits and now repeated as compilations; entitled ... Not the Nine O'Clock News, providing another opportunity to savour the delights offered by that award-winning team
Sept. 7, 1983, midnight
S0E12 - Not the Nine O'Clock News (2)
The second of three programmes re-edited, reorganised once more as re-edits and now repeated as compilations entitled ...
Not the Nine O'Clock News. Providing another opportunity to savour the delights offered by that award-winning team.
Sept. 14, 1983, midnight
S0E13 - Not the Nine O'Clock News (3)
The third of three programmes re-edited, re-organised once more as re-edits and now repeated as compilations; entitled....
Not the Nine O'Clock News. Providing another opportunity to savour the delights offered by that award-winning team.
Sept. 28, 1983, midnight
S0E22 - The Not the Nine O'Clock News Story
July 17, 1999, midnight
Network: BBC Two
Episode Runtime: 23 min.
Season Runtime: 239 min.
Released: Oct. 16, 1979
Last Air Date: March 8, 1982, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: 12
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