- cross-posted to:
- oldtv@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- oldtv@lemmy.world
We were talking about this down at my local at the weekend and it is all available on YouTube, so I’ve been having a bit of a binge. Thoroughly reprehensible stuff obviously, so I can’t possibly recommend it.
Victor Lewis-Smith will be much missed
Yeah I remember that when it first came on and thinking it was brilliant. I hadn’t even thought to look it up on YouTube before now either! Great late night Friday stuff.
I remember the prank call to ITV where he pitches the idea of prisoners in electric chairs playing Buzzle - if they manage it they get pardoned, if the metal connects it completes the circuit and they get electrocuted. The ITV guy says something like ‘we couldn’t possibly film anything like that… We don’t have the budget to film in America’
People often say “that’d never get made today!” which I usually interpret as “it shouldn’t have been made then”. However, with TV Offal and Brass Eye (I am intrigued to see he and Morris didn’t get on), I think it’d mean “how did it get made then?”. Something like Sparky’s Magic Piano feels like no-one in charge saw it before it was broadcast.