It might be heretical to say, but I don’t always find Vic and Bob quite as hilarious as a lot of other people seem to. I don’t dislike them, but sometimes it almost feels as if their ‘whimsy’ is just being churned out by the yard. I have a similar problem with The Mighty Boosh.
This is (according to Vic) the last episode of Vic Reeves Big Night Out. Possibly first season.
Following this, recording switches to a BBC2 news bulletin, top story being a record rise in unemployment.
Then, another episode of Film 91 in which Barry Norman reviews the following films:
- Hamlet – Zeffirelli’s version with Mel Gibson.
- Highlander II – The Quickening
- Riff Raff
- War Party
There’s a passing tribute to Maurice Binder who had recently died. There’s a location report from New York on James Dearden’s A Kiss Before Dying.
BBC Genome: BBC One – 16th April 1991 – 22:20
Following this, there’s an episode of Tonight with Jonathan Ross. This was his several nights a week Channel 4 chat show, so I only tended to record them when the guests were interesting. This time it’s the former stars of Blake’s 7, Gareth Thomas, Michael Keating and Jacqueline Pearce, there to promote the release of the show on VHS. Here’s a poor copy – mine is slightly better quality than this.
Only the B7 interview is recorded here. Then recording switches to a clip from Jeeves and Wooster. It prefaces a Wogan interview with Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie. During the interview they talk about learning magic tricks from The Royal Road to Card Magic – although this is a humorous piece, that’s actually a classic of card magic.
Following this interview, recording switches again, to an AFI tribute to David Lean, shown as a tribute to him as he had died recently, although the tribute had been made some time before.
It’s a nice retrospective on a great life’s work, although being American, it’s sometimes a bit gushing.
This was a change to the scheduled programme, and it replaced a film called Yam Daabo.
BBC Genome: BBC Two – 20th April 1991 – 22:00
After the tribute there’s a trailer for a production of The Marriage of Figaro, set in Trump Tower, apparently.
The beginning of an episode of Twin Peaks is the last thing on the tape, just a minute or so before recording stops.
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