Season 2 • Episode 6
LatestPolice search for an escaped prisoner at a convent; a man traces his lineage; Bernard sings his hit from 1962, Right Said Fred; a murder scene in a play goes wrong; a husband explains why he was seen with another woman; Adrian Bogworthy gives his final performance; a Scotsman causes trouble in a pub, and a plumber fixes a problem in a Harem.
Comedy legend Bernard Cribbins had been a key presence in British film and television comedy for over a decade before he landed his own headlining television series at the tail-end of the 1960s. An off-beat revue of quickfire sketches in the "Cribbins style", this fast-moving mixture of comedy and song (including chart hits Hole in the Ground, Gossip Calypso and Right, Said Fred) featured a gallery of outrageous characters in a myriad of seemingly inexhaustible situations! Bank clerk, burglar, tramp, librarian, cowboy and even spaceman – Cribbins is all these, and many more!
Acting
Cribbins shape-shifts through a dozen personas per episode.
Writing
Sketch density that would break modern comedy writers.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This series arrived at the exact moment British variety television was being replaced by satire; Cribbins represents the last gasp of music-hall tradition before Monty Python's absurdist takeover.
The hit songs performed here were already chart-toppers for Cribbins, making this essentially a musical comedy special disguised as sketch television.
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