cgconville@watrose.UUCP (cgconville) (11/23/84)
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A recently pulled out an old album called Meet the Rutles. Apparently it
was based on an NBC television special called 'All You Need Is Cash'. This
Beatles spoof featured Monty Python's Eric Idle, among others. Several
friends of mine have picked up on the music and want to see the special. Does
anyone know if it has been repeated on a regular basis? There has to be some
way of catching it on the tube! Who knows, maybe there's even a fan club!!!
"CG" Conville (University of Waterloo, Waterloo Ontario)
"Why stop now, just when I'm hating it?"
-- Marvin the Paranoid Androidlauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein) (11/23/84)
I have access to a copy of the original NBC broadcast of that presentation. It was also presented, in a very slightly altered form (a few "dirty" words were included) in a cable version that made the cable TV rounds about a year or so ago. Maybe at my next Usenix videotape film fest we'll see what we can do. It's hilarious, by the way -- a cross-fertilization by Monty Python and the original "Saturday Night Live" cast. --Lauren--
jpg@sdchema.UUCP (Jerry Greenberg) (11/27/84)
> A recently pulled out an old album called Meet the Rutles. Apparently it > was based on an NBC television special called 'All You Need Is Cash'. This > Beatles spoof featured Monty Python's Eric Idle, among others. Several > friends of mine have picked up on the music and want to see the special. Does > anyone know if it has been repeated on a regular basis? There has to be some > way of catching it on the tube! Who knows, maybe there's even a fan club!!! I saw a video tape catalog that had it listed. Jerry Greenberg
msc@qubix.UUCP (Mark Callow) (11/27/84)
The Ruttles came out of a show Eric Idle did for the BBC called
"Rutland Weekend Television". This was a satire on a small TV station
and its offerings including music programs - hence the Ruttles.
Eric, as station announcer, would take you through a weekend's
programming in twenty-five minutes.
The origin of the show's name is a long story for anyone not from
Britain. Suffice it to say that Rutland is the smallest county
in England and the company which provides London's commercial
TV programming on weekends is London Weekend Television.
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