Pete & Dud: The Lost Sketches
sjames
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Surprised no one's mentioned this that was on last night.
I think it was a good idea, but not executed well enough. Although I have to admit by the end Adrian Edmondson and Alistair McGowan were the stand out performers out of the team but I can't help thinking that it would have been better being done by duo's of today like Mitchell & Webb, Armstrong & Miller, even Ant & Dec maybe.
It just felt that it was obvious the team had never worked together prior to the rehearsals for this so didn't have that magic that Pete and Dud did.
I think it was a good idea, but not executed well enough. Although I have to admit by the end Adrian Edmondson and Alistair McGowan were the stand out performers out of the team but I can't help thinking that it would have been better being done by duo's of today like Mitchell & Webb, Armstrong & Miller, even Ant & Dec maybe.
It just felt that it was obvious the team had never worked together prior to the rehearsals for this so didn't have that magic that Pete and Dud did.
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Is this how bereft of ideas British TV now is?.....dear me.
Too be fair, the idea is a good one. The Beeb, in their infinite wisdom, wiped dozens of episodes of Pete n' Dud, so whilst the scripts remained, the sketches didn't. Re-creating them, to remind people of/ introduce people to their genuis is laudable, but history has shown that the only people who can do justice to classic, now lost, material, are the original performers. Yes, I'm looking at you Ant n' Dec and Paul Merton.
The BBC & come to think of it ITV wiped a load of things as back then videotape was costly so they just re-recorded over them
I was going to give this a watch but the footy over ran.
I might give it a watch later on though
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00t3fj9/Pete_and_Dud_The_Lost_Sketches/
So do I. All they did was remind us of Hancock's genius.
It was made by his production company, so it was probably his idea in the first place.
And it was a good idea, but ended up very badly executed. One of the sketches on the show featured different people from the rehearsal footage (probably because they were crap), and I think it even had a completely new person who didn't feature in the rehearsals and wasn't even introduced. Or perhaps it was so torturous that my brain switched off.
I laughed lightly at the wardrobe sketch, but little else. The young guy in that was rather good looking. Not seen him in anything else, but he deserves to get a better profile from this.
The other young guy, I'm afraid, was terrible. He could act (far better than I could) but he just didn't have the range of voice/expression required.
The older, more recognisable, actors were obviously very good and made it bearable, but if I was alone I might have flicked to another channel.
I remember those too, found them quite funny
Are they on DVD?
The updated sketches were hit and miss, I thought the psychiatrist one at the end was about the best effort. It just shows, the chemistry that existed in a such an iconic double act cannot be replicated..and perhaps it shouldn't even have been attempted.
Was this a repeat or was that sketch not erased?
Never understood the 'genius' of Pete and Pete and Dud leave me cold.
I love this sketch... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0Z1QGpTZSo
Absolutely agree. I can only think that those two were involved to cover all the bases. They took part in every sketch during the rehearsals to partner the stars to see what worked best.
They could have at least got an actor who could play the piano.
If someone saw it now without knowing what it was then I dout they would be impressed.