Smash-hit long-running character sketch show starring Dick Emery with a host of top-name guests The show, which ran irregularly from 1963 to 1981, involved Emery dressing up as various characters, "a flamboyant cast of comic grotesques". These included the buck-toothed Church of England vicar, sex-starved, menopausal, man-eating spinster Hetty, and Clarence, an outrageously camp man who coined the catchphrase "Hello Honky Tonks". Other roles were gormless denim-clad bovver boy Screwsby (in a double act with his long suffering father, played by several actors[4] including Roy Kinnear) where, each week, he would mess up and utter the catchphrase "Dad, I fink I got it wrong again", the crusty pensioner James Maynard Kitchener Lampwick, College (a genteel tramp whose real name was Lancelot Orpington Penrose) and Mandy, a busty peroxide blonde whose catchphrase, "Ooh, you are awful ... but I like you!" (given in response to a seemingly innocent remark made by her interviewer, but perceived by her as ribald double entendre), preceded a hefty shove on the shoulder of the interviewer, and a prompt about-turn walk-off with a leg trip. "It was clever, pure vaudeville, in a television form.
| Season | From | To | Episodes |
|---|---|---|---|
| All Seasons | |||
| Specials | December 1972 | September 1981 | 15 |
| Season 1 | July 1963 | August 1963 | 4 |
| Season 2 | October 1963 | December 1963 | 5 |
| Season 3 | January 1964 | December 1964 | 6 |
| Season 4 | October 1965 | November 1965 | 7 |
| Season 5 | August 1966 | November 1966 | 13 |
| Season 6 | April 1967 | June 1967 | 9 |
| Season 7 | December 1967 | January 1968 | 6 |
| Season 8 | January 1969 | March 1969 | 9 |
| Season 9 | April 1970 | July 1970 | 11 |
| Season 10 | March 1971 | May 1971 | 10 |
| Season 11 | January 1972 | March 1972 | 13 |
| Season 12 | March 1973 | December 1973 | 13 |
| Season 13 | October 1974 | December 1974 | 11 |
| Season 14 | August 1975 | December 1975 | 12 |
| Season 15 | September 1976 | October 1976 | 8 |
| Season 16 | September 1977 | December 1977 | 9 |
| Season 17 | February 1979 | March 1979 | 6 |
| Season 18 | January 1980 | December 1980 | 7 |
| Season 19 | January 1981 | February 1981 | 6 |
| Unassigned Episodes | 0 |
| Season | From | To | Episodes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unassigned Episodes | 180 |
| Season | From | To | Episodes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | 0 | ||
| Unassigned Episodes | 180 |
| Name | Number of Episodes | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Singer | 1 | 12/01/1972 | |
| John Warren | 1 | 12/01/1972 |
| Name | Number of Episodes | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cliff Owen | 1 | 12/01/1972 |
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