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Topic: Question re. "Kenneth Williams: In His Own Words"

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thomaswake16Apr 30, 2008
 

 
Towards the end of "Kenneth Williams: In His Own Words" (which was
repeated on BBC4 a couple of weeks ago), there appeared to be video
footage of Just a Minute with Kenneth Williams and Clement Freud.

Obviously this would have been before the TV series, so why was this
particular footage filmed? Maybe for a television documentary? (Like
the ISIHAC footage that was filmed for Humph's South Bank Show last
year.)

Also, I haven't been able to locate the dialogue in any of the
transcripts. Of course I know that not all of them have been
transcribed, and it may simply be a show that hasn't been done, but it
got me thinking that it may have been recorded for some other purpose,
particularly as the set looked a bit extravagant for simply recording a
radio show. (I haven't been able to find any mention on the site of the
subject mentioned, "compositions", either.)

Any ideas, anyone? It's really got my curiousity all fired up.

 
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Topic: Re: Question re. "Kenneth Williams: In His Own Words"

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Clitheroe KidApr 30, 2008
 

 
The film footage of Just A Minute, featuring Kenneth Williams, was from a
pilot recording for a proposed transfer of the show from radio onto
television.

The proposed tv series was never made.

----- Original Message -----
From: thomaswake16 <thomaswake16@...>
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Subject: [just-a-minute] Question re. "Kenneth Williams: In His Own Words"


> Towards the end of "Kenneth Williams: In His Own Words" (which was
> repeated on BBC4 a couple of weeks ago), there appeared to be video
> footage of Just a Minute with Kenneth Williams and Clement Freud.
>
> Obviously this would have been before the TV series, so why was this
> particular footage filmed? Maybe for a television documentary? (Like
> the ISIHAC footage that was filmed for Humph's South Bank Show last
> year.)
>
> Also, I haven't been able to locate the dialogue in any of the
> transcripts. Of course I know that not all of them have been
> transcribed, and it may simply be a show that hasn't been done, but it
> got me thinking that it may have been recorded for some other purpose,
> particularly as the set looked a bit extravagant for simply recording a
> radio show. (I haven't been able to find any mention on the site of the
> subject mentioned, "compositions", either.)
>
> Any ideas, anyone? It's really got my curiousity all fired up.
>
>
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Topic: Re: Question re. "Kenneth Williams: In His Own Words"

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Dean BedfordApr 30, 2008
 

 
On Thursday, May 1, 2008, at 08:31 AM, thomaswake16 wrote:

> Towards the end of "Kenneth Williams: In His Own Words" (which was
> repeated on BBC4 a couple of weeks ago), there appeared to be video
> footage of Just a Minute with Kenneth Williams and Clement Freud.
>
> Obviously this would have been before the TV series, so why was this
> particular footage filmed? Maybe for a television documentary? (Like
> the ISIHAC footage that was filmed for Humph's South Bank Show last
> year.)
>
> Also, I haven't been able to locate the dialogue in any of the
> transcripts. Of course I know that not all of them have been
> transcribed, and it may simply be a show that hasn't been done, but it
> got me thinking that it may have been recorded for some other purpose,
> particularly as the set looked a bit extravagant for simply recording a
> radio show. (I haven't been able to find any mention on the site of the
> subject mentioned, "compositions", either.)
>
> Any ideas, anyone? It's really got my curiousity all fired up.

they twice filmed pilots for TV versions of the show, one in 1969 with
Kenneth, Clement and Sheila Hancock, and again in 1976 with Kenneth,
Clement, Peter Jones and Patrick Moore. They weren't picked up.