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Re: The Omar Khayam show

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john943423Sep 26, 2013
 

 
--- In just-a-minute@..., Tony Baechler <tony.baechler@...> wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> I realize that this is entirely off topic for Just a Minute, but I'm hoping
> someone here can help as some of you seem to be experts on BBC comedy. What
> can you tell me about the show listed in the subject? I have four of them
> but with no dates. Running times seem to be about 27:30 and I would make a
> random guess that it's from the early 1970s, but I don't know. They say
> that it's based on an Australian series. Do you know anything else about
> the series and is there any kind of a log? How many episodes were produced?
> It sounds like an interesting series, similar in some ways to the Goon Show
> but different. Thanks for any information you might have.
>

According to wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Omar_Khayyam_Show)Milligna made 3 series of The Idiot's Weekly for Australian broadcast and these were rehashed/rerecorded as a series of 6 for the BBC in 1963.

I believe I have all 6 lurking on a hard drive somewhere!

Regards John N

 
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