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---In just-a-minute@..., <just-a-minute@...> 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.

---In just-a-minute@..., <simonbkelly@...> wrote:

"The Omar Khayyam Show" was a BBC remake of six episodes from "The Idiot Weekly", a comedy show written and starring Spike Milligan, which began on ABC Radio in 1958. There are a couple of Wikipedia articles which will give you all the dates, etc. that you're looking for.

The series exists complete in the BBC archive although they don't seem to have exploited it commercially yet. It was broadcast on Friday evenings at 9.30pm, beginning 27th December 1963.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Idiot_Weekly

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Omar_Khayyam_Show

---In just-a-minute@..., <just-a-minute@...> 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.

---In just-a-minute@..., <just-a-minute@...> 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.

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

Thanks. I have four out of six, but I don't know if they are the UK or
overseas recordings. They run fast and are direct transfers from my reels.
I might have the other two episodes somewhere, but I don't know. If
nothing else, your uploads give me a good idea of the correct running times.
That's most helpful. I did find a list of episodes and apparently it was
somehow related to the Goon Show. I confirmed the 1963-64 dates from the
log I found. My files are not in mp3, but they sound like there is a lot of
tape hiss if anyone wants them.

On 9/28/2013 10:58 AM, charles_rooke@... wrote:
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> All 6 episodes now uploading to http://www.sendspace.com/folder/mwcec2 .
> Thanks to HarrySpeakup at OHG.
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> Charlie
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Have a good day,
Tony Baechler
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