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Twice a Fortnight is a 1967 British sketch comedy television series with Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Jonathan Lynn and Tony Buffery. Graeme Garden suggested to the director, Tony Palmer, that Michael Palin and Terry Jones be included in the cast and writers of the show.
Twice a Fortnight: With Jonathan Lynn, Dilys Watling, Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden. This was several similar format light entertainment shows, on radio and television at the end of the 1960s.
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Twice a Fortnight is a 1967 British sketch comedy television series with Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Jonathan Lynn and Tony Buffery. Graeme Garden suggested to the director, Tony Palmer, that Michael Palin and Terry Jones be included in the cast and writers of the show.
This weekly (“twice a fortnight”) BBC1 series was filmed before a studio audience plied with alcohol to warm them up resulting in a little too much anarchic “audience participation” which came across as gruesomely amateur.
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Overview. Cast & Crew. Press. See Also. Twice A Fortnight. Image shows left to right: Amanda, Jonathan Lynn, Ronald Fletcher, Dilys Watling, Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Tony Buffery. Credit: BBC. Genre. Sketch Show. Broadcast. 1967 - 1968. Channel. BBC One. Episodes. 10 (1 series), plus 1 highlights special. Stars.
I saw 'Twice a Fortnight' (which works out to once a week, ha ha) when it was originally transmitted by the BBC on a weekly basis. The programme lasted precisely five fortnights (i.e., ten weekly episodes) in late 1967, terminating just before Christmas.
