Do Not Adjust Your Set
by Adrian Cooper (II)
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Actor: David Jason, Denise Coffey, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry JonesDirector: Adrian Cooper (II)
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Color, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 280 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-07-26
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Tango Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Do Not Adjust Your Set
Movie Review: Great early stuff, but US viewers, the blackface is startling!
Summary: 4 Stars
I enjoyed the sketches of the 1948 show-- good early stuff, including one of my fav Brit actors, David Jason!! Its great to see him doing silly comedy different from 'Fools and Horses', or 'Open All Hours'...
That said, I'm not enthralled with the Bonzos... I know the UK hasn't excised the "minstral show" as here in the US, but sheesh! I wasn't ready for that, and am still forwarding through those scenes.
Four stars for the sketches, but the blackface is just too shocking for me to even put in the rating.
Summary of Do Not Adjust Your Set
Teatime 1968. In millions of homes in England something strange was happening and TV comedy around the world would never be the same again - 'Do Not Adjust Your Set'. Hitting audiences like a wet fish in the face it was weird, wonderful and above all hilarious. 'Do Not Adjust Your Set' combined the writing and performing skills of Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin, added a dash of David Jason, a dollop of the legendary Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band and a hint of Terry Gilliam. Feast your eyes on the madness And discover how something completely different began....This 2 DVD set features the recently rediscovered episodes of the classic Do Not Adjust Your Set series.Monty Python completists will especially appreciate Do Not Adjust Your Set, a precursor to Monty Python's Flying Circus starring Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Eric Idle, along with fellow writer-performers David Jason and Denise Coffey. Ostensibly a children's show, Do Not Adjust Your Set also includes the then-future Python Terry Gilliam lurking off-camera as an occasional animator, and the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band with Neil Innes, an important collaborator on several Idle projects that lay ahead. A freewheeling sketch show from the late 1960s, originally broadcast on the Rediffusion network before switching to Thames Television, it's impossible not to see Do Not Adjust Your Set as a blueprint for Flying Circus. The two hours' worth of material in this DVD set includes early versions of Palin's familiar role as an incompetent shopkeeper, in one instance selling shoe polish to a man who asks for bananas. The entire cast stars in a vignette about a classical music quartet whose instruments produce the sounds of an auto accident and an air raid. Terry Jones plays an insurance agent who wrecks Palin's house, and Idle essays his soon-to-be signature performance as a pleasant-sounding, BBC news reader spouting surreal headlines. This is a gold mine of Pythonesque comedy in an embryonic state, plus the Bonzo Dog Band performing "Death Cab for Cutie." --Tom Keogh
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