Round The Horne

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Round the Horne

Comedy: Sketch

Classic comedy series starring Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams and Hugh Paddick

Classic comedy series starring Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Bill Pertwee, Douglas Smith and Betty Marsden

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Kenneth Horne's series debut with the BBC backroom boys.

Kenneth Horne's debut show featuring the BBC's Backroom Boys and The Clissold Saga. With Kenneth Williams. From March 1965.

The bona beginnings of one of the BBC's most popular comedies. The story so far, the BBC's Backroom Boys and part one of The Clissold Saga. 

Starring Kenneth Horne. With Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Bill Pertwee. 

Recorded at the BBC's Paris Studio in Lower Regent Street, London. Announcer: Douglas Smith 

Round The Horne was born out of the demise of BBC radio comedy Beyond Our Ken, after the end of writer Eric Merriman's involvement. Using the same cast and producer, Barry Took and Marty Feldman were persuaded to write the scripts - which led to four series that ran between 1965 and 1968 - packed full of parodies, recurring characters, catchphrases and double-entendres. 

Music by Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers and The Fraser Hayes Four. 

Producer: John Simmonds 

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in March 1965.

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