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00:00Peter Cook and Dudley Moore are widely regarded as one of Britain's favourite comedy partnerships,
00:06even though they're no longer with us, and haven't been for some time.
00:10Excuse me, God, sorry to disturb you at this hour, but grave news, Dad's dead.
00:19But death hasn't stopped them retaining their comical crown.
00:22I've got nothing against your right leg. The trouble is, neither have you.
00:30They were responsible for inspiring a whole generation.
00:34These are two major figures in comedy, in world comedy.
00:40And to this day, comedians and writers continue to be inspired by Britain's classic comedy duo.
00:47Pete and Dud gives me deep joy.
00:50There's just no-one who has what they have at all.
00:53Thank you very much, you're very kind.
00:54So you'd think Peter and Dudley's material would be carefully stored and catalogued.
01:02Well, you'd be thinking more incorrectly than a one-legged man auditioning to play the role of Tarzan.
01:08They recorded 22 episodes of their hit show, Not Only But Also.
01:12Astonishingly, 75% of those sketches were wiped from existence.
01:17But, with the help of film archivists, we've uncovered nine precious sketches from the UK and Australia,
01:23not seen since they were aired over 50 years ago.
01:26You shouldn't be assigned to sex, Dad. It's no good hiding your sex away in your sandwich tin.
01:31I think the discovery of this material is extremely important.
01:37Welcome to Australia, gentlemen.
01:39I love the show, I love the humour of the show, and getting any new material back is sensational.
01:46Is these spaghetti not agreeing with you?
01:49No.
01:51Like, most good humour, is it timeless? Like, I believe it is.
01:56And so tonight, we're sitting down with friends, old colleagues, and fans, to enjoy these long-lost sketches.
02:07Speak of the devil, here she comes. Look at that.
02:13As we celebrate just what made Peter Cook and Dudley Moore so special.
02:18Oh, I wanted more of that. Oh, no, bum ache.
02:26My God, what a fantastic title.
02:32But before we reveal these lost tapes, let's go back to Peter and Dudley's heyday.
02:37Sixties London, the centre of fashion and music.
02:41If anything was good, it was called super.
02:44Skirts were short, hair was piled up a bit in the beehive style.
02:50It wasn't just beehives. London became the home of brilliant comedy.
02:54Peter Cook, son of a diplomat, met Jonathan Miller at Cambridge.
02:58The two became four when they teamed up with Oxford graduates Dudley Moore and Alan Bennett
03:02to put on a show in the West End entitled Beyond the Fringe.
03:07There is no royal personage actually bracing the royal past.
03:12Unless, of course, they're crouching.
03:14The show was a hit.
03:18It wasn't long before television called,
03:20and Peter and Dudley found themselves with their own sketch show,
03:23not only, but also.
03:25Here's one of their most famous sketches.
03:28Mr. Spiggan, you, a one-legged man,
03:31are auditioning for the role of Tarzan.
03:33Right.
03:34A role traditionally associated with a two-legged artiste.
03:38Correct.
03:40And yet you, a uni-dexter, are applying for the role.
03:45Right.
03:46A role for which two legs would seem to be the minimum requirement.
03:54The one-leg-too-few sketch is probably still one of my favourites,
03:58even though it's incredibly simple.
04:00I think it's just the line, uni-dexter, is such a...
04:07I don't know that anyone else would have particularly come up with that term.
04:12I just wait for that phrase to recur.
04:20For me, the best thing about Not Only But Also
04:23is that it introduced the world to Peter and Dudley's
04:26most famous comic creations, Pete and Dud,
04:29the Dagenham duo who were, how shall we say, not all there.
04:33In fact, as Peter Cook once described them,
04:36they're both idiots.
04:40But tonight is not just a reminder of the best of Pete and Dud.
04:49It's also the tale of how the tapes from their seminal series
04:52Not Only But Also came to be lost in the first place.
04:56There's no mystery about why episodes and material is missing.
05:00It's missing in the same way that there's tons of stuff missing
05:03from television of that period.
05:05It's really easy to see it as cultural vandalism now,
05:09but at the time it wasn't.
05:10At the time it was good housekeeping.
05:12This material was often made on videotape that could be reused.
05:17They didn't have that same knowledge that we do now,
05:19that old television would become important down the line.
05:22So it was good housekeeping to use the tapes again.
05:25They were colossally expensive.
05:26If you had material on them that couldn't be used,
05:29then why not use them again?
05:30I was aware that the BBC had wiped many of the tapes.
05:38There's also a story, and I'm sure it's true,
05:40that Dudley and Peter tried to buy the tapes,
05:44and the BBC said they needed the reels or something.
05:47And they said, well, why don't we go out and get you some reels?
05:50You can have them.
05:51But they still said no.
05:53The truth is, of the 22 episodes of Not Only But Also that were broadcast,
06:02only eight remain on tape.
06:04But there is good news.
06:05We've unearthed new footage from those lost 1960s episodes,
06:09snippets and sketches which were thought to be lost forever.
06:13They were found in a basement at ABC headquarters in Australia.
06:17Clips of Peter and Dudley that had been sent there from the BBC back in the 1960s.
06:21And, unlike the ashes, had never been returned.
06:26In those days, before they were precious about the material,
06:29you'd actually just snip the piece you wanted out from the film,
06:32you'd show it in the new film that you were making,
06:35and then return it to the original tape and re-splice it in.
06:39Sometimes, of course, they won't return.
06:41We've also managed to get our hands on two Australian specials of Not Only But Also,
06:46which were made back in 1971 and have never been transmitted in the UK since then.
06:58And so tonight, not only are we going to share our lost tapes with you at home,
07:07but we've also set up a projector, dimmed the lights and invited some very special guests
07:12to watch these Pete and Dud gems for the first time.
07:17It makes the ones that do exist more precious,
07:20and it does create a sort of hunger for any other bits of it.
07:25I mean, it's good that these things have been found.
07:28I'm chuffed.
07:29I think that's what you lot say.
07:33And I actually started to get quite emotional about it.
07:37I think it's marvellous.
07:38Whatever it is, is still a surprise to me,
07:41but I'm really looking forward to seeing it.
07:44It's going to be great.
07:46You're right, Ronnie, it is.
07:48So make yourself comfortable.
07:49Here's our first lost sketch.
07:51A smidgen of Pete and Dud talking about the contents of Dudley's lunchbox
07:55and not seen for over 50 years.
07:58Come in here a moment, would you please?
08:01Here.
08:02You've been furreting around in my sandwich box, haven't you?
08:05I certainly have, and I've found something not altogether connected with sandwiches.
08:10I refer, of course, to Blauvetter's Encyclopedia of Sexual Knowledge.
08:16How do you explain this?
08:18I found it on the heath, Pete,
08:20and I thought I'd better keep it in my sandwich to keep it dry,
08:24you know, until someone claimed it.
08:26You'll be partying it away, aren't you, because you're ashamed of it.
08:29No, I haven't.
08:29I just kept it out for safekeeping.
08:31You shouldn't be ashamed of sex, Dad.
08:33It's no good hiding your sex away in your sandwich tin.
08:38Read it out in the open.
08:40It's a good book, there's some good bits in it.
08:42Have you read anything?
08:44Yes, I've been through it up to page 3001.
08:49Oh, you've read the whole lot then, haven't you?
08:51Yes.
08:52It's quite good, isn't it?
08:53I like it, because it turns out the film back.
08:55And sadly, that's where the film runs out,
08:58a small but delicious tidbit of Pete and Dud's philosophical musings.
09:04It was like I'd visited there before, you know,
09:08being back in the day and being immersed in not only but also, you know.
09:14I mean, seeing these extra clips is more just a reminder of how pleasurable it is to be in their company.
09:20That's the main thing.
09:22It's just another excuse to kind of spend time with them.
09:25I've always had that kind of multi-tiered relationship with Pete and Dud.
09:30And sometimes they would look so heart-warmingly kind of in union and just having a good time,
09:37and that was really infectious to watch.
09:41And since Pete and Dud are so infectious, here's another treat.
09:45One where Dud, always a bit naive with the ladies, asks Pete for a bit of advice.
09:51This clip hasn't been seen since it first transmitted in 1965.
09:55It's been a very nice moment, though.
10:03Yeah.
10:03You just play a card, right?
10:04The thin one.
10:05All we have to do is go up to a face coming ironic to establish your amazing masculinity.
10:11Hey.
10:11Go up.
10:12She's fairly thin, isn't she?
10:13Yeah.
10:13Or say something ironic like, hello, fatty.
10:17Do an ironic comment on the fact she's thin.
10:20Yeah.
10:20And say to her in a rough, brutal way, like James Cagney used to do.
10:24Skype her and say, how about a bit of passionate love with me?
10:29Do you think that all works?
10:30Well, I think so, yeah. Just be very masculine, aggressively so.
10:34I'm sorry, sir. I can't.
10:40Hello, fat face. How about a bit of passionate love with me then?
10:54What happened, Dad?
10:58It's about my face, please.
10:59Well, you're away, aren't you?
11:01Am I?
11:02Physical contact after such a brief meeting, yeah.
11:05That's the way they do it, Dad.
11:06Now you've got the clothes extremely cool.
11:09Why don't we go upstairs and ignore them for about ten stops?
11:13That's all, right.
11:14That's the only way they do it, Dad.
11:16They're so inept, both of them, that it works.
11:24Their characters are both so crap at things like that.
11:27But it reminded me, with the lady that slapped Dudley round the face,
11:32of these pieces being completely live, you know,
11:36because that's the one thing she had to do,
11:39and she missed the first time.
11:46I did an episode of Whose Line Is It Anyway? with Peter Cook.
11:49Oh, for all the sea that spread its wings throughout the firmament,
11:56I knew one thing would come to this particular door.
12:01I loved him.
12:02What I learnt from him, I guess,
12:04and what I definitely learnt from watching Pete and Dud's sketches,
12:08is this ease with which they improvise with each other.
12:11Coming up, we reveal more lost treasures from the Pete and Dud archive,
12:17more never-before-seen masterpieces from Not Only But Also.
12:22Where he takes it and the crescendos and the quiet passages
12:28are really fantastically well handled.
12:30Tonight, we're telling the tale of how we've come to unearth
12:39some newly-found Peter Cook and Dudley Moore material
12:42from their 1960s sketch show Not Only But Also.
12:45And we're sharing these new discoveries with some very special guests.
12:49Here.
12:50You've been through it in and around in my sandwich box, haven't you?
12:53I certainly have, and I've found something not altogether connected with sandwiches.
12:57But before we treat you to another new find,
13:07let's remind ourselves of just how brilliant they were.
13:11That's La Grande Bainures. You know what it means, don't you?
13:14What's it?
13:14Big bathers.
13:15Is that all?
13:15That's all it means. Big bathers.
13:17500,000 quid we pay for that.
13:19Those nude women come out of our pocket, Dad.
13:21Yeah.
13:22My Aunt Dolly would have done it for nothing.
13:23She does anything for nothing, doesn't she, Dad?
13:28Yeah.
13:29She'll be all kind of.
13:39One of Dudley's great skills was the ability to combine comedy
13:43with his own musical prowess,
13:45the resulting cocktail being nothing less than comedy magic.
13:48This next piece is a parody of Colonel Bogie,
13:52played in the style of Beethoven,
13:54and it became very much Dudley's trademark.
13:59But we've uncovered something very special,
14:02a rare performance of the same piece
14:04not seen on television for over 40 years.
14:07So sit back, relax, and enjoy a true virtuoso.
14:12Dudley Moore at his very best.
14:14Oh, my God.
14:44Amazing, isn't it?
15:14The way that his dynamics were presented, you know, the score that, you know, be impossible.
15:36It's just a feel of Dudley and the way where he takes it and the crescendos and
15:43the quiet passages are really fantastically well handled.
15:48He's got that sense of the sort of Beethoven mad look down to Pat and the
15:54never-ending end is just joyous, just joyous.
16:00If you don't play, you don't realise how amazing that is because he's getting around
16:06and yet he's really playing, he's really playing the piano, he's really doing a
16:10remarkable job pianistically.
16:19The first series of Not Only But Also was such a success that the BBC wanted more.
16:24So before you could say urgent recommission, Dudley Moore and Peter Cook had landed a second series.
16:31I was aware that the first season of Not Only But Also had been shot. It was a big hit.
16:37And I had a morning when Frank Muir, who was running comedy, called me into his office and said he would like me to
16:44direct the second series of Not Only But Also. I was thrilled because this felt like, you know, I would be
16:51hobnobbing with, you know, the creme de la creme of comedy at the time.
16:58Dick Clement and his writing partner Ian Lafrenet are most famous for penning shows such as Porridge, Auf Wiedersehen Pet and The Likely Lads.
17:09But back in 1966, young Dick Clement was a budding producer and director.
17:14It was very intimidating meeting Peter particularly for the first time.
17:18Because he was so quick and so fast and so funny that I felt totally pedestrian.
17:25Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the first of the new series of Not Only But Also.
17:33Well, who's right to have a bit to go under the Thames like that?
17:38Well, that was my idea. You'll find that most of the truly creative visual ideas do come from me.
17:46Oh, I see. Yes.
17:51Thank you very much. That's my cue to introduce the first song of the evening,
17:55Let There Be Love with the lovely Sinner Black.
17:58Let There Be You
18:02Let There Be Me
18:05We did the show Sunday night.
18:07So Monday morning you had a hangover.
18:10And Monday morning you went out to do the location filming with a hangover.
18:17You got together Wednesday to work out this week's sketches
18:21and you rehearsed them Wednesday and Thursday.
18:24And it was my job occasionally to say, Peter, you were funnier yesterday.
18:28Was I? What did I do yesterday?
18:30And I would remember, obviously, if it was funnier today, I didn't say it.
18:33But if it was funnier yesterday, I said, yesterday's was funnier.
18:36And he said, oh, good.
18:38So just having a memory and basically steering them very gently in one direction or the other was really my job.
18:46Roger, in order for you to be brought about, it was necessary for your mother and I to do something.
19:07In particular, it was necessary for your mother, it was necessary for your mother to sit on a chair.
19:20To sit on a chair which I had recently vacated and which was still warm from my body.
19:28And then something very mysterious, rather wonderful and beautiful happened.
19:35And sure enough, four years later, you were born.
19:42As we now know, only a quarter of the episodes have not only but also have survived.
19:49The rest have been lost.
19:52It's a source of great anguish to me that so much has been lost.
19:56There were one or two things that we did on film on those hangover mornings which were irreplaceable.
20:03One particularly, if anybody can find this, well, have my undying gratitude.
20:08We set out for Felixstowe on a February morning on the train.
20:14And the idea was to shoot Dud and Pete taking an out-of-season holiday.
20:19We found out to our intense delight something you couldn't have planned.
20:23It had snowed overnight.
20:25So we had them sitting in deck chairs looking out to sea, extolling the virtues of,
20:32isn't it wonderful taking an out-of-season holiday, Dud?
20:35It's wonderful.
20:36And it was on film, it was not on tape.
20:39I feel it must be somewhere in a basement, you know, that somebody's still got it.
20:44I would kill to see that.
20:46Sadly, Mr Clement, that's one sketch we couldn't find.
20:50But to make amends, we'd like to show you another beach-themed piece of film,
20:54our fourth rare sketch unseen in the UK since 1971.
21:00Please, Dr... Malfreder.
21:19I've got quite a lot of sand in me pencils.
21:30Oh, dear.
21:31Oh, God.
21:32Fancy a nice cup of tea after the wipeout?
21:38I had a couple of gallons of sea water while I was out there.
21:43Well, let's just do some sunbathing, then.
21:45Yeah, right.
21:46Mind you, only ten seconds each side, because the sun's very deceptive behind these clouds.
21:51You get burnt and fattled.
21:52Oh.
21:53What?
21:54Right.
21:55One, two, three, four.
22:11It's surreal in a kind of...
22:13You know, obviously funny is two guys fully dressed, surfing in really badly, but also
22:20kind of weirdly beautiful, I guess.
22:26Their form of comedy is just wonderful, and the surrealness of it, and the bizarreness of
22:32that we've got to keep these wonderful pieces by these geniuses so that we know what we've
22:39had.
22:40And...
22:42Sorry I'm getting quite emotional about it.
22:44It's very important to keep this stuff.
22:47Still to come tonight, we've got even more from the recently uncovered Pete and Dud archive.
22:55More never-before-seen sketches from Not Only But Also, and some real rarities from Australia.
23:01Which way around is it?
23:03I don't mind.
23:04That's how I am.
23:09Very near the mark.
23:11Even today.
23:12Really good.
23:13Tonight, we've been delving deep into the lost archives of Pete and Dud to show you,
23:25and my very special guests, some never-before-seen sketches.
23:28Still hailed as one of Britain's favourite comedy double acts, let's remind ourselves of just
23:42how brilliant they were, with another inimitable slice of Pete and Dud.
23:47I see they caught that Surrey Puma at last.
23:50Really?
23:51Surrey Puma captured, it says here.
23:53That ferocious mammal that has been terrorising the Surrey commuters with its unpredictable sallies.
23:59Precisely.
24:00The third bee spot has been terrorising that lovely part of the Surrey walls.
24:04You know what it turned out to be?
24:05What?
24:06Sheep.
24:07Sheep?
24:08It was a sheep.
24:09Really?
24:10A sheep that had got old some drugs, become craze, gone berserk and gone round biting people.
24:17By the 1970s, their revolutionary brand of comedy had spread across the globe.
24:22The Americans loved them, as did the Australians.
24:25So much so that ABC Television invited Peter and Dudley to Sydney to film two very special episodes of Not Only But Also.
24:34Welcome to Australia.
24:35Thank you very much.
24:36Are you going to satirise us?
24:38No.
24:39Why?
24:40It's too difficult.
24:41Too difficult to satirise us?
24:43After ten days, you might say something very naive and crass.
24:49In the late 60s, I was in Sydney doing my own show.
24:54And a promoter said to me, I'm bringing Peter Cook and Dudley Moore to Australia.
24:59He said, they don't know anyone here.
25:01We're giving a little party.
25:02Can you come along?
25:04So I came to the party and was reunited with my friends Peter and Dudley.
25:09They were bringing an Australian version of Not Only But Also.
25:12And they incorporated me in a couple of sketches.
25:15Barry, or Dame Edna, as you might know him, first met Peter and Dudley in London, back in the days of Beyond the Fringe.
25:23I was in Oliver.
25:24I was in the original production of Oliver.
25:26But in the early years, there was a parallel hit show in London and that was Beyond the Fringe.
25:33And I got to know some of the people in it.
25:36Dudley Moore used to drink in the Lamb and Flag pub in Covent Garden, where the cast of Oliver occasionally had a pre-show or after-show drink.
25:47So I got to know Dudley a little, and I was very envious of anyone who was in that show.
25:54Back in Australia, Barry was thrilled to be able to work with Peter and Dudley on some new sketches.
26:01They did some of their best material when they were in Australia.
26:06They created some amazing things.
26:08I don't know if any of this exists.
26:11No, probably not.
26:13Well, Barry, you'll be pleased to hear that both Australian episodes have not only but also have survived intact.
26:20Meaning that ABC television were a little more careful with their footage than dear old BBC.
26:26So, thanks to our antipodean hoarders, we bring you scenes that haven't been broadcast in the UK since 1971.
26:34Another comedy sketch in the making.
26:37This time aided and abetted by that creator of Mrs Everidge.
26:41And so to our fifth sketch, saved from one of those rare specials.
26:52Our very own Peter and Dud arriving in Australia.
26:55And although Barry Humphreys stars in it, he has never, ever seen it.
27:00All right, mate.
27:01I told you he's got the bloody logos.
27:06We'd better go through the customs.
27:09Get through the customs immediately, yeah.
27:11All right then.
27:20Welcome to Australia, gentlemen.
27:22Have you read this?
27:24Oh, yes.
27:25It's fascinating.
27:26Dad, knock out.
27:27I couldn't put it down.
27:28Now I'm required to examine your baggage.
27:31Is this your sale baggage that you have brought with you?
27:33Yes.
27:34This is all we have.
27:35What is the contents here, sir?
27:36Personal effects.
27:37Hot water bottle.
27:38Yes.
27:39Fly away.
27:40Yes.
27:41Very happy about that.
27:43That's all.
27:44What have you here, sir?
27:45I'll have a sponge bag containing toilet requisites.
27:49Toilet requisites.
27:50Right, sorry.
27:53I see.
27:54And what would be in this tube, sir?
27:57Turth paste.
28:01We are required, naturally, to go through these formalities.
28:06Yes.
28:07Yes, that would seem to be in order.
28:10It's easy to forget how funny they are, you know.
28:13I mean, they are absolutely hilarious.
28:17And most of the dialogue is improvised.
28:19Not scripted at all.
28:21There is a peculiar magic between those two together.
28:25There's just no one who has what they have at all.
28:28Yeah, it's amazing.
28:32But there's another very rare Australian gem which Barry has also never seen,
28:37starring Barry himself in a sketch which, by today's standards,
28:41is not exactly what you would call politically correct.
28:44But then, this was the 1970s.
28:50Oh!
28:51I said, um...
28:53I said, do you have it in, um...
28:56Oh, don't play, sir.
28:57I said, do you have it in Moeve, you see?
28:59He said, no, you don't have it in Moeve.
29:00I said, you don't have it in Moeve, you saucy-sauce bag.
29:03Of course you have it in Moeve.
29:04Didn't they have anything in Cerise, Craig?
29:06Nothing.
29:07You'd look bliss in Cerise.
29:09Arthur.
29:11Arthur, what have you got today?
29:13Bollard.
29:14Bollard?
29:15Oh, you saucy monkey.
29:17What's that?
29:18It's a ciggy.
29:19It's a ciggy.
29:20A cigarette?
29:21One of those new filter ciggies.
29:23Long, cool drag.
29:25Oh.
29:26Speak of the devil.
29:27Speak of the devil.
29:28Here she comes.
29:29Look at her.
29:40You've had it done.
29:41Pardon?
29:42I said, you've had it done.
29:48Give us a squeeze with your eyes, doll.
29:51That's outrageous.
29:55That raiders you two.
29:58That's outrageous.
29:59Get into the cozzies.
30:00Nice to be nautical, isn't it?
30:02Isn't it nice to be nautical?
30:04Oh, yes.
30:06Oh, aren't these Sourwesters salute?
30:09They really are.
30:10You know, they feel so marvellous to taste the skin.
30:12Which way round is it?
30:13I don't mind that.
30:14That's about it.
30:18Good day.
30:19Are you ready?
30:20Ah, I should.
30:21Coco.
30:22Oh, yes.
30:23All right, then.
30:24Action.
30:25Right.
30:26After four.
30:27Nice, clean, empty.
30:28One, two, three, four.
30:32Stormy's days at sea are followed by the smoking of a ballard.
30:37Once that lovely smoke is swallowed so much satisfaction.
30:41Smoke Ballard.
30:43The man's cigarette.
30:45It's offensively homophobic, of course, but I think that's part of the fun, isn't it, really?
30:59It's quite outrageous, and I'm amazed that I remember the song.
31:04It must have been written up in big letters, because we sing it flawlessly, don't we?
31:10Once that lovely smoke is swallowed so much satisfaction.
31:14The man's cigarette.
31:15I really enjoyed seeing Barry involved in the sketch with the camp fisherman.
31:24I thought it was a great one.
31:26Very near the mark.
31:27Even today, really good.
31:29There are people that can do that kind of innuendo so brilliantly well, like Julian Clary, as
31:36it just down to pat, just doing things wonderfully well.
31:42But they seem to me to be like three straight guys slightly taking the mick, it felt, you
31:50know.
31:51It wasn't my favourite.
31:53Well, the blessing of my soul, what's wrong with me?
31:56I'm shaking like a man in a buzzing tree.
31:58My heart fits out that I'm as wild as a bug.
32:00I'm in love.
32:01I'm all shook up.
32:03Not only but also was a huge hit Down Under.
32:06So much so that Peter and Dudley were soon invited back.
32:09This time to take their new review show, Behind the Fridge, on a five-month tour of Australia.
32:15And we've uncovered a sketch filmed exclusively to promote that tour.
32:18It's been shamefully sitting in storage ever since.
32:21So here, for the first time since 1971, is Dudley Moore interviewing the archetypal aristocrat,
32:27Sir Arthur Strebe Greebling.
32:30Sir Arthur is, of course, president of the World Domination League.
32:34Sir Arthur, I wonder if I could begin by asking you whether you...
32:37Oh no!
32:38Pardon?
32:39Certainly not.
32:40Certainly not.
32:41I disliked the whole tone of the question and the aggressive way it was phrased.
32:44I'm sorry, I hadn't really begun that.
32:46You hadn't really begun.
32:47You'd begun quite far enough for me, thank you.
32:49You can't bully and hector me, you know, like a lot of other people.
32:52You've tried to do it too.
32:53No, thank you very much.
32:54Rephrase the question immediately.
32:56Uh...
32:59Come along, rephrase it.
33:00That was no good at all.
33:01Well, I'll try again.
33:02Um, Sir Arthur, I wonder...
33:04That's no better, that's no better.
33:05The same manner, the same tone of voice, the same sort of sneering undertones in your voice.
33:10Not at all.
33:11I wasn't being at all impolite.
33:13I think we've gone into this question quite deeply enough.
33:15I've answered it fully.
33:16You've been very aggressive.
33:17You've bullied me.
33:18And you've been extraordinarily rude.
33:21And I've asked you to apologise.
33:23Well, if you've been offended, then I apologise.
33:26Thank God for that.
33:27Is that...
33:28Is that...
33:29Is that a camera?
33:30Yes, it is.
33:31Is that a camera?
33:32A horrible little red light on it?
33:33Will you get the film out of that camera and give it to me at once?
33:36No, there's no film in the camera, Sir Arthur.
33:37Are you refusing to give me the film out of that camera?
33:40No, of course I'm not.
33:41I realise what you people do with those films.
33:43You edit them.
33:44You cut them about.
33:45You change them round so that decent people, decent political figures such as myself become ridiculous.
33:51I am leaving here now.
33:53I have friends in influential places and you won't be sitting on this seat tomorrow.
33:56You'll have another job.
33:57No, rather you won't have any job at all.
33:59Sir Arthur, I'm...
34:00Sir Miles Wright!
34:01Sir Miles!
34:02Daddy!
34:03Where are you?
34:04That was Dudley Moore and Peter Cook with their contribution for the 1000th TDT.
34:09They're in Melbourne where their new show, Behind the Fridge, opens tomorrow night.
34:14I think Sir Arthur Streep Griebling beautifully encapsulates the absolutely pointless eccentricity
34:23of the British upper class at its best and the degree to which privilege can lead inexorably
34:28to nutty eccentricity.
34:30We did have Sir Arthur Streep Griebling in the studio tonight.
34:35But he declined to appear.
34:36Are you continuing with this ridiculous performance?
34:39I told you to stop the film!
34:40Stop all those people cranking round the film!
34:42I'm just rehearsing for tomorrow night.
34:44You're rehearsing for tomorrow night?
34:45You won't be here tomorrow night!
34:46Let me tell you that much!
34:47In terms of comedically what they're doing, they're very much on the same page.
34:52And so rather than Dudley adopting some other or lower class kind of accent, he's up there
34:58with Sir Arthur Streep Griebling in the RP world.
35:02And it's funny for my ear to hear that.
35:07Coming up in part four, we have more from Pete and Dud, including a never-before-seen piece
35:12of film featuring Dudley Moore, unable to keep a straight face.
35:17Oh!
35:18Oh, I wanted more of that!
35:20Oh no!
35:21Bum ache!
35:22Tonight, we've been scouring the recently discovered Pete and Dud archive to bring you
35:34and my special guests some previously unseen rarities.
35:38Give us a squeeze with your eyes, Darls!
35:53Peter was an expert at making Dudley laugh.
35:56And that's the magic they shared that made them so legendary.
35:59Two clowns making each other laugh as much as the assembled crowd.
36:03As we see in this sketch, where Dudley couldn't help but crack up in front of the live TV audience.
36:09I said here!
36:10You didn't spit sandwich at him, did you?
36:15Sorry Pete.
36:16Blimey.
36:17Oh, sorry about that.
36:18No, I said here!
36:19Yeah, again if you're not careful.
36:23I said...
36:24Where...
36:29Come on, what did you say, Dad?
36:31I said, where's that bloody Chinese flying horse in?
36:35What did you say?
36:36He said, get out!
36:38Peter Cook has a way of enjoying things and it sort of comes out in his eyes, his corpsing I feel.
36:45When you see him make Dudley go, his eyes light up and that's how he beams with joy in those moments.
36:55You don't feel that he wants to derail the sketch.
36:57You almost feel that he's looking for the rhythm that's going to delight the audience.
37:04And I think Dudley Moore manages to be the audience.
37:08You enjoying that, Sally?
37:10Even like just the way they're sitting and the way they're looking at each other,
37:14it feels sometimes like Peter Cook isn't even thinking about the live audience.
37:18He's just trying to make his mate laugh.
37:21And I think when that gets really alive, it's sort of at its warmest and then it's kind of most infectious.
37:30I continue.
37:32Sorry, I was having one of me goes, Pete.
37:35Peter loved to make Dudley corpse and the audience kind of liked it.
37:47I mean, that was particularly intense on the Pete and Dud sketches because they were live.
37:52All you could do with that, this was five camera TV where you had one wide shot, a two shot, a two shot and a single and a single.
38:00And I was cutting between them very often wrongly because you didn't know what they were going to do next.
38:07But yes, Peter was desperately trying to make Dudley laugh.
38:10And the audience, of course, loved it when he when he did.
38:13I come in about half past eleven at night.
38:15We've been having a couple of drinks, I remember.
38:19I come in, I get into bed, you see, feeling quite sleepy.
38:24If you watch those sketches, the directing is so sparse as if he can't anticipate who's going to be saying something at any given moment and who's going to have the reaction.
38:39Every once in a while, he'll take the chance of cutting to Dud for a reaction or to Pete.
38:45But but normally he stays in that two shot, which to me says, I don't know what's going to happen.
38:50I'm going I'm going to play it safe out here.
38:55Now it's time for a real treat.
38:57This sketch only recently returned to the UK hasn't been seen since it transmitted in 1965.
39:04Sadly, only a few seconds of the actual film exist.
39:07But we have found the rest of it as an audio recording.
39:10So here comes a very rare piece of sound, followed by what remains on film.
39:16I think half the complaints and diseases in the world are in the mind, you know.
39:20That's where they have their origins.
39:22In the human mind.
39:24That's where it all begins.
39:25Psychopathetic things come up.
39:28Yeah.
39:29And in the sebaceous glands, everything starts moving.
39:31It's all in the mind.
39:32Just tell yourself, I've not got a cold and you won't have a cold.
39:36Really?
39:37Yes.
39:38I've not got a cold.
39:39Oh, you're good.
39:40Mind you, you know, there are some wonderful cures about.
39:43I mean, I was I was reading in Reveille the other day in the medical section.
39:49I read that the Chinese have got this wonderful system of agriculture.
39:53No, it's it's it's aqua puncture, the science of the pin.
40:00And what a wonderful science that is.
40:02What a wonderful science.
40:03Chinese.
40:04For example, if you've got toothache in China, you ring up the Chinese doctor.
40:09All he comes round with is a little pin.
40:12That's all he has in a black bag, you see.
40:14And he says, so you've got toothache, takes out his pin.
40:18And with uncanny Chinese precision, Dad, he bangs it right into your lumbar regions.
40:25Where's that, Pete?
40:27Well, lumbar region is a technical medical word for the bum.
40:31And so he bangs the pin in the bum.
40:36And of course, you forget about the pain in your jaw.
40:40And you start.
40:41The pain in your bum, Dad.
40:44Toothache gone, away down there.
40:48Toothache gone, but bum ache.
40:50Oh, I wanted more of that.
41:07Oh no, bum ache.
41:09That is, that's exactly how acupuncture works.
41:12Oh, bless him.
41:16I love bums.
41:21Bums are so funny.
41:24Just the pin in the bum, I would love to, I wanted that to go on and on and on.
41:30That, I think, is one of the best corpses of his that I've seen.
41:34He just has to inflate his entire face.
41:37Toothache gone, but bum ache.
41:42It's interesting to watch it now, like, that they literally cut to Dudley specifically to show him kind of trying not to laugh.
41:50It's not like it's caught by mistake.
41:52But it was obviously like a self-conscious decision to make that part of the show, I guess.
41:57Now, our final sketch is a real testament to their partnership.
42:02Written for the Australian specials in 1971, it hasn't been seen on TV over here since Peter's tragic death in 1995.
42:11And it's another fine example of Dudley unable to keep it all in.
42:16I understand you've given up your job in Millwall.
42:19Yes, I have, actually.
42:21I've more or less burnt my boats there, really.
42:24I came down here to London about four weeks ago with the wife and four children.
42:29Moved into a little place in Catford.
42:31It's a bit pokey, you know.
42:33We've got another child on the way, probably.
42:35Yeah.
42:36And I, I sort of, more or less severed all my connections because of the children, you know.
42:43And I suppose you're, you're, you're rather short of cash.
43:04Is the spaghetti not agreeing with you?
43:16No.
43:17I said you're probably rather short of cash, having sort of getting up your job, come here and sold up everything.
43:23Yeah, it's a bit short, you know, put it on the short side of cash.
43:26It's just a push and pull between them.
43:31It's like a long cat and mouse game of trying to pin the other one down.
43:36And the joy of it is watching Dudley swarm, really.
43:42There's something great about him describing how many children he had and that he probably had another one on the way.
43:49Just that moment.
43:51They're good at sort of revealing small little character details that aren't necessary to the kind of engine of the sketch, as it were.
43:59What was glorious as well was not only laughing at Dudley, but, but just little twinges of Pete going.
44:07I think what probably gets Dudley in the first place is the bored reaction from Peter.
44:14And it is the most immaculate turn to, to the, to the camera.
44:19And then the glugging of the wine as well.
44:22That was my second favourite out of what we've seen.
44:32So there we have it.
44:34The last of the lost sketches of Pete and Dud.
44:37But I hope there's more of it out there.
44:39Although, as we know, finding it can be quite difficult.
44:42Well, I think the word difficult is an awfully good one here.
44:45Yes, it is.
44:47It's well nigh impossible.
44:50We're not pessimistic about it.
44:53And, you know, I still think there's a possibility that more material from Not Only But Also will surface in the future.
45:01I think the discovery of, you know, this material is extremely important.
45:07And to bring it to a new audience, you know, there's a vast audience of people out there who've never heard of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.
45:15And so I think this programme does a great service to their reputations.
45:21I felt extremely privileged to be able to see it.
45:26Very special.
45:27I've been looking forward to this day for a long time.
45:29And now it's over.
45:30It's kind of, oh, what a drag.
45:32Are you sure there isn't any more that you haven't shown me?
45:36No, Ronnie, that really is it.
45:39But we'll leave you with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore saying goodbye in the only way they know how.
45:45Here we are.
45:46I've only been here a few weeks.
45:47And yet already I feel accepted.
45:49Yeah.
45:50Already I feel that I've been, you know, really taken in.
45:53Yeah.
45:54Oh.
45:55Oh dear.
45:56I think we've had a go out front for our, you know, special duty.
45:59Oh.
46:00Now it's the time to say goodbye.
46:07Fasten your seatbelts, please.
46:10Now it's the time till you decide.
46:13And please extinguish all cigarettes, cigars and cigarlets.
46:17Now it's the moment to end the way until we meet again on a sunny day.
46:41Goodbye.
46:42Goodbye.
46:43mildly of the night
46:50What a secret that may have led to tragedy.
47:06Titanic, the new evidence showing tomorrow evening at eight.
47:11Now, do you have what it takes to make it in the world of espionage?
47:15The new series Spies starts this Thursday at 9.
47:18Next tonight, stars galore to see out the old and bring in the new.
47:21It's our annual tradition.
47:23Alan Carr's New Year Spectacular.
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