As every comedy schoolboy should know by now, the Not The Nine O'Clock News "pilot" is something of a misnomer. It was in fact originally intended as the first show of what would have been their first series, recorded on the 31st of March 1979 and scheduled for broadcast on BBC2 on the 2nd of April 1979, but pulled at the eleventh hour due to elections.

Highlights from the first series.

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The first of three programmes re-edited, reorganised, once more as re-edits and now repeated as compilations; entitled ... Not the Nine O'Clock News, providing another opportunity to savour the delights offered by that award-winning team

The second of three programmes re-edited, reorganised once more as re-edits and now repeated as compilations entitled ...

Not the Nine O'Clock News. Providing another opportunity to savour the delights offered by that award-winning team.

The third of three programmes re-edited, re-organised once more as re-edits and now repeated as compilations; entitled....

Not the Nine O'Clock News. Providing another opportunity to savour the delights offered by that award-winning team.

Highlights of the satirical series

Highlights from the classic eighties satirical sketch show

More vintage highlights from the classic 80s sketch show

More vintage comedy highlights

More comedy highlights from the classic 1980s sketch show

More comedy highlights from the classic 1980s sketch show

More stinging comedy from the 1980s show

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The inside story of the anarchic comedy sketch show, which ran on BBC Two from 1979 to 1982, and launched the careers of Rowan Atkinson, Griff Rhys Jones, Mel Smith and Pamela Stephenson, as well as writers including Richard Curtis, Andy Hamilton and Clive Anderson. This documentary reveals how the series first came about, looks at the casting of the four main players and the dynamic of the team, as well as recalling the show's key moments, its impact at the time and its legacy. Featuring interviews with Smith, Jones, Stephenson and Curtis, as well as celebrity fans including Billy Connolly and Dara O Briain