Nice Time - Kenny Everett - Germaine Greer - Jonathan Routh - John Surtees - Sawchestra
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- Here's a rare comedy show from 1968 presented by the legendary Disc Jockey and Television comic Kenny Everett.
Nice Time was Kenny Everett's 1968 television debut was co-presenting a mix of sketches, jokes and archive film clips with future feminist icon Germaine Greer and star of Candid Camera, Jonathan Routh. Nice Time was made by Granada Television and only shown regionally at first, though eventually spread out to other regions. For the second series, Sandra Gough also co-presented. She would later go on to play Paul and Pauline Calf's mother. The series was produced by John Birt, who would later go on to become Director General of the BBC. Everett's theme tune to the series, co-written with John Birt, was released as a single. Its b-side 'And Now For A Little Train Number' is now highly rated by aficionados of British psychedelia.
This is the 6th show of the first series and was broadcast on 1st September 1968.
Maurice James Christopher Cole (25 December 1944 - 4 April 1995), known professionally as Kenny Everett, was a British comedian, radio DJ and television entertainer. Everett is best known for his career as a radio DJ and for The Kenny Everett Video Show
Besides the radio programmes, his first screen appearance was in the 1965 film Dateline Diamonds which had a plot based around the pirate ship MV Galaxy. He also appeared in several television series, beginning in 1968 with a production for Granada Television called Nice Time which was co-presented by Germaine Greer and Jonathan Routh. In 1970 he made three series for London Weekend Television (LWT): The Kenny Everett Explosion, Making Whoopee and Ev; and he also took part (along with such talents as Willie Rushton and John Wells) in the 1972 BBC TV series Up Sunday.
I certainly remember watching both Kenny and Germaine in this very funny TV series. Hasn't Germaine done well for her self. Kenny such a great loss, a radio one of genius.
I remember this programme. I was a child but loved Kenny. The episode that I remember had Kenny interviewing Germaine, who couldn't speak or open her eyes because of her lipstick and false eyelashes were stuck together. I used to go around scrawling "Makeup is Fakeup" everywhere. A 7/8 year old feminist, no less. Wonderful to see the voxpops. My England!!
My father was in the show he was a singer and al jolson impersonater wish I could see it again memories
Kenny was pure genius!
The skits involving the general public are laugh out loud funny.
What's this? A YOUNG Kenny Everett? Kenny never told me he used to be YOUNG!
Why didn't you tell me you used to be YOUNG, Kenny?
Oh, he's gone...
I loved Kenny and George Formby what a treat all from the year that I was born on.
I remember watching this every sunday @ 5:30 when I was 8. My mum bought me Mo's single "Nice Time".
Or was it saturday? Anyway I was 9.
Once again, thanks for posting.
I think I read that K.E. found 'Nice Time' was difficult to do, because they expected him just to turn up and be wacky to camera. off-the-cuff. In fact he planned out his radio shows carefully and his later (80's & 90's) TV shows were well scripted.
A nicely archived recording; still on 2" Quad, rather than the awful, degrading telerecording that so much of the BBC's output suffered for archive purposes, international sales and supposedly cost.
I note the Producer was one John Birt. He moved on to LWT and then to the BBC, eventually becoming the Director-General that killed his own organisation. The Director, Bill Podmore, went onto the heights of Coronation Street.
+Ian Harrison
I have no idea what 2" Quad is - possibly high grade tape? - but agree the quality is really good for such an old recording.
2" Quadruplex videotape was a broadcast-standard videotape format invented by US broadcast equipment manufacturer Ampex in 1956. It remained the de facto broadcast videotape standard around the world until the early 1980s, when Sony's and Ampex's joint product 1" C-type videotape was phased in and Quad was phased out, as 1" C videotape format and machines offered much better editing facilities and more scope for stereo soundtracks. Quad *could* offer stereo sound, but its use was extremely limited owing to no backwards-compatibility with older Quad machines, so that was almost exclusively mono sound. C-type tape offered stereo sound right from the format's invention in the late 70s.
Quad was a major first - the first practical way of recording programmes and playing them instantly. The first way of recording programmes was telerecording - literally showing a TV programme on a screen and a film camera recording the image, although the set-up was a bit more elaborate than that. As it's film, it also of course needs developing before it can be shown on TV, so it's not a very instant format. This is why when outside broadcast vehicles incorporating videotape recorders were first introduced in the mid-60s, sports coverage and major events were the first to use them. News wasn't often used as several massive vans with their own 30-man crew, £millions worth of equipment and the associated setting-up and de-rigging would be a massive liability in places like war zones etc.
Then when portable electronic cameras, link-up satellites and VT recorders were introduced in the early 80s, news programmes, and sporting and events coverage were the first to use them (as their use was at a premium owing to the gut-busting expense of the equipment at first, they were rarely used for anything other than news, sports or events coverage). The first way of recording programmes and playing them back instantly was a primitive form of videotape invented by the BBC a couple of years before Quad was invented, called VERA, but as it could only record 15 minutes of programme material per reel it wasn't very practical.
Granada also had poor telerecordings often filthier than the BBC's worst efforts. I'm thinking of Granada's 1968 costume drama "The Caesars" here. The quality is very rough in places! :(
Great show - Thanks for posting - wanted to see some of this show for years
And to think at the time of this recording. Germaine was party of the counter-culture. Oz Magazine. IT Times. Sleeping with a host of rock stars.Dropping acid And hanging out with Hendrix, Bonzo Dog Doo dah band, She was a swinging chick.
Granada Studios was a landmark building packed to the rafters with cultural history from the Fifties through the Nineties - - incredible range of talent passed through there, from The Beatles to Tony Wilson to Laurence Olivier. So naturally Manchester demolished it, to continue its initiative to make the city as banal and anonymous as any dud joint for morons.
Granada Studios hasn’t been demolished…
@@stickytapenrust6869 the multi-storey office block that housed the iconic red Granada TV signage remains, the production studios and ancillary buildings have partially gone or scheduled to go.
Noticed Produced by John Birt future BBC TV DG
What a marvellous programme. Just a mix of odd stuff, but very entertaining. I suppose this was the 60s equivalent of lookiing at a load of GIFs and random vids on Reddit!
Granada seemed to be better than many other companies at archiving videotapes of their 60s shows, don't know why.
Thanks for uploading this. I just about remembered this.
The banana eater reminds me of a young Morrisey !
Thanks for posting. I'm too young to remember this show but loved watching it here. Was it a bit risque for tv in 1968 or was it nothing unusual
Never knew Morrissey went that far back. Eating a banana whilst singing too. What a guy. 😁
that was fantastic..have you anymore please.
Alas no.
thats a shame..thanks for sharing anyway..
Thanks for posting! But where is the "Nice Time" theme that Kenny released as a single?
It's on TH-cam
I wish there were more episodes of this, This seemed to be somewhat influenced by "Laugh-In" which was on the BBC at the same time.
How did you find this?
Is that Bill Grundy at the end there? (Whistles God Save The Queen.....)
Ha, Saturday tea time, sometimes clashed with Dr. Who. Thought I remembered Germaine Greer looking hot and unfeminist!
Strange. Lots of 1930s nostalgia.
Not so strange, because the 1930s would seemed like the 1980s is to us nowadays. Nostalgia is not a recent thing.
I thought I remembered this but obviously didn't because it's nothing like I thought. What about Having tea on the Nice Time raft, Helping the fat gentleman take off his tie, helping the fat lady eat her marmalade pie? Or Looking at the eyes of the Nice Time cat Blinking gaily at the mayor? Bubbles fly from the top of his hat, Balloons float him out of his chair. I must be thinking of something else. Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.
The saws had to be accompanied by a piano otherwise nobody would’ve recognized the awful music