The Mrs Merton Show - original, unseen pilot

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  • Caroline Aherne's first screen appearance as Mrs Merton, in a non-broadcast pilot programme made in spring 1991 by Yorkshire Television, in a small studio in Sheffield. This has never been screened nor released on DVD.
    Mrs Merton's guests are brother and sister disc jockeys Andy and Liz Kershaw, and Viz magazine editor Chris Donald

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  • @mikerophone235
    @mikerophone235 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    "I could go on talking to you, for another minute, at least..." man she could be withering at times! But absolutely brilliant. RIP ❤

  • @williamseaton5066
    @williamseaton5066 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    God rest a legend

  • @BadDreamFancyDress
    @BadDreamFancyDress 7 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Thanks for posting. Never saw this before xx

  • @nigelrobins8302
    @nigelrobins8302 7 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    A Gem of a find.

  • @greenaum
    @greenaum 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Excellent! Chris Donald mentions this in his autobiography (called "Rude Kids"). The TV studio was actually in the Meadowhall shopping centre in Sheffield, it mentions "Meadowhall" in the credits, but I know the story from Chris's book.

    • @darz_k.
      @darz_k. ปีที่แล้ว

      hehe
      nerd,
      hehe

    • @greenaum
      @greenaum ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@darz_k. What, cos I've read a book? Chris Donald is the bloke who invented Viz comic, Britain's sweariest toilet-grin mag. He quit before issue 100, it's up to about 260 now, but it's still great, if not as funny as it used to be.

    • @darz_k.
      @darz_k. ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@greenaum
      ..looks like we've got ourselves a reader

  • @DavidJohnson-yq4nz
    @DavidJohnson-yq4nz ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Amazing

  • @littleshoemaker
    @littleshoemaker 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Great find, thank you for sharing!

  • @peartreeproductions77
    @peartreeproductions77 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I could go on talking to you for another minute at least ...oh I miss Caroline's humour.. great upload

  • @williamf4544
    @williamf4544 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wow what a great find - thanks for sharing

  • @Robby334
    @Robby334 7 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    love her RIP Caroline xxxxx

  • @KEITHMU
    @KEITHMU 8 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Surely the character of Mrs Merton was created by Chris Sievey aka Frank Sidebottom!
    Wonderful upload!

  • @zxbn4566
    @zxbn4566 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Beautiful vignette. Visually this early incarnation of Mrs Merton reminds me of Mary Whitehouse as she was in the 1970s.

  • @TheFever77
    @TheFever77 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    This is brilliant, no wonder the show got picked up.

  • @jwsuicides8095
    @jwsuicides8095 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "I don't know if people could stomach it." lol

  • @arveyilleszender5809
    @arveyilleszender5809 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    lololol She is utterly incredible at impersonating an elderly lady. Every single characteristic, idiosyncrasy, cadence, dig, piss-take. This is the only female comedian that had genius-level talent in my honest opinion.

    • @kevinlongman007
      @kevinlongman007 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I think that Victoria Wood was right up there with her.

    • @arveyilleszender5809
      @arveyilleszender5809 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Kev L not a chance. Victoria Wood was not talented at all in my opinion.

    • @kevinlongman007
      @kevinlongman007 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@arveyilleszender5809 Victoria Wood was a talented writer, stand up comic, singer and actress in my opinion.

    • @BlackStrawberry79
      @BlackStrawberry79 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Kev L I agree but her whole writing style got very predictable and contrived especially in dinner ladies. It seems she created that entire sitcom and set up entire episodes just to crack silly one liners. She just got annoying after a while.

    • @pigknickers2975
      @pigknickers2975 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@arveyilleszender5809 agreed - CoH was genius level, VW irritating radio 4 bollocks.

  • @trevorrandom
    @trevorrandom 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wonderful

  • @DMMJBSM
    @DMMJBSM 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    She was a genius.

  • @angelmarrocco
    @angelmarrocco 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very good

  • @ianthomas5955
    @ianthomas5955 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    "Like Cilla Black and Bugs Bunny." Priceless.

  • @theindividualizt
    @theindividualizt 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Did Caroline model Mrs. Merton on the look Mary Whitehouse?

    • @anthonypoole6417
      @anthonypoole6417 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Thats what I thought as soon as I saw it. I bet she did.

  • @digitalmediafan
    @digitalmediafan 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    How did you obtain this if it's never been broadcast ?

    • @user-et6pj4db9s
      @user-et6pj4db9s 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of a cousin of a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend who was trespassing in Yorkshire television studios and tripped over a copy of the tape.

  • @BlytheWorld1972
    @BlytheWorld1972 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    wow

  • @victaylor1
    @victaylor1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Love the Viz magazine.

  • @22Phantasm
    @22Phantasm ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So... it was originally spelt Murton. I wonder why they changed it?

    • @cherylreznor181
      @cherylreznor181 ปีที่แล้ว

      I typed this in because I'm a terrible speller glad I am now as I wouldn't of found this ig I hadnt

    • @22Phantasm
      @22Phantasm ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@cherylreznor181 No, if you check the show Murton is spelt with a 'U' in the pilot show but when it was released it was Merton.

  • @chrisclarke3045
    @chrisclarke3045 8 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    wonder if she got the idea from the film tootse staring dustin hofman

  • @kiwiang983
    @kiwiang983 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Are they supposed to be the image of each other😂

  • @bobbbxxx
    @bobbbxxx 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    VIZ rules!!!!!

  • @BlackStrawberry79
    @BlackStrawberry79 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    9:03 she reused that line in the royle family

    • @ld4743
      @ld4743 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      and on the the Mrs Merton BBC Series!

  • @Petewleeds
    @Petewleeds 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Who was that ridicularse Frenchman?

    • @greenaum
      @greenaum 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Some mate of Caroline's who wanted a career as a comedian, probably.

  • @celestialteapot3310
    @celestialteapot3310 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm from Rochdale, but please tell me l don't sound like that.

  • @matimus100
    @matimus100 ปีที่แล้ว

    Disgraceful sexual innuendos spread to the masses

  • @JasonGilmour
    @JasonGilmour 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Oh Caroline tryd to be little Bernard manning not once but three times and all it done was boost her ratings funny how tv works r.i.p Mr bm 1Laf

  • @BobbyManford
    @BobbyManford 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Liz Dawn smoked 5 packs of cigarettes in a half hour interview?
    No wonder she's dead

    • @williamf4544
      @williamf4544 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes - im just glad ive managed to cut down to 30 a day - Poor Liz must have had no will power

    • @anthonypoole6417
      @anthonypoole6417 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      She surely meant 5 cigs, 5 pkts?

    • @greenaum
      @greenaum 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@anthonypoole6417 No I'm sure she meant 5 packets. 100 a day is a lot but certainly I've heard of people smoking 80. I dunno where they get the time, that's like literally smoking one after the other all day.

    • @michaelleacy
      @michaelleacy ปีที่แล้ว

      @@greenaum Obviously an exaggeration, 5 packets in half an hour is impossible. Even 5 cigs would be a lot

  • @philswales3814
    @philswales3814 ปีที่แล้ว

    This isn't great. You can tell why it didnt become a series. She would later use the "fall on a dog" line in The Royle Family.

    • @PeterMoore66
      @PeterMoore66 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It literally did become a series!

    • @BlytheWorld1972
      @BlytheWorld1972 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      hello it did ...