Out of the Trees (1975), by Graham Chapman & Douglas Adams
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 พ.ค. 2012
- Special surprise for Towel Day 2012: "Out of the Trees", a show written by Graham Chapman and Douglas Adams in 1975. While Graham Chapman was still lingering in the Monty Python style of absurd comedy, Douglas Adams was already busy with themes like blowing up the world through crazy bureaucracy, ideas he would use later in the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
After a rather unsuccesful transmission in 1975, no further episodes were produced although a second part had been written. The pilot was wiped, although the filmed inserts survived (Peony Sketch and some shots of Gengis). Then a couple of years ago it turned out a copy had been made off air on a Philips N1500 VCR. As you can see it isn't a lost masterpiece, because it's no longer lost and it never was a masterpiece.
Not a masterpiece, but about as good as an epsiode of Rutland Weekend Television, or even an average episode of Python. There are no knockout sketches (though I like the Ghengis Khan bits) but the episode is well structured in a symmetrical way. It's a pity the BBC didn't make more. Had "Out the Trees" not been wiped, it's reputation might have been a bit higher. Thank you for sharing this underrated show with the world.
"Well, not as such; I more sort of don't."
Sometimes you are looking for some random thing and get a suggestion like this, then you click on it because you are bored. This? This made me happy again.
Feels like a Monty Python episode we never saw.
The first sketch is like the 4 yorkshiremen in reverse.
As a fan of both Adams and anything Python I'd like to note my appreciation for the algorithm that dropped this into my internet feed today. And castigate it for not doing it a darn sight sooner!
amazing to see simon jones with douglas adams here well before he played arthur dent so brilliantly...
I don’t remember this at all, but have to laugh at “the mighty British Rail electric train” and they then show a Western diesel hydraulic, of of very few engines on BR not to use at least electric traction motors. Sorry, I’ll crawl back into my box now 😂
"It never was a masterpiece???" It certainly is a masterpiece now...!! And so it shall remain - aaagh!
Bloody hell, it is too a masterpiece.
Nice to see Simon Jones struggling to get a coffee when years later as Arthur Dent in THHGTTG he struggled to get a cup of tea. Maybe this is where Douglas Adams got the idea from.
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How have I never even HEARD of this? Huge Douglas Adams/Python/Chapmann fan.
You state that it isn't a masterpiece, but compared to the utter shyte produced nowadays.
Any archival footage is wonderful! Thank you so much. So clever in this age of dumbing down EVERYWHERE!!
It's Dent Arthur Dent!
We thank the late Graham Chapman for being himself, and for keeping a copy of this One off GEM.
The Peony Severance sketch was great!
I'm so happy I found this. I've never heard of it, and despite some of the comments here, I loved it. There is a complete dearth of surreal comedy on TV these days, and even radio now seems to be limited to I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. New comedy is so boring, unlike this.
The Ghengis Khan parts are brilliant😂