This came out the year before I was born, so obviously I am working from an ancient copy of the show long before my time. Monty Python's Flying Circus also came out in 1969, and casts a long shadow to this day. Meanwhile on the other side of the Atlantic a completely different team was also trying something completely different, with less success.
This show is notorious for having been cancelled after one episode was transmitted - indeed, that's how I came to learn of it. I don't think it's that bad, but then fifty years later I can't really imagine how 30 minutes almost entirely devoted to sex jokes would have been seen, even in the Swinging Sixties. Some of the gags fell flat, but some were at least amusing. The worst thing about it was the constant noodling on a Moog synthesiser, which was very "up to date" at the time but just acted as a distraction. What would have come next we will never know. Apparently another episode was filmed, and the Wikipedia quotes Maura McGiveny as saying five shows were filmed and twenty-one planned. If they were going to stick to sex jokes for twenty-one half-hour shows, the joke would certainly have worn thin long before they stopped. I hope they had some other ideas for episode 2. Nonetheless, if I could find it, I'd at least give it a try.
This show is notorious for having been cancelled after one episode was transmitted - indeed, that's how I came to learn of it. I don't think it's that bad, but then fifty years later I can't really imagine how 30 minutes almost entirely devoted to sex jokes would have been seen, even in the Swinging Sixties. Some of the gags fell flat, but some were at least amusing. The worst thing about it was the constant noodling on a Moog synthesiser, which was very "up to date" at the time but just acted as a distraction. What would have come next we will never know. Apparently another episode was filmed, and the Wikipedia quotes Maura McGiveny as saying five shows were filmed and twenty-one planned. If they were going to stick to sex jokes for twenty-one half-hour shows, the joke would certainly have worn thin long before they stopped. I hope they had some other ideas for episode 2. Nonetheless, if I could find it, I'd at least give it a try.
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