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Why such a long time between first two episodes?

posted 12 years ago by greig-2
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Was it as one of those comedy playhouse things such as Ronnie Barker did?

[–] buddyboy28 12 years ago

Yeah I reckon so.One of those pilots just to see the audience reaction.Let's look at this way,it was still a touchy subject for alot of people to make fun out of,so I don't think a full series would've just been commisioned without testing the viewers first.

[–] DSNForever 11 years ago

"Are You Being Served" had something similar; that pilot hadn't even been shown and it was due to the Munich Olympics terrorist attacks that BBC showed it at all; they had nothing else.

[–] Chip_douglas 11 years ago

According to the 30 years of 'Allo 'Allo book, it was moslty because of David Croft's busy schedule. He was also writing and producing Are you being served and Hi-de-Hi at the time.

Chip

"I think that Amish Robot was drunk"

[–] specterkev (117) 4 years ago

Think of it like a pilot sometimes they don't get picked up for a while