Not the Nine O'Clock News — Specials

Not yet aired

As every comedy schoolboy should know by now, the Not The Nine O'Clock News "pilot" is something of a misnomer. It was in fact originally intended as the first show of what would have been their first series, recorded on the 31st of March 1979 and scheduled for broadcast on BBC2 on the 2nd of April 1979, but pulled at the eleventh hour due to elections.

Dec 1979

Highlights from the first series.

Sept 198030m

Sept 198030m

Sept 1980

Dec 1980

Oct 1981

Oct 1981

Oct 1981

Jun 1983

Sept 1983

The first of three programmes re-edited, reorganised, once more as re-edits and now repeated as compilations; entitled ... Not the Nine O'Clock News, providing another opportunity to savour the delights offered by that award-winning team

Sept 1983

The second of three programmes re-edited, reorganised once more as re-edits and now repeated as compilations entitled ... Not the Nine O'Clock News. Providing another opportunity to savour the delights offered by that award-winning team.

Sept 1983

The third of three programmes re-edited, re-organised once more as re-edits and now repeated as compilations; entitled.... Not the Nine O'Clock News. Providing another opportunity to savour the delights offered by that award-winning team.

Oct 199525m

Episode 1 of the best-of collection of Not the 9 O'Clock News. Sketches include: The Dart Players Question Time The Gorilla News Interview And the cast sing Bouncing

Nov 199525m

Episode 2 of the best-of collection of Not the 9 O'Clock News. Sketches include: Game For a Laugh Because I'm Wet And Lonley A Come In Rawlinson Hand built By Roberts This week's song is Baronet Oswald Ernold Moseley

Nov 199525m

Episode 3 of the best-of collection of Not the 9 O'Clock News. Sketches include: Riot Police The Devil: Is He All Bad? Public Toilet

Nov 199525m

Episode 4 of the best-of collection of Not the 9 O'Clock News. Sketches include: Lead Poisoning Sexism Discussion Hi-Fi Shop Soccer Violence General Synod's Life Of Python Preacher Unemployment

Nov 199525m

Episode 5 of the best-of collection of Not the 9 O'Clock News. Sketches include: Job Creation Scheme / Late Abortion / Not The Parrot Sketch

Dec 199525m

Episode 6 of the best-of collection of Not the 9 O'Clock News. Sketches include: Sex Shop / I Like Trucking

Dec 199525m

Episode 7 of the best-of collection of Not the 9 O'Clock News. Sketches include: Silly trousers / Licence fee

Dec 199525m

Episode 8 of the best-of collection of Not the 9 O'Clock News. Sketches include:

Jul 1999

Dec 2009

The inside story of the anarchic comedy sketch show, which ran on BBC Two from 1979 to 1982, and launched the careers of Rowan Atkinson, Griff Rhys Jones, Mel Smith and Pamela Stephenson, as well as writers including Richard Curtis, Andy Hamilton and Clive Anderson. This documentary reveals how the series first came about, looks at the casting of the four main players and the dynamic of the team, as well as recalling the show's key moments, its impact at the time and its legacy. Featuring interviews with Smith, Jones, Stephenson and Curtis, as well as celebrity fans including Billy Connolly and Dara O Briain