The Frost Report is Back! (Curse of Comedy Season)

[Andy Howells]

Just caught this excellent show on BBCFour celebrating the 40th anniversary of Frost Over England winning the Golden Rose of Montreaux.

Excellent to see so much archive footage much of which I hadnt seen before particularly the early appearances of Ronnie's Barker and Corbett along with John Cleese.

Just a curiosity, how much of the original Frost Report series survives? There appeared to be a wealth of clips which was reassuring (and surprising).

The Curse of Comedy season has also featured the 1962 series of Steptoe and has started Frankie Howerd's Up Pompeii tonight as well as nuggets such as Tony Hancock on Face To Face, so well worth catching if you love a drop of vintage!

[lpmoderator]

From memory, about half of Frost Report survives, mainly most of series 1 (plus special) and not much from series two.

[RWels]

Some video clips can be found here: www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/852164/index.html

IF you are in an educational facility in the UK.

[Kev Mulrenan]

This was great!

Ronnie B was so talented.

Interesting that he did not really get writing till Frost went to LWT.

I can't recall seeing Gerald Wiley ever in the Frost credits.

[Andy Howells]

Not sure if he was, I thought it was a well put together show and the showing of "Frost Over England" was a nice touch at the end. On the whole its been good to see this and lots of other archive material from Hancock, Howerd, Steptoe and Feldman on BBC Four in recent weeks. Thoroughly enjoyable!