The Comedians - The Best of Series 2 (1971) [ DVDRip (Xvid) ]

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'The quintessential quickfire stand-up comedy show, The Comedians is one of the great successes of ITV - lasting from 1971 until 1993 and making household names of many of its stars. with routines that were honed to perfection in the hard-knock territory of Northern working men's clubs, Frank Carson, Charlie williams, Bernard manning, Colin Crompton and ken Goodwin all became masters of the excruciatingly bad joke and the knowing wink.'



The Comedians was immediately popular with the viewing public - scoring high ratings and gaining a BaFta nomination for Best Light entertainment Programme.



Ably supported by Shep's Banjo Boys, the Comedians who starred in this second series were:-



Frank Carson

Bernard Manning

Tom O'Connor

Bryn Phillips

Charlie Williams

Ken Goodwin

George Roper

Mike Goodwin

Sammy Thomas

Stu Francis

Johnny Wager

Jos White

Jim Bowen

Jackie Hamilton

Lennie Bennet

Stuart Williams

Dave Butler

Duggie Brown

Mike Burton



=== File Information ===

File Name: TBO The Comedians S02.avi

File Size: 679,180,288 bytes

Duration: 1:29:25



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Also ripped from this DVD is There Was This Fella..., a documentary about the life and work of the Northern Club Comedian, featuring interviews with Bernard Manning, Charlie Williams, Jackie Carlton, George Roper and Tom O'Connor.

Originally transmitted on ITV on 7th December 1971.



=== File Information ===

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File Size: 679,991,296 bytes

Duration: 55:59.656



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=== Audio Information ===

Audio Codec: 0x0055 MPEG-1 Layer 3

Sample Rate: 44100 Hz

Audio Bitrate: 134 kbps [2 channel(s)] VBR

No. of audio streams: 1



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