A one-off special return to the box for Michael Bentine, screened as part of the 'Comedy Special' pilot strand in 1977.
It was more or less a continuation of his '60's television show 'It's A Square World', with a selection of bombastic sketches interspersed with monologues to camera by Bentine himself, such as extolling the virtues of hydroelectricity.
The first sketch sees a farmer woken up by a crowing cockerel. Irritated, the farmer silences the bird by blasting it with a shotgun!
Two shovels digging holes end up fighting with each other. When the losing shovel dies a dramatic death and sinks down into the ground out of sight, the winning shovel buries the fallen shovel by scooping earth on top of him!
There is also an amusing spoof featuring Bentine as famous diver Jacques Cousteau done in a similar vein to Benny Hill's famous shows for Thames Television.
This stand alone show made for pleasant viewing, though there were, and still are, shows of far higher quality. Some of the sketches wouldn't have looked out of place on 'Monty Python's Flying Circus'. Bentine himself came across overall as amiable and likeable enough, who at this time was still presenting his children's television show 'Potty Time'.
Like I said, pleasant, unassuming entertainment on the whole but sadly no further series developed.
It was more or less a continuation of his '60's television show 'It's A Square World', with a selection of bombastic sketches interspersed with monologues to camera by Bentine himself, such as extolling the virtues of hydroelectricity.
The first sketch sees a farmer woken up by a crowing cockerel. Irritated, the farmer silences the bird by blasting it with a shotgun!
Two shovels digging holes end up fighting with each other. When the losing shovel dies a dramatic death and sinks down into the ground out of sight, the winning shovel buries the fallen shovel by scooping earth on top of him!
There is also an amusing spoof featuring Bentine as famous diver Jacques Cousteau done in a similar vein to Benny Hill's famous shows for Thames Television.
This stand alone show made for pleasant viewing, though there were, and still are, shows of far higher quality. Some of the sketches wouldn't have looked out of place on 'Monty Python's Flying Circus'. Bentine himself came across overall as amiable and likeable enough, who at this time was still presenting his children's television show 'Potty Time'.
Like I said, pleasant, unassuming entertainment on the whole but sadly no further series developed.
