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''At Last the 1948 Show'' is a satirical TV show made by David Frost's company, Paradine Productions (although it was not credited on the programmes), in association with Rediffusion London. Transmitted on Britain's ITV network in 1967, it brought Cambridge Footlights humour to a broader audience. The show starred Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Marty Feldman and Aimi MacDonald. Cleese and Brooke-Taylor were also the programme editors. The director was Ian Fordyce. While only two episodes of the show initially survived, efforts to locate missing episodes have been fruitful, with seven episodes being accounted for by 2013. On 23 October 2014, two episodes were recovered by the British Film Institute from the David Frost collection, and a further two episodes were recovered the following year, making the number of complete episodes eleven out of thirteen.〔(BFI.org )〕 ==History== Frost approached Cleese, Chapman and Brooke-Taylor to star in a sketch series. They suggested Marty Feldman, until then a comedy writer.〔Roger Wilmut ''From Fringe to Flying Circus: Celebrating a Unique Generation of Comedy 1960-1980'', London: Eyre Methuen, 1980, ISBN 0-413-46950-6.〕 The series bridged the radio series ''I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again'' and television's ''Monty Python's Flying Circus'' and ''The Goodies''. It also led to Feldman's television series ''Marty'' (which also featured Tim Brooke-Taylor). The convention of comedy scenes interspersed by songs was abandoned. It still used punchlines, which would be abandoned by Monty Python. Several sketches came from the 1963 Cambridge Footlights Revue entitled ''Cambridge Circus'' (the revue was previously entitled ''A Clump of Plinths''). Sketches were again reused in ''How to Irritate People'' and ''Monty Python's Flying Circus'' plus Python's two German TV specials (''Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus'') and for stage shows. These include the "Four Yorkshiremen sketch" (which was later performed by Monty Python on ''Live at Drury Lane'' and ''Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl''). Some sketches were performed in Secret Policeman's Ball stage shows: Top of the Form, Beekeeper. Another, the Bookshop Sketch, was recorded in modified form for ''Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album''. Some sketches were also performed again by ''The Two Ronnies'': Psychiatrist, Tea Boy on a Mission, and Grubnlian Holidays. Monty Python's catchphrase "and now for something completely different" originated in ''At Last the 1948 Show'', and was originally spoken by Aimi MacDonald.〔("Missing episodes of Monty Python precursor At Last the 1948 Show found" ), ''The Guardian'', 16 September 2015. Retrieved 16 September 2015.〕 The shows had no relationship to the year 1948; the title referred to television executives' tendency to take time over making commissioning decisions. The cast also recorded an LP of sketches from the show's first season, as well as releasing a book of some of the sketches. The series was video-taped at what is now Fountain Studios, Wembley. Two series totalling thirteen 25-minute episodes were made during the series ten month run, six in the first series and seven in the second. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「At Last the 1948 Show」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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