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''Rutland Weekend Television'' (''RWT'') was a television sketch show on BBC2, written by Eric Idle with music by Neil Innes. Two series were broadcast, the first consisting of six episodes in 1975, the second of seven in 1976. A Christmas special was broadcast on Boxing Day 1975. It was Idle's first television project after ''Monty Python's Flying Circus'', which ended the previous year. The show was the catalyst for The Rutles. ''Rutland Weekend Television'' or ''RWT'' centred on "Britain's smallest television network", situated in England's smallest (and mainly rural) county, Rutland. The show's title alludes to London Weekend Television (then part of ITV and since renamed ITV London). A Rutland TV station would be pretty small (representing roughly 30,000 people in an area less than 150 square miles), so a Rutland Television would have to be ridiculously tiny. The joke was doubly meaningful as Idle had accidentally been granted a presentation budget〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Rutland Weekend Television )〕 instead of the more lavish budgets associated with light entertainment – so the weekly patter about their inability to buy props and sets reflected reality. Indeed, the last show of the first series featured Idle and Innes, stripped and shivering in blankets under a bare bulb, singing about how the power's about to be shut off. Idle speaks bitterly about these conditions now but his attempts to overcome them formed the basis of a lot of the show's jokes. Idle, in a 1975 ''Radio Times'' interview, remarked, "It was made on a shoestring budget, and someone else was wearing the shoe. The studio is the same size as the weather forecast studio and nearly as good. We had to bring the sets up four floors for each scene, then take them down again. While the next set was coming up, we'd change our make-up. Every minute mattered. It's not always funny to be funny from ten in the morning until ten at night. As for ad-libbing, what ad-libbing? You don't ad-lib when you're working with three cameras and anyway the material goes out months after you've made it."〔http://chilled.cream.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8958&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=shoestring&start=60〕 == A typical episode == The episode begins with the announcer, usually with something going wrong or with something out of the ordinary, from announcements catching fire to open auditions for the announcer itself. Occasionally the announcement would be sung, or performed by more than one person. In one episode, the announcements are performed by "The Ricochet Brothers" (spelled Ricochet, but pronounced Rick-ot-chet) who begin the episode as a pair, and expand to a full cast, each speaking the announcement in harmony. The role of the announcer would be to announce the "programmes" (typically sketches) – many programmes would lead into, or announce one of many songs and accompanying strange vignettes by Neil Innes. 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「Rutland Weekend Television」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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