The Best Of Cook And Moore
1965
In 1965 the BBC harnessed the talents of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore for a new show, Not Only But Also. Building scripts from improvised recordings (although ad-libs and corpsing remained irresistible features of the final recordings), the young partnership created their own style of comedy including the memorable Dagenham .. Read more
| Starring | Peter Cook, Dudley Moore |
|---|---|
| Genres | Comedy, Television |
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The Best Of Cook And Moore
In 1965 the BBC harnessed the talents of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore for a new show, Not Only But Also. Building scripts from improvised recordings (although ad-libs and corpsing remained irresistible features of the final recordings), the young partnership created their own style of comedy including the memorable Dagenham Dialogues of the cloth-capped Pete and Dud, and Peter Cook’s magnificent old duffer Sir Arthur Greeb-Streebling. The series continued until 1970 and remains a seminal landmark in TV comedy. Many of Cook and Moore’s best sketches are captured here, including 5-4-3-2-1 …, the Superthunderstingraycars, the Leaping Nuns, The Glidd of Glood, Bo Dudley and the Goodbye-ee song.
| Starring | Peter Cook, Dudley Moore |
|---|---|
| Studio | BBC WORLDWIDE PUBLISHING |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 39 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Comedy, Television |
| Language | English |
| Released | DVD: 29 Sep 2003 Production year: 1965 |
| Format | DVD |
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Not as good as I remembered.
I was very young when I used to watch Peter Cook and Dudley Moore - it was way after my bedtime, and they were considered a little bit naughty. In my mind this was going to be hilarious, but I have to say that it only made me laugh out loud a few times. The leaping nuns are funny (as also seen in the film Bedazzled), as are Pete and Dud as sad old geezers getting upset with beautiful movie stars for allegedly pestering them, but I have to say that most of it left me cold. Really I wish I'd left this as just a good memory.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
A case for the Trades Discriptions people
Sadly, not the “best of' at all, but more probably “the only bits we’ve still got broadcast rights to”. There is one stand-out classic sketch, (Pete and Dud discuss Art), but it says a lot for the selection that it includes no less than three items culled from the “Not Only But Also” opening and closing credit sequences, and so little of wither what went out in between, or from their other work.
This will be a great disappointment to those who remember them in their individual and joint glory of talent; and it will do nothing to convince a new generation to discover their genius. What a missed opportunity to win new fans for two who could be so funny in their own right and who (Cook in particular) so influenced much of the last near four decades of comic development and style, up there with the Goons, Milligan and the Pythons. -
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In 1965 the BBC harnessed the talents of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore for a new show, Not Only But Also. Building scripts from improvised recordings (although ad-libs and corpsing remained ... -