Not The Nine O’Clock News

Not The Nine O' Clock News - Hedgehog Sandwich

  • Released: 11/09/2020
  • Label: Demon
  • Genre: Comedy

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Limited LP : 180gm 'Hedgehog Splatter' Vinyl

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Not The Nine O'Clock News gave the world alternative comedy and made the media scene we have today.” – Mark Lewisohn, Radio Times Guide to TV Comedy

Celebrating over 40 years since the ground-breaking comedy series arrived on BBC TV, Demon Records proudly presents Hedgehog Sandwich - lovingly mastered on 180g heavyweight Hedgehog Splatter vinyl.

Let the famous signature tune take you back to the heady days of 1979, when Labour gave way to the Conservatives, striking workers created the Winter of Discontent, and Not The Nine O’Clock News inherited the BBC2 time slot vacated by Fawlty Towers. It quickly became a trailblazing smash hit, running for four series and making stars of Rowan Atkinson, Mel Smith, Pamela Stephenson and Griff Rhys-Jones.

Among the many famous, and much-loved, sketches included on the LPs are David Bloody Attenborough (aka Gerald the Gorilla), Points of View, General Synod’s “Life of Python”, Constable Savage, University Challenge, Hi-Fi Shop, That’s Lies, Not The Parrot Sketch, Open Marriage, Question Time, Game For A Laugh, Two Ninnies, McEnroe’s Breakfast, What A Load of Willies, The Pope’s Visit, Simon and Garfunkel and – yes The Return of Constable Savage.

Produced and devised by John Lloyd and Sean Hardie, Not The Nine O’Clock News won a Silver Rose at the Montreux Festival and a BAFTA for Best Light Entertainment Programme. Its large writing team included such future luminaries of TV comedy as Richard Curtis, David Renwick, Andrew Marshall, Guy Jenkin, Laurie Rowley, John Lloyd and Andy Hamilton.

Presented as a faithfully reproduced facsimile gatefolds, and remastered from the original tapes

Tracklist

 

Side 1
1.Loyal Apology
2. News Summary
3. Constable Savage
4. Baronet Oswald Ernold Mosley 5. University Challenge
6. (I Like) Trucking
7. Sir Robert Mark
8. Hi-Fi Shop
9. England My Leotard
10. Divorce
11. Political Obit
12. The Main Points Again
13. Bad Language
14. Gift Shop

Side 2
1. Hedgehog Apology
2. Supa Dupa
3. Soccer Violence
4. (Because I’m) Wet And Lonely (Barry Manilow Song)
5. That’s Lies
6. Creed (The New Revised Version) 7. I Believe (The Reagan Song)
8. The Aide
9. The Main Points Again
10. Not The Parrot Sketch
11. Open Marriage
12. Lager
13. And Finally...