Do Not Adjust Your Set

1967 - 1969

Rediffusion Show 1 - Boxing Day Pilot

26th December 1967

Episode 1

The pilot was a Boxing Day special screened the same day as the Beatles 'Magical Mystery Tour'. Previously thought lost, the songs and sketches include: Boxing Day dance, Bonzo's Jollity Farm and Captain Fantastic.

Rediffusion Show 2

4th January 1968

Episode 2

Intro, King Lear, Musicians At Work, Family Grocer, Science For Sixth Forms, Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Monster Mash, Maternity Ward, On Guard, The Wonder of Words, Stool Pigeon, Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, The Sound Of Music, An Extraordinary Sight, Captain Fantastic, The Tartan Thistle Club

Rediffusion Show 3

11th January 1968

Episode 3

Intro, Identity Parade, Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Brief, Patient Noughts & Crosses, Time for Fun (Fivers Club), Captain Fantastic, Star of Tomorrow, Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Look Out There's a Monster Coming, Concorde, Miss Pringle, "Two of Us" song

Rediffusion Show 4

18th January 1968

Episode 4

No overview available.

Rediffusion Show 5

25th January 1968

Episode 5

Intro - Good evening - Captain Fantastic - Great Discoveries Of Our Time - Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band perform Ali Baba's Camel - Myrtle Goodbody Classes - An Old Time Victorian Burble Drama

Rediffusion Show 6

1st February 1968

Episode 6

Intro, How To Eat, Musicians At Work, Happy Grin Insurance, Flying Doctor, Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, The Equestrian Statue, Take Your Clothes Off, Bus Stop, Cookery Class, Help!, Captain Fantastic, Sailors Song, A Personal Note

Rediffusion Show 7

8th February 1968

Episode 7

Intro, Traffic Warden, Round Up, Thank You, Burglary Prevention, Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Hunting Tigers, Thou Shalt Not, Royal Opera House, Morning Madam, Scenes of Village Life, Captain Fantastic, Miss World

Rediffusion Show 8

15th February 1968

Episode 8

No overview available.

Rediffusion Show 9

22nd February 1968

Episode 9

No overview available.

Rediffusion Show 10

29th February 1968

Episode 10

Intro, Sport, Whackfield Wanders, Chairback Banana Grabbing, Angling, Frogmen Routine, The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Hello Mabel, Fortune Teller, Miniskirt, Captain Fantastic, Romeo & Juliet

Rediffusion Show 11

Episode 11

Intro, Economic Axe, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Espionage, Custard Factory, Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Love is a Cylindrical Piano, Miss Pringle, Rehearsal, Cinderella, Captain Fantastic, British Food

Rediffusion Show 12

14th March 1968

Episode 12

Intro, Holiday Club, Welcome Home, Death Cab for Cutie, Has Anyone Seen the Invisible Man ?, The Vosbourgh Art Gallery, Captain Fantastic

Rediffusion Show 13

21st March 1968

Episode 13

Intro, Instrumental, The Problems Of Falling Over, The Wild And Woolly West, Weather, Hamster Allergies, Post Early for Christmas, It's Lucy! You're Fired, Announcement, Tubas in the Moonlight, Fancy Dress For Two, Dog Food, Captain Fantastic, Musicians At Work

Rediffusion Show 14

28th March 1968

Episode 14

Intro, Television Planning, The Beginning Of The End, Spotters Corner, Backwards, Cookery Class, Arthur The Amazing Performing Dog, Come Out To Play, Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Metaphorically Speaking, Miss Pringle, Pre-History, Captain Fantastic, The End

Rediffusion Special Edition!

Episode 15

A slightly longer summer special which mixes new material with remounts of previous sketches and the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band performing 'I'm the Urban Spaceman'.

Do Not Adjust Your Stocking

25th December 1968

Episode 16

Intro - Gags - Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band carol singing - Turnaround with Eric Idle - Christmas cookery hints with Ivor Clarke - St. Herbert's - The Circus Lecture - Beauty Desk - Royal Father Christmas College - Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band perform By A Waterfall - Ron and Norma - Terry Gilliam's The Christmas Card - World pantomime speed record - Captain Fantastic - Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band perform I'm The Urban Spaceman - Party Games - Merry Merry Christmas song

Top Cast

Michael Palin•Eric Idle•Terry Jones

Innovative and influential, and originally envisaged as children’s show, Do Not Adjust Your Set was a madcap early-evening comedy sketch show that quickly acquired a cult following with Swinging Sixties adults, who rushed home from work to see it. Written by and starring Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, with great performances and additional material by David Jason and Denise Coffey, it also provided an early showcase for the hilarious animations of Terry Gilliam, and the brilliantly bizarre musical antics of the legendary Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band.

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Michael Palin

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Eric Idle

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Terry Jones

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David Jason

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Terry Gilliam

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Neil Innes

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Denise Coffey

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Vivian Stanshall

Vernon Dudley Bowhay Nowell

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Humphrey Barclay

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