Alas Smith & Jones
1 9 8 4 - 1 9 8 8
(UK)
25 x 30 minute episodes
1 x 40 minute special
This clever comedy sketch series (mimicking the title of the 1970s
Western series starring Pete Duel and Ben Murphy) with Mel Smith and
Griff Rhys Jones basically picked up where they left off on Not
the Nine O'clock News. Writers included Smith and Jones, Clive
Anderson, Rob Grant and Doug Naylor (creators of Red Dwarf).
The 40 minute Christmas special was called Alas Sage and Onion.
In 1989, Mel and Griff moved to BBC1 and made
five seasons of a show called simply Smith and Jones, which was
basically the same show with a new name. The series is probably best
remembered for the 'head-to-head' scenes where the idiotic Smith
attempted to explain something straightforward to the even dimmer
Jones.
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Mel:
I think I might emigrate to Australia
Griff: Oh no, don't do that, mate, don't do that.
Mel:
But it's a beautiful
country . . .You can tell that when you're watching all the
films and everything, can't you? What's that one with all the
wild animals in the outback, what's it called? . . . "Dingo's
ate my baby" . . . you know, it was in Australia, what was it
called? . . er . . . Meryl Streep was in it . . .
Griff: Out of Africa?
Mel:
That's the one, yeah
Griff: Yeah. |
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