Original Broadcast Date: Jan. 18, 1973
Attempted Synopsis: A Thames announcer promises a great night of viewing, "but first, here's a rotten old BBC program!"; The British Show Biz Awards, hosted by Sir Richard Attenborough (Eric Idle); Oscar Wilde, James Whistler, and George Bernard Shaw play one-upsmanship with epigrams; a foreign film of a metaphor-laden sports match; a housewife gets a new brain; a blood-bank customer tries to donate his urine; a wife-swapping race; the Dirty Vicar sketch.
Review: Eric Idle's verbose, self-congratulatory emcee is probably one of his best characters. On the debit side, some of the sexual humor gets downright misogynistic at some points.
Priceless Gag: Since David Niven can't make it to the awards show, he sends his fridge to present an award.
(In-Joke: The end credits of the wife-swapping sketch include "Graham Chapman and Mr. Sherlock." David Sherlock was Chapman's gay partner in real life.)
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