Hello Cheeky

Hello Cheeky was a comedy series broadcast on BBC Radio 2 between 1973 and 1979. It was written and performed by Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer, and John Junkin, with music by the Denis King Trio, and produced by David Hatch, Richard Willcox, and Bob Oliver Rogers.

Radio

The series ran on Radio 2 from 1973 to 1979. There were also three Christmas specials: Hello Cheeky, Hello Christmas in 1973, Hello Christmas in 1974 and the pantomime-style Cheeky Whittington and his Magic Ballpoint in 1976.

Regular segments included the quickfire "meanwhile"s, "would you believe it?"s, "home hints for the handyman", phone calls, news flashes and comic songs, a number of which had previously been recorded by Marty Feldman. The final sketch frequently featured a comic amalgam of three ostensibly serious broadcasts (e.g. Z-Cars, Gardeners' Question Time and A Book At Bedtime).

Hello Cheeky gained a reputation for its puns. Two examples being "I once spent an evening with twelve Benedictines. What happened? I drank them all and fell over" and "Enoch Powell sent me a draught board for Christmas. Trouble is, all the squares are white."

On 6 April 1975, "The Least Worst of Hello Cheeky" was recorded before a live audience in the Paris Studio. It was produced by Bob Rogers. From the two-hour show, 45 minutes was released on vinyl. Two 30 minute shows containing material from this recording session were broadcast on 25 January and 1 February 1976.

Some episodes of the radio series have been re-broadcast on BBC Radio 7.

Television

Hello Cheeky transferred to Yorkshire Television in 1976 with the same writing and performing team with Len Lurcuck as producer and Duncan Wood as executive producer. The first series containing eight episodes, and was broadcast between 19 January and 22 March 1976. The second series, containing five episodes, was broadcast between 26 May and 23 June of the same year.

The TV series was not considered a success, as there was no attempt to make the material more visual for television.

The two TV series (minus one episode) were released on DVD by Network in June 2010, and will cease to be available from them after 13 January 2013.[1]

Episodes

Series 1

Series 2

Series 3

Series 4

Series 5

References

  1. ↑ Hello Cheeky page on Network's website

External links

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