Ian Hendry + Dick Emery Sketch - The Dick Emery Show [1976]
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The Dick Emery Show was a long-running British comedy series, based on some rather interesting and unique characters! It ran from 1963 to 1981, with 1978 being the only year that it wasn't produced.
This video of Ian's appearance on the show comes via an old VHS TV recording made in the 1990s when the show had a rerun on UK Gold - a TV channel that first began broadcasting in 1992 showing repeats of classic programming, much of it from the BBC archives.
So a vintage TV show from the 1970s, recorded some years later on what is now vintage VHS home recorder technology gets a new lease of life in the digital era.
Ian plays the part of a military attache from the Russian Embassy. Dick Emery plays 'Jack', a naval officer eager to encounter a Russian spy in a London pub - and eager for a drink too!
Another notable actor who appears in this sketch is Patrick Newell. Educated at Taunton School, Newell completed his National Service with a fellow recruit called Michael Caine. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), alongside Albert Finney and Peter O'Toole.
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