Oh In Colour
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Oh In Colour title screen.
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| Genre | Comedy |
| Created by | Spike Milligan John Antrobus [1] |
| Directed by | John Howard Davies Joseph McGrath Duncan Wood |
| Starring | Spike Milligan John Bluthal Charlie Young Atom Alan Clare Edward Underdown |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of episodes | 6 |
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| Running time | 30 minutes |
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| Original network | BBC |
| Original release | 27 September – 1 November 1970 |
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| [{{#property:P856}} Website] | |
Oh In Colour was a comedy television sketch programme broadcast on BBC tv in 1970. It ran for one six-episode series from September to November 1970.[2] It was written by and featured Spike Milligan, who was accompanied by different stars every week.[3] It was shown after the thoroughly more popular Q5, also written by Milligan and Neil Shand. It is likely the programme was written to bridge the long production gap between Q5 and the next series, Q6, which did not appear on TV screens until 1975. (Milligan later complained of the BBC's cold attitude towards the series and stated that he would have made more programs had he been given the opportunity.)
Due to the BBC's then-policy of deleting old programmes to save film, only one episode is currently known to exist, which, ironically, given the programme's title, exists only in black-and-white.
Relation to Q..
The format is essentially identical to Milligan's Q series; a series of madcap sketches, typically lacking in plot or cohesion, with the cast and crew often donning bizarre or inappropriate outfits during pieces. The show ran for 30 minutes without commercial breaks, as is typical for programmes broadcast on the BBC. It is unknown whether Oh In Colour was ever actually broadcast in colour or not, as the only surviving tape (episode six, the final broadcast) exists in black-and-white, but as the BBC had moved mostly to colour by the end of 1970, it probably was.
In the surviving episode one can find the racial gags that mired the Q... series in controversy. The staff are similar, too, with mainstays John Bluthal and Fanny Carby taking part in both programmes.[4]
Episodes
| Series No. | Episode No. | Title | Original air date |
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| 1 | 1 | Unknown | 27 September 1970 [5] |
| 1 | 2 | Unknown | 4 October 1970 [6] |
| 1 | 3 | Unknown | 11 October 1970 [7] |
| 1 | 4 | Unknown | 18 October 1970 [8] |
| 1 | 5 | Unknown | 25 October 1970 [9] |
| 1 | 6 | Unknown | 1 November 1970 [10] |
References
- ↑ "Oh in Colour" Episode #1.1 (1970)
- ↑ Oh in Colour (1970) - Episodes - IMDb
- ↑ "Oh in Colour" (1970) - Full cast and crew
- ↑ Oh in Colour (TV Series 1970) - IMDb
- ↑ Oh in Colour - Season 1, Episode 1: Episode 1 - TV.com
- ↑ Oh in Colour - Season 1, Episode 2: Episode 2 - TV.com
- ↑ Oh in Colour - Season 1, Episode 3: Episode 3 - TV.com
- ↑ Oh in Colour - Season 1, Episode 4: Episode 4 - TV.com
- ↑ Oh in Colour - Season 1, Episode 5: Episode 5 - TV.com
- ↑ Oh in Colour - Season 1, Episode 6: Episode 6 - TV.com
