Cinerama-smattered portmanteau collection of fairy tale sketches, here no doubt cropped and/or squeezed something rotten and thus rendered practically pointless. For those who still fancy peering through the hatch at what remains, a haunch of vaudeville comics – Jim Backus, Buddy Hackett, Billy Barty, Arnold ‘Top Cat’ Stang – line up alongside British old schoolery including Terry-Thomas, Claire Bloom and Laurence Harvey to prance around plaster and muslin indoor sets.
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The Eurovision Song Contest
Saturday, 20.00, BBC1Jess Cully writes, “Nicki French was certainly our singer the last time the Contest was held in Sweden, but the host city then was Stockholm. The Contest is huge in Sweden and none of its major cities would be allowed to hog the Contest by hosting it twice in a row, hence the choice of Malmo this year. If Sweden wins it again in the near future, expect us to be either back in Stockholm or in Gothenburg.” Indeed, but even though we’ve not enjoyed it quite so much since the Beeb stopped making the scoreboard and got its logo on it every few minutes, we’re still there ready to enjoy the spectacle, and it seems like Graham Norton, for our money probably the best light entertainment presenter on TV at the moment, has been doing this forever.
The Cinerama print of It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World is also AWOL, as well as sharing Arnold ‘Top Cat’ Stang & Terry-Thomas castwise.