![]() Neil, as Nasty, sings "I Must Be in Love," and Eric, as a reporter, introduces the Rutles story, until the camera runs away. When Eric Idle first hosted Saturday Night Live, he brought along a short clip from the second season featuring Rutland's own Fab Four, the Rutles. The only bit of RWT you can buy at a store today wound up there by accident. More than one reliable source has cited legal problems. The episodes of RWT (fourteen of them plus one clipshow, according to some sources, more than Fawlty Towers) are not available on commercial video. And a talented supporting cast including David Battley and Henry Woolf brought this delightful, silly little show to life. Innes' musical numbers did not stop the show (as on, say, Saturday Night Live) but instead fit with its character and enhanced it, providing laughs as well as beginnings and ends to countless sketches. Idle's rambling, nonsensical writing style had served Python well and proved a good, funny way to fill up the shows of RWT. This is sad, as the show (despite miniscule budgets and little rehearsal time) brought out the best in both Idle and Innes. Despite Idle's smash-hit success with Monty Python and Innes' cult status with the Bonzo Dog (Doo-Dah) Band, and despite the quality of the low-budget show, it got very little notice and after two seasons in Britain, a soundtrack album and a tie-in book (neither of which sold well), RWT disappeared into obscurity, to appear only as a footnote in books about Monty Python. It had pretty much no effect on the comedy world in any way. ![]() When "Rutland Weekend Television," a comedy program written by Eric Idle and featuring the music of Neil Innes, first premiered in 1975, no one could possibly have expected the massive, amazing effect it would have on the comedy world for years to come. ![]() Special thanks to Tom Strickland, Robert Ross, Alley Ernst, Barb Shapiro,, Kim "Howard" Johnson, Dave Haber and all the rest, and to Eric, Neil and all the RWT cast (for making our weekends just that much more special) You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.THE FABULOUS RUTLAND WEEKEND TELEVISION EPISODE GUIDEÄ«y Garrett Gilchrist contributions from Bonnie Rose, Laurie Stevens, Greg Duffell, and Yoichi Yamazaki The section "History and Origin" of this page contains content from the copyrighted Wikipedia article " Lyn" that content is used under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL).
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