Talk:The Two Ronnies

Humphmeister's little known second symphony

who knows the name of the fabulous sketch in which Barker plays a BBC critic who eventually finds out that he is in the wrong concert hall? also, is it available anywhere? --Bernie 21:06, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

It's Goodnight From Him

I'm sure I have heard Ronnie B say (or it could have been written somewhere) that he loathed the newsreader scenes as he had to play himself. He was really only comfortable appearing in public when playing a character. Hence the 'him' in the line is this 'other' Ronnie Barker, the one doing all the work in the rest of the show. Crucially from an encyclopaedic point of view, I can't remember where or when I came across this and therefore can't provide a citation.217.154.66.11 12:49, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

This point is made several times by Ronnie C in his bigraphy of the Two Ronnies, "And It's Goodnight From Me".Mike1971inter 12:05, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

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Mini-series

It might be useful to have a table of which mini-series went with which series. For rather complicated reasons I could go into, I think that "The Worm that Turned" and "Band of Slaves" could have been a series earlier than they make out. PatGallacher (talk) 13:54, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

On further investigation I think these dates may be right after all, but this suggests that there was no min-series with series 7. Can someone clarify? PatGallacher (talk) 15:08, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

I believe that the final series actually featured "mini-films" - can' remember all of them, but the only one that springs to mind is "Pinocchio 2: Killer Doll", in which the woodcutter (Barker) creates a second Pinocchio doll (Corbett) who goes on the rampage killing everybody in sight - most of them were pastiches of real films.

Arthurvasey (talk) 08:47, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

I now think in series 7 the slot which was normally occupied by the mini-series was occupied by a series "Sid and Lily, George and Eadie". PatGallacher (talk) 16:54, 28 October 2017 (UTC)

Edited episodes aired in the USA?

Some PBS stations aired the first few seasons, but the episodes were edited to fit into 30-minute time slots. All of the celebrity guest songs and the mystery serials appear to have been deleted (I think the only "special guest" that ever aired was John Cleese, in a sketch where he, Barker, and Corbett compared upper, middle, and working-class lifestyles); pretty much every episode's format was, the opening news segment, the first sketch, a second sketch (usually with just Barker), Corbett's monologue in the chair, the musical production number, and the closing segment. -- That Don Guy (talk) 17:18, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

The sketches with John Cleese were from The Frost Report".

Arthurvasey (talk) 08:49, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

Two Ninnies script

The article did have a link to the complete script of the Two Ninnies, the controversial parody. This link has become dead, I have found another copy of the script online, but the link is being blocked as it is on a spam blacklist. Any advice on how to proceed? PatGallacher (talk) 06:09, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

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“The Phantom Raspberry Blower”

The detail of the writing of this serial seems a little off. It should mention that the serial is an expansion of a one-off comedy play, originally written by Milligan, shown in the series “Six Dates With Barker” in 1971, and in which Barker starred. Although credited on screen to “Spike Milligan and a Gentleman”, the serial version was adapted by Ronnie Barker alone (although somewhat confusingly this happened under the guise of his pen-name Gerald Wiley: as with all his writing for the screen, Barker submitted the scripts “anonymously”). Barker was adamant that writing with someone else just did not work for him, the only time he tried it being with Barry Cryer, and the partnership lasted but a day. The details can be found in Bob McCabe’s “The Authorized Biography of Ronnie Barker”, (BBC Books, 2004). Jock123 (talk) 11:59, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

Great, why not add this yourself then? Bob talk 23:17, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

Sketch Series

Might be interesting to include information about certain series of sketches grouped together such as the "How to..." sketches in 1973 and the "Minister" sketches in the 70s. Deltasim (talk) 17:51, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

List of sketches

Should we have a list of supposedly popular sketches? This section is very pov, could be a standing invite for people to add their own favourites, and could be a matter of opinion if some of the were good. PatGallacher (talk) 16:54, 28 October 2017 (UTC)

Yes it's a bit undefined, isn't it? I suspect it started off as a mention of Four Candles and then grew as people added their favourites. I've had a look through various other BBC TV sketch comedy articles, and they all have this problem - how do you give a flavour of the type of sketches, without just listing them? And how do you choose which ones to include editorially? I suppose multiple mentions in newspaper obituaries of Barker/Corbett attests to a sketch's fame. Rob (talk) 22:38, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

Following the uncontested deletion of "Nothing's Too Much Trouble", I think there may be a consensus that listing individual sketches is a minefield, with the possible exception of "Four Candles". PatGallacher (talk) 01:55, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

Ronnie Hazlehurst

Would that be The third Ronnie? 惑乱 Wakuran (talk) 22:02, 9 January 2024 (UTC)