Talk:At Last the 1948 Show
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[edit] About the destruction of the episodes of "At Last the 1948 Show"
There is printed information that David Frost personally arranged for the destruction of the entire series of "At Last the 1948 Show" after he was offended by what he thought was a dig at him personally by the cast of the series.
What happened was that, in the movie "The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer" (for which two of the writers were John Cleese and Graham Chapman), the ethics of the character, Michael Rimmer, could be seen as being loosely based on the ethics of David Frost - — also, Michael Rimmer's living room in the movie strongly resembled David Frost's living room. As a result of this, David Frost angrily arranged to have the complete series of "At Last the 1948 Show" wiped for good as a punishment. The similarity of the living room in the movie to David Frost's living room, however, was merely a coincidence. The designer for the set had never been in David Frost's house and did not realise how close the set design was. As a result of David Frost's anger, the complete series of "At Last the 1948 Show" was almost lost — it was only saved when John Cleese discovered that the episodes were in the process of being wiped and fought to save the remaining 5 episodes (out of the original 13 episodes) from suffering the same fate. All the surviving material was released on DVD in 2005).
Although the information about the above reason for wiping the tapes does exist, I am not able, at the moment, to give the necessary source citation for it because I need to check through things first. When I do find the necessary citation, and can quote the source, I will be putting the information onto the article page, as part of the historic record for this series. Figaro 23:12, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] ITV website
I have removed the link to the ITV website, because the page the link went to is an advertisement page for ITV. The page had nothing, whatsoever, to do with "At Last the 1948 Show". Although I attempted to find a page, or pages, devoted to "At Last the 1948 Show" on the website, I could not find any. Figaro 08:37, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
