Before Monty Python's Flying Circus and The Goodies there was At Last the 1948 Show, the ground-breaking comedy sketch series starring John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Marty Feldman, and Aimi MacDonald. This compendium features the first ever episode (discovered many years later in Sir David Frost's personal archive) featuring the debut delivery of the immortal linking line: ‘And now for something completely different...' Episode two is incomplete and largely reconstructed with audio only, while episode three contains the classic 'Bookshop' skit.
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