Classic Comedy: Rutland Weekend Television – #4 – S01 E04

Rutland Weekend Television (RWT) was a television sketch show on BBC2, written by Eric Idle with music by Neil Innes. Two series were broadcast, the first consisting of six episodes in 1975, and the second series of seven episodes in 1976. A Christmas special was broadcast on Boxing Day 1975.

It was Idle’s first television project after Monty Python’s Flying Circus, which had ended the previous year, and was the catalyst for The Rutles. Rutland Weekend Television or RWT ostensibly centred on “Britain’s smallest television network”, situated in England’s smallest (and mainly rural) county, Rutland. Rutland had lost its independence in April 1974 so, supposedly, there were tax advantages to broadcasting from somewhere that did not legally exist. MORE AT LINK