I knew OF Harry & Paul, of course, but they were a little before my time and I'm just now starting to fully explore their work. This is genuinely one of the BEST things I've ever seen! 😂😂❤❤❤❤
Perfect pastiche of the late 80s/early 90s clear out of the faux matey mid-Atlantic accented past-it 60s has beens on radio 1 and the bitterness that followed. This was when radio 2 was still all 40s big band and 50s organ music so the 60s pop DJs didn’t have a natural follow on until the commercial ‘gold’ stations started popping up then radio 2 followed suit and modernised with a lot of the now stale 80s DJs (Steve wright etc) being shifted out of radio 1.
the parody of this relates to the "blood on the carpet" incident at radio 1 in 93 where the new controller got rid of all the old dj's that have been hanging around since the 70's .. and so spot on
Good quality upload with stereo sound in it's complete form. This documentary highlighted all the problems with Radio 1, young people were turning away from it, and it all started to take on an old people's record club feel with old presenters.
And now its even worse - I mean why is there even still a Radio 1 in 2023? And however bad the DJs back in these days were at least they vaguely had a reason to exist now in the day of the internet the whole things a farce.
48:16 Nicey goes out in a violent alcohol-fueled emotional meltdown - his true feelings about Smashie revealed at last. You could almost feel sorry for him - almost ...
Thanks for this! I laughed my socks off 30 years ago and it's still funny now. I wonder what Tony Blackburn or DLT thought of it! And the Deptford Draylons ad!!! Good old Fluff, Brentford Nylons
I'm sure Fluff did appear in a Smashie and Nicey sketch, am trying to find it amongst my old VHS's... Yes, I still a Video Player! Which reminds me of The Young Ones - Video Nasty! BBC Comedy was far better back in the 80s and 90s...
I think it's recorded that Tony Blackburn liked this, but Enfield and Whitehouse regretted taking the mickey out of his on-air breakdown after his wife left him. They felt it was unnecessarily cruel and wished they hadn't done it.
32:00 I do love the scene where he's holding a large Dansette Major record player outside the house, playing the Bobby Goldsboro song. I know this record player, because I had one, it was big heavy and mains powered only.
Seeing Alan Freeman still doing Pick of the Pops over on Radio 1, changes at Radio 1 and 2 should have happened earlier as the mid 1980's, Do you think older DJ's interested in Europop or Soul to Soul or 2 unlimited, Radio 2 format was still stuck in the BBC Light Programme.of the 50's and 60's. These DJ's Should have moved over to Radio 2 at that point. This goes show how embarrssing this sketch was,
