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Round the Horne

10.0 / 10
1965
4 seasons
65 episodes
Comedy

A radio comedy sketch show, presented as a local variety show with Kenneth Horne as the host.

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Cast

Seasons

Episodes broadcast in 1965.

  • Ep 1

    1.Episode 1

    07-03-196530m

    Featuring: The BBC backroom boys: the programme planners The Clissold Saga [part 1/5]

  • Ep 2

    2.Episode 2

    14-03-196530m

    Featuring: Isambard Kingdom Fortinbras, inventor of the doorknob The BBC backroom boys The Clissold Saga: The aviator [part 2/5]

  • Ep 3

    3.Episode 3

    21-03-196530m

    Featuring: BBC sound effects department The Clissold Saga: A pantomime horse [part 3/5]

  • Ep 4

    4.Episode 4

    28-03-196530m

    Featuring: Robert Capability Lackwind, inventor of toad in the hole BBC censorship department The Clissold Saga: Egyptology [part 4/5] Rentachap (Julian and Sandy)

  • Ep 5

    5.Episode 5

    04-04-196530m

    Featuring: Richard Serendipity Mountbasket, inventor of the Christmas Pudding BBC personnel department: Gruntfuttock applies for a BBC job The Clissold Saga: films [part 5/5] G...

  • Ep 6

    6.Episode 6

    11-04-196530m

    Featuring: Tammany Wilkinshaft, inventor of the crumpet BBC complaints department Inspector Horne's casebook – The Tap-dancing Monk Bona Bistro (Julian and Sandy)

  • Ep 7

    7.Episode 7

    18-04-196530m

    Featuring: Nemesis Fothergill, Ornithologist BBC audience research department "Edwin Braden Is Missing": Horne investigates Bona scriptwriters (Julian and Sandy)

  • Ep 8

    8.Episode 8

    25-04-196530m

    Featuring: Edwin Chattleforth, inventor of forced meat BBC auditioners 'Who killed the Amazing Proudbasket? Private Fever – Noël Coward parody Bona Tours (Julian and Sandy)

  • Ep 9

    9.Episode 9

    02-05-196530m

    Featuring: Friar Wacker Biscuit, inventor of the hip bath The Spy Who Came in with a Cold: Kenneth Horne meets Chou en Ginsberg Bona Bouffant (Julian and Sandy)

  • Ep 10

    10.Episode 10

    09-05-196530m

    Featuring: Gruntfuttock, King of Peasmoldia Kenneth Horne, Master Spy: Famous People Are Turning Into Animals Rambling Syd Rumpo

  • Ep 11

    11.Episode 11

    16-05-196530m

    Featuring: From Russia With Love and Kind Regards to Auntie Mabel Blithe Laughter Bona Homes, estate agents (Julian and Sandy)

  • Ep 12

    12.Episode 12

    23-05-196530m

    Featuring: Kenneth Horne, Master Spy: The Man with the Golden Thunderball Bona Homes and Landscape Gardens (Julian and Sandy)

  • Ep 13

    13.Episode 13

    30-05-196530m

    Featuring: Dictator ex-King Gruntfuttock Kenneth Horne, Master Spy: The Missing Eiffel Tower Lover, Come Back to Me, Romberg, Hammerstein Present Encounter Bona Pets (Julian and...

  • Ep 14

    14.Episode 14

    06-06-196530m

    Featuring: Dictator ex-King Gruntfuttock Special agent Kenneth Horne probes a pirate invasion of the BBC It's a Lovely Day Today Irving Berlin Studio Bona photographers (Julian...

  • Ep 15

    15.Episode 15

    13-06-196530m

    Featuring: Special agent Kenneth Horne investigating a Rocket Site in Haiti Bitter Laughter Nice Work If You Can Get It George and Ira Gershwin Bona Seats, ticket agency (Julian...

  • Ep 16

    16.Episode 16

    20-06-196530m

    Featuring: Kenneth Horne, Special Agent: Traffic wardens in outer space Forbidden Encounter This Can't Be Love, Rodgers and Hart Bona Productions: melodramas (Julian and Sandy)

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