Dave gets a letter from Rome "The boss himself"
Production[]
Episode: 17
Date: March 12, 1973
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Producer: Peter Whitmore
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Writer: Dave Allen, Austin Steele and Peter Vincent
Episode[]
Escape from Colditz
- Coming Up
Highlights[]
The Church on Strike
- Coming Up
Cast[]
Quotes[]
Pigsty Pete
- Dave Allen - "The kindest thing you can do to a Scotsman is to offer to buy him a drink. The kindest thing you can do to a German is to imply that he is Austrian. The kindest thing you can do to an American is to talk to him - loudly! The kindest thing you can do to an Englishman is not to talk to him - loudly or otherwise. The kindest thing you can do to an Australian is to believe everything he says... whether you believe him or not. The kindest thing you can do to a Russian is not to knock on his door in the middle of the night. The kindest thing you can do to an Irishman is not to stand behind him and go tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock.... The kindest thing you can do to an Israeli is to open his mail or better still get an Arab to open his mail...."
Trivia[]
- The understudy in the closing sketch is called Mr. Benson.
- One of the explorers is referred to by the name Fletcher.
- Michael Sharvell-Martin plays a one-time character named Pigsty Pete.
- As Hamlet, Dave quotes the Yorick line from Act 5, Scene I in "Hamlet."
Sequence[]
- Last Episode: The Phantom Piddler and Other Fairy Tales
- Next Episode: Midas, Cinderella and Robin Hood