Episodes
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1. Unbroadcast Pilot
Date TBA
As every comedy schoolboy should know by now, the Not The Nine O'Clock News "pilot" is something of a misnomer. It was in fact originally intended as the first show of what would have been their first series, recorded on the 31st of March 1979 and scheduled for broadcast on BBC2 on the 2nd of April 1979, but pulled at the eleventh hour due to elections.
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2. Not The Least Of Not The Nine O'Clock News
28 Dec 1979
Highlights from the first series.
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3. The Best of Not the Nine O'Clock News
9 Sept 1980 · 30 min
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4. Twenty-Five Years of Not the Nine O'clock News
16 Sept 1980 · 30 min
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5. Not the Lot of Not the Nine O'Clock News
23 Sept 1980
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6. Not the Nine O'Clock News Christmas
30 Dec 1980
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7. Not Another Not the Nine O'Clock News
9 Oct 1981
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8. An Eighth Chance to See Not the Nine O'Clock News
16 Oct 1981
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9. Last of the Summer Repeats
23 Oct 1981
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10. Not the World Cup
19 Jun 1983
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11. Not the Nine O'Clock News (1)
7 Sept 1983
The first of three programmes re-edited, reorganised, once more as re-edits and now repeated as compilations; entitled ... Not the Nine O'Clock News, providing another opportunity to savour the delights offered by that award-winning team
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12. Not the Nine O'Clock News (2)
14 Sept 1983
The second of three programmes re-edited, reorganised once more as re-edits and now repeated as compilations entitled ... Not the Nine O'Clock News. Providing another opportunity to savour the delights offered by that award-winning team.
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13. Not the Nine O'Clock News (3)
28 Sept 1983
The third of three programmes re-edited, re-organised once more as re-edits and now repeated as compilations; entitled.... Not the Nine O'Clock News. Providing another opportunity to savour the delights offered by that award-winning team.
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14. NOT 1
27 Oct 1995 · 25 min
Episode 1 of the best-of collection of Not the 9 O'Clock News. Sketches include: The Dart Players Question Time The Gorilla News Interview And the cast sing Bouncing
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15. NOT 2
3 Nov 1995 · 25 min
Episode 2 of the best-of collection of Not the 9 O'Clock News. Sketches include: Game For a Laugh Because I'm Wet And Lonley A Come In Rawlinson Hand built By Roberts This week's song is Baronet Oswald Ernold Moseley
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16. NOT 3
10 Nov 1995 · 25 min
Episode 3 of the best-of collection of Not the 9 O'Clock News. Sketches include: Riot Police The Devil: Is He All Bad? Public Toilet
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17. NOT 4
17 Nov 1995 · 25 min
Episode 4 of the best-of collection of Not the 9 O'Clock News. Sketches include: Lead Poisoning Sexism Discussion Hi-Fi Shop Soccer Violence General Synod's Life Of Python Preacher Unemployment
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18. NOT 5
24 Nov 1995 · 25 min
Episode 5 of the best-of collection of Not the 9 O'Clock News. Sketches include: Job Creation Scheme / Late Abortion / Not The Parrot Sketch
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19. NOT 6
1 Dec 1995 · 25 min
Episode 6 of the best-of collection of Not the 9 O'Clock News. Sketches include: Sex Shop / I Like Trucking
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20. NOT 7
8 Dec 1995 · 25 min
Episode 7 of the best-of collection of Not the 9 O'Clock News. Sketches include: Silly trousers / Licence fee
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21. NOT 8
15 Dec 1995 · 25 min
Episode 8 of the best-of collection of Not the 9 O'Clock News. Sketches include:
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22. The Not the Nine O'Clock News Story
17 Jul 1999
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23. Not Again: Not the Nine O'Clock News
28 Dec 2009
The inside story of the anarchic comedy sketch show, which ran on BBC Two from 1979 to 1982, and launched the careers of Rowan Atkinson, Griff Rhys Jones, Mel Smith and Pamela Stephenson, as well as writers including Richard Curtis, Andy Hamilton and Clive Anderson. This documentary reveals how the series first came about, looks at the casting of the four main players and the dynamic of the team, as well as recalling the show's key moments, its impact at the time and its legacy. Featuring interviews with Smith, Jones, Stephenson and Curtis, as well as celebrity fans including Billy Connolly and Dara O Briain
Not the Nine O'Clock News Specials: quick answers
How many episodes are in Not the Nine O'Clock News Specials?
Specials of Not the Nine O'Clock News has 23 episodes, about 4 hours in total.