Not the Nine O'Clock News - Specials
1 - Unbroadcast Pilot
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.
2 - Not The Least Of Not The Nine O'Clock News
Air Date: December 28, 1979
Highlights from the first series.
3 - The Best of Not the Nine O'Clock News
Air Date: September 9, 1980
4 - Twenty-Five Years of Not the Nine O'clock News
Air Date: September 16, 1980
5 - Not the Lot of Not the Nine O'Clock News
Air Date: September 23, 1980
6 - Not the Nine O'Clock News Christmas
Air Date: December 30, 1980
7 - Not Another Not the Nine O'Clock News
Air Date: October 9, 1981
8 - An Eighth Chance to See Not the Nine O'Clock News
Air Date: October 16, 1981
9 - Last of the Summer Repeats
Air Date: October 23, 1981
10 - Not the World Cup
Air Date: June 19, 1983
11 - Not the Nine O'Clock News (1)
Air Date: September 7, 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
12 - Not the Nine O'Clock News (2)
Air Date: September 14, 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.
13 - Not the Nine O'Clock News (3)
Air Date: September 28, 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.
14 - NOT 1
Air Date: October 27, 1995
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
15 - NOT 2
Air Date: November 3, 1995
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
16 - NOT 3
Air Date: November 10, 1995
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
17 - NOT 4
Air Date: November 17, 1995
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
18 - NOT 5
Air Date: November 24, 1995
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
19 - NOT 6
Air Date: December 1, 1995
Episode 6 of the best-of collection of Not the 9 O'Clock News. Sketches include: Sex Shop / I Like Trucking
20 - NOT 7
Air Date: December 8, 1995
Episode 7 of the best-of collection of Not the 9 O'Clock News. Sketches include: Silly trousers / Licence fee
21 - NOT 8
Air Date: December 15, 1995
Episode 8 of the best-of collection of Not the 9 O'Clock News. Sketches include:
22 - The Not the Nine O'Clock News Story
Air Date: July 17, 1999
23 - Not Again: Not the Nine O'Clock News
Air Date: December 28, 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