I watched At Last the 1948 Show, it was an amusing enough program for a sketch comedy and it is of some interest to fans of Monty Python's Flying Circus and The Goodies since John Cleese and Graham Chapman worked on this show prior Monty Python's Flying Circus ( with a couple of guest appearences by Eric Idle ) and Tim Brooke-Taylor was also a cast member ( and it had a couple of guest appearances from Bill Oddie ).
Like all sketch comedies it had it's good and bad points, I was slightly supprised to discover a couple of well known Monty Python sketches actually originated here although I guess they were probably written by Cleese and Chapman so that made it their material to use ( or re-use as they saw fit ).
Rounding out the cast was Marty Feldman and "The lovely Aimi Macdonald".
I rather enjoyed the At Last the 1948 Show and like Do Not Adjust Your Set it featured some of the early work of the Pythons before the arrival of the Monty Python juggernaut.
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