The Navy Lark Collection: Series 7: July - October 1965
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| Rating | : | 4.82 (905 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1408469049 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 1 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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Five Stars very good
This box set contains the episodes: Taking Some Liberties’, Smugglers in the Solent’, Mr Murray is Victimised’, The Poveys Move House’, Captain Povey Reports Sick’, Admiral Pertwee’s Fleet’, Let Loose with a Chopper’, Making a Right Pig’s Breakfast’, The Mysterious Pudding Mine’, The Hovercraft Training Course’, The Sabotaged Floggle-Toggle-Box’, The Potarneyland Training Exercise’ and Going On Leave to Croydon’. Also included in this collection is a 30-page PDF booklet containing a detailed history of the development of this series of The Navy Lark (and television’s HMS Paradise) cast biographies, an episode guide and Radio Times clippings. 7 hrs.. Bonus material includes The Route March’ episode from Series 2, the Overseas Service Broadcast episode Hitting the Ice Floe’ and ten Transcription Service introductions.7 CDs. All aboard HMS Troutbridge for Series Seven of The Navy Lark! This classic BBC radio comedy, written by Laurie Wyman (with George Evans from the twelfth series onwards) starred Jon Pertwee, Leslie Phillips, Stephen Murr
They duly obliged, and in the audience that night at the Royal Festival Hall was Her Royal Highness the Queen Mother. In 1958, writer Laurie Wyman announced that he wanted to build a series around talented comic actor Jon Pertwee. Its signature tune, composed by Tommy Reilly and James Moody, was the jaunty Trade Wind Hornpipe and did much to contribute to the popularity of the series. About the AuthorThe Navy Lark is the second longest-running comedy in British radio history (the topical Friday night show, Week Ending, which ran from 1970 to 1998, is currently the longest). Leslie Ph
The key to the show's popularity, though, was its irreverent but essentially gentle humor and, most of all, the many-voiced talents of its stars. The Navy Lark gripped the nation for the best part of twenty years. His parrot cry of 'left hand down a bit' has passed into A Dictionary of Catch Phrases, whose author Eric Partridge writes 'within two years, it was a standard p