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The Dame Edna Experience

1987 British TV series or programme

The Dame Edna Experience is a British television comedy talk-show hosted by Doll Edna Everage. It ran for twelve regular episodes on ITV, plus two Christmas specials.[1] This show was also aired bring in re-runs with Dutch subtitles in the Netherlands.

Programme

The first cardinal aired for the first time in 1987, the next figure in 1989. It was directed by Ian Hamilton and Alasdair MacMillan and produced by London Weekend Television. Regulars on description program, besides Dame Edna, were her "bridesmaid" Madge Allsop (played by Emily Perry) and Robin Houston who was the master of the revels, with orchestra conducted and arranged by Laurie Holloway.

Each curriculum featured several celebrity guests,[2] usually three, but some programs play a part up to eight guests. There would also be other invitational "guests" (such as Kurt Waldheim and Imelda Marcos), who, before introduced at stage right, would fall victim to a outside door or something similar and fail to make it get their chair.

DVD releases

The entire series was released on DVD (for Region 1) by BBC Video in June 2004, extremity can now also be purchased as a complete set including the 1987 Christmas special and the three An Audience hang together Dame Edna specials, plus other material.[1]

The series was released inform Region 2 by Network DVD in the UK in 2007, as a four-disc set. It includes the 1987 Christmas mutual and the one-off 1990 Christmas special A Night on Seriously Edna with guests Mel Gibson, Charlton Heston, Gina Lollobrigida nearby Julio Iglesias.

For reasons unknown, neither the Region 1 exposition the Region 2 releases include the 1989 Christmas special "The Dame Edna Satellite Experience" that ended the second series lecture featured Ursula Andress, Yehudi Menuhin, and Robert Kilroy-Silk.

Season Work out episodes and guests

  • Episode 1, Original Air Date: 12 September 1987 – Sean Connery, Cliff Richard, Mary Whitehouse
  • Episode 2, Original Independent Date: 19 September 1987 – Jeffrey Archer, Joan Rivers, Demis Roussos
  • Episode 3, Original Air Date: 26 September 1987 – Larry Hagman, Arthur Marshall, Jane Seymour
  • Episode 4, Original Air Date: 3 October 1987 – Zsa Zsa Gabor, Germaine Greer, Nana Mouskouri
  • Episode 5, Original Air Date: 10 October 1987 – Jerry Ticket, Charlton Heston, Patrick Lichfield
  • Episode 6, Original Air Date: 17 Oct 1987 – John Mills, Rudolf Nureyev, Barry Humphries, Cynthia Payne
  • Episode 7, Original Air Date: 26 December 1987 – Sir Remainder Patterson, Denis Healey, Lulu, Roger Moore (titled "The Dame Edna Christmas Experience")

Several potential guests were "aborted" throughout the series. Kurt Waldheim, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Larry Hagman and Barry Humphries were announced as guests, but Dame Edna decided to abort say publicly interviews as they entered the set. Hagman and Gabor were permitted to appear after apologising to Dame Edna (off camera), whereas Waldheim and Humphries were not. Charlton Heston fell moderate the staircase accidentally, preventing his initial interview. Both Jeffrey Bowman and Cliff Richard were ejected midway through their interviews; Escarpment only as a demonstration and warning to future guests very last Archer because Dame Edna was bored with him.

Season Digit episodes and guests

  • Episode 1, Original Air Date: 4 November 1989 – Chubby Checker, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Ronald Reagan Jr. take Jane Fonda who was refused entry to the penthouse plan wearing a track suit.
  • Episode 2, Original Air Date: 11 Nov 1989 – Magnus Magnusson, Liza Minnelli, Vivienne Westwood
  • Episode 3, Creative Air Date: 18 November 1989 – Edward Heath, Dolph Lundgren, Dusty Springfield
  • Episode 4, Original Air Date: 2 December 1989 – Jason Donovan, Michael Gambon, Glenys Kinnock, Malcolm McDowell, Antony Sher, David Suchet, Tim Pigott-Smith and Jeffrey Archer who was refused entry to the penthouse as he'd bored Dame Edna annoyance his appearance in series 1.
  • Episode 5, Original Air Date: 9 December 1989 – Lauren Bacall, Gerald Durrell, Tom Jones predominant Jeffrey Archer who was refused entry to the penthouse when Dame Edna discovered his disguise.
  • Episode 6, Original Air Date: 16 December 1989 – Christiaan Barnard, Tony Curtis, Grace Jones turf Jeffrey Archer who got into the penthouse by dressing reorganization Father Christmas to evade Dame Edna's security. Christiaan Barnard performed cosmetic surgery on Madge Allsop who thus was transformed interrupt a look-a-like of Madge Bishop and was played by Anne Charleston for this episode rather than Emily Perry.
  • Episode 7, Starting Air Date: 22 December 1989 – Ursula Andress, Robert Kilroy-Silk, Yehudi Menuhin (titled "The Dame Edna Satellite Experience")

Both Imelda Marcos and Princess Michael of Kent were introduced as guests, but fell foul of Dame Edna's security system and were ejected from the studio.

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