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| The Mary Whitehouse Experience | |
|---|---|
| Created by | Bill Dare |
| Starring | David Baddiel Rob Newman Steve Punt Hugh Dennis |
| Opening theme | Jack to the Sound of the Underground by Hithouse |
| Composers | Peter Slaghuis, Simon Brint |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of episodes | 44 |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | William Sargent Joanna Beresford |
| Producers | Marcus Mortimer, Armando Iannucci |
| Running time | 30 mins |
| Production companies | BBC, Spitting Image Productions |
| Original release | |
| Network | BBC Radio 1 (March 1989-December 1990), BBC2 |
| Release | 3 October 1990 – 6 April 1992 |
| Related | |
| The Imaginatively Titled Punt & Dennis Show Newman and Baddiel in Pieces | |
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The Mary Whitehouse Experience is a British topical sketch comedy show that the BBC produced in association with Spitting Image Productions. It starred two comedy double acts, one being David Baddiel and Rob Newman, the other Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis.[1] All four comedians had graduated from Cambridge University. It was broadcast on both radio and television in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
The show was named after Mary Whitehouse, a campaigner against what she saw as a decline in television standards and public morality. She became the target of mockery in the UK for her attitudes. The BBC feared Whitehouse would initiate litigation for the use of her name in the show's title,[2] and for a period the alternative title The William Rees-Mogg Experience was considered.[3]
- ^ "BBC - Comedy Guide - The Mary Whitehouse Experience". 1 January 2005. Archived from the original on 1 January 2005.
- ^ "SOTCAA article on The Mary Whitehouse Experience". Archived from the original on 10 February 2005. Retrieved 25 July 2009.
- ^ "radiohaha -- The Mary Whitehouse Experience". Angelfire. Retrieved 29 August 2015.