Dinner for one.
Freddy Frinton & May Warden.
Dinner for oneThis would be the end of the story of a not very well remembered English comedian, were there not a surprising postscript. In 1963, Frinton's Dinner for One was recorded by the Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) German television station, and bizarrely, watching the unsubtitled English language sketch on television subsequently has become a German New Year's Eve tradition, with the short seeing multiple repeats every year from 1972 onwards.[4][5] The role of Miss Sophie was played by May Warden.
The television cult also caught on in Scandinavia and Dinner for One has been a hugely popular permanent, mandatory institution on Danish, Finnish and Swedish television on New Year's Eve for many years, as well in Belgium in the original version. It became so popular that a Dutch version was made with the Dutch actor Joop Doderer for Dutch viewers. It is also shown every 23 December on the Norwegian television, (NRK) and has been shown on the Australian SBS television network on New Year's Eve for at least the last fifteen years. Interestingly the programme and its main actor Frinton are far less well known in Britain than in any of these countries.
Ironically for an actor whose roles often comprised playing a drunk, Frinton was a teetotaller, having seen in others the damage that alcohol could do.
If you've never seen this before, you will piss yourself!
Freddy Frinton & May Warden.
Dinner for oneThis would be the end of the story of a not very well remembered English comedian, were there not a surprising postscript. In 1963, Frinton's Dinner for One was recorded by the Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) German television station, and bizarrely, watching the unsubtitled English language sketch on television subsequently has become a German New Year's Eve tradition, with the short seeing multiple repeats every year from 1972 onwards.[4][5] The role of Miss Sophie was played by May Warden.
The television cult also caught on in Scandinavia and Dinner for One has been a hugely popular permanent, mandatory institution on Danish, Finnish and Swedish television on New Year's Eve for many years, as well in Belgium in the original version. It became so popular that a Dutch version was made with the Dutch actor Joop Doderer for Dutch viewers. It is also shown every 23 December on the Norwegian television, (NRK) and has been shown on the Australian SBS television network on New Year's Eve for at least the last fifteen years. Interestingly the programme and its main actor Frinton are far less well known in Britain than in any of these countries.
Ironically for an actor whose roles often comprised playing a drunk, Frinton was a teetotaller, having seen in others the damage that alcohol could do.
If you've never seen this before, you will piss yourself!
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