Rita Rudner

Louise Gold is listed as appearing in Episode 6 (the final episode of the series), recorded on 5 October 1990, broadcast on BBC2  20:30 to 21:00 on 23 October 1990.

 

Cast

 Star – Rita Rudner

Special Guest Star – Adrian Edmondson

Also appearing – Michael Fenton-Stevens, Lill Roughley, Philip Lowrie, Martin Bergman, Louise Gold, Sally Ann Triplett, and, Kevin Bishop

 

Production Team

 Directed by Kevin Bishop

Written by – Martin Bergman, and, Rita Rudner

Produced by Kevin Bishop

 

This particular episode had a running joke about the star Rita’s visa having expired, and took the form of a spoof campaign to have it renewed.

Louise Gold has also appeared in: Laugh I Nearly Paid My Licence Fee, Rachel And The Roarettes, City Lights, Alexei Sayle’s Merry-Go-Round, A Week In The West End, The Alan Clark Diaries, and, Transmission: Impossible With Ed And Oucho all on BBC 2.

Adrian Edmondson, Michael Fenton-Stevens, and, Louise Gold had previously worked as voice-artists on Spitting Image (of course Louise Gold was also employed as a puppeteer).

Adrian Edmonson’s recording credits include Utterly Utterly Live Comic Relief. His Stage and television credits include Comic Relif 1986.

Michael Fenton-Stevens’s recording credits include Spit In Your Ear.

Lill Roughley and Louise Gold had previously appeared in the same episode of Joint Account.

Sally Ann Triplett had previously appeared on stage in The Metropolitan Mikado. She has gone on to appear in Side by Side By Sondheim 25th Anniversary Gala, Happily Ever After, Side By Side By Sondheim 30th Anniversary Gala, and, A Love Letter To Dan. Her recording credits include Simply Musicals, Magic Of The Musicals, The Best Of The Musicals, and, 100 Hits Musicals. She may have previously taken part in Thing A Thon.

Philip Lowrie went on to appear on stage in The Taming Of The Shrew, and on television in Coronation Street.

 

Critics Comments

 

 

Links about Rita Rudner

The BBC Comedy Guide, page for the programme: http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/r/ritarudner_1299002663.shtml

Internet Movie Database page for the programme: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0098899/ and this particular episode: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0687006/

BBC Programme Catalogue page for the programme: http://open.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax/programme/LLVP796W 

TV.com’s page for the series: http://www.tv.com/rita-rudner/show/11073/episode_listings.html?tag=tabs;episodes

 

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