Help me remember this tv programme! Ferdinand de Bargo or de Bargos or something might not even have been Ferdinand...

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Help, I vaguely remember this programme from when I was nine or ten, nobody I've spoken to knows anything whatsoever about it.

I think it was made up of black and white clips with humorous dubbing played over them though there may have been more to it than this.

Anyone?

― Rumpington Lane, Tuesday, 22 February 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

yes, the staggering adventures of ferdinand de wotsit. i remember no more. i will investigate.

― Pete W (peterw), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

The Staggering Stories Of Ferdinand De Bargos
UK, BBC, Satire, 1 x b/w · 23 x colour, 1989
Starring: Enn Reitel, Jon Glover, Jim Broadbent

A consistently fine series that derived good mileage from its one stock idea: to take archive footage (mostly documentary) and overdub it with comic dialogue performed by gifted voice artists. These short and relatively inexpensive programmes provided many good laughs and were strongly satirical in tone, often commenting on current affairs and royal matters.

― Pete W (peterw), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)

Hurrah Pete! I thank you deeply.

― Rumpy Pumpkin, Tuesday, 22 February 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

You could have done an ILE search! If only to prove that I remember it too...

(you can download episodes from UKnova, I think)

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

When I searched on this I got hit with all sorts of Franz Ferdinand pish...

― Rumpington Lane, Wednesday, 23 February 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

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