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McPhail & Gadsby - Best of Series Five
Television (Full Length) – 1983
This best of compilation from McPhail & Gadsby's 1983 season offers up a mixed bag of songs, political sketches, and even an extended pantomime — plus parodies of TV commercials long forgotten, but once known to legions of Kiwi viewers. Among the highlights: "pronouncing things proper", from trade unionist Jim Knox (Jon Gadsby); This Is Your Life, featuring David McPhail’s infamous caricature of Prime Minister Rob Muldoon; Lynn Waldegrave’s colourful impersonation of music show host Karyn Hay; and, hidden after the closing credits, a take-off of Kiwi television's old late night sign off, Goodnight Kiwi.
You had him banned in Bombay, purged in Peking, and muzzled in Melbourne. We've got him here tonight, the man you loved to hate.– This is Your Life host Eamon Andrews (Jon Gadsby) introduces Rob Muldoon's final guest (in clip four)
Key Cast & Crew
See all 44 credits
Music
Musical director and composer of original material: Murray Wood
Tags
- 1980s
- 1983
- abraham ordia
- advert
- aussie malcolm
- awards show
- bill birch
- bill rowling
- butter
- casper weinberger
- chocolate chippies
- cobbie cuddlers
- colin moyle
- commercials
- dams
- david frost
- david hartnell
- david lange
- defence secretary
- dole
- eamonn andrews
- eighties
- female politicians
- general finance
- goodnight kiwi
- ian shearer
- jim knox
- jim mclay
- john marshall
- karyn hay
- kiwi accent
- kiwi mal
- kiwi male
- kiwi male identity
- male identity
- marac
- marilyn waring
- mr men
- musical
- nappies
- new zealand humour
- nz dairy board
- pantomine
- peter mahon
- politicians
- politics
- pronunciation
- pub
- richard prebble
- rob muldoon
- satire
- scrum
- sketch comedy
- the waltons
- treasures
- unemployment
- video camera
- whetu tirikatene sullivan
- you and your child
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