Something to Look Forward to - Excerpts

When I got into politics I had a plan, get yourself to the top as fast as you can, and once you get there it's perfectly simple, they'll never sack a man with a dazzling dimple...

– Robert Muldoon (David McPhail) sings an ode to himself

I recall the opening titles ended with a hydrogen bomb exploding and the programmes's name inserted across the mushroom cloud.

– David McPhail remembers Something to Look Forward to in his 2010 autobiography The Years Before My Death

Derek Payne and his crew of unlikely lads plum for a format that gives new twists. In a series of quick-fire sketches, they move from the ridiculous to the insane, usually firing above the belt, sometimes below.

– Listener writer Francis Parkin, 21 August 1976, page 14

For years, indigenous comedy on New Zealand television has been flickering on the fringes — bursting forth occasionally in variety shows or under the guise of current affairs... [The show] proves that New Zealand can slot itself somewhere into the international humour circuit and laugh at itself with some sophistication and style.

– Listener writer Francis Parkin, 21 August 1976, page 14

Of the 300 characters, McPhail plays 74, Payne 72, Marcus Craig 40 and Alistair Douglas 31

– Listener writer Francis Parkin, 21 August 1976, page 15