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Release Date: 1966   Duration: 25 min   Studio: BBC One

Cast: Ronnie Corbett, David Frost, John Cleese, Nicky Henson, Ronnie Barker

Welcome to The Frost Report guide at TV Tome. David Frost was the entrepreneur of British entertainment as the 1960s began. He had been trained at Cambridge University's famous Footlights Club,... MORE

Welcome to The Frost Report guide at TV Tome. David Frost was the entrepreneur of British entertainment as the 1960s began. He had been trained at Cambridge University's famous Footlights Club, where he performed material written by the emerging comedy team of Graham Chapman and John Cleese. In short order, Frost cultivated some of the emerging wits for his short-lived BBC series That Was the Week That Was, produced by Ned Sherrin. Frost had a television contract with Westinghouse, in which he hoped to break British humor in the United States. After a short-lived U.S. edition of That Was the Week That Was ran on NBC, Frost returned to the BBC with a splendid satire-and-sketch series called The Frost Report. The writing staff chosen for The Frost Report (see below) were, in many ways, the finest comedic minds of the 1960s United Kingdom. Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Frank Muir, Barry Cryer, and Dick Vosburgh would go on to performing careers of their own, as would a LESS