British Comedy Guide

The Spare Tyres (1967)

Odd short 30 min. film, which is not on the BCG database, and I don't know what to make of it really. Was it for TV or cinema release?

Starring Terence Alexander, the blurb on the IMDB states "Dennis and his wife move to a new house only to find two old tyres dumped in the garden. He spends the rest of the day trying to get rid of them."

The one reviewer on that site states "As I say it's a very funny short film and has me in hysterics!" - well all I can say is they are easily pleased as I found it seriously lacking in comedy.

Also had a very small part for Pauline Yates the one time "wife" of Reggie Perrin

Can find very little about this. The description sounds more like a commercial short, but it does seem to have been released in cinemas fairly normally as a supporting programme.

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