The Many Faces Of...
- TV documentary
- BBC Two
- 2009 - 2016
- 14 episodes (3 series)
Comedy actors look back at their career, with archive footage and testimony from friends and colleagues. Features Sally Phillips.
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The Many Faces Of Dick Emery
Further details
This programme looks back at the career of Dick Emery, one of the giants of British character comedy who regularly pulled in audiences of 17 million.
For 17 years, The Dick Emery Show dominated Saturday night TV before Emery's untimely death in 1983 at the age of 67. Firmly rooted in the traditions of the Concert Party and Vaudeville, his characters and their catchphrases were legendary.
In this programme, his influence is acknowledged by current comedians such as David Walliams, Charlie Higson and David Baddiel.
With previously unseen footage and contributions from his family, contemporaries and those he worked with, The Many Faces Of Dick Emery takes a closer look at his career.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Monday 27th January 2014
- Time
- 9pm
- Channel
- BBC Two
- Length
- 60 minutes
Cast & crew
| Sally Phillips | Narrator |
| Louis Barfe | Self |
| Michael Grade | Self |
| Barry Cryer | Self |
| Matthew Sweet | Self |
| Jacki Piper | Self |
| Anita Harris | Self |
| David Walliams | Self |
| David Baddiel | Self |
| Josephine Tewson | Self |
| Charlie Higson | Self |
| Harold Snoad | Self |
| Bill Treacher | Self |
| Nick Emery | Self |
| Vicki Emery | Self |
| Fay Hillier | Self |
| Dick Emery | Self (Archive Material) |
| Charles Stuart | Director |
| Charles Stuart | Producer |
| Stephen Stewart | Executive Producer |
| Alan Tyler | Executive Producer |
| Berny McGurk | Editor |
| Steve Diamond | Editor |
Press
Seventeen million: the audience figure The Dick Emery Show regularly pulled in - and the number of years his Saturday TV show seemed to plough on for (just under two decades, in reality). Which likely explains why catchphrases such as "Ooh, you are awful ... but I like you!" (the first part also being the title of his ridiculously entertaining 1972 film) seem so indelibly carved into the comedy bedrock. Here, David Walliams and Charlie Higson reflect on this gifted mimic's appeal.
Ali Catterall, The Guardian, 27th January 2014