Date
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Details
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Friday
22 February 2008 (8.30pm)
BBC 1 |
The
Wurzels appeared on BBC1 sports quiz programme A
Question Of Sport (Episode #37.21) in the Guess The Celebrity
with Bristol And England rugby player Mark Regan.
View
this clip on YouTube.
|
September 2007
BBC 1 Local News |
A
new item on The Wurzels re-issuing One
For The Bristol City appeared on the local BBC West
news with Tommy and Pete filmed in the changing rooms with
the Bristol City team.
View
this clip on YouTube. |
7
May 2007 |
The
New Paul O'Grady Show
The
Wurzels appeared on The Paul O'Grady Show
on Bank Holiday Monday 7th May 2007, where they took part
in the 'Organ Game' (oo-er missus) with the presenters all
Wurzeled up with yokel hats.
[Robery
Tipping did put the clip on YouTube but they have since been
lost. All we have is this screen-grab.] |
Saturday 3 February 2007 (10.05pm)
BBC 2 |
T he
Comedy Map of Britain
(Season 1, Episode 2)
'A
animated tour of the UK accompanied by comedy heroes past
and present, retracing their steps to the places that inspired
their comic talents.'
Tommy
and Pete are interviewed in the Royal Oak in Nailsea interspersed
with archive footage of Adge Cutler & The Wurzels
singing Drink Up Thy Cider, Melanie
singing Brand New Key, and The Wurzels
singing Combine Harvester (TOTP footage),
Jonathan King singing Una Paloma Blanca,
The Wurzels singing I Am A Cider
Drinker (TOTP footage?). They are then filmed
at the site of Adge Cutler's fatal car accident - and almost
cause one themselves. Funny but sobering nevertheless.
Thanks
to tippingrobert who has posted
the clip on YouTube - see
it here. |
2006 |
InsideOut
West
An eight-minute Wurzels special on BBC Bristol's InsideOut
West programme to celebrate 40 years since Adge Cutler
formed The Wurzels, and 30 years since Combine
Harvester had topped the charts. Presented by
Tony Blackburn and with interviews with former
manager John Miles, current manager Sil
Wilcox, the chair of the Somerset YFA, a policeman
from Shepton Mallet who named his son 'Adge'.
Plenty
of archive footage clips including
- Adge
Cutler & The Wurzels playing live and being
recorded, presumable at the Royal Oak in Nailsea with Bob
Barrett on the desk
-
The Wurzels appearances on TOTP
singing Combine Harvester, and
Cider Drinker.
-
live footage of The Wurzels at the Pensford
Festival and the Bath & West Show
-
live footage of The Wurzels at the Yew
Tree Country Club (possibly the recording of the
Combine Harvester
LP)
- the
pop video The Wurzels produced for The
Shepton Mallet Matador.
The
programme finishes with Sil Wilcox explaining that the band
are re-issuing I Am A Cider Drinker
and looking for a celebrity to sing on the single. Tony, jokingly,
suggests himself...
View
this film on YouTube. |
25
July 2005
Channel 4 |
Big
Brother's Big Mouth
(aka Big Brother's Efourum) - Season 3, Episode 25
For its third series in May 2005, after covering Celebrity
Big Brother in the January of that year, "Big Brother's
Efourum" became "Big Brother's Big Mouth".
The format remained almost identical with the only major change
being a set update, namely the removal of the desk which guest
panelists sat behind in favor of raised seating platforms.
New features included "Textual Preference" where
the public were polled on various trivial topics associated
with the housemates and "Big Brother's Mouthpiece"
which was a 24 hour telephone answering service people used
to vent their spleen on the daily dramas in the house.
The
Wurzels were special guests, joining presenter Russell
Brand and guest panelists John McCririck, Normski and Johanna
Spiers. [source: IMDB] |
May
2005
Channel 5 |
The
Farm
Endemol Entertainment UK
UK
series featuring a cast of ex-celebrities joining together
on an English farm for a competitive series where each member
is voted out on a weekly basis by viewers of the show. Daily
duties include attending to realistic farm chores while one
member is appointed "manager" of the farm each week
by the person who is kicked off of the show by voters.
The
Wurzels are appeared in one episode on the second
series broadcast in May 2005, where they appeared to entertain
the in-mates with their version of Don't Look Back In
Anger (rather than being cast as ex-celebrities!) [original
source: IMDB].
According to Phil Gardner's Tele
Critic website "the second series of The Farm reached
its shuddering climax last night, with a show featuring Lionel
Blair, The Wurzels and a pig with a womb infection."
View
this film on YouTube. |
20
December 2004 |
Never
Mind the Buzzcocks (Season 15, Episode 7)
A
comedy trivia quiz based around pop music, hosted by Mark
Lamarr (to October 2006) with team captains Phil
Jupitus and Bill
Bailey who are joined each week by different
music stars. Popular rounds include one where team members
have to identify song intros hummed to them and another where
a bygone music star has to be picked out of a line-up of lookalikes.
On
the Christmas 2004 edition, The Wurzels were
drafted in to play all the music in the Intros Round, and
Bill Bailey stood and saluted them playing the intro to Combine
Harvester.
View
this clip on YouTube. |
2004?
BBC TV |
Ready
Steady Cook
Pete
and Tommy appeared on BBC TV cookery programme Ready Steady
Cook with Ainsley Harriott in 2004 (possibly 2003).
Synopsis:
Ainsley Harriott oversees a culinary duel with a distinctly
West Country flavour, as Pete Budd and Tommy Banner provide
ingredients for Phil Vickery and Tony Tobin to work their
culinary magic, including rib-eye steak, onions, Stilton and
potatoes.
View
this show on YouTube - part
1, part
2 and part
3 (full show edited into three 10-minute slots. Quality
not great.)
|
2004
BBC TV |
Bargain
Hunt
No
information about this, except that a clip was included on
the InsideOut West Wurzels Special
in 2007 of the band playing Cider Drinker with the
presenter David Dickinson singing along drinking cider. Presumably
that episode was filmed in the West Country. Predicable? Well
maybe... |
February
2003
ITV |
Ant
& Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
The
Wurzels appeared as special guests on the regular feature
on the show Jim Didn't Fix It For Me. George Allen,
a Wurzels fan from the audience was given the chance to meet
his heroes, after unsuccessfully having written to Jim'll
Fix It in the 1970s.
[Ed:
Years later is turned out that George Allen was not the Wurzels
fan he was meant to be! See Wurzelgate
news item from October 2007.] |
27
August 2002
BBC 1 |
BBC
Breakfast
The Wurzels appear as guests to promote the release of the
Don't Look Back in Anger single. |
Monday
11 June 2001
Channel 5 TV |
Open
House With Gloria Hunniford
The
Wurzels were featured as guests on Channel 5 TV's daytime
magazine programme Open House With Gloria Hunniford.
For the very first time, they performed the brand new 2001
"Cowshed" Remix version of The Combine Harvester
on the show. Gloria Hunniford interviewed Tommy
Banner and Pete Budd, and the lads took part in
a cooking demonstration with resident cookery expert Anne
Stirk.
The
show was recorded in the evening of Wednesday 6th June
and was broadcast on the following Monday. For further details
about the show, see the review
by Paul Gunningham. |
November
2000
BBC TV |
Points
West
The
Wurzels were featured in an item on BBC TV's local news
magazine programme Points West. The item centred on
the phenomenal success in the West Country of their current
CD The Finest 'Arvest Of The Wurzels, with
one record store manager claiming that it's outselling the
latest CD from the Spice Girls! What's more, the item
attributed the revival of the band's fortunes to none other
than your very own Wurzelmania! site. The main Wurzelmania!
page was even shown on TV - briefly, mind, but nonetheless
- fame at last! |
October
1999 |
Ambrosia
Advert II - In the Country
A
second Ambrosia Creamed Rice advertisement as seen
on British TV, again featuring Pete Budd's distinctive
tones. The advertisement features another parody of a Village
People song - this time it's In The Country
("Say Oo! Ah! for Am-bro-sia!") to the
music of In The Navy.
There
was a rumour that the two adverts might be released by The
Wurzels, subject to agreement by Ambrosia, but nothing has
come of this so far. You can however now see
the advert in full on YouTube. |
May
1999 |
TGI
Friday
The
Wurzels were sighted on Chris Evans' UK TV show
TGI Friday. They reportedly sang a few bars of Combine
Harvester. |
April
1999
Channel 4 |
Title
Unknown
The
Wurzels were featured in a look back at past No 1
hit singles. |
January
1999
Channel 5 |
Night
Fever
no
details! |
11
December 1998
Channel 4 |
Harry
Hill Show
The
Wurzels appeared as guests on the Harry Hill
Show on Channel 4, singing extracts from
songs on their latest album The Wurzels Sing Barbra
Streisand (according to Harry Hill, anyhow). Sensitive
renditions of Evergreen and A Woman
In Love were featured. They also appeared in a sketch
with Harry later on. |
November
1998 |
Ambrosia
Advert I - Go West
The
first of two adverts made for TV to advertise Ambrosia Creamed
Rice with a soundtrack featuring Pete Budd singing to the
music of the Village People (and later the Petshop Boys) hit
single Go West ("Oo! Ah!
It's Am-bro-sia!").
There
was a rumour that the two adverts might be released by The
Wurzels, subject to agreement by Ambrosia, but nothing has
come of this so far. You can however now see
the
advert in full
on YouTube. |
8
December 1995
BBC TV |
Coogan's
Run (Season 1, Episode 4)
The
Wurzels made a guest appearance in the episode Thursday
Night Fever of Steve Coogan's 1995 BBC TV
series. The Wurzels almost get to sing their
"comeback" hit I've Got A Brand New, Brand New
Combine Harvester! Highly amusing - if you find Steve
Coogan funny...
This
episode is available from the BBC on the video Coogan's
Run - The Final Hurdle (Cat. no. BBCV5968). Watch the
YouTube clip before decided whether it is worth adding to
your collection.
View
this clip on YouTube. |
31 August 1992
BBC TV |
Rock
Bottom
'A
deadpan comical look at the worst pop songs of all time with
the morose John Peel.'
The
worst pop songs - and in contrast, some archive footage of
The Wurzels performing I Am a
Cider Drinker. Interesting to note that
Jonathan King was also included on the list, the
man who made Una Paloma Blanca a hit (the source
for Cider Drinker!) |
1991
HTV West |
Adge
Cutler & The Wurzels
Director/Producer: Terry Miller
A
three-part documentary made and broadcast by HTV West
in 1991. This covered the story of The Wurzels from
the early days up to the present, and featured footage of
Adge and The Wurzels on stage (mainly from the
1974 Great Western Musical Thunderbox
- see below), plus interviews with Adge himself, other
members of The Wurzels, and others who knew him or
were involved with The Wurzels in those days, including
Adge's wife Yvonne, Bob Barratt, John Miles
and Acker Bilk.
Part
3 of this documentary featured a concert by The Wurzels
in Pill Memorial Hall, plus interviews with the members
of the band. |
1981
Yorkshire TV |
3-2-1
The
Wurzels appeared on this show in 1981, but we have no other
details. |
1981
BBC |
That's
Life
The
Wurzels appeared on this show in 1981 (one of a number of
appearances on the show over the years), but we have no other
details. |
22
May 1978
BBC TV |
Cheggers
Plays Pop
The
Wurzels and an un-named Old English Sheepdog performing
their 'minor hit' The
Tractor Song (a parody of The Pushbike
Song) on BBC's Cheggers Plays Pop -
driven into the studio by presenter Keith Chegwin
driving a battery-operated "tractor".
View
this clip on YouTube. |
1978
BBC TV
|
Cabaret
Showtime
The
Wurzels appeared on this show in 1978, but we have no other
details. |
1978
BBC TV |
That's
Life
The
Wurzels appeared on this show in 1978 (one of a number of
appearances on the show over the years), but we have no other
details. |
26
August 1978 BBC 1TV (8.10pm to 9.00pm) |
Seaside
Special
The
Wurzels appeared on this show in 1978. The show was centred
at the national 'Battle of the Flowers' in Jersey. The other
guests were Jackie Hall, Terry Wogan, Stuart Gillies, Black
Abbots, Tony Hatch & Jackie Trent, Bobby Bennett. |
1978
BBC TV |
Crackerjack
The
Wurzels appeared on this show in 1978, but we have no other
details. |
1978
BBC TV |
The
Basil Brush Show
The
Wurzels appeared on this show in 1978, but we have no other
details. |
5
November 1977
BBC 1 TV |
Multi-Coloured
Swap Shop (Season 2, Episode 4)
Incredibly
popular Saturday morning TV programme for kids with Noel Edmonds
and his team of Maggie Philbin, Keith Chegwin and John Craven.
The Wurzels made a return appearance as guests.
|
Thursday 9 June 1977
BBC 1 TV |
Top
Of The Pops
The BBC's rundown of the latest chart hits, featuring in-studio
performances from popular music artists. At its time, this
was the mainstay of the national singles charts, and an appearance
on TOTP was recognition of having 'made it' in the music business.
We
have four records of The Wurzels appearing on TOTP,
although there may well have been more. This appearance would
have been for Farmer Bill's Cowman,
and must have been a contrast to Bob Marley's
appearance on the same show! |
12
March 1977
BBC 1 TV |
Ronnie
Corbett's Saturday Special (Season 1, Episode 6)
The
Wurzels were guests on the show along with Tony
Monopoly [source: IMDB]. In Mervyn Hancock's book
Wurzels World, Pete Budd recalls "he wanted
us to appear on quite a lavish set, down some stairs and then
sing The Blackbird Song". Pete had forgotten how the
song started, but the entrance took so long that he had remembered
it again by the time they got ot the mic. No miming here! |
25
December 1976
BBC 1 TV |
Top
Of The Pops Christmas Edition
The BBC's rundown of the latest chart hits, featuring in-studio
performances from popular music artists. At its time, this
was the mainstay of the national singles charts, and an appearance
on TOTP was recognition of having 'made it' in the music business.
We
have four records of The Wurzels appearing on
TOTP, although there may well have been more. An appearance
on The Christmas Show was the ultimate accolade, with millions
of people watching over their turkey and Christmas pud. As
this was a recap of the best sellers of the year, The Wurzels
would most probably have played Combine Harvester.
Other artists appearing on this show include Demis
Roussos, Sailor and Tina
Charles. |
1976
BBC 1 TV |
The
Ken Dodd Show
The
sleeve notes on the back of the 1977 Golden Delicious
album mentions that The Wurzels appeared on this show (either
in 1976 or maybe early 1977). We have no other details of
the performance at the present time. |
1976
BBC 1 TV |
Seaside
Special
The
sleeve notes on the back of the 1977 Golden Delicious
album mentions that The Wurzels appeared on this show (either
in 1976 or maybe early 1977). We have no other details of
the performance at the present time. |
1976
BBC 1 TV |
Pebble
Mill At One
The
sleeve notes on the back of the 1977 Golden Delicious
album mentions that The Wurzels appeared on this show (either
in 1976 or maybe early 1977). We have no other details of
the performance at the present time. |
1976
BBC 1 TV |
Blue
Peter
The
notes in 1977 The Wurzels Songbook mentions that
The Wurzels appeared on this show (either in 1976 or maybe
early 1977). We have no other details of the performance at
the present time. |
1976 |
Saturday
Scene
The
sleeve notes on the back of the 1977 Golden Delicious
album mentions that The Wurzels appeared on this show (either
in 1976 or maybe early 1977). We have no other details of
the performance at the present time. |
1976
HTV West |
The
Mighty Wurzels In The Heart Of The West (recorded
20/12/1976)
Producer: Derek Clarke
Designer: Ken Jones
On-screen Participant: Ruby Flipper
The
Wurzels perform some of their best-known songs in front of
an audience, in a studio in Bristol designed to look like
a pub. Included in the set are "I Am A Cider Drinker",
"The Blackbird Song" and "I've Got A Brand
New Combine Harvester". Interspersed with the studio
footage are sequences featuring the band pursuing - in a style
akin to that of Benny Hill - a young woman through various
locations in Bristol.
The
BFI Website Archive lists Pete Haile as 'drummer'. Was he
a stand-in drummer for the band, or some other itinerant drummer
filmed wandering around Bristol at the time. I am hoping that
we have tracked down Ruby Flipper, presumably the afore-mentioned
'young woman'. |
13
November 1976
BBC 1 TV |
Multi-Coloured
Swap Shop (Season 1, Episode 7)
Incredibly
popular Saturday morning TV programme for kids with Noel Edmonds
and his team of Maggie Philbin, Keith Chegwin and John Craven.
The Wurzels were special guests. |
Autumn
1976 |
The
Arrows Show
The
Wurzels perform their hit single I Am
A Cider Drinker on an episode of the Seventies
pop music series The Arrows Show. The series was
a showcase for the pop band The Arrows -
and their guests - giving them chance to air their songs before
a crowd of screaming teenage fans.
As
the programme showcased current pop, we can date this appearance
to autumn 1976 (probably in September) when Cider Drinker
was in the charts. The introduction is done by Arrows band
members Terry Taylor (guitarist) and the group's 'chronically
eccentric' singer Alan Merrill.
View
this clip on YouTube.
|
Thursday
23 September 1976
BBC 1 TV |
Top
Of The Pops
The BBC's rundown of the latest chart hits, featuring in-studio
performances from popular music artists. At its time, this
was the mainstay of the national singles charts, and an appearance
on TOTP was recognition of having 'made it' in the music business.
With
I Am A Cider Drinker reaching #3
in the charts, The Wurzels made a second appearance
on TOTP singing
I Am A Cider Drinker introduced by Tony
Blackburn. In actual fact, no second appearance took
place - the Beeb simply re-ran the film of their appearance
from the 9th September!
View
this clip on YouTube.
|
Thursday 9 September 1976
BBC 1 TV |
Top
Of The Pops
The BBC's rundown of the
latest chart hits, featuring in-studio performances from popular
music artists. At its time, this was the mainstay of the national
singles charts, and an appearance on TOTP was recognition
of having 'made it' in the music business.
The
Wurzels appeared on TOTP twice to promote I
Am A Cider Drinker. This first one introduced
by Sir Jimmy Saville as a 'new release' with
the single not hitting the charts until the week afterwards.
View
this clip on YouTube.
[Note: this clip came from BBC TV UK Gold re-runs channel]. |
Thursday
24 June 1976
BBC 1 TV |
Top
Of The Pops
With
Combine Harvester still at Number
1 in the singles chart, The Wurzels would
have once again appeared in pride of place on this week's
show (or again, perhaps a re-running of the film of their
appearance from 27th May or the week before). |
Thursday
17 June 1976
BBC 1 TV |
Top
Of The Pops
Two
weeks later, with Combine Harvester
hitting Number 1 in the singles chart, The Wurzels
would have appeared in pride of place on this week's show
(or at least a re-running of the film of their appearance
from 27th May!). |
Thursday 27 May 1976
BBC 1 TV |
Top
Of The Pops
The BBC's rundown of the latest chart hits, featuring in-studio
performances from popular music artists. At its time, this
was the mainstay of the national singles charts, and an appearance
on TOTP was recognition of having 'made it' in the music business.
This
was the earliest record of The Wurzels appearing
on TOTP, and was for Combine
Harvester hitting the top 30 (at #14).
View
this clip on YouTube. |
early
1974
HTV |
The
Great Western Musical Thunderbox
Described
as a 'hay bales and banjo orgy' (!), this HTV series showcased
a range of folk and Scrumpy and Western bands on which Adge
Cutler & The Wurzels made at least one appearance,
and probably more - as did Fred Wedlock,
and Steve Ashley (Albion Band).
No
details available, but footage has been used in later programmes
about Adge and The Wurzels (see above). |
1973
BBC Radio 2 |
Folk
73
Folk
73 was a weekly show which was broadcast on Wednesday
evenings on Radio 2 showcasing folk bands from around the
country, produced by Denis O'Keefe. This episode featured
a 30 minute set of Adge Cutler & The Wurzels recorded
live at the BBC. Adge is top form with some excellent banter
with the audience. Interestingly, this is the only recording
of Adge performing Who Needs Summer
(which was later released by The Wurzels) and End
Of My Old Cigar which was never recorded by
the band.
Set
list: Easton-In-Gordano,
Poor Poor Farmer, Champion Dung
Spreader, All Over Mendip,
Who Needs Summer, End
Of My Old Cigar, Thee's Got'n Where Thee
Cassn't Back'n Hassn't?, Drink Up Thy
Cider. |
1966
or 1967?
BBC |
Dee Time
Adge
Cutler & The Wurzels made an appearance on former BBC
Radio 1 DJ Simon Dee's television chat show. |
1966
or 1967? |
Pop
North, Monday Monday, Joe
Loss Show, Pop Inn,
Points West, Today,
Scene and The Countryside Today
The
Family Album sleeve notes lists all these TV shows
as having broadcast either a performance or an appearance
by Adge Cutler & The Wurzels.
|
1966
or 1967?
BBC? |
Police
Five
Police
Five was a local forerunner of Crimewatch; broadcast
in the West Country. The Wurzels were featured on one programme
when all the equipment (including Adge's Wurzel Stick!) was
stolen (from the Family Album sleeve notes). |
November
1966 |
The
Frost Report
There
is some confusion about this. Bandied about the web is the
statement that Adge Cutler & The Wurzels made an appearance
on The David Frost Show - but as this was an American
show, it seems unlikely. What is more likely is that the band
were on The Frost Report (which ran from 1966 to
1967) "a live satirical show mixing monologues, sketches
and music" on the BBC. |
mid-1960s
TWW |
The
Cider Apple
Sleeve
notes from Adge Cutler & The Wurzels albums mention that
Adge made 'appearances' on the local ITV broadcaster Television
Wales and the West (TWW) series 'The Cider Apple'
which led to Adge's fame spreading, as a result of which he
formed The Wurzels. TWW broadcast from 1958 to 1968, but we
have no details of when Adge made his appearances - but they
must have been prior to 1966. |