Do Not Adjust Your Set
| Do not adjust your set! | |
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From left to right: David Jason, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Denise Coffey and Terry Jones. |
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| Starring |
Denise Coffey Eric Idle David Jason Terry Jones Michael Palin Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 27 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
Humphrey Barclay (series 1) Ian Davidson (series 2) |
| Running time | c.25 minutes (excluding commercials) |
| Distributor | Fremantle Media |
| Release | |
| Original network | ITV |
| Picture format | 4:3 |
| Original release | 26 December 1967 – 14 May 1969 |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | At Last the 1948 Show (1967 – 1968) |
Do Not Adjust Your Set! (DNAYS!) is a television series produced originally by Rediffusion, London, then, by the fledgling Thames Television for British commercial television channel ITV from 26 December 1967 to 14 May 1969. The show took its name from the message (frequently seen on the TV screen in those days) which was displayed when there was a problem with transmission.
It included early appearances of Denise Coffey, David Jason, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin; the last three became members of the Monty Python comedy troupe soon afterwards. Although originally conceived as a children's programme, it quickly acquired a following amongst many adults, including future Pythons John Cleese and Graham Chapman (as mentioned by Cleese himself in the "Paying my ex-wife" stage performance tour, October 2010).
The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band performed a song in each programme and Bob Kerr's Whoopee Band also appeared. The musicians frequently appeared as extras in sketches. The programme comprised a series of sketches, often bizarre and surreal, frequently satirical with a disjointed style which anticipate Monty Python's Flying Circus, which followed five months after the last episode of DNAYS. Strange animations between sketches were crafted in the final episodes by the then-unknown Terry Gilliam, who also graduated to Python – part of his "Christmas cards" animation reappeared there in the "Joy to the World" segment.
One long-running feature of the show was Captain Fantastic, featuring a parody superhero (Jason) in improbable, even macabre adventures against villainess Mrs. Black (Coffey). These segments were shot entirely on film, on location in London. In 1968, it won an international award, the Prix Jeunesse, in Munich.
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