The Frost Report

The Frost Report
Opening title from series one
Genre	Comedy
Written by	Graham Chapman Marty Feldman John Law
Presented by	David Frost
Starring	Ronnie Corbett Ronnie Barker John Cleese Sheila Steafel Nicky Henson Julie Felix Tom Lehrer
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language(s)	English
No. of series	2
No. of episodes	26 (plus 2 specials)
Production
Producer(s)	James Gilbert
Running time	30 minutes
Release
Original network	BBC1
Original release	10 March 1966 – 26 December 1967

The Frost Report was a satirical television show hosted by David Frost. It ran for 28 episodes on the BBC from 10 March 1966 to 26 December 1967. It introduced John Cleese, Ronnie Barker, and Ronnie Corbett to television, and launched the careers of other writers and performers.

The series was made at the Associated Rediffusion studios at Wembley Park, north-west London.

The main cast were Frost, Corbett, Cleese, Barker, Sheila Steafel, and Nicky Henson. Musical interludes were provided by Julie Felix, while Tom Lehrer also performed songs in a few episodes.

Writers and performers on The Frost Report later worked on many other television shows. They included Bill Oddie and Tim Brooke-Taylor (of Goodies), Barry Cryer, Ronnie Barker, Ronnie Corbett, Dick Vosburgh, Spike Mullins (who would write Corbett's Two Ronnies monologues), Antony Jay (Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister), and future Python members Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin. It was while working on The Frost Report that the future Pythons developed their writing style. The established comedy writer Marty Feldman, as well as the Frank Muir and Denis Norden partnership, were also contributors to the programme.