The penultimate episode from the second series of 'Scotch & Wry'.
Supercop stops outside a pub where the sound of fighting can be heard. Hearing just how bad it is, he cowardly tries to make a run for it until the barman comes out and insists he go inside and stop the fighting. He reluctantly does. We then find out the fight was started by a Salvation Army woman who was trying to force the patrons to buy The War Cry.
A tour guide is showing two American tourists around Loch Ness whilst promising them a sighting of the famous monster. He gets his coach driver to swim in the water with a snorkel to pretend to be the monster. However, the real monster appears and eats the coach driver alive, much to the guide's horror.
Two gangsters nervously await news about their friend Billy, who has been picked up by the police. They worry whether or not Billy will talk. One of them assures the other that Billy has never talked a word in his life. Billy is then dropped off by the police, whereupon he is revealed to be a budgie!
A scruffy looking man shows an American tourist around his flat, claiming it to be the birthplace of Charles Dickens and that all the furniture once belonged to the famous author. The tourist offers a large sum of money for Dickens' writing chair, which the guide accepts. The moment the tourist leaves with the chair, the guide brings out from another room an identical chair!
A tramp ferrets through a bin at a bus stop whereupon he finds valuable jewels wrapped in a newspaper on which the headline reads 'Jeweller shop robbed by armed men'. Finding half a cigarette in the bin, the tramp happily takes it and casually throws the jewels back into the bin before walking off!
The Reverend I. M Jolly ends this edition by speaking of a disaster that struck during his last church sermon when the church organist suffered an accident, as well as remarking on the organist's ability to pump the organ: ''When she pumps, you truly know someone has pumped!". A gag best appreciated by Scottish viewers.
Another top notch edition from the second series of 'Scotch & Wry', even if a couple of the items are overlong. Some sketches from this edition were used a year later when BBC1 repeated highlights from the show under the title 'A Taste Of Scotch & Wry', screened just prior to the 1980 Hogmanay special.
Barbara Dickson sings in this edition 'Forgotten Time'.
Funniest sketch - the tramp finding the jewels in the bin. Sometimes just the simplest of gags are the best!
Supercop stops outside a pub where the sound of fighting can be heard. Hearing just how bad it is, he cowardly tries to make a run for it until the barman comes out and insists he go inside and stop the fighting. He reluctantly does. We then find out the fight was started by a Salvation Army woman who was trying to force the patrons to buy The War Cry.
A tour guide is showing two American tourists around Loch Ness whilst promising them a sighting of the famous monster. He gets his coach driver to swim in the water with a snorkel to pretend to be the monster. However, the real monster appears and eats the coach driver alive, much to the guide's horror.
Two gangsters nervously await news about their friend Billy, who has been picked up by the police. They worry whether or not Billy will talk. One of them assures the other that Billy has never talked a word in his life. Billy is then dropped off by the police, whereupon he is revealed to be a budgie!
A scruffy looking man shows an American tourist around his flat, claiming it to be the birthplace of Charles Dickens and that all the furniture once belonged to the famous author. The tourist offers a large sum of money for Dickens' writing chair, which the guide accepts. The moment the tourist leaves with the chair, the guide brings out from another room an identical chair!
A tramp ferrets through a bin at a bus stop whereupon he finds valuable jewels wrapped in a newspaper on which the headline reads 'Jeweller shop robbed by armed men'. Finding half a cigarette in the bin, the tramp happily takes it and casually throws the jewels back into the bin before walking off!
The Reverend I. M Jolly ends this edition by speaking of a disaster that struck during his last church sermon when the church organist suffered an accident, as well as remarking on the organist's ability to pump the organ: ''When she pumps, you truly know someone has pumped!". A gag best appreciated by Scottish viewers.
Another top notch edition from the second series of 'Scotch & Wry', even if a couple of the items are overlong. Some sketches from this edition were used a year later when BBC1 repeated highlights from the show under the title 'A Taste Of Scotch & Wry', screened just prior to the 1980 Hogmanay special.
Barbara Dickson sings in this edition 'Forgotten Time'.
Funniest sketch - the tramp finding the jewels in the bin. Sometimes just the simplest of gags are the best!