Where Was Spring?
Where Was Spring? is a British television sketch comedy programme, which was first aired by the BBC in 1969-70.
The cast consisted of Eleanor Bron and John Fortune, two lesser known stalwarts of the British Satire scene in the 1960s. The show consisted of a series of two-handed sketches performed by Bron and Fortune, mostly playing married or romantic couples though often not seen romantically.
The style may have taken after the Stateside duologues of Elaine May and Mike Nichols though in a very middle-class English accent at which both the British performers are very adept.
The sketches were performed in bare studio sets which somehow reinforced the sophisticated approach to relationships of the writing.
One distinctive feature of the show's style was that shown between the sketches (as punctuation, there being no presenter or music interlude) were stylised photos of the performers dressed as Graeco-Roman Gods (Jupiter/Venus), perhaps illustrating the perfection or imperfection of classic male-female relationships.
Recordings of the show are believed to have been wiped by the BBC due to the expense of video tape.
Many of the sketches were reproduced in a book Is Your Marriage Really Necessary? by Eleanor Bron and John Fortune (hardcover with illustrating photographs, Oct 1972).
