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Bootsie and Snudge
GenreComedy
Created byMarty Feldman
Barry Took
StarringAlfie Bass
Bill Fraser
Clive Dunn
Robert Dorning
Country of origin United Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons4
No. of episodes104
Production
Running time30 minutes
Production companyGranada Television
Original release
NetworkITV
Release23 September, 1960 –
20 November, 1974

Bootsie and Snudge was a UK television series written by Barry Took and Marty Feldman, also known for the BBC radio series Round the Horne. It featured Clive Dunn, more famous as Corporal Jones in Dad's Army as well as Alfie Bass and Bill Fraser and was a follow on from The Army Game. It centred around a gentlemen's club called the Imperial Club. 104 half-hour episodes were made, being broadcast from 1960 to 1974.

The traditional gentlemen's club in Britain has long been used for comedic purposes in films, usually because of the eccentric characters with whom it can be populated, and the arcane rules. The rule of absolute silence in the reading room, notwithstanding several old men snoring under copies of The Times, is a common feature of such comedy. Memorable moments include Kenneth Connor, in the film Carry On Regardless, being forced to mime "Your flies are open" to one of the members.

In the Imperial Club Bootsie and Snudge resumed their roles of snivelling skiver and bullying sergeant, with contributions from the ancient and always-bumbling dogsbody, Johnson (Clive Dunn), all under the tyrannical eye of the "Hon. Sec.", the club secretary played by Robert Dorning. The Hon. Sec.'s way of dealing with arguments was to drown out the opposition with repetitions of "Tup! Tup!", rising in volume until the other party stopped trying. Thus Bootsie's name for the character was "Ol' Tuptup".

In the early 1960s, the show was adapted into a successful strip cartoon in the British comic TV Comic.

Episodes

Series One (1960–61)

  1. Episode 1 (23 Sep 60)
  2. Episode 2 (30 Sep 60)
  3. Episode 3 (7 Oct 60)
  4. Episode 4 (14 Oct 60)
  5. Episode 5 (21 Oct 60)
  6. Episode 6 (28 Oct 60)
  7. Episode 7 (4 Nov 60)
  8. Episode 8 (11 Nov 60)
  9. Episode 9 (18 Nov 60)
  10. Episode 10 (25 Nov 60)
  11. Episode 11 (2 Dec 60)
  12. Episode 12 (9 Dec 60)
  13. Episode 13 (16 Dec 60)
  14. Episode 14 (23 Dec 60)
  15. Episode 15 (30 Dec 60)
  16. Episode 16 (6 Jan 61)
  17. Episode 17 (13 Jan 61)
  18. Episode 18 (20 Jan 61)
  19. Episode 19 (27 Jan 61)
  20. Episode 20 (3 Feb 61)
  21. Episode 21 (10 Feb 61)
  22. Episode 22 (17 Feb 61)
  23. Episode 23 (24 Feb 61)
  24. Episode 24 (3 Mar 61)
  25. Episode 25 (10 Mar 61)
  26. Episode 26 (17 Mar 61)
  27. Episode 27 (24 Mar 61)
  28. Episode 28 (31 Mar 61)
  29. Episode 29 (7 Apr 61)
  30. Episode 30 (14 Apr 61)
  31. Episode 31 (21 Apr 61)
  32. Episode 32 (28 Apr 61)
  33. Episode 33 (5 May 61)
  34. Episode 34 (12 May 61)
  35. Episode 35 (19 May 61)
  36. Episode 36 (26 May 61)
  37. Episode 37 (2 Jun 61)
  38. Episode 38 (9 Jun 61)
  39. Episode 39 (16 Jun 61)
  40. Episode 40 (23 Jun 61)

Series Two (1961–62)

  1. Episode 1 (27 Oct 61)
  2. Episode 2 (3 Nov 61)
  3. Episode 3 (10 Nov 61)
  4. Episode 4 (17 Nov 61)
  5. Episode 5 (24 Nov 61)
  6. Episode 6 (1 Dec 61)
  7. Episode 7 (8 Dec 61)
  8. Episode 8 (15 Dec 61)
  9. Episode 9 (22 Dec 61)
  10. Episode 10 (29 Dec 61)
  11. Episode 11 (5 Jan 62)
  12. Episode 12 (12 Jan 62)
  13. Episode 13 (19 Jan 62)
  14. Episode 14 (26 Jan 62)
  15. Episode 15 (2 Feb 62)
  16. Episode 16 (9 Feb 62)
  17. Episode 17 (16 Feb 62)
  18. Episode 18 (23 Feb 62)
  19. Episode 19 (1 Mar 62)
  20. Episode 20 (8 Mar 62)
  21. Episode 21 (15 Mar 62)
  22. Episode 22 (22 Mar 62)
  23. Episode 23 (29 Mar 62)
  24. Episode 24 (5 Apr 62)
  25. Episode 25 (12 Apr 62)
  26. Episode 26 (19 Apr 62)
  27. Episode 27 (26 Apr 62)
  28. Episode 28 (4 May 62)
  29. Episode 29 (11 May 62)

Series Three (1962–63)

  1. Episode 1 (8 Nov 62)
  2. Episode 2 (15 Nov 62)
  3. Episode 3 (22 Nov 62)
  4. Episode 4 (29 Nov 62)
  5. Episode 5 (6 Dec 62)
  6. Episode 6 (13 Dec 62)
  7. Episode 7 (20 Dec 62)
  8. Episode 8 (27 Dec 62)
  9. Episode 9 (3 Jan 63)
  10. Episode 10 (10 Jan 63)
  11. Episode 11 (17 Jan 63)
  12. Episode 12 (24 Jan 63)
  13. Episode 13 (31 Jan 63)
  14. Episode 14 (7 Feb 63)
  15. Episode 15 (14 Feb 63)
  16. Episode 16 (21 Feb 63)
  17. Episode 17 (28 Feb 63)
  18. Episode 18 (7 Mar 63)
  19. Episode 19 (14 Mar 63)
  20. Episode 20 (21 Mar 63)
  21. Episode 21 (28 Mar 63)
  22. Episode 22 (4 Apr 63)
  23. Episode 23 (11 Apr 63)
  24. Episode 24 (18 Apr 63)
  25. Episode 25 (25 Apr 63)
  26. Episode 26 (2 May 63)
  27. Episode 27 (9 May 63)
  28. Episode 28 (16 May 63)
  29. Episode 29 (23 May 63)

Series Four (1974)

  1. Episode 1 (16 Oct 74)
  2. Episode 2 (23 Oct 74)
  3. Episode 3 (30 Oct 74)
  4. Episode 4 (6 Nov 74)
  5. Episode 5 (13 Nov 74)
  6. Episode 6 (20 Nov 74)


DVD Release

An episode of Bootsie & Snudge was released on "The Army Game Vol. 2" DVD and again on "The Army Game Collection". "Bootsie & Snudge - The Complete Series 1" is due on 21st September 2009 from Network.

Bootsie and Snudge at IMDb


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