Before the Fringe was a BBC television series which ran for two series on BBC2 in 1967.[1]
The first series ran for eight episodes between 30 January and 20 March 1967.[2][3] The second series of six episodes ran between 18 September and 23 October 1967.[4][5]
Alan Melville was the guiding light behind this series which attempted to showcase on television some of the best aspects of pre-Before the Fringerevue.[3] Before the 1960s Cambridge Footlights graduates took it by storm, the medium had been a much more gentler, broader affair.
These two series of sketches were made up by performers who had been veterans of such shows. They included:
Mark Lewisohn, Radio Times Guide To TV Comedy, 2005 (ISBN0563487550)
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^Guide, British Comedy. "Before The Fringe - BBC2 Sketch Show". British Comedy Guide.
^"Broadcast - BBC Programme Index". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk.
^ ab. BFI. Archived from the original on 22 January 2021.
^"Broadcast - BBC Programme Index". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk.
^"Broadcast - BBC Programme Index". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk.
^. BFI. Archived from the original on 11 August 2021.
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