Not The Nine O’Clock News on Heavyweight Vinyl Heavyweight Vinyl from Not The Nine O’Clock News is available for home delivery with Vinyl Records London, only £20 +P&P Not The Nine OClock News gave the world alternative comedy and made the media scene we have today. ndash Mark Lewisohn, Radio Times Guide to TV Comedy.Celebrating over 40 years since the groundbreaking comedy series arrived on BBC TV, Demon Records proudly presents Hedgehog Sandwich lovingly mastered on 180g heavyweight Hedgehog Splatter vinyl.Let the famous signature tune take you back to the heady days of 1979, when Labour gave way to the Conservatives, striking workers created the Winter of Discontent, and Not The Nine O Clock News inherited the BBC2 time slot vacated by Fawlty Towers. It quickly became a trailblazing smash hit, running for four series and making stars of Rowan Atkinson, Mel Smith, Pamela Stephenson and Griff RhysJones.Among the many famous, and muchloved, sketches included on the LPs are David Bloody Attenborough aka Gerald the Gorilla, Points of View, General Synod s Life of Python , Constable Savage, University Challenge, HiFi Shop, That s Lies, Not The Parrot Sketch, Open Marriage, Question Time, Game For A Laugh, Two Ninnies, McEnroe s Breakfast, What A Load of Willies, The Pope s Visit, Simon and Garfunkel and ndash yes ndash The Return of Constable Savage.Produced and devised by John Lloyd and Sean Hardie, Not The Nine O Clock News won a Silver Rose at the Montreux Festival and a BAFTA for Best Light Entertainment Programme. Its large writing team included such future luminaries of TV comedy as Richard Curtis, David Renwick, Andrew Marshall, Guy Jenkin, Laurie Rowley, John Lloyd and Andy Hamilton.Presented as a faithfully reproduced facsimile gatefolds, and remastered from the original tapes.