An egg-timer full of eggs. One by one, the eggs fall and break. This curious sequence opened 'After That, This' week after week; it set the tone for what followed. More whimsical than satirical, the sketches tried to ape 'Python' slightly by dispensing with punchlines. N. F. Simpson was also a major influence.
In one, Bron disrupts a dinner party by acting like a cat. In another, Bird finds Bron dying of thirst in the desert and instead of going for help indulges in vacuous upper-class chit-chat. Another, told in the form of opera, has Bron's masseuse fretting that the client she has just made love to ( Fowlds ) might be her long-lost son. My favourite featured Bron as Fanny Cradock, playing at being a T. V. surgeon, with Bird as her inebriated husband Johnny. A sketch set on a plane has Bird unable to eat lunch because the man sitting next to him has died. In another, Bron and Fowlds play a married couple who have abstained from sex ( just in case the marriage does not work out ).
Bron co-wrote the show with John Fortune. The humour was more sophisticated than what else was on offer at the time, and everyone played their parts brilliantly, particularly Bron herself, whose breathtaking talent for detailed comic characterisations was never used to better effect than here. Sadly, only two episodes survive in the archives.
In one, Bron disrupts a dinner party by acting like a cat. In another, Bird finds Bron dying of thirst in the desert and instead of going for help indulges in vacuous upper-class chit-chat. Another, told in the form of opera, has Bron's masseuse fretting that the client she has just made love to ( Fowlds ) might be her long-lost son. My favourite featured Bron as Fanny Cradock, playing at being a T. V. surgeon, with Bird as her inebriated husband Johnny. A sketch set on a plane has Bird unable to eat lunch because the man sitting next to him has died. In another, Bron and Fowlds play a married couple who have abstained from sex ( just in case the marriage does not work out ).
Bron co-wrote the show with John Fortune. The humour was more sophisticated than what else was on offer at the time, and everyone played their parts brilliantly, particularly Bron herself, whose breathtaking talent for detailed comic characterisations was never used to better effect than here. Sadly, only two episodes survive in the archives.
