Naked Video (TV Series) Episode #1.1 (1986) User Reviews

It's a grand start. A time when The BBC used to make us laugh.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 8/10 · 1 August 2023]

This show went way over my head as a youngster, I remember watching some of it with my sister, probably the later years, but I never found it funny. Rewatching it now, I can understand why, it's quite high brow humour, very topical, definitely political, with lots of jokes fitting the political climate of the time.

I'm a little surprised that The BBC is showing this right now, especially when they take a fee digs at The Corporation. Rab C Nesbitt bemoans the lack of sitcoms......pretty accurate.

I had all but forgotten that this was where Rab C Nesbitt came from, I think that was my favourite moment from this first episode, a very funny sequence, even if I didn't grasp some of it. It's prompted me to order the DVD box set, that's a show I used to love.

Loved the scene of the yuppy men dancing around their briefcases, that was fun.

Elaine C Smith, Helen Lederer, Gregor Fisher and more, there's a lot here to love.

8/10.

Episode 1

[Prismark10 · 6/10 · 1 August 2023]

Naked Video was a quick fire sketch show from BBC Scotland. It ran for five years.

It managed to spawn two spin off series. Rab C Nesbitt which ran on and off until 2014. The Baldy Man which was less successful on ITV.

Looking back at the first episode, it was notable how political this series was. There were sketches on the impending privatisation of water and sewage. Reference to the Greenhouse Effect. A savage put down on Mrs Thatcher's Tory government. She was never popular in Scotland.

The nature of rapid fire sketch shows are that if one is a miss, another hit will come across soon.

The standout character is Rab C Nesbitt with his strong Glaswegian dialect. He is complaining about the rubbish on the BBC, only for the television to be repossessed.