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Rutland Weekend TelevisionRutland Weekend Television was a television sketch show on BBC-2, written by Eric Idle with music by Neil Innes (formerly of the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band). Two series were broadcast, in 1975 and 1976. It was Idle's first TV project after the final series of Monty Python's Flying Circus the previous year. RWT centered on "Britain's smallest television network", situated in England's smallest county, Rutland. Rutland had been abolished in the 1974 local government reforms (although it has since been restored), and the siting of the (fictional) TV network there was said to be a convenient tax dodge. The show's title alludes to the real television broadcaster London Weekend Television (London at the time being covered by two ITV franchises, one broadcasting Monday to Friday, and the other on weekends). A Rutland TV station would be pretty small, so a Rutland Weekend Television would have to be ridiculously tiny. One sketch featured Innes fronting The Rutles, a four-piece band spoofing The Beatles, singing "I Must Be In Love", a masterly pastiche of some of the early Lennon-McCartney tunes. This led to a spinoff film, The Rutles, featuring Idle, Innes, Rikki Fataar and John Halsey as the "Pre-Fab Four". Innes wrote the music for the film, most of which was parodies of well-known Beatles songs.
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