Rita Rudner
Louise Gold is listed as appearing in Episode 6 (the
final episode of the series), recorded on 5 October 1990, broadcast on
BBC2 20:30 to 21:00 on 23 October 1990.
Cast
Star –
Rita Rudner
Special
Guest Star – Adrian Edmondson
Also
appearing – Michael Fenton-Stevens, Lill Roughley, Philip Lowrie, Martin
Bergman, Louise Gold, Sally Ann Triplett, and, Kevin Bishop
Production Team
Directed
by Kevin Bishop
Written by –
Martin Bergman, and, Rita Rudner
Produced by Kevin Bishop
This particular episode had a running joke about the
star Rita’s visa having expired, and took the form of a spoof campaign to have
it renewed.
Louise Gold has also
appeared in: Laugh I Nearly
Paid My Licence Fee, Rachel And The
Roarettes, City Lights, Alexei Sayle’s Merry-Go-Round, A Week In The West End, and, The Alan Clark Diaries all on BBC 2.
Adrian
Edmondson, Michael Fenton-Stevens,
and, Louise Gold had previously
worked as voice-artists on Spitting Image (of
course Louise Gold was also employed
as a puppeteer).
Adrian Edmonson’s recording
credits include Utterly Utterly
Live Comic Relief.
Michael
Fenton-Stevens’s recording credits include Spit In Your Ear.
Lill Roughley and Louise Gold had previously appeared in
the same episode of Joint Account.
Sally Ann
Triplett had previously appeared on stage in The
Metropolitan Mikado. She has gone on to appear in Side by Side By Sondheim 25th Anniversary
Gala, Happily Ever After, Side By Side By Sondheim 30th Anniversary
Gala, and, A Love Letter To Dan. Her
recording credits include Simply Musicals.
Philip Lowrie went on to
appear in The Taming Of The Shrew.
Critics Comments
Links about Rita
Rudner
The BBC Comedy
Guide, page for the programme: http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/r/ritarudner_1299002663.shtml
Internet Movie
Database page for the programme: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0098899/ and this
particular episode: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0687006/
BBC Programme
Catalogue page for the programme: http://open.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax/programme/LLVP796W
TV.com’s page for the
series: http://www.tv.com/rita-rudner/show/11073/episode_listings.html?tag=tabs;episodes
