Talk:It'll Be Alright on the Night

Broadcast dates
Thanks to whoever added the broadcast dates! Could I ask if the source is reliable? 217.155.138.250 (talk) 19:07, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Inspired by "The Dick Emery Show" ?
In the late 1970's, several series of the British comedy "The Dick Emery Show" used to feature outtakes at the end of the show, in a segment with a title card announcing: "The Comedy Of Errors... or unscheduled 'moments' during the making of this show".

I have heard it suggested that the favorable public reaction to these segments was the inspiration for "It'll be Alright on the Night". Is there any basis to that ?

86.29.231.43 (talk) 23:25, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

No14 and 17
What happened to these episodes? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.205.118.109 (talk) 15:12, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Some shows in the sequence were not numbered, but given alternative titles instead. E.g. "Cockup Trip" is really "9" and "All Star Special" is really "17". I'm not sure which show was in place of "14". Perhaps it was the Election Night Special, but this isn't really a true entry in the series because it contained a lot of clips that weren't really out-takes. It was more like an edition of "Laughter File" really. 94.193.182.242 (talk) 18:27, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

"It was one of the first"
Can we change this to "It was the first"? It was certainly the first show on UK television to show this sort of material. Mighty Antar (talk) 01:29, 13 November 2009 (UTC)


 * I agree. According to Denis Norden's commentary in one of the shows, it was the first of its kind in the world. (Other shows previously had sections showing out-takes, but this was the first show dealing with out-takes alone with no other material.) 193.113.37.7 (talk) 13:20, 18 December 2009 (UTC)


 * I was going to mention that (re: Norden's commentary); didn't it inspire just about every single English-language blooper show in existence, including "TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes"? I swear I read something somewhere (but can't remember where) about how those program's creators basically liked what they saw in the first "Alright on the Nights" and started the American equivalent.  And considering that the AOTNs were up to AOTN3 (aired Christmas day 1981) before the first "TV's Bloopers" special aired (in 1982), this lends credence to that.  Arcana07 (talk) 17:20, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

Did they really spell it "Alright"?
Even with Denis Norden involved? Googling the phrase with this spelling seems to turn up more references to the show on the first page than with "All Right". If they did spell it "Alright", the spelling should be commented on. Koro Neil (talk) 02:03, 25 May 2010 (UTC)


 * They did indeed spell it "alright", as per the IMDB, and there's a photograph of the most recent logo here in a BBC interview with Griff Rhys Jones. I can remember fuddy-duddy people commenting on the spelling in the Radio Times. I'm not sure if it was a particularly early and visible example of that spelling, or a subtle joke, and Google throws no light on this. -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 08:19, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

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2020 references
you can still reference the source even if it changes every week (web archive is a good way to provide this in the archive-url section). Can you provide the source here so we can add it? FozzieHey (talk) 10:17, 29 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi, thanks for clarifying. My practice of screenshotting the relevant rating each week and putting it into an Imgur thread I've done for a few other shows now just because I thought the fact the webpage I get the data from - in this case https://www.thinkbox.tv/research/barb-data/top-programmes-report/?tag=ITV1 - refreshes weekly and doesn't provide an archive would mean that it looked like I'd just plucked the numbers out of thin air and they'd get removed as a result. Plus, unfortunately, the page in question has only been archived via Wayback Machine for the latest episode (here). --Phinbart (talk) 00:57, 30 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Imgur isn’t exactly a great source as anyone could screenshot anything. You can save the webpage yourself in archive.org by going to https://web.archive.org/save. You can then include the archive URL for each week in references. FozzieHey (talk) 10:18, 30 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks. --Phinbart (talk) 02:21, 31 December 2020 (UTC)