7 /10 1 Votes
No. of episodes 14 (inc. 2 specials) Final episode date 16 December 1989 Genres Talk show, Comedy | 7.1/10 IMDb Country of origin United Kingdom First episode date 12 September 1987 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nominations British Academy Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance Similar So Graham Norton, Parkinson, The Graham Norton S, The Frank Skinner Show, V Graham Norton | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Dame Edna Experience is a British television comedy talk-show hosted by Dame Edna Everage (a character played by Australian satirist Barry Humphries). It ran for twelve regular episodes on ITV, plus two Christmas specials.
Contents
- The dame edna experience 1991
- Programme
- DVD releases
- Season One episodes and guests
- Season Two episodes and guests
- References
The dame edna experience 1991
Programme
The first seven aired for the first time in 1987, the next seven in 1989. It was directed by Ian Hamilton and Alasdair MacMillan and produced by London Weekend Television. Regulars on the program, besides Dame Edna, were her "bridesmaid" Madge Allsop (played by Emily Perry) and Robin Houston who was the announcer, with orchestra conducted and arranged by Laurie Holloway.
Each program featured several celebrity guests, usually three, but some programs included up to eight guests. There would also be other invited "guests" like Kurt Waldheim and Imelda Marcos who once introduced at stage right would fall victim to a trap door or something similar and fail to make it to their chair.
DVD releases
The entire series was released on DVD (for Region 1) by BBC Video in June 2004, and can now also be purchased as a complete set including the 1987 Christmas special and the three An Audience with Dame Edna specials, plus other material.
The series was released for Region 2 by Network DVD in the UK in 2007, as a 4-disc set. It includes the 1987 Christmas special and the one-off 1990 Christmas special A Night On Mount Edna with guests Mel Gibson, Charlton Heston, Gina Lollobrigida and Julio Iglesias.
For reasons unknown, neither the Region 1 or the Region 2 releases include the 1989 Christmas special "The Dame Edna Satellite Experience" that ended the second series and featured Ursula Andress, Yehudi Menuhin, and Robert Kilroy-Silk.