“Not The Nine O'Clock News gave the world alternative comedy and made the media scene we have today.” – Mark Lewisohn, Radio Times Guide to TV Comedy 

Celebrating over 40 years since the ground-breaking comedy series arrived on BBC TV, Demon Records proudly presents The memory Kinda Lingers - lovingly mastered on 2 x 180g heavyweight 'Memory Kinda Lingers' Red and 'Alien Emissions' Orange Vinyl. 

Let the famous signature tune take you back to the heady days of 1979, when Labour gave way to the Conservatives, striking workers created the Winter of Discontent, and Not The Nine O’Clock News inherited the BBC2 time slot vacated by Fawlty Towers. It quickly became a trailblazing smash hit, running for four series and making stars of Rowan Atkinson, Mel Smith, Pamela Stephenson and Griff Rhys-Jones. 

Among the many famous, and much-loved, sketches included on the LPs are David Bloody Attenborough (aka Gerald the Gorilla), Points of View, General Synod’s “Life of Python”, Constable Savage, University Challenge, Hi-Fi Shop, That’s Lies, Not The Parrot Sketch, Open Marriage, Question Time, Game For A Laugh, Two Ninnies, McEnroe’s Breakfast, What A Load of Willies, The Pope’s Visit, Simon and Garfunkel and – yes – The Return of Constable Savage. 

Produced and devised by John Lloyd and Sean Hardie, Not The Nine O’Clock News won a Silver Rose at the Montreux Festival and a BAFTA for Best Light Entertainment Programme. Its large writing team included such future luminaries of TV comedy as Richard Curtis, David Renwick, Andrew Marshall, Guy Jenkin, Laurie Rowley, John Lloyd and Andy Hamilton. 

Presented as a faithfully reproduced facsimile gatefolds, and remastered from the original tapes

Side 1
1. The Spy Who Came In The Cold
2. The News
3. (Sig Tune)
4. Budget
5. Question Time
6. Headbangers
7. Rock Interview
8. Game For A Laugh
9. Typical, Bloody Typical
10. Well, Mr. Glossop
11. Financial Times
12. Hey Bob
13. (Sig Tune)
14. New Glea
15. Holiday Habits
16. Pizza Moment
17. Failed in Wales
18. Rumbley’s Pies
19. Made From Whales
20. Brain Death
21. Swedish Chemists
22. Hey Wow
23. (Stop Whinging)
24. Nice Video, shame About The Song
25. Jackanory

Side 2
1. Golf Trousers
2. The News
3. Roland Davies
4. Two Ninnies
5. Two Ninnies Song
6. Aussie Pilot
7. Does God Exist?
8. Re-Altered Images
9. McEnroe’s Breakfast
10. Ah, Come In Rawlinson!
11. Ask The Family
12. Polish Show
13. Ode To Poland
14. Aleebee
15. The Main Points Again
16. (Sig Tune)
17. What A Load Of Willies!
18. (The Memory) Kinda Lingers
19. Grow Up You Bastards

Side 3
1. Confrontation Song
2. American Improv
3. Duke of Kent
4. Alien
5. (Oh, Oh, Oh, Means) I Respect You
6. The Pope’s Visit (Introduction By The Dean / A Word From The Sponsors / Tasty Wafer Time/Address By His Holiness / Papal Tee-Shirt Offer / Miracle)
7. Laker

Side 4
1. Simon And Garfunkel
2. Awards
3. S.A.S.
4. Interruptions (Insulting The Audience / Main Sketch)
5. Rant #4
6. Prompt
7. (Because I’m) Wet and Lonely
8. The Return Of Constable Savage
9. Gob On You