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Rutland Weekend Television
Rutland Weekend Television (RWT) was a television sketch show on BBC2, written by Eric Idle with music by Neil Innes. Two series were broadcast, the first consisting of six episodes in 1975, and the second series of seven episodes in 1976. A Christmas special was broadcast on Boxing Day 1975.
It was Idle's first television project after "Monty Python's Flying Circus", which had ended the previous year, and was the catalyst for The Rutles. "Rutland Weekend Television" or
records, with himself playing nearly all the multi-tracked parts.
On television, Idle created "Rutland Weekend Television" (RWT), a sketch show on BBC2, written by himself, with music by Neil Innes. RWT was 'Britain's smallest television network'. The name was a parody of London Weekend Television, the independent television franchise contractor that provided Londoners with their ITV services at weekends; Rutland had been England's smallest county, but had recently been 'abolished' in an administrative shake-up