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The Dame Edna Experience
The Dame Edna Experience is a British television comedy talk-show hosted by Dame Edna Everage. It ran for twelve regular episodes on ITV, plus two Christmas specials.
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
not actually appear on stage until the late 1970s, when she was portrayed by the London-based Australian actress Madeleine Orr. Orr died of cancer in 1979, so when the role of Madge was written into Humphries' 1987 film "Les Patterson Saves the World", she was portrayed by another Australian actress, Connie Hobbs. Later that year, when Humphries decided to cast "the definitive Madge" for his new TV series, "The Dame Edna Experience", he auditioned many elderly actresses for what would be a