Every episode to be released for the first time in new box set

All four series of  The Kenny Everett Video Show are to be released on DVD for the first time ever.

The show ran for  35 episodes from 1978 to 1981 on ITV, before Everett defected to the BBC.

It featured characters such as  Sid Snot, Cupid Stunt and Captain Kremmen, plus star guests including  David Bowie, Bonnie Tyler, The Boomtown Rats and The Police, as well as the resident raunchy dance troupe Hot Gossip.

Some of the material was released on VHS compilations in the 1980s, with the only DVD release being the Complete Naughty Bits title in 2004 which contained assorted sketches. 

Now Network Distributing are releasing all 15-and-a-half hours of material – including three New Year specials – in a six-disc set.

The shows – written by Everett with Barry Cryer and Ray Cameron, father of Michael McIntyre – followed Everett’s controversial but stellar career on radio that spanned the likes of pirate station Radio London, BBC Radio 1 and Capital Radio. 

He was instrumental in the success of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody in 1975 having debuted the single on his radio show – despite promising not to release the preview tape – and going on to play it 14 times across one weekend.

His personal life and friendships with the likes of The Beatles and Freddie Mercury often hit the headlines too, as well as the more recent revelation of a trip he took to the London’s drag queen haunt, The Vauxhall Tavern, with Mercury, Cleo Rocos and Princess Diana in the late 1980s. 

He died of an Aids-related illnesses in 1995 aged just 50.

Here's a clip with Bowie:

The Kenny Everett Video Show will be released on  November. 19, priced £59.99. Click here to buy from Amazon for £49.01.

Published: 24 Oct 2018