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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. 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 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. The entire series was released on DVD by BBC Video in June 2004, and can now also be purchased as a complete set including the Christmas specials 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. For reasons unknown, the Region 2 release does not 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. It does, however, include the one-off 1990 Christmas special A Night On Mount Edna with guests Mel Gibson, Charlton Heston, Gina Lollobrigida and Julio Iglesias.
Emily Perry
Barry Humphries
Robin Houston
Jeffrey Archer
Charlton Heston
Denis Healy
Lulu
Roger Moore
Sean Connery
Cliff Richard
Mary Whitehouse
Joan Rivers
Demis Roussos
Larry Hagman
Arthur Marshall
Jane Seymour
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Germaine Greer
Nana Mouskouri
Jerry Hall
Patrick Lichfield
John Mills
Rudolf Nureyev
Cynthia Payne
Chubby Checker
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Ronald Reagan Jr.
Jane Fonda
Magnus Magnusson
Liza Minnelli
Vivienne Westwood
Edward Heath
Dolph Lundgren
Dusty Springfield
Jason Donovan
Michael Gambon
Glenys Kinnock
Malcolm McDowell
Antony Sher
David Suchet
Tim Pigott-Smith
Lauren Bacall
Gerald Durrell
Tom Jones
Christiaan Barnard
Tony Curtis
Grace Jones
Status:
Ended
Original Language:
English
Type:
Scripted
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