About The Dame Edna Experience
- Released on September 12, 1987
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.
Main Cast of The Dame Edna Experience
Emily Perry plays Madge (13 episodes)
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Secondary Cast of The Dame Edna Experience
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- Sean Connery
- Cliff Richard
- Mary Whitehouse
- Jeffrey Archer
- Joan Rivers
- Demis Roussos
- Larry Hagman
- Arthur Marshall
- Jane Seymour
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
- Germaine Greer
- Nana Mouskouri
- Jerry Hall
- Charlton Heston
- Patrick Lichfield
- John Mills
- Rudolf Nureyev
- Cynthia Payne
- Denis Healy
- Lulu
- Roger Moore
- 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