Barry Cryer, John Junkin and Tim Brooke-Taylor took their radio series onto ITV for one season. In it I remember a sketch where Tim sings a song that involves wam elements, things that Barry and John then act out on Tim. Anyone seen that sketch or know if its on youtube???

There were 67 radio episodes from 1973 to 1975, followied by 13 tv episodes in 1976.

I started to watch the 13 tv episodes, which were released by Network Distributing on DVD and I did not find anything wam related. This series may have been funny on radio but it did not transfer well to the visual medium of television. I watched a few episodes and found it be boring and not funny and it had an all male cast, so I never saw any females in the series.

The premise was not interesting and was just 3 comedy writers (Junkin, Cryer and Tim Brooke-Taylor) sitting on chairs throwing out one liners at each other that was not very funny. Television needs to be visual, especially wam slapstick, as Tim Brooke-Taylor should have known from his funnier series "The Goodies", but 3 comedy writers sitting on chairs just delivering one liners should have stayed on radio, because it was not a visual show for tv viewers.

There were certainly no female wam scenes on the show, and I did not see any male wam either. Perhaps Tim Brooke Taylor was speaking or singing about wam, and I may have missed it cos I fast forwarded thru most of the episodes cos the show was dull.

I threw away my DVD set of the series because I scanned the episodes and found it was a nothing-burger, but if you want to check you can find all the episodes on Ebay on a 2 DVD set,

Well this is disappointing. Or rather, my brain is disappointing. I have such clear memories of it. Oh well.

Luckily, when I got into Tiswas as a pre-teen, Sally James had joined the cast. I wanted to be her and where my fascination of slapstick and custard pies started. I'd like to think, that nowadays, I emulate my heroine

Perhaps your memory was right and you were in fact thinking of another Barry Cryer series that also aired in 1976. It was called "What's On Next" and was the British version of Rowan and Martin's Laugh In. What's On Next starred Cryer and Jim Davidson and had many slapstick skits. I recall seeing one scene on tv in 1976 from that show where a girl in evening dress is singing the song "Color Me" and gets repeatedly gunged with buckets of paint in different colors. This same "Color Me" comedy skit was also done by Carol Burnett on her American show with Dick Van Dyke gunging her with paint. You can find that on YT.

Unfortunately when I saw that What's On Next Show in 1976 I was not at home where I could have recorded it on my old Betamax machine. I was watching tv at a friends house when that scene came on, and it was a jaw dropping scene. . I have been searching for that series ever since, but it has never been released on VHS or DVD or repeated again on UK TV and so far only 1 of the 40+ shows have been posted on Youtube,

That show is still on my Bucket List of things to find before I die.

Anyway, Barry Cryer was a writer and performer on that show as well.

Thanks