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Scandals in the small village of Clochemerle where a baroness and a bunch of churchly holier-than-thou women rebel against the building of a public urinal on the village square. There are a whole lot of things going on in the place - a child of Mary getting pregnant by a village idiot which the army made a corporal. A women cheating on their husband. The vicar overtaken by events.... In order to save the third Republic - the Army arrives and declares a state of emergency complete with curfew. A violent spoof on both the Church and the Army, this series still retains some funny moments but the caricature is too ponderous and the many bawdy lines might be off-putting for today's audience. Written by Galton / Simpson (Dad's Army / Steptoe & Sonetc) |
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Clochemerle
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Series 1 : 9 episodes - 30 minutes each.
Gabriel Chevallier's delightful novel Clochemerle satirizes the titanic confrontation of secular and religious forces in a small wine-growing village in Beaujolais. The eruption begins when the socialist mayor decides that he wants to leave behind a monument to his administration's achievements. He takes as his model the ancient Romans, who were famous for two things; hygiene and noble edifices. Thus, he decides to unite the two concepts by constructing a public urinal in the centre of town. There is one problem, however. The chosen site is next to the village church, and this outrages the ecclesiastical party. |
1972 | 9 x 30 | 
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