 The first episode was recorded at the BBC's Paris Theatre on Lower Regent Street (former home of "Round the Horne") on Monday 17 March 1969, and the final show was transmitted on 27 August 1970.Of the show's cancellation, Williams noted in his diary (1 September 1970) that "there'd been complaints about how dirty the script was etc" and described it as "a sad end to about 12 years of radio comedy.