Kenny Everett

Born - (Maurice Cole) Liverpool, Xmas Day, 1944
Died - London, 4th April 1995, (of an Aids related illness)

One of Britain's most influential DJ's and later television comedian.

Born into a middle class Liverpudlian home, the young Maurice Cole became fascinated with the wireless. Just as much with the links men as the music they played. He said he felt particularly affected by the soothing tones of the announcers which he described as “Ovaltine for the ears.” A particular hero was Jack Jackson, an eccentric early pioneer of broadcasting who spliced comedy albums into his links. This and a love of The Goon Show lead to many bedroom experiments with his home tape recorder.

In the early 1960's, young Maurice Cole made a demo tape of himself DJing called “The Maurice Cole Quarter of An Hour Show” (that only lasted eight minutes). A mixture of music, jokes and a re-editing of a John F Kennedy speech. This lead to an interview on the BBC's 'Midweek' programme on The Home Service, but sadly no job, not with the BBC anyway, as he failed his audition with the organisation due to a mixture of alcohol and nerves.

Through contacts at the BBC (or “Auntie Beeb” as Everett later renamed the organisation), he landed a job with the new Radio London pirate radio service, when it launched in December 1964. He was advised to change his name, like all the other pirate DJ's in the hope of warding off the attention of the authorities. Basing it on his favourite Hollywood actor, Edward Everett Horton. Debuting on Christmas Eve 1964, his astonishing abilities at writing, tape edits and jingles began to blossom very quickly. Firstly with his own show, and then with co-presenting 'The Kenny and Cash Show' with Dave Cash. This period also lead to the first of his many firings. His show was sponsored under the condition that during the programme he play a taped message by a fire and brimstone American preacher named Garner Ted Armstrong, under the banner 'The World Tomorrow'. Tired of listening to what Everett felt were bigoted and insane ravings, he started to ridicule these recordings, or just not play them at all. He thought he could get away with this as he reckoned that the management of Radio London didn't listen to his show. Unfortunately for Everett, Garner Ted Armstrong himself did, on a surprise visit to Britain. Everett was sacked for six months. He had a short stay with Radio Luxembourg, but he was fired again when he admitted smoking marijuana in a newspaper interview.

Links -
* 1965 06 00 R London 0836-0849 Kenny Everett
* 1965 07 00 R London - Kenny and Cash (46 mins).mp3
* 1965 09 02 R London 1707-1806 Kenny and Cash
* London 02.09.1965 17.07 to 18.06 Kenny & Cash Live At The Marqee Club
* 1966 04 12 R London - Kenny Everett - Top Deck Show
* 1966 07 26 R London 1800-1900 Kenny Everett (airchecked, 23 mins)
* 1966 07 29 R London 0703-0804 Kenny Everett
* Radio London 12/04/1966 KennyEverett - TopDeckSponsorShow
* London 29.07.1966__07.03_to_08.04__Kenny_Everett.mp3
* 1967 02 04 R London 1430-1500 Kenny Everett
* London 04.02.1967__14.30_to_15.00__Kenny_Everett
* Radio Skuesreel with Kenny Everett 25.02.67
* 1969 04 21 R Luxembourg 0015-0045 Kenny Everett
* Another Luxembourg show
* The Rusty Ships 1 - Radio London (Essex Radio August 30 1982)
* The Radio London Story 1 (of 3)
* The Radio London Story 2 (of 3)
* BBC London remembers the pirates Part 1 Part 2
*Summer of 67 - Life on the Ocean Wave (Radio 1 documentay September 25 1977

On his return to Radio London in 1966, Everett was sent on an exciting mission to tour with The Beatles round America. This eventually lead to a long friendship with the Fab Four. Though at first, Everett didn't have a clue how to interview anyone. For the first few days, the most penetrating question he asked any of them was “how's it going?” Eventually, The Beatles took pity on him. Paul McCartney pulled him to one side and said if Everett asked him one question, he'd give an answer lasting ten minutes, which he did. He was the first DJ ever to play 'Strawberry Fields Forever' and 'Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'. He even took acid with John Lennon, walking around his garden, both in a haze. Later Everett attended one of the recording sessions for the song 'I Am The Walrus'. When Lennon reached the lines “sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun, but if the sun don't come you get a tan from standing in the English rain”, he said to Everett “that's about us, that day, remember?”, Everett didn't know what he was talking about.

Links -
* Radio London Kenny Everett & Duncan Johnson - Beatles Show 2/2/1965 1730-1830
* Pirate Radio Hall of Fame - Kenny Everett tours the USA with The Beatles
* Realmedia audio extract of Kenny Everett reporting on The Beatles tour to Radio London in 1966 (direct link)

Everett finally joined the BBC proper in March 1967, where he presented the weekly pop programme 'Where It's At' on the BBC Light Programme. Everett was also there at the start of Radio One at its launch that year, presenting 'Midday Spin'. By January 1968 he was presenting 'Kenny Everett's Weekend Morning Show'. Featuring popular characters like Gran and his butler Crisp. Later, when Everett felt the show was sticking too much to a formula, he introduced a new character, a teutonic computer who would order Everett to play the next disc. Very much at the centre of the swinging sixties, all was going well until July 1970, when Everett was fired by Radio One. The story at the time was this was because he'd made a suggestion that Mary Peyton, the then Minister for Transport's wife, who it was reported had just passed her advanced drivers test had “probably crammed a fiver in the examiners hand”. It seems that the incident was badly handled, and George Peyton later revealed that he thought the punishment was too extreme and that had Everett been asked to make an apology, he would have asked the BBC governers to reinstate him. Many have since claimed that the real reason he was fired was because Everett was making too much of a fuss about the musician's unions restrictions on broadcasting. In those days, a quota of music had to be played by inhouse musicians at the BBC (John Peel remembers having to play a version of Purple Haze by The Northern Dance Orchestra).

Links -

* BBC R1 - Radio Radio - Kenny Everett (58 mins) Everett reminisces in 1986 on his DJ history

During 1970 to 1973, Everett recorded shows for Local BBC Radio in Bristol, Solent, Medway, Merseyside, Brighton and Nottingham, all made in a recording studio in his home. He was dismissed by Radio Solent after enthusing on-air about the arrival of commercial radio, although other regions seem to have allowed the same show to air without objection. He also hosted the BBC Radio 4 Children's show “If It's Wednesday, It Must Be” alongside Kenneth Robinson, Ivor Cutler and Vivian Stanshall, and a Christmas Special for Radio 4 called Everett On Everett. He briefly returned to Radio One in 1973 for a weekly show, but the management insisted this too had to be recorded beforehand. This ended on the 30th of September 1973 when he left for commercial radio.

Links -

* 1971 12 00 BBC R Nottingham - Kenny Everett (92 mins)
* 1973 09 28 BBC R1 (247m) 1300-1313 Kenny Everett - Last Show
* 1979 - BBC R Merseyside - The Kenny Everett Interview (35 mins)

In 1973, Everett joined Britain's first official independent radio station Capital Radio, serving the London area. He was soon back hosting with his old Radio London colleague Dave Cash. The two of them even hosted a show where they pretended to still be on the old pirate ships. This was where he unveiled one of his most popular characters, Captain Kremmen, an intergalactic space hero (“it's not for no reason that they call me the greatest human being ever to have lived”). Another popular feature was The Worlds Worst Wireless Show. In which Everett asked listeners to send in the worst records ever heard for which he compiled a top forty (in 1978, and again in 1980). This also lead to a successful spin-off album in green vynil (meant to signify the colour of sick).

Links -

*1980 article on Captain Kremmen film premiere
* 1974 11 12 Capital R - Kenny Everett (5 mins)
* 1976 01 01 Capital R 1302-1400 Kenny Everett & Roger Scott
* 1976 12 00 ILR - Kenny Everett (48 mins)
* 1976 12 17 ILR - Kenny Everett (48 mins)
* 1977 00 00 Capital R 1200-1300 Kenny Everett - Bottom 30 (30-15)
* 1977 00 00 Capital R 1300-1400 Kenny Everett - Bottom 30 (14-1)
* Kenny Everett - Capital Radio (London) July 1977
*Complete Captain Kremmen episodes

At the height of his success on television, he returned to radio. This time on the more middle of the road BBC Radio 2 in October 1981. This saturday morning show was short lived after he was fired once again, this time for making the following joke:

“When England was a kingdom, we had a king. When we were an empire, we had an emperor. Now we're a country, and we have Margaret Thatcher.”

Everett's producer of the time has always contested the 'sacking' story, claiming that his contract had coincidentally run its course and was not renewed by mutual agreement.

Links -

*Kenny Everett from Oct 81 (Radio 2 Sunday 30 Sep 07)
*Christmas Foreverett (Radio 2 Dec 25 1996) (tribute hosted by Noel Edmonds)

In 1988, having turned his back on his television sketch shows, Everett returned to radio. This time at Capital Radio's 'golden oldie' station Capital Gold, where he would work until he became too ill to in 1994. Working alongside many of the same DJ's he had at the start of his career, and playing many of the same records. When he made a public announcement of his illness, he was filmed walking into the station's building, surrounded by a mob, with other DJ's. He jokingly said “I'm dying, and they still prefer Tony Blackburn's autograph”. A month before he left the station he was awarded a Gold Sony Award for a lifetime's service to radio.

His entire personal tape collection, lasting around 80 hours, resides in the National Sound Archive. His sister Kate Horgan having copied it all for them.

Links -

* Capital Gold Kenny Everett 3 hour Special

Everett's 1968 television debut was co-presenting a mix of sketches, jokes and archive film clips with future feminist icon Germaine Greer and star of Candid Camera, Jonathan Routh. Nice Time was made by Granada Television and only shown regionally at first, though eventually spread out to other regions. For the second series, Sandra Gough also co-presented. She would later go on to play Paul and Pauline Calf's mother. The series was produced by John Birt, who would later go on to become Director General of the BBC. Everett's theme tune to the series, co-written with John Birt, was released as a single. Its b-side 'And Now For A Little Train Number' is now highly rated by afficionados of British psychedelia.

Link - Exists complete in the archives

Straight after Everett's sacking by Radio One he was hired by London Weekend Television for three separate series by new head of comedy Barry Took. All three were broadcast almost back to back in 1970.

Everett presented this pop music and comedy show. The assumption being that if Everett was stuck in front of a camera to do his radio show, it would have the same effect, which did not prove to be the case. He even brought along Brain Colville again to play his butler Crisp. Film clips were shown, like the dancing mushrooms from Fantasia that Everett described as “gorgeous”. It was the first show to use spiral animations, one set to 'The Hens March' by Fairport Convention. A very fashionable style of animation at the time and later used in the Old Grey Whistle Test's animation of Pink Floyd's 'One Of These Days'. There was a specially filmed piece for the series where he dressed up as the Pied piper with a tin whistle. There were 10x30min shows
IMDB page
Claim of footage discovery under LWT floorboards
Missing Episodes forum member reminisces about watching this show

Seven days after The Kenny Everett explosion imploded, came this six part series showcasing Bob Kerr's Whoopee Band, who were in a similar vein to The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band or The Temperance Seven. Each week from a club in Putney, Everett would introduce numbers by the band. There were 6x30min shows
Exists complete in the archives
Video featuring 1970 starting titles (all Whoopee Band, no KE)
Bob Kerr interview (includes discussion of this show)
Whoopee Band website

A week after Making Whoopee ended, in almost the same slot, Everett returned again with Crisp and Gran in a show that mixed chart music and linked archive footage and comedy sketches. Guests included The Bee Gees, Thunderclap Newman, Vanity Fare, James Cossins, Marjorie Proops, Ena Baga, Dave Dee, Cyril Fletcher, The Tremeloes, Barbara Cartland, Stromboli And Silvia, Pickettywitch, Jack Good, Lance Le Gault, Maurice Woodnuff, Gilbert O’Sullivan and Dave Edmunds. There were were 9x30min shows in 1970, and a 4x30min shows in 1971.
List of missing episodes from the archive (all of them sadly)
Missing Episodes forum - Mention of an Ev compilation in existence
Missing Episodes forum discuss a 15-20 min compilation of Ev shown at Missing Believed Wiped
Missing Episodes forum mention of episode with Labi Siffre as guest playing a song in paisley shirt / neck scarf. Album track with lyric 'pretty little girl, pretty little girl in a red dress playing in the sun..' and more info on said episode here too

Mausoleum Club forum discussion about KE's early TV work
Missing Episodes forum discussion about KE's early TV work
Missing Episodes forum discussion about KE's contribution to ITV arts show Aquarius around this time

An almost forgotten BBC 2 satire show from 1972. As well as regular appearances from Everett, it features Vivian Stanshall, Clive James, Eric Idle, Ivor Cutler and John Wells.

Link - Missing or incomplete episodes of Up Sunday

In the mid-seventies, Everett did the voice over work for the ITV quiz show Celebrity Squares starring Bob Monkhouse. This and other work voice over work raised his profile, and Everett felt very comfortable in the role, as it meant no harassment of being recognised in the street. Everett was also the voice of the cat in the famous “Charlie Says” commercials.

The show that truly made Everett a television star. It all began when Philip Jones, head of Entertainment at Thames Television asked his son if there was any one that wasn't on television he thought should be. “Kenny Everett” his son instantly replied. Jones signed him up immediately. At first the show had a vaguely similar set up to the LWT shows earlier in his career. Everett stuck in front of a camera introducing pop music of the day. But by this time, video technology had advanced enough that he could wildly experiment with pictures in the same way he could with sound. With the help of writers Barry Cryer and Ray Cameron (who Everett had earlier worked with on in Up Sunday), the comedy eventually took over from the music almost completely. Together they invented such characters as Sid Snot, Marcel Wave and Brother Lee Love. The show also featured an animated version of his long running radio serial Captain Kremmen. Such were the success of these Kremmen The Movie was released as a b-feature to the Village People film 'Can't Stop The Music' in 1980. The show also featured an impressive rota of celebrity guests such as Rod Stewart, Billy Connolly and Freddie Mercury (who flew over from America just to appear in a single thirty second sketch). The final series was retitled The Kenny Everett Video Cassette, this time featuring Kremmen sketches in real life (with Anna Dawson playing the part of romantic interest, Carla. But by this time relations had soured with the station. A mini-soap opera Everett, Cryer and Cameron had though up titled “The Snots” had been rejected by the “Lord Thames”. This and the decision to put the show up against the then highly popular Top Of The Pops lead all three to quit the channel and head for the BBC.
All shows exist except for the pilot episodes

Note - These shows were re-edited for the American market as the 'Kenny Everett US Show'

The Sketch Guide for The Kenny Everett Video Show, Episode by Episode

Everett returned to the BBC with this wildly successful sketch show. Though not without copyright problems from Thames, who were being very difficult about the same characters being reused on the opposition channel. So Gizzard Puke was invented, which its creators later admitted was just Sid Snot in a different costume. One of the things that made the Thames shows unique was the Everett would film sketches to an audience that solely consisted of behind the scenes crew. This time, the BBC insisted he film in front of a live studio audience, something Everett had never been comfortable with but eventually took to with aplomb. After several series, Everett, finding himself in a Quasimodo costume hanging upside down, decided to quit the show there and then in 1988.

The Sketch Guide for The Kenny Everett Television Show, Episode by Episode

Although with artistically lesser work, Everett still managed to keep a TV profile for several years after he stopped doing sketch shows.

Broadcast in the morning schedule in 1988, and according to ukgameshows.com a “surprisingly good science quiz which sadly only got one series, due to circumstances beyond its own control”. Co-presented with his glamourous sidekick Cleo Rocos from his BBC sketch show. Involving contestants losing watts of power if they got a question wrong till they evaporated. On the last show, Everett got down on his hands and knees and begged for another series. This was not to be as Everett was diagnosed with HIV a month later.

Two teams of three celebrites battle it out to see who had the most knowledge about showbusiness. Mike Smith was the host and Everett and Gloria Hunniford were the team captains. Everett was on the show from 1989 to 1993.

A 1992 quiz hosted by Everett, with Danny Baker, Jan Ravens, Steve Punt and Carol Vorderman.

An early contributor to the home video market.

• 1981 The Best of The Kenny Everett Video Show (Thames) (The Sketch Guide for The Best of Thames, #1)
• 1981 Kenny Everett's Naughty Joke Box [A show specially made for the new home video market. Recorded at The Comedy Store. Everett introducing offensive stand up comedy from the likes of Barry Cryer, Willy Rushton, Lenny Bennett and Fogwell Flax] (The Sketch Guide for The Kenny Everett Naughty Joke Box)
• 1982 The New Kenny Everett Naughty Video [A sequel for Kenny Everett's Naughty Joke Box appeared previous year. A show specially made for the new home video market. Recorded at The Comedy Store. Everett introducing offensive stand up comedy. The long time good friend Cleo Rocos was involved.] (The Sketch Guide for The New Kenny Everett Naughty Video)
• 1982 Video Show Volume 2 (Thames) (The Sketch Guide for The Best of Thames, #2)
• 1982 Video Show Volume 3 (Thames) [all three rental-only and not to buy] (The Sketch Guide for The Best of Thames, #3)
• 1989 Kenny Everett's Naughty Bits! (the first Thames video compilation which was later publised as one DVD)
• 1989 More of Kenny Everett's Naughty Bits! (the second Thames video compilation which was later publised as one DVD)
• 01.03.1999 Kenny Everett - In The Best Possible Taste [Compilation of his BBC Television Shows] (The Sketch Guide for The Best of BBC)

• 1982 The Best of The Kenny Everett Video Show (KVTLZTH188708)

• 2004 Kenny Everett's Naughty Bits [A compilation of sketches from the Thames series]
• 27.10.2004 The Complete Naughty Bits [A re-release from the 1989 double Thames video sketch compilations]. (VideoVista review) (The Sketch Guide for The Complete Naughty Bits)

Two Captain Kremmen records were released

• 1980 The Greatest Adventure Yet From Captain Kremmen (1980 CBS 84761) [Edited serials from the Capital shows with new links]
• 1980 Kremmen The Movie (1980 EMC 3342) [Soundtrack to the animated film]
• 1982 Kenny Everett's Naughty Joke Box [Soundtrack to the video only stand up show linked by KE]

• 1965 The B Side/Knees - Kenny & Cash (Decca F12283) [Based on I've Got You Babe]
• 14.6.68 It's Been So Long/Without Her (MGM 1421)[A minor hit introduced by Kenny in DJ mode]
• 14.03.1969 Nice Time/Now For A Little Train Numbe (Deram DM245)
• Early 70's The Edge (Not much known about this single]
• 1974 Happy First Birthday From Cuddley Capital (Warner Bros. SAM 20) [A promo single celebrating Capital Radio's first birthday]
• 1977 The Captain Kremmen Story (Lynetone LYN4586) [A flexi-disc)
• 1977 Captain Kremmen (Retribution)/Retribution by Kenny Everett and Mike Vickers (DJM DJS 10810)[Reached number 32 in the UK charts with a Top Of The Pops appearance]
• 1978 The Adventures of Captain Kremmen/Conversations With Ken (Asylum Records HALC2) [A 12” single for Capital Radio's “Help A London Child” appeal]
• 1983 Snot Rap/Snot Rap Part 2 (RCA/KEN 1)[Record featuring two characters (Sid Snot and Cupid Stunt) from Kenny's TV series. Got to number 9 in the UK charts, with a Top Of The Pops appearance]

Links -

• Kenny Everett - Snot Rap.mp3

• 1979 The Kenny Everett Video Show Annual 1980
• 1980 The Kenny Everett Video Show Annual 1981

• 1980 Captain Kremmen Magazine [A short lived publication. Unconfirmed]

• 1968 The Dee Jay Book [Interviews with Radio One DJ's. Everett features heavily]
• 1976 Kenny and Lee Everett Cook Book[Recipes from Lee, silly comments by Kenny]
• 1983 The Custard Stop At Hatfield by Kenny Everett(ISBN-10: 0099323400)[Lighthearted autobiography, ghost written by a journalist that had long interviews with Everett over a few weekends]
• 1997 In The Best Possible Taste - The Crazy Life of Kenny Everett by David Lister
• 1998 Bananas Forever by Cleo Rocos

• 1984 Bloodbath At The House Of Death [Horror spoof with Kenny Everett, Pamela Stephenson and Vincent Price]

• 1991 Hunting of The Snark

• 1990 [Kenny Everett was interviewed on this early evening chat show on British Satellite Broadcasting]

• 11.10.1991 [Kenny Everett talks to Jo about his debut West End play, The Hunting of the Snark. Meanwhile, Whose Line Is It Anyway? Star, Josie Lawrence plugs Hysteria 3 that goes out on Channel 4 that Sunday.]

• 28.03.1980 [Kenny Everett and Frankie Howerd talk about making people laugh]

• 12.06.1971 [Kenny Everett's London: a personal impression of some of the lesser

known London monuments to good and sometimes bad taste]

• 23.19.1971 [Top Ten: Kenny Everett looks at the classical top ten]

• 23.01.1988 [Featuring Joan Collins, Kenny Everett, Keith Floyd]

• 04.02.1983 [(-20.30) [Prog looks at “Beatlemania”, from the early days of Beatles' performances at the Cavern Club, Liverpool, to Los Angeles in 1982 & a Beatles convention. Kenny EVERETT,then pirate DJ,describes how US went insane (-21.02)]

• 11.10.1979 [Featuring Katie Boyle, Kenny Everett, Liza Goddard, Alfred Marks, Ted Moult, Una Stubbs]
• 20.12.1979 [Featuring Lorraine Chase, Henry Cooper, Kenny Everett, Thora Hird, Karen Kay, Roy Kinnear]
• 25.12.1979 [Featuring Patrick Moore, Kenny Everett, David Jason, Roy Kinnear, Liza Goddard, Wendy Craig, Beryl Reid, Sandra Dickinson, David Hamilton, Lorraine Chase, Lennie Bennett]
• 04.09.1980 [Featuring Barry Cryer, Kenny Everett, Val Doonica, Janet Brown, Lorraine Chase, Katie Boyle]
• 04.12.1980 [Featuring Patrick Moore, Maureen Lipman, Kenny Everett, Sylvia Syms, Tony Selby, Pearly Gates]
• 26.12.1980 [Featuring Patrick Moore, Roy Hudd, Les Dawson, Kenny Everett, Jimmy Tarbuck, Windsor Davies, Beryle Reid, Rula Lenska, Sandra Dickinson, David Hamilton, Katie Boyle, Madeline Smith, Shirley Field]
• 10.09.1981 [Featuring Kenny Everett, David Hamilton, Sally James, Wendy Richard, June Whitfield, Derek Nimmo, David Hamilton]
• 26.11.1981 [Featuring Patrick Moore, Barry Cryer, Kenny Everett, Sandra Dickinson, Anna Dawson, Michelle Dotrice]
• 11.09.1982 [Featuring Wendy Richard, Patrick Moore, Kenny Everett, Pat Coombs, Anita Harris, Jack Douglas]
• 30.10.1982 [Featuring Barry Cryer, Dana, Kenny Everett, Maggie Philbin, Danny La Rue, Noele Gordon]
• 13.11.1982 [Featuring Patrick Moore, Floella Benjamin, Kenny Everett, Beryl Reid, Lorraine Chase, Norman Collier]
• 03.09.1983 [Featuring Windsor Davies, Sandra Dickinson, Kenny Everett, Anneka Rice, Beryl Reid, Larry Grayson]
• 08.10.1983 [Featuring Patrick Moore, Russell Grant, Janet Ellis, Kenny Everett, Lynda Baron, Lorraine Chase]
• 03.12.1983 [Featuring Patrick Moore, Kenny Everett, Paul Shane, Lorraine Chase, Cleo Rocos, Noele Gordon]

• 1983 [Featuring Kenny Everett, Charlie Drake, Libby Morris]

• 24.02.1983 [Studio guest Kenny Everett, nominally in studio to talk about the new series of the “Video Show” which starts tonight, discourses on many subjects, few of them seriously, in company with Ned Sherrin]
• 15.07.1983 [Kenny Everett contributes]
• 30.12.1983 [Kenny Everett contributes]
• 04.01.1984 [Kenny Everett studio guest throughout]
• 13.12.1984 [Kenny Everett contributes]
• 19.12.1984 [Frank Bough & Mike Smith talk to guest of the day Kenny Everett]
• 22.05.1985 [Frank Bough & Mike Smith talk to Kenny Everett throughout the show]
• 27.07.1985 [Kenny Everett contributes]
• 14.10.1985 [Frank Bough & Selina Scott are joined by Pete Townshend, rock musician & editor with Faber & Faber and Kenny Everett]
• 15.01.1986 [Kenny Everett contributes]
• 14.06.1988 [Kirty Wark chats to the new host of 'Brainstorm' Kenny Everett]

• 11.11.1978 [Guests include: Kenny Everett, Phil Parks, Peter Gordeno, Francoise Pascal and Sammy Davis Jnr sings 'For Once In My Life']
• 24.12.1978 [Lots of fun and games on Bruce Forsyth's Christmas Eve party with guests Kenny Everett, Pat Jennings, John Conteh, Rod Hull & Emu, Diana Dors, Kenny Lynch, Cannon & Ball and The Carpenters sing “Merry Christmas Darling” and “Please Mister Postman”.]
• 31/12/1978 [Series compilation edition featuring Kenny Everett]

• 26.11.1982 [Lucky Dip - Kenny Everett & Terry Wogan in “Guess The Celebrity” sketch]
• 23.11.1984 [Kenny Everett contributes]
• 22.11.1991 [Kenny Everett contributes]
• 26.11.1993 [Kenny Everett contributes]

• 24.12.69 [Featuring Cliff Richard, Dusty Springfield, Kenny Everett] (missing from the TV archives)

• 31.12.1988 [Featuring Kenny Everett, Harry Enfield, Julian Clary, Kim Wilde and Michael Aspel]

• 02.11.1971 [Kenny Everett comperes a programme of interviews with regional people who have a claim to fame. Nicholas Tresilan interviews Charles Phipps; Hop Leaves Darts Team; Velvets Darts Team; Bob Carpenter; Jack Frost & Jack Warren.]
• 09.11.1971 [Kenny Everett comperes a programme of interviews with regional people who have a claim to fame. Nicholas Tresilan Don Metcalf; Mr & Mrs Spicer, Rosemary Exton & Gerald Stanton.]
• 16.11.1971 [Kenny Everett comperes a programme of interviews with regional people who have a claim to fame. Nicholas Tresilan interviews Josephine Kercheval, Rone Westerman, Alroyd Lees, Roy Mickleburgh, Gwen Carter.]
• 02.11.1971 [Kenny Everett comperes a programme of interviews with regional people who have a claim to fame. Nicholas Tresilan interviews F Franklin, Precious McKenzie, Mrs F Miller, George Davies, David Bryant, Street Youth Club.]

• 14.12.1981 [guests include Kenny Everett]
• 30.11.1981 [guests include Kenny Everett]

• 05.02.1988 [Kenny Everett and Willie Rushton as babies in a pram (23.25.44-23.25.53)]

• 25.05.1981 [Kenny Everett looks at Walt Disney clips
• 30.08.1982 [Kenny Everett takes a look at Walt Disney clips in a summer edition.]
• 16.12.1987 [Kenny Everett takes a traditional Christmas look at the world of Walt Disney films]

• 18.03.1987 [Robert Kilroy-Silk presents a discussion programme with a participating audience of experts, members of the public & people with a particular interest in the subject. Today's prog dealt with fast food; Kenny Everett and Prue Leith took part]

• 14.01.1988 [Pamela Armstrong and others presented a live magazine programme. Items included one on Kenny Everett]

• 31.10.1983 [Barry Norman interviews Kenny Everett, Pamela Stephenson and Barry Cryer in a location rep on “Bloodbath At The House Of Death”]

• 11.01.1985 [In a blooper reel]

• 26.09.1981 [Featuring Kenny Everett in a bakery]
• 10.10.1981 [Featuring Kenny Everett in a bakery]

• 16.04.1979 [Presented by Larry Grayson and Isla St Clair.'Egg game' with Paul Daniels, Billy Dainty, Rolf Harris, Harry Worth and Kenny Everett]
• 05.09.1981 [Presented by Larry Grayson and Isla St Clair. Lionel Blair, Diana Dors, Alfred Marks, Ted Moult, Kenny Everett and Guy Higgins appear in a celebrity 'Punch and Judy' game]

• 1983 [Featuring John Travolta, Kenny Everett]

• 1997 [Includes interviews with Barry Cryer, Barry Took, Cliff Richard, Dave Cash, Jeremy Beadle, Terry Wogan, Steve Wright, Cleo Rocos, Jo Gurnett and Eric Gear]

• 26.05.1995 [A tribute to Kenny Everett which shows some of the highlights from his acclaimed BBC comedy series. With personal memories from Kenny's friends & co-workers]

• 28.09.1981 [Contribution by Kenny Everett]

• 26.01.1980 [Jason and Susan Storr get to be contestants on Blankety Blank and Andrew Kaiser joins panalists Lorraine Chase, Liza Goddard, Beryl Reid, Kenny Everett and Patrick Moore]

• 11.08.1979 [Noel Edmonds hosted this programme asking whether the latest pop releases will be hits or misses. With panellists Tina Charles, Kenny Everett, Lesley Judd & Sting]

• 22.10.1983 [Billy Connolly receives Naughtiness award.Clip out takes ex'Kenny EVERETT Video show' Everett & Connolly giggling during shooting of Hinge & Brackett sketch(18.55- 19.55)Clip ex new feature film with Billy Connolly'Bullshot'out-takes(21.30- 22.05).

• 1989 [Mavis Nicholson interviews Kenny Everett about a previous interview she did with him in 1980. See - Afternoon Plus]

• 2005 [ITV Kenny Everett documentary]

• 21.03.1979 [Kenny Everett talks to Sue Macgregor about his choice of film 'It's a Wonderful Life' & shows clips from it]

• 05.04.1993 [James Cameron reports on a a leading Aids chairty to have its grant reduced by a tenth, includes interview with Kenny Everett, Nick Partridge (Terrance Higgins Trust) and Tony Pinching (immunologist)]

• 25.06.1988 [Guests include Kenny Everett, Fiona Richmond, Gary Clark. Repeat TX of Jazz Defektors performing “Bounce Back”, “Another Star”, “Invisible You” and “Pandemonium”]
• 16.12.1988 [Late night chat. This week's guests include Jack Bruce who performs live (“Theme for an Imaginary Western” and “As You Said”), Kenny Everett, Pete Brown and Iggy Pop. Includes repeat tx of Graham Parker live music]

• 04.04.1995 [News item on the death of Kenny Everett]

• 16.10.1979 [Everett in studio as host of prog-says “pubes” and is thrown out by Chris as studio manager]

• 29.05.1971 [Programme in which disc jockey and entertainer, Kenny Everett looks back over his week.

# He is shown at home at his country farmhouse in Sussex, where he has lived since he was sacked from BBC. Also attends press reception prior to his return to the BBC on Radio Bristol. Kenny at home in Sussex: gives guided tour around his C14th farmhouse. Garden: Tour of garden - especially vegetable patch (0-2m56s). intro to gardener 'Joe' - does imitation of a dog fight with Kenny's dog (-4m27s). Tour of living room - has tried to keep it as much like the C14th as possible (-6m02s). Music Room: Brief s' (-6m16s). Continues tour upstairs - dressing room and bedroom (-7m41s). Kenny sits at kitchen table - turns on radio which plays montage of his comic adverts and jingles - mimes to them
# Press Reception: Tells the press that he is not bitter about his dismissal from the BBC - he got alot of profitable publicity from it. Looking forward to going back to broadcasting (7m41s-9m10s). Finds it amusing to be interviewed byone end of the BBC about being sacked from the other (-9m25s). Ext s' Broadcasting House - pan down to Kenny poseing for press photographers (-10m08s)] - BBC Infax

• 19.01.1988 [Presented by Eamonn Holmes and Pattie Coldwell. Kenny Everett chatted to Pattie Coldwell about his shows, with producer Paul Ciani and scriptwriter Barry Cryer included clips of “Nice Time”(Granada),”Best Of Kenny Everett”(Thames) & “John Birt”. VT (08m43s/25m54s in)]

• 20.09.1997 [In 1/3 pt of TV adaptations of his legendary radio slot, Simon Bates tells the story of Lee EVERETT & her late ex-husband, comedian & Radio 1 DJ Kenny EVERETT, whose nostalgic tune is Mama Cass's “Dream a Little Dream”]

• 13.11.1986 [live chat show with guests Kenny Everett, Mandy Smith & her manager Maurice Boland. VT intv with Dave Allen. VT rept re Alex Higgins sending tape of his voice to boy in coma. Music by Colin Blunstone]

• 06.10.1979 [Featuring Laurie McMenemy, Desmond Morris and Kenny Everett
• 17.12.1980 [Featuring Robin Cousins, Bob Geldof, Kenny Everett]
• 06.03.1982 [Featuring Buddy Rich and his Orchestra, Sammy Davis Junior, Kenny Everett]

• 11.11.1991 [Judy Spiers meets the stars of Mike Batt's musical “Hunting of the Snark”. Kenny Everett, David McCallum, Mark McGann, Peter Ledbury, John Partridge and Veronica Hart. Cast sing songs:“The Bellman's Speech” & “As Long As The Moon Can Shine”.]

• 21.05.1982 [Bob Langley introduces last edition of this series from the Pebble Mill Foyer, he is joined by Marian Foster, Donny Macleod. Guests include Kenny Everett and Su Pollard]

• 07.03.1983 [Schools programme. A look at the making of The Kenny Everett Television Show. What makes popular television popular?]

• 05.09.1981 [Featuring Steve Jones, Kenny Everett, Sandra Dickinson]
• 12.09.1981 [Featuring Steve Jones, Lance Percival, Jenny Hanley, Sandra Dickinson, Kenny Everett]

• 13.03.1985 The Magic Picture Show [“Kenny Everett explores the real magic of pictures, looking at the stunning sensations that can be produced on screen by the latest electronics & reveals secrets behind video effects we see on TV today”]
• 18.02.1987 Before Your Time [“A light-hearted look at the origins of Kenny Everett from “Big Bang” to birth; Cosmic Space-Time Controller John Westbrook gets a red alert when Kenny tries to grow a human in a garden tub;Westbrook tries to show how a human's really made.”]

• 20.09.1997 [Singer David Essex narrates a behind-the-scenes history of Radio 1, to celebrate its 30th Birthday. DJs past & present trace the stations long and eventful life. Features section on KE's time at the station]

• 28.07.1975 [Melvyn Bragg assisted by Kenny Everett, Jilly Cooper & Margaret Drabble looks at the week's paperbacks. In the studio are Claud Cockburn & Peter Nichols to talk about their respective latest works - Bestseller & The freeway]
• 27.12.1978 [Michelle Dotrice, Christopher Timothy, Bernard Ashley, Shirley Hughes and Kenny Everett take part in the Children's Special edition of this programme which reviews new literature (BBC1)]

• 1976 [Featuring Lilli Palmer, Gemma Craven, Kenny Everett]
• 1981 [Featuring Kenny Everett]
• 1983 [Featuring Kenny Everett, Mike Harding, Peter, Paul & Mary]
• 16.03.1983 [Best of. Guests include Kenny Everett, Oliver Reed, Diana Dors, Peter O'Toole, Britt Ekland, Grace Jones amongst many others.

• 10.02.1990 [Studio guest is Kenny Everett]
• 01.12.1990 [Studio guest is Kenny Everett]

• 13.11.1973 [Beth Miller & John Monaghan try to interview a mischievous Kenny Everett on Top of Pops, his radio show & killing Tony Blackburn. Kenny does a tour of its studio]

• 16.12.1983 [Presented by Mike Smith. Kenny Everett on location in a graveyard for his Christmas Special (dur:2m47s)]

• 15.05.1984 [John Craven chairs discussion whether tv has a bad influence on the young. KE gives his views on television]

• 23.05.1989 [Featuring Kenny Everett. A half hour show in which celebrities from the world of entertainment, sport and politics are subjected to a vigorous interrogation by a computer based personality test]

• 07.11.1983 [Guests include Albert Beckles, British model Lorraine Chase, Joan Collins and Kenny Everett. Gilbert O'Sullivan performs 'Matrimony']
• 11.03.1984 [Presenters Gloria Hunniford and Brian Hayes, Guests Kenny Everett, Mel Smith, Barbara Windsor, John Schneider, Noele Gordon. Performers London Community Gospel Choir]
• 02.11.1984 [Features Stan Boardman, Kenny Everett, Tommy Trinder and Edward Woodward. Shakin' Stevens performs “Teardrops”]
• 01.09.1985 [Guests include Bucks Fizz performing “Magical”, Gabrielle Drake, Kenny Everett, Lenny Henry and Tommy Trinder]
• 17.11.1985 [Features David Essex performing “Freedom”, Kenny Everett, Johnny Morris and Denis Norden]
• 22.12.1985 [Features Aled Jones performance of Walking in the Air. Guests - Ronnie Barker, French & Saunders, Rula Lenska, Dennis Waterman, Glynis Barber, Michael Brandon, Dudley Moore, Lenny Henry, Jean Simmons, Robbie Coltrane, Sir David Attenborough, Victoria Wood, Vincent Price, Bob Carolgees, Freddie Starr, Chris Quinten, Clive James, Bruce Forsyth, Des O'connor, Jimmy Tarbuck, Maureen Lipman, Nigel Havers, Claire Rayner, Kenny Everett, Jim Davidson, Alastair Burnet, Fred Newman, Patrick Duffy, Johnny Briggs, Gabrielle Drake, Aled Jones]
• 31.08.1986 [Guests include John Alderton, Val Doonican, Kenny Everett, Nigel Hawthorne and Gary Wilmot]
• 06.09.1987 [Features Joan Collins, Dame Edna Everage and Kenny Everett]
• 23.10.1988 [Guests include David Essex, Kenny Everett, Cynthia Lennon, Steen and Sweeney and Earl Thompson]
• 12.11.1989 [Guests include Denholm Elliott, Kenny Everett, Morgan Fairchild, John Mortimer and Esther Rantzen]

• 01.11.1986 [Special programme looking back over BBC TV's first fifty years. KE on the Breakfast Time set introduces a clip from Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy (the Peter Davison as a pig one)]

• 11.01.1990 [In this episode they visit the homes of Uri Geller, Ruby Wax and Kenny Everett]

• 19.11.77 [Presented by Chris Tarrant, Sally James, Trevor East and Jim Davidson. Featuring comedian guest Kenny Everett]

Note - KE was a huge fan of this show, and several missing episodes have been returned to the archives from his own personal video collection. Link

• 11.10.1973 [Presented by Kenny Everett, with performances by The Electric Light Orchestra (Showdown), Elton John (Goodbye Yellow Brick Road), Michael Ward (Let There Be Peace On Earth), Status Quo (Caroline), Pans People dance to Ghetto Child by The Detroit Spinners, Englebert Humperdink (Love Is All), Simon Park Orchestra (Eye Level) Slade (My Friend Stan), Limmie & Family Cookin (dreamboat). KE is interviewed by two children about TOTP. He also takes a tour round empty studios explaining what happens]
• 10.11.1977 [Presented by Noel Edmonds, Kenny Everett and Mike Vickers perform “Captain Kremmen”]
• 31.03.1983 [Presented by Steve Wright and Richard Skinner. Kenny Everett performs “Snot Rap”]
• 31.12.1988 25 Years of Top Of The Pops [Kenny Everett contributes]

• 2000 [Includes interviews with Terry Wogan, Chris Tarrant and Cleo Rocos]

• 07.02.1978 {Contribution by Kenny Everett]]

• 01.06.02 [Channel 4 Documentary]

• 07.04.1984 [Featuring Kenny Everett, The Flying Pickets, Val Doonican]]
• 20.06.1986 [Featuring The Bangles, Kenny Everett, Brian Glover]]
• 25.02.1987 [Featuring Alison Moyet, Reverend Chad Varrah, Kenny Everett]]

• 21.02.1992 [Gloria Hunniford talks to Kenny Everett; Tina Turner; Lorna Luft, who also sings “Embraceable You”; & Wayne Sleep, who also dances to “Tap Your Troubles Away”]

• 31.12.1988 {Archive extracts of the Where It's At interviews KE did with John Lennon)

• 14.05.1977 {An extract from the Kenny Everett show on Capital Radio featuring his long running character Captain Kremmen.)

• 24.10.1994 {Kenny talks about his life and work and chooses eight records to take to a desert island. Including references to being HIV positive, his homosexuality, being sacked from both pirate radio and the BBC (twice), as well as appearing in 'The Hunting of the Snark'. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Producer: Olivia Seligman)

• Part 1 - 12.04.1997 {Noel Edmonds presents a four part tribute to Kenny Everett on Radio 2)
• Part 2 - 19.04.1997 (The Fiddly Bits)
• Part 3 - 26.04.1997 (The World's Worst Wireless Show)
• Part 4 - 03.05.1997 (Kremmen, Crisp and Bacon)

• 18.05.1985 {Kenny Everett guested alongside Barry Cryer, Tim Brooke Taylor, Willie Rushton and host Humphrey Lyttleton. Produced by Paul Mayhew Archer)

• 01.04.1977 {Montage of extracts from independent radio stations recorded in 1977 & 1978. (CREDIT ILR).)

• 25.12.2005 (Compilation of Kenny's wilderness years as a local DJ in the early seventies. Broadcast first on BBC local radio across England on Xmas Eve 2002 and New Years Day 2003. Then on BBC7 on Christmas Day 2005)

Link - BBC News story about this show

• 29.12.2005 (Six part half hour compilations of old Capital Radio period Kenny Everett shows)

Link - BBC News article on this show

• 13.07.1995 {Tribute to Kenny Everett. Others in the series were Frankie Howerd, Eamonn Andrews and Liberace.)

• 02.10.1977 {anniversary prog. in which Alan Freeman presents exts. from programmes, jingles & additional new ints. with Jonathan King, Cliff Richard, Maurice Oberstein & Ian Trethowan. Producer: Johnny Beerling. Writer : David Rider)

• 26.01.1974 {The STORY OF POP. A 26-part series. (18) Ship To Shore. Interviews about pirate radio. Refs to Radio Caroline, Radio London, copyright, Radio 1, disc jockeys (including Everett). Act. of various pirate radio stations. Presenter: Alan Freeman)

• 20.08.1988 {21 Years Of Radio One. A 2-part series. Part 1. The First Team 1967-1972. Including archive extracts of Radio 1 Disc Jockeys, jingles and programmes. Producer: Kevin Howlett. Kenny Everett (speaker)

• 04.10.1981 {Len Jackson with TWO'S BEST - the best of Radio Two. Contributions from Shaw Taylor, Donovan, Roy Hudd, Alexander Walker (who discusses Peter Sellers, Sophia Loren), Lynn Frederick, Terry Wogan, Jimmy Young, Kenny Everett, and Dr. Christiaan Barnard (discussing heart surgery)

• The Ultimate Kenny Everett Sketch Site
• Everettweb tribute site
• Extract from 'The Custard Stops at Hatfield'
• Kenny Everett at findagrave

• Lots of direct links to Everett radio shows and documentaries
• The Radio Academy Hall of Fame - Kenny Everett
• The Complete and Utter History of Comedy On Radio One - Part 1 (pdf)
• Pirate Radio Hall of Fame E to G
• Aircheck Legends - Kenny Everett
• kennyeverett.co.uk tribute site
• Captain Kremmen page
• Transcript of Everett's appreance on Just A Minute
• Radio London Kenny Everett Tribute Pages
• Kenny Everett Radio highlights on BBC 7
• MB21 letter to Kenny Everett

• Azanorak - Thousands of hours of Pirate radio Archive, including many Everett broadcasts
• Captain Kremmen Podkast
• Radio Rewind - Kenny Everett
• Kenny Everett's World's Worst Wireless Show, Listen to all these shows
• Listen to long Kenny Everett extracts from Capital Radio

• Screenonline - Kenny Everett
• Television Heaven - The Kenny Everett Video Show
• Nostalgia Central - The Kennny Everett Video Show
• BBC Everett Cult TV site

• Kenny Everett on You Tube
• Billy Connolly and Kenny Everett as Hinge & Brackett
• Abba on The Kenny Everett Television Show
• When Freddie Mercury Met Kenny Everett Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6
• An hour of clips from The Kenny Everett Video Show
• Kenny gunges Bernard Manning (1979)
• DIY Bee Gees kit
• Kenny Everett Television Show episode from Series 1 (1981) Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
• Tom Baker on The Kenny Everett Television Show
• Short clip of Kenny on Blankety Blank
• Fulcrum
• Kate Bush on Kenny Everett Video Show )1978)
• Charlie Says...Mummy should know (with Everett voicing the cat)
• Charlie Says...Kitchen

• Episode 1
• Episode 2
• Episode 3
• Episode 4
• Episode 5
• Episode 6
• Real life Kremmen sketch (with Anna Dawson as Carla)