Three of a Kind is a British comedy sketch and music television show starring Mike Yarwood, Ray Fell and Lulu. Two series were shown by the BBC during 1967.
Although successful, Yarwood turned down a third series as he hoped to follow Lulu in getting a series of his own. He went on to become one of the biggest stars of the 1970s.
Lulu said in her autobiography that she enjoyed working on the show, but wasn't comfortable with comedy.
Episodes
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Three Of A Kind
Produced by John Ammonds.
Series 1: Broadcast Mondays on BBC2 at 8:05pm.
| Total # |
Series # |
Title | Director | Writer(s) | Original airdate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "Episode 1" | John Ammonds | Austin Steele, Brad Ashton & Julius Emmanuel | 12 June 1967 (1967-06-12) | |
| The first of a new series starring Lulu, Ray Fell and Mike Yarwood with the Go-Jos. | ||||||
| 2 | 2 | "Episode 2" | David Bell | Austin Steele, Brad Ashton, Peter Robinson & Neil Shand | 19 June 1967 (1967-06-19) | |
| Starring Lulu, Ray Fell and Mike Yarwood with the Go-Jos. | ||||||
| 3 | 3 | "Episode 3" | John Ammonds | Austin Steele, Brad Ashton, Peter Robinson & Neil Shand | 26 June 1967 (1967-06-26) | |
| Starring Lulu, Ray Fell and Mike Yarwood with the Go-Jos and Guest Star Stratford Johns. | ||||||
| 4 | 4 | "Episode 4" | John Ammonds | Austin Steele, Brad Ashton & Neil Shand | 3 July 1967 (1967-07-03) | |
| Starring Lulu, Ray Fell and Mike Yarwood with the Go-Jos. | ||||||
| 5 | 5 | "Episode 5" | John Ammonds | Austin Steele, Brad Ashton & Neil Shand | 10 July 1967 (1967-07-10) | |
| Starring Lulu, Ray Fell and Mike Yarwood with the Go-Jos. | ||||||
| 6 | 6 | "Episode 6" | John Ammonds | Austin Steele, Brad Ashton & Neil Shand | 17 July 1967 (1967-07-17) | |
| Starring Lulu, Ray Fell and Mike Yarwood with the Go-Jos. | ||||||
Series 2: Broadcast Mondays on BBC2 at 8:05pm
| Total # |
Series # |
Title | Director | Writer(s) | Original airdate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 1 | "Episode 1" | Sydney Lotterby | Austin Steele, Brad Ashton, Barry Knowles, Les Lilley & Neil Shand | 30 October 1967 (1967-10-30) | |
| The first of a new series starring Lulu, Ray Fell and Mike Yarwood with Malcolm Clare, Audrey Bayley, Alix Kirsta, Frances Pidgeon & Christine Pockett. | ||||||
| 8 | 2 | "Episode 2" | Sydney Lotterby | Austin Steele, Brad Ashton, Dan Douglass, Barry Knowles, Les Lilley & Neil Shand | 8 November 1967 (1967-11-08) | |
| Starring Lulu, Ray Fell and Mike Yarwood with Malcolm Clare, Audrey Bayley, Alix Kirsta, Frances Pidgeon & Christine Pockett. | ||||||
| 9 | 3 | "Episode 3" | Sydney Lotterby | Barry Knowles, Brad Ashton, Peter Robinson & Les Lilley | 13 November 1967 (1967-11-13) | |
| Starring Lulu, Ray Fell and Mike Yarwood with Malcolm Clare, Audrey Bayley, Alix Kirsta, Frances Pidgeon & Christine Pockett. | ||||||
| 10 | 4 | "Episode 4" | Sydney Lotterby | Dan Douglas, Brad Ashton, Barry Knowles & Les Lilley | 20 November 1967 (1967-11-20) | |
| Starring Lulu, Ray Fell and Mike Yarwood with Malcolm Clare, Audrey Bayley, Alix Kirsta, Frances Pidgeon & Christine Pockett. | ||||||
| 11 | 5 | "Episode 5" | Sydney Lotterby | Brad Ashton, Don Douglas, Joe Steeples & Peter Robinson | 27 November 1967 (1967-11-27) | |
| Starring Lulu, Ray Fell and Mike Yarwood with Malcolm Clare, Audrey Bayley, Alix Kirsta, Frances Pidgeon & Christine Pockett. | ||||||
Archive Status
All 11 episodes are currently missing from the archives. No material is known to exist.
References
- ^ "Yarwood, Mike (1941-)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 11 October 2018. Retrieved 7 June 2019.
Yarwood was British television's first truly successful impressionist one of the biggest stars of the 1970s. His first series, Three of a Kind (BBC, 1967), teamed him with comedian Ray Fell and singer Lulu in a mixture of song and sketch. Despite two successful series, Yarwood turned down a third, as Lulu had by now progressed to her own series and he hoped for the same.
- ^ "Front cover". Radio Times. 10 June 1967. p. 1. Archived from the original on 7 June 2019. Retrieved 7 June 2019.
Mike Yarwood, Lulu and Ray Fell are the stars of Monday's new BBC-2 series 3 of a Kind
- Lulu (17 February 2011). Lulu: I Don't Want To Fight. Hachette UK. ISBN 9780748128051. Retrieved 7 June 2019.
My first TV series was Three of a Kind, starring Ray Fell and Mike Yarwood The format was mainly comedy sketches and I often played the straight woman Although I enjoyed working on the show, I wasn't entirely comfortable doing comedy encouraged me to do more comedy, but I much preferred to sing.
- https://www.tvbrain.info/tv-archive?showname=three+of+a+kind&type=lostshow
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