The time is just coming up to...very late indeed.

March 15, 2016 2:18 PM

All 29 episodes of That Mitchell and Webb Sound, the radio precursor to David Mitchell and Robert Webb's celebrated television sketch show.

(Post title sourced from The Late One, with DJ Adrian Locket. More stand-out sketches can be found in this handy YouTube playlist.)

posted by Iridic (17 comments total)

This is delightful, but I’ve paid money for these and I can still pay money for these, so… why are they on archive.org?
posted by Going To Maine at 2:22 PM on March 15, 2016 [2 favorites]

Yeah, I suspect this is something the BBC hasn't quite gotten around to taking down yet. Archive.org also used to have a huge catalog of back episodes of I'm Sorry, I Haven't A Clue as well; I listened to a few of them and enjoyed them, but when I went back for more they had been taken down.
posted by Johnny Assay at 2:27 PM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]

Just because it's rarely mentioned, Bruiser was a pretty great series.
posted by rhizome at 2:33 PM on March 15, 2016 [2 favorites]

I love That Mitchell and Webb Sound, but MetaFilter is not an illegal download catalog.
posted by w0mbat at 2:40 PM on March 15, 2016 [3 favorites]

In the same Disappearing David Mitchell vein, a decade's worth of The Unbelievable Truth on YouTube -- the backbone of a great FPP not long ago -- has been taken down. Sadness.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 3:55 PM on March 15, 2016

Just because it's rarely mentioned, Bruiser was a pretty great yt series.

I'm sorry but omg Olivia Colman in those wigs :B
posted by turbid dahlia at 4:07 PM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]

That Mitchell and Webb Look (the TV show) is available in its entirety on Youtube, if people are interested and are not stressed about the legality. I rewatched them all a few weeks ago, so I assume they're still up.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 5:04 PM on March 15, 2016 [2 favorites]

In the same Disappearing David Mitchell vein, a decade's worth of The Unbelievable Truth on YouTube -- the backbone of a great FPP not long ago -- has been taken down. Sadness.

BZZZZT!

While I may earn a point for identifying a truthful statement about the show being taken down from youtube, your state of sadness will hopefully no longer be a true statement, as you can find all of them here.
posted by chambers at 5:13 PM on March 15, 2016 [3 favorites]

I rejoice.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 6:26 PM on March 15, 2016

Such a great show.
posted by Admiral Haddock at 7:04 PM on March 15, 2016

The Old Lady Job Justification Hearings is still one of my favorite things. "What about opening a little shop?"

Well, that and Big Talk. "COME ON, BOFFINS!!!!!"

At one point, That Mitchell and Webb Look was available in the US on DVD, but I haven't been able to find it for years. I'll just go around humming to myself, looking for my nemesis.
posted by fifteen schnitzengruben is my limit at 12:15 AM on March 16, 2016 [2 favorites]

Anyone care to play a quick round of Numberwang?
posted by nicepersonality at 7:33 AM on March 16, 2016 [3 favorites]

Wow ... a 2003 radio comedy that opens with Acker Bilk's pond-crosser Stranger on the Shore?? Ironic, as that was the name of a 1961 BBC TV drama! The Beeb sure loves to play to nostalgia, wot?
posted by Twang at 2:07 PM on March 16, 2016

Man how is this the first time I've heard of Bruisers? Such a great show!

Also great find on the sound, excited to actually listen to it all as opposed to bits and pieces.
posted by Carillon at 1:35 PM on March 17, 2016

... And it is now gone from archive.org.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 5:43 PM on April 8, 2016

(The Unbelievable Truth, that is.)
posted by ricochet biscuit at 7:09 PM on April 8, 2016

(The Unbelievable Truth, that is.)

And that’s The Unbelievable Truth!
posted by Going To Maine at 9:58 PM on April 8, 2016