History Radio / SonofCliche

The show followed what was by now a well-worn path in subverting both the introduction and the end credits. As often as not, the end credits would be re-arranged into a song parody performed by Brewis with vocals by Chris Barrie, one week in the voice of Music/NeilYoung singing the credits to a tune not unlike "After the Goldrush". The next week, the gravelly voice of Music/BobDylan performed the credits to a tune not unlike "Knockin' on Heaven's Door". This was not the end of the parody: at the end of the credits, where you might expect normal Radio Four service to resume, the second series featured a grovelingly apologetic Maloney or Wilton returning to the mike and apologising for the absence of the continuity announcer, who was indisposed for one reason or another.

* OopNorth: Produced in the north, the show had aspects, such as the spoof horror movie ''The Thing from 1,157 Stockport Road'' - a reference to one of the longest streets in Manchester; or Asso, Spanish Detective, would be musing on how easy it is to locate a drunken Englishman on the Costa del Sol named only as "Dave from Ardwick".
** There was also lots of {{Snark}} about the North-South Divide, and how the South-East had it easy.

''Son of Cliché'', a follow-up to ''Cliché'', was a radio comedy show on the Creator/{{BBC}} that ran for two series in 1983-84 (the original ''Cliché'' aired in 1981) and which was written by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor. Produced by comedy veteran John Lloyd, the show was presented by Nick Maloney, Nick Wilton and a young and relatively un-known Christopher Barrie, at that point famous only for being a vocal impressionist talent on ''Series/SpittingImage''. Musical interludes and comic songs were by Peter Brewis.

This was a radio comedy show on the Creator/{{BBC}} that ran for several series in 1983-85 and which was written by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor. Produced by comedy veteran John Lloyd, the show was presented by Nick Maloney, Nick Wilton and a young and relatively un-known Christopher Barrie, at that point famous only for being a vocal impressionist talent on ''Series/SpittingImage''. Musical interludes and comic songs were by Peter Brewis.

* ''Captain Invisible and his sidekick the See-Thru kid!'' - a parody of the MarvelComicsSeries and its stereotypical characters.

* NamesTheSame: Grant Naylor later realized there was a Welsh footballer called Dave Hollins and renamed him Lister when creating ''Series/RedDwarf''.

This was a radio comedy show on the BBC that ran for several series in 1983-85 and which was written by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor. Produced by comedy veteran John Lloyd, the show was presented by Nick Maloney, Nick Wilton and a young and relatively un-known Christopher Barrie, at that point famous only for being a vocal impressionist talent on ''Series/SpittingImage''. Musical interludes and comic songs were by Peter Brewis.

Although ''Son of Cliché'' only ran for a relatively few series, it was a seminal moment in British comedy for two reasons. The in-show serial ''Dave Hollins - Space Cadet!'' provided enough material for a [[SoundToScreenAdaptation pilot show]] of a [[Series/RedDwarf sit-com set in space]] that was to make the names of Grant/Naylor and which, starring Chris Barrie, is now into its twelth series. Grant/Naylor would regularly plunder old ''Son of Cliché'' scripts for material, and on one occasion a Peter Brewis song, ''TongueTied'', for their space comedy.

-->Look, could you stop just for a seoond, get your breath back, and do the link? Oh, and ''you'''ve got to announce the Rachmininov Piano Overture in D from the Philharmonia Hall. Thank you. ''(Cut to C.A.)''

* PlanetOfSteves: Encountered at least once by ''Dave Hollis - Space Cadet''.

* SoundToScreenAdaptation: ''Dave Hollis: Space Cadet'' was re-written and expanded into ''Series/RedDwarf''. The television sci-fi series regularly plundered old Son of Cliché scripts for material, such as ''Attack of the Killer Italian Y-Fronts'' and the ''Tongue-Tied'' song.

The show followed what was by now a well-worn path in subverting both the introduction and the end credits. As often as not, the end credits would be re-arranged into a song parody performed by Brewis with vocals by Chris Barrie, one week in the voice of Music/NeilYoung singing the credits to a tune not unlike ''After The Goldrush''. The next week, the gravelly voice of Music/BobDylan performed the credits to a tune not unlike ''Knockin' On Heaven's Door''. This was not the end of the parody: at the end of the credits, where you might expect normal Radio Four service to resume, the second series featured a grovelingly apologetic Maloney or Wilton returning to the mike and apologising for the absence of the continuity announcer, who was indisposed for one reason or another.

* AccentUponTheWrongSyllable: the RunningGag concerning those [[KitschyLocalCommercial cheap awful local commercial radio adverts]], where against all advice the business owner voices the commercial himself and makes a total pig's ear of it. The show's resident used car dealer was once allowed to voice the closing credits using his radio presentation voice.
* CreditsGag: the examples quoted above, where the end credits might be set to a well-known pop song, or the opening credits might be a spoof of some other show. And then there were the post-credits jokes at the expense of the poor continuity announcer, who might be hungover, drunk, indisposed in the toilet after a tainted curry, or else having sex with the continuity announcer from Radio Three...
-->Look, could you stop just for a seoond, get your breath back, and do the link? oh, and ''you'''ve got to announce the Rachmininov Piano Overture in D from the Philharmonia Hall. Thank you. ''(Cut to C.A.)
* FirstContact; Several times, when Dave Hollins tries to speak to alien life forms who are just as bemused with him. Misunderstandings then proliferate.
* GratuitousPanning: the ''Weird Dimension'' sketch (a parody of ''Franchise/TheTwilightZone'') where your stereo radio system is taken over by forces outside of your control. Except for the fact that your right-hand speaker isn't working.
* HeadphonesEqualIsolation: the ''Walkman Brothers'' sketch, in which two men are forever by tragic accident locked into Sony Walkmen which, to compound the misery, are locked to BBC Radio One. "Russell Harty" (aka vocal impressionist Chris Barrie) ''tries'' to interview them for a late-nights Arts programme, discovering they are making the best of it as an interpretative performance act conveying what they hear on Radio One to a paying audience. But it is true that anyone trying to sing along to what they are listening to on a Walkman is not going to be especially good at it, as their interpretation of Billy Joel's "Uptown Girl" proves...

* KitschyLocalCommercial: the show had a resident businessman who voiced all his own commercials on local radio. With the sort of results you might expect.

* RevengeOfTheSequel: See below.
* SequelSeries: To Grant Naylor's original series, ''Cliché''.

* HeadphonesEqualIsolation: the ''Walkman Brothers'' sketch, in which two men are forever by tragic acident locked into Sony Walkmen which, to compound the misery, are locked to BBC Radio One. "Russell Harty" (aka vocal impressionist Chris Barrie) ''tries'' to interview them for a late-nights Arts programme, discovering they are making the best of it as an interpretative performance act conveying what they hear on Radio One to a paying audience. But it is true that anyone trying to sing along to what they are listening to on a Walkman is not going to be especially good at it, as their interpretation of Billy Joel's "Uptown Girl" proves...
* UsefulNotes/HomeCounties: the show was produced and recorded in [[OopNorth Manchester]] [[note]]As was ''Series/RedDwarf''[[/note]], and Northern attitudes to the Home Counties often surfaced. One of the prolonged false endings was a spoof BBC apology about a little fault with the Berkshire radio transmitter (referenced in UsefulNotes/HomeCounties)and a grovelling apology to listeners in the South-East that it wasn't painted exactly the right shade of pastel blue, but rest assured we have decorators working round the clock to resolve this. As for listeners in the north complaining about breakdowns - we'll fix it as soon as we can afford a couple of new elastic bands and a bent paperclip to fix YOUR transmitter, right, so stop bloody whining about it!

* SoundToScreenAdaptation: ''Dave Hollis:Space Cadet'' was re-written and expanded into an [[Series/RedDwarf obscure and little-known sci-fi comedy series]]. The television sci-fi series regularly plundered old Son of Cliché scripts for material, such as ''Attack of the Killer Italian Y-Fronts'' and the ''Tongue-Tied'' song.

This was a radio comedy show on the BBC that ran for several series in 1983-85 and which was written by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor. Produced by comedy veteran [[StartedAtOxbridge John Lloyd]], the show was presented by Nick Maloney, Nick Wilton and a young and relatively un-known Christopher Barrie, at that point famous only for being a vocal impressionist talent on ''Series/SpittingImage''. Musical interludes and comic songs were by Peter Brewis.

This was a radio comedy show on the BBC that ran for several series in 1983-85 and which was written by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor. Produced by comedy veteran John Lloyd, the show was presented by Nick Maloney, Nick Wilton and a young and relatively un-known Christopher Barrie, at that point famous only for being a vocal impressionist talent on ''Series/SpittingImage''. Musical interludes and comic songs were by Peter Brewis.

* YouSayTomato: {{Subverted}} in a sketch where the two singers perfoming "Let's call the whole thing off" go to the producer complaining the song doesn't make sense. One, an American, complains the lines are nonsense - she proves her point by singing "You say tomayto and I say tomayto", using the "tomayto" pronunciation throughout. Her Engish co-singer similarly says "You say poh-tay-to and I say poh-tay-to" is just as silly. He frankly can't see the point of the song either...

* GratuitousPanning: the ''Weird Dimension'' sketch (a parody of ''TheTwilightZone'') where your stereo radio system is taken over by forces outside of your control. Except for the fact that your right-hand speaker isn't working.