Talk:Dinner for One

message: The Google Video version seems to be the 11 minute one, not the full 18 minute one?--SarekOfVulcan 00:59, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The 11-minute Swiss version has been released on Region 2 DVD in Germany. The quality is inferior to the German version; the DVD is taken from a film telerecording with optical sound, while the 18-minute version is taken from the 625-line videotape.Lee M (talk) 21:40, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Google link 

message: Hi. The assertion that DfO is famous in Australia troubles me a bit. There is of course the usual "what is famous?" problem but at least in the case of say Germany or Austria there is plenty to support the idea of some kind, any kind, of fame. In the case of Australia I am less sure and the person who added it left no edit summary and no reference. As a precaution against it being a joke I am removing it: if you would like to replace it I would be happy to see it back in as long as there was some evidence. Thanks. 82.45.248.177 14:51, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Today is .... see date. Just saw James stumbling around in B/W on my nice colour TV, advertising today's broadcast. This former German has known DfO only since coming to Australia, true. I have seen so many adverts for its broadcast, it isn't funny. Actually, the NDR (Norddeutscher Rundfunk, Hamburg) must still own the broadcast rights and they'd know in their licensing department who they have licenced for broadcast and for how often,  or at least AUS figures. 144.136.192.32 (talk) 08:41, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks very much. The article does now say that it is seen in Australia, so it looks like this was fixed some time in the six years since the question was raised ... :) Best wishes DBaK (talk) 13:33, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Australia 

message: In Germany the title "Dinner for one" is used too. The German title is "Der 90. Geburtstag" - but I can not remember that the title have been used by any tv station.
:Then look at the white middle-titles.217.189.236.208 (talk) 18:35, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Germany 

message: Being an American living in Germany for close to 20 years (and having seen the broadcast enough times), I have to concur with the opinion that the program has probably not been [widely?] seen in the USA because Americans would most likely not find it entertaining, much less amusing..213.61.105.154 11:37, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  USA 

message: While this may have been true a few years ago, the - to us - strange European fascination with this sketch has become a bit of a regular feature of media discussions of how the Continent sees us (most recently in tonight's QI) - the article carries a link to a 2002 UK newspaper article about the phenomenon which is certainly far from being the only one in the last ten years or so. While the sketch itself may be little-known, the fact that it is little known is, conversely, something that seems to be brought up in the media quite frequently - when did this start? Ghughesarch (talk) 23:19, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Probably around the time Millard Filmore became universally known as an obscure President of the US... 141.30.210.129 (talk) 21:04, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

text: Being shown on Sky Arts in the UK on New Year's Eve 2018.86.145.209.197 (talk) 09:42, 21 December 2018 (UTC)

text: King Charles alluded to this at the state banquet in Berlin today. BBC reported it as a joke about not dining alone! Whoosh ... 2A00:23C8:660A:5A01:ECF5:60EA:C9B7:825C (talk) 21:21, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: "Almost totally unknown in Britain"?

message: When British friends come to visit me I usually show them a recording of Dinner for One, and they all roll with laughter and have tears in their eyes. 
DfO has become a cult programme also in former East Block countries, not only everywhere in Western Europe. 
I read somewhere that the Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR), who made the original recording, offered it to the BBC, but they declined, claiming it did not meet BBC standards.
One reason may be the role of excessive drinking. Not only austere Sweden seems to be wary in this respect. What a pity the two actors did not live to see their international fame. Ontologix (talk) 07:02, 6 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I really can't believe the Beeb would ban a sketch for something as trivial as drinking. I'm sure there must be plenty of inebriate sketches in the BBC archive. Lee M (talk) 06:32, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps more likely, at the time, to have been the risque ending? or even the technical quality of the recording? Ghughesarch (talk) 13:01, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rolling with Laughter 

message: Hello, I am from Germany, so pleace talk in "simple" English. I wonder the meaning of "I'll kill that cat" after James drunk out of the vase. Is it a phrase? Or a colloquialism? Or has he meant the "cat" on the ground? Can anybody explain that to me?--31.17.95.71 (talk) 14:16, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Hello, I'm from England! I'm very sorry that you had to wait almost a year for a reply. No, it's not a specific phrase that he's referring to; I suspect, though, that what he's saying is that the cat has peed in the flowers (Die Katze hat in den Blumen uriniert) and that despite his drunk state he has just realized what he's done ... Hope this helps. I don't think that there is much scope to include this in the article, if that's what you were wondering, as the summary doesn't go into that level of detail. Best wishes, DBaK (talk) 13:13, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  I'll kill that cat