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{{short description|British television comedy sketch show}}
{{about||a compilation album of [[Wet Wet Wet]]|End of Part One: Their Greatest Hits|a video compilation by the same band|End of Part One: Their Greatest Hits (video)}}
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{{Infobox television
| image = End of Part One.jpg
| caption =
| picture_format = [[4:3]]
| runtime = 30 minutes
| creator = [[David Renwick]] and [[Andrew Marshall (writer)|Andrew Marshall]]
| director = [[Geoffrey Sax]]
| presenter =
| channel = [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]]
| first_aired = {{Start date|1979|04|15|df=y}}
| last_aired = {{End date|1980|11|23|df=y}}
| num_series = 2
| num_episodes = 14
| country = United Kingdom
| composer = [[Nigel Hess]]
| producer = [[Simon Brett]] (Series 1) and [[Humphrey Barclay]] (Series 2)
| company = [[London Weekend Television|LWT]]
| distributor = [[ITV Studios]]
| related =
}}

'''''End of Part One''''' is a British [[television]] comedy [[sketch show]] written by [[David Renwick]] and [[Andrew Marshall (writer)|Andrew Marshall]]; it was made by [[London Weekend Television]]. It ran for two series on [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]], from 1979 to 1980 and was an attempt at a TV version of ''[[The Burkiss Way]]''. The first series concerned the lives of Norman and Vera Straightman, who had their lives interrupted by various television personalities of the day. The second series was mainly a straight succession of parodies of TV shows of the time, including ''[[Larry Grayson]]'s [[The Generation Game|Generation Game]]'' and ''[[Nationwide (TV series)|Nationwide]]''.

==Cast==
The cast included [[Sue Holderness]], [[Denise Coffey]], [[Fred Harris (presenter)|Fred Harris]], Dudley Stevens, [[David Simeon]], and [[Tony Aitken]]. Coffey had appeared in ''The Burkiss Way's'' first 6 episodes, but Harris was the only permanent cast member to appear in ''End of Part One''. One of the directors was future feature film director [[Geoffrey Sax]].

==Episodes and scheduling==

Both series were shown on Sunday afternoons. Series 1 was transmitted between 15 April and 27 May 1979 at 5.30pm with series 2 being transmitted between 12 October and 23 November 1980 at 4.00pm.

Marshall and Renwick blamed the show's relative lack of success due to it being shown in a Sunday afternoon timeslot, lamenting in an interview that it was "a show no-one knows about, at a time no-one would watch it anyway." In 1981, they decided not to write another series because LWT would not move it to a more favourable timeslot.

===Repeats===
Although ''End of Part One'' never received a network repeat, some ITV companies did repeat either or both series and in some cases, in the later timeslot originally envisaged by the writers.

Known repeat slots are:
* Anglia: October – December 1981, early evenings
* [[Grampian]]: 30 June - 11 August 1981 at 5.15
* [[Scotland|Scottish]]: 9 July – 27 August 1981, 6.30 + <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=be5AAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lKcMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2408,1078927|title=The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search|website=News.google.com|access-date=28 May 2022}}</ref>
* LWT - July–August 1980 (series 1) and July–August 1981 (series 2), Friday nights
* Southern: July –September 1981
* TSW: January–March 1982, Thursday afternoons
* Tyne Tees: July–August 1981, 5.15.

==Home release==
The complete series was released on 5 November 2012 in a release on [[DVD]] from Network. All fourteen episodes are included.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060215115051/http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/e/endofpartone_1299001043.shtml Comedy Guide - ''End of Part One''] at [[bbc.co.uk]]
* {{IMDb title|237963}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20121023232022/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/series/7267 BFI.org]

[[Category:ITV sketch shows]]
[[Category:1980s British television sketch shows]]
[[Category:1970s British television sketch shows]]
[[Category:1979 British television series debuts]]
[[Category:1980 British television series endings]]
[[Category:Television series about television]]
[[Category:London Weekend Television shows]]
[[Category:English-language television shows]]

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