Dinner For One.

Dinner For One... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1v4BYV-YvA

Is a 18 minute single take black-and-white 1963 TV recording that has a huge cult following in Germany. It is shown every year on New Years Eve on virtually every major German channel at some point.

So I'm curious as to whether other countries have adopted this tradition?

 

Oh, yes. It's always aired here in Sweden on new years eve.
It has been so for as long as I can remember, so probably more than 40 years.

 

Must be an acquired taste...

 

It's also shown in Denmark.

 

It's not to mine to be honest but I became aware of the tradition a few years back and as that time of year approaches again became curious...

I found it quite interesting that a quirky little programme mostly forgotten in the UK has such a following elsewhere...

I actually found it playing a somewhat geeky New Year's Eve game of "chasing midnight" where you attempt to find New Year's Eve celebrations live from as many countries as possible... If you toast each one you'd struggle to make it as far as ours

 

Details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinner_for_One

 

Aye - My German relatives laugh loudly at that every year.

 

Well, you know what they say about the German sense of humour - it's no laughing matter - but their jokes about sausage are the wurst!

I'll get my coat...

 

Even in 1963 I don't think I would have found this funny but I think my Mum and Dad would have.

 

I had not seen that film before and i enjoyed it!

It's eccentric and delightfully old fashioned!

 

Jeff, I like your way of thinking

 

It's a comedy classic, in line with Tommy Cooper and Norman Wisdom.

Love it.

 

I've borrowed this information from another message board...

A full (as far as I know) list of airings on 31st December