Name: Scarfe's Follies
Released: 1988-01-28

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S7 · E12 — Scarfe's Follies

S7:E12 · Scarfe's Follies

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Scarfe's Follies

Season 7 · Episode 12 · Jan 28, 1988

Scarfe's Follies with Bob Geldof, Jane Asher, Terry Jones, Ian McKellen, Robin Bailey, Julian Glover, Marcia Warren, John Bird, John Challis, John Watts, Nellie the elephant and Ivy the camel. Gerald Scarfe records the follies of man in his cartoons. Now he wants to create his own folly. But what are follies - and why did eccentrics build them? Surrounded by high-kicking follies girls and borne by noble beasts, Scarfe sets off on a quest of discovery. He encounters a naughty vicar who built a folly garden for his gypsy girlfriend; a Welshman who burned his own son; a politician who got voters drunk; a man whose house resembles a jungle; and 'Mad Jack' Fuller, who built a steeple overnight to win a wager, and was buried in a pyramid with a bottle of port and a cold chicken. And as all the best follies contained a resident hermit, Scarfe advertises for one in the Times - with startling results.

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40 Minutes

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198140m6.4

Documentary

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Scarfe's Follies

Season 7 · Episode 12 · Jan 28, 1988

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