Rutland Weekend Television
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... with nipples and tiptoe rusting machinery, rustically inclined. Good evening and welcome to the homepage for Rutland Weekend Television, the smallest, proudest television station in all of Britain. With the help of programming director Eric Idle and regional music services director Neil Innes, we scraped enough money together between 1975 and 1976 to create fourteen original half-hours of programming, as well as a book, a record, and an NBC television movie, The Rutles: All You Need is Cash. These programs were shown on BBC2, which is very popular in Rutland, and are still occasionally rerun in edited form on Britain's UK Arena. But what does it take to truly understand the depth and breadth of the Rutland ethnic experience? Try these links, and decide for yourself.

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For many years Rutland was the smallest county in England, being only 152 square miles. In April 1974, owing to an appalling planning blunder on the part of the British government, it literally ceased to exist. Shortly afterwards Sir Nat Kosher realized the enormous tax benefits of broadcasting from somewhere which didn't legally exist and formed Rutland Weekend Television, Britain's smallest TV station. From its very first broadcast RWTV was greeted with praise from Accountants and Taxation Experts in every walk of life.

- Ray Jenkinson, Managing Director of RWTV (Eric Idle, in the Rutland Dirty Weekend Book)

It's amazing how many letters we've had from people apparently convinced we were a real station operating from Rutland.

- Neil Innes