As every comedy schoolboy should know by now, the Not The Nine O'Clock News "pilot" is something of a misnomer. It was in fact originally intended as the first show of what would have been their first series, recorded on the 31st of March 1979 and scheduled for broadcast on BBC2 on the 2nd of April 1979, but pulled at the eleventh hour. Starring ROWAN ATKINSON CHRIS EMMET WILLOUGHBY GODDARD CHRISTOPHER GODWIN JOHN GORMAN JONATHAN HYDE CHRIS LANGHAM Written by PETER SPENCE CHRIS MILLER ANDY HAMILTON BARRY PILTON CHRIS ALLEN LAURIE ROWLEY ROWAN ATKINSON RICHARD CURTIS MIKE BURGESS ANDY STEVENSON Producers JOHN LLOYD SEAN HARDIE (thetvdb.com)