The Mystery Of DINNER FOR ONE

(From www.slate.com -- By Jude Stewart)

Every New Year's Eve, half of all Germans plunk down in front of their televisions to watch a 1963 English comedy sketch called DINNER FOR ONE.

Walk into any bar in Bavaria and shout the film's refrain:
"The same procedure as last year, madam?"

The whole crowd will shout back in automatic, if stilted, English:
"The same procedure as every year, James."

Even though DINNER FOR ONE is, according to THE GUINNESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS, the most frequently repeated TV program ever, it has never been aired in the United Kingdom or the United States, and most of the English-speaking world is ignorant of its existence.

When DER SPIEGEL probed the mystery last New Year's, it found that the BBC had not only never contemplated broadcasting this veddy British nugget in the United Kingdom, the BBC's spokesperson had never even heard of it.

The Mystery Of Dinner For One

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