No turn of the year without Butler James and his Miss Sophie!
also on On New Year’s Eve 2022, the iconic 18-minute sketch will be shown again in the first and third programs of ARD.
So that nobody misses the good-humored dream team and their fight with the classic British food and drink episode, here are all the broadcast dates for the TV classic “Dinner for One”.
“Dinner for One” air dates on December 31 and New Year’s Eve
- 3.30 p.m. on the NDR
- 5.35 p.m. on WDR
- 6.40 p.m. in the first (Das Erste)
- 7 p.m. on the MDR
- 7 p.m. in the RBB
- 7.10 p.m. in HR
- 19.25 on SWR
- 7.40 p.m. on NDR
- 7.40 p.m. in BR
- 11.35 p.m. on the NDR
- 03.45 a.m., RBB
- 5.10 a.m. in the first (Das Erste)
- 5.30 a.m. in the RBB
The “dinner” versions in dialect
Here the sketch is re-enacted by comedians in the respective regional dialect.
- NDR, 12.25 p.m., Aup Platt
- WDR, 4.40 p.m., Dinner for Wan(ne)
- hr television, 4.50 p.m., Hessian version
- WDR, 5.10 p.m., Dinner with Cologne
“Dinner for One” streaming
In addition to the current program, “Dinner for One” can also be seen in the media libraries.
Alternatively, you can of course also watch via streaming providers such as Joyn or in the original version on You Tube.
Freddie Frinton as Butler James and May Warden as Miss Sophie
What Dinner for One is about
The sketch is an NDR production in black and white. You can see a recording from July 8, 1963 in the Theater am Besenbinderhof in Hamburg.
That’s what it’s about: Miss Sophie gets her birthday dinner served by butler James. Because Miss Sophie’s friends and acquaintances are already dead, James has to stand in for everyone to toast. Every time! This makes his job more difficult with every passage…
By the way: The skit is not only an absolute New Year’s classic in Germany. Miss Sophie and her staggering butler also have many fans in Sweden, South Africa and Switzerland.
Only in Great Britain is Miss Sophie’s 90th birthday almost completely unknown. So far, “Dinner for One” has only been shown there once on TV in 2018.
