The Shuttleworths' various adventures have featured on several radio shows, including
The Shuttleworths, ''Shuttleworth's Showtime
and Radio Shuttleworth, with Fellows supplying all the voices and performing on his organ. He also made a four-part TV series supposedly filmed by Worthington, 500 Bus Stops'' (the title being a parodying reference to
Frank Zappa's
200 Motels), about a UK national tour thwarted very early when his beloved
Y-reg Austin Ambassador broke down, but then continued by public transport. The venues visited were invariably mundane and uninspiring, and situations experienced usually demoralising, but were optimistically dealt with as if they were defining moments in his career. There followed a television special,
Europigeon, following the success (or otherwise) of "Pigeons in Flight". In May 2008 Fellows appeared in the
BBC's
Comedy Map of Britain in which he discussed the origin of his Shuttleworth character. In February 2019,
The Shuttleworths was placed at number 26 in the
Radio Times 'Top 30 From
Plomley To
Peel' poll of BBC radio shows (Radio Times print edition, 16–22 February 2019).
Radio •
The Shuttleworths (6 series,
Radio 4, 1993–2010; 2022) • ''
Shuttleworth's Showtime'' (1 series,
Radio 1, 1994) •
Radio Shuttleworth (2 series, Radio 4, 1998–2000) • ''
John Shuttleworth's Open Mind'' (1 series, Radio 4, 2006) • ''
John Shuttleworth's Lounge Music'' (2 series, Radio 4, 2014–2016) Shuttleworth has also guested on
Mark and Lard's
Graveyard Shift on Radio 1 and on Radio 4's
Loose Ends.
Television series •
Saturday Zoo (
Channel 4, 1993) – Shuttleworth had a regular slot on Jonathan Ross' TV series •
500 Bus Stops (
BBC Two, 1997) four-part
rockumentary •
Europigeon (BBC Two, 1998) – This is a television version of the radio special
Europigeon, which was included in series 2 of
The Shuttleworths. Shuttleworth writes the song
Pigeons in Flight, which he hopes will represent the UK at the 1998
Eurovision Song Contest. With advice from
Terry Wogan, Shuttleworth attempts to persuade former Norwegian 'nul pointer'
Jahn Teigen to sing the song, but is disappointed by Teigen's performance. Having failed to get his song into the competition, Shuttleworth works backstage as a steward for the contest in Birmingham, where he imagines his song being performed by several former Eurovision artists:
Katrina of
The Waves,
Johnny Logan,
Lynsey de Paul,
Clodagh Rodgers,
Bruce Welch of
The Shadows,
Cheryl Baker of
Bucks Fizz and
Brotherhood of Man. • ''
It's Nice Up North'' (2006) •
Southern Softies (2009) •
The Shuttleworths (animated series, not yet broadcast) – in 2012, work started on an animated version of
The Shuttleworths, and a half-hour pilot film was written and performed by Fellows, animated and directed by Kevin Baldwin, and produced by Will Yapp A
crowdfunding page was set up to provide financing for the project. Fellows explained, in an interview for
The Scotsman, in March 2015: "It does make me think he [John Shuttleworth] needs to be moved into another sphere. By that I am hinting at the animation project we are trying to get off the ground. Kevin Baldwin, who has done a lot of animation for me over the years, and I have worked on an animation of The Shuttleworths. It’s nearly finished and would be a great way to immortalise John." As of December 2015 the programme had not been picked up by a broadcaster, although test scenes and still images were available to view on-line and a short four minute animated teaser, titled "Unaccompanied Lady", was included as an extra on the DVD release of "
It's Nice Up North". In late 2016 a full 22-minute long pilot episode was released through
Amazon Video ''It's Nice Up North and Southern Softies'' In 2006, Fellows (as Shuttleworth) made a film with photographer
Martin Parr, entitled ''
It's Nice Up North, in which Shuttleworth tests his theory that British people are nicer the further north one ventures by visiting the Shetland Islands, the most northerly part of the United Kingdom. In summer 2007 he travelled to the Channel Islands to shoot another film, Southern Softies''. Again featuring an appearance from Parr, Shuttleworth aims to discover whether people are softer the further south you go.
Other TV appearances •
The Paradise Club (
BBC One, 1989–1990) – the character appeared as an auditionee in this drama series •
Christmas with Vic and Bob (
BBC Two, 1993) – Shuttleworth performed his song "The Christmas Orphan" on the channel's Christmas comedy theme night, which was hosted by
Vic Reeves and
Bob Mortimer •
Edinburgh Nights (BBC Two, 1995) – a spoof
Open University-style examination of comedy at the
Edinburgh Festival Fringe •
Fully Booked (BBC One, 1998) – Shuttleworth made a guest appearance on this Sunday morning
CBBC show, at the instigation of co-presenter
Chris Jarvis, a long time Shuttleworth fan •
Sooty (CITV, 2011) – the character appeared as Officer Shuttleworth, a policeman, in 'The Alarm System', an episode of the 2011 revival of
The Sooty Show •
Count Arthur Strong – John Shuttleworth appeared as Arthur's long-lost singing partner, in series 3, Episode 5 "The Three Wishes" ==Other recordings==