The first episode was recorded at the BBC's Paris Theatre in Lower Regent Street (former home of Round the Horne) on Monday 17th March 1969, and the final show was transmitted on 27 August 1970.
Of the show's cancellation, Williams noted in his diary (1 September 1970) that "there'd been complaints about how dirty the script was etc", and described it as "a sad end to about 12 years of radio comedy."
"[2] During the summer of 2006 the digital radio station BBC 7 gave Stop Messing About a regular slot, as a break from Round the Horne.
Forty years after the original broadcasts, Stop Messing About was rewritten for the stage, making an initial appearance at the Rose Theatre, Kingston in January 2009.
It starred Robin Sebastian as Kenneth Williams, Nigel Harrison as Hugh Paddick, Charles Armstrong as Douglas Smith and Emma Atkins as Joan Sims.
Kevin Quarmby of the British Theatre Guide called it "an evening of loud whistles and bangs, cringingly dated, sexist and, ultimately, sadly pseudo-homocentric banter."