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- A black-comedy satire based in London suburbs: an extreme and lowlife group of characters, living in a grim apartment building in the fictional postcode of SE69, who were plagued by various dilemmas involving foul language, sex, and violence.
- The Mary Whitehouse Experience was an rapid-fire observational sketch comedy show, which first aired on radio, and then moved to television, where it ran on the BBC (BBC 2), between 1990-1992. It's title was a tongue-in-cheek jab on the well-known morality crusader, Mary Whitehouse. The show featured a lot of topical humour, based on famous people, films and TV shows of the day, along with original character material, in a format somewhat similar to _"Kids In the Hall (1988)". The series starred 2 comedy duos (who had all graduated from Cambridge University); Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis, and David Baddiel and Rob Newman. It was first broadcast on the radio during the late 1980s, before airing to TV.
- Daniel Craig is skeptical about Phoebe Waller-Bridge's edgy new direction for James Bond.
- As First Lady Nancy Reagan holds an celebrity-filled anniversary party at the White House, President Ronald Reagan's aides desperately attempt to prevent an unprovoked nuclear attack he accidentally ordered.
- Europe; the plague years. A wigmaker, locked in his shop, observes the events and writes about them in his journal. Mostly, we see shrouded bodies, and a young girl who lives in the tavern across the way that gets progressively sicker. When she dies, the wigmaker goes to the mass grave where she's buried and cuts off her luxurious red hair; he makes himself a wig from it, and soon dies.
- David Baddiel and Rob Newman present their popular 'History Today' sketches which include live concert footage from the 1992 Edinburgh Festival.
- A secret cabal of celebrities plots to dominate the US government by running Sylvester Stallone as President.
- Woody Allen writes more movies about life, Hoffman, De Niro and Pacino have an identity crisis, Spielberg struggles under the weight of all his money, and refusal to take him as a serious actor pushes Leonard Nimoy over the edge.
- A documentary about David Baddiel and Rob Newman making their TV series and going on tour around the UK.
- Official music video for "So Good to Me" by Chris Malinchak.
- 1984–19967.7 (24)TV EpisodePlease join us now as we pass through history's golden years to illuminate the illustrious life of actor, lifeguard, underpants salesman, GE spokesman, husband of Jane Wyman, friend of Frank Sinatra, Governor of California and finally President of the United States: Ronald Wilson Reagan. Let the real truth be told. Reagan's true life is only known by the genius of Fuck & Law puppetry, John Lloyd producing, Geoffrey Perkins directing and Ian Hislop writing, Voices of Cliff Taylor, John Sessions, Chris Berrie, just to name a few.
- While the Daily Crucible makes hay with its outrageous depiction of Father Teasdale as a militant Marxist, its proprietor Twiggy Rathbone finds reason to denounce public misrepresentation. Meanwhile, Bill Tytla's on the trail of a murderer.
- In this episode; the harshness of Lester Piggott's prison sentence is put under scrutiny, there is the latest single from Michael Jackson - I'm Mad - and Peter Wright is The Spy Who Lived in Australia.
- Prince Charles attempts to improve his street cred by hanging out with rock stars, Thatcher tells the Cabinet to re-privatise the already privatised British Telecom and there is more confusion for Ronald Reagan at Caspar Weinberger's retirement bash.
- Donald Sinden presents a Royal Bust-Up Special can it be true that Sir Alastair has split from the Royal couple? Ronald Reagan ponders his eventual retirement and George Bush tries to beef up his image.
- In this episode, The Sun celebrates its 18th birthday, there is an update on the 'Great Richard Branson Virgin World Ego Trip Challenge' and in court Sly Stallone launches an action over the ownership of Brigitte Nielsen's breasts.
- In this episode; there is panic at the BBC when Sue Lawley's legs disappear, Steve 'Interesting' Davis goes to Buckingham Palace to collect his MBE, and Elizabeth Taylor checks into the 'Betty Ford Celebrity Drying Out Clinic'.
- Muriel Gray looks at the future of television, there is a rendition of Kill An Estate Agent Today, Princess Di installs a satellite dish at the palace, there is a look at the popular Russian daytime soap Comrades and a warning of the privatisation of Britain's Railways. This show also closes with the epic Margaret Thatcher rendition of Frank Sinatra's (I Did It) My Way.
- Prince Andrew is in trouble with his Pa for the size of his unmentionables, Wogan chooses Sooty to stand in as his holiday replacement and Mrs. Thatcher works on a new, softer image.
- We visit a nursing home for terminally bewildered ex-prime ministers, Bob Dylan performs a protest song about cheese, Colonel Muammar Gadaffi presents the award for International Terrorist of the Year, the Reverend Ian Paisley tells God what's what and there's the latest thrilling video from Michael Jackson - or is that Diana Ross?
- The Royals sit down to a game of Monopoly but it is a foregone conclusion who is going to win! Neil Kinnock wrestles with his conscience (James Callaghan as a devil and Michael Foot as an angel on each shoulder), Brian Walden is subjected to an interrogation by Rupert Murdoch's henchmen and it's Let's Speak Afrikaans with P.W. Botha.
- There is strife on the studio floor when Robin Day refuses to give up the BBC jumper, Cecil Parkinson - the man who made just one mistake, twice a night for fourteen years - is offered the job of foreign secretary, and preparations are underway at No. 10 for Mark Thatcher's wedding.
- The two year-old Prince William blackmails Charles into abdicating, Thatcher and Kinnock go head-to-head on an edition of Call My Bluff hosted by Jim Callaghan and we look at How to be a University Student.
- Mrs. Thatcher takes some neighbourly advice over the privet hedge from the gentleman at No. 9, a Herr von Wilcox (who happens to bear an uncanny resemblance to Adolf Hitler), Bob Dylan sings a song about his stolen underpants, and Ronald Reagan features in the latest instalment of The President's Brain is Missing.
- Thatcher and Tebbit interrogate Nigel Lawson on his budget proposals, Mark Thatcher opens his first bank account, Prince Charles visits The Falklands and Janet Street Germ reports live from Nancy Reagan's navel.
- Shirley Williams is dragged backwards through a hedge in preparation for an appearance on Newsnight, Prince Philip has a flirty encounter with Nancy Reagan aboard the Royal Yacht Britannia, David Attenborough is on the look out for an anteater and Mary Whitehouse takes an ice-cold bath.
- We go behind the scenes as Patrick Lichfield photographs the Queen, 'Randy Andy' Prince Andrew and Prince Charles compare fan letters and Prince Phillip introduces Charles to a secret society meeting in the Buckingham Palace laundry.
- In this episode we finally find out the whereabouts of Lord Lucan: could he have been hiding out in Cyril Smith's oversized trousers all this time? Barry Manilow's encounter with an obsessive anteater leads to a case of mistaken identity and Mrs. Thatcher's cabinet prepare for nuclear war.