NEW STATESMAN

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• Release Year: 1992
• Genre: Comedy
• Plot: The hilarious Rik Mayall (The Young Ones, Bottom) stars as the cunning politician Alan B'Stard in this outrageously satirical British TV series. In his ruthless pursuit of power and money, there are no depths to which B'Stard will not happily sink, no plot too dastardly. With the help of his equally deceitful wife and his wimpy assistant, B'Stard schemes his way through his career. You'll be gasping with laughter through all 26 irresistible episodes of this award-winning series, plus the feature-length special, Who Shot Alan B'Stard?; ; DISC ONE: SEASON ONE; • Happiness Is a Warm Gun; • Passport to Freedom; • Waste Not, Want Not; • Friends of St. James; • Three Line Whipping; • Baa Baa Black Sheep; ; DISC TWO: SEASON TWO; • Fatal Extraction; • Live from Westminster; • The Wapping Conspiracy; • The Haltemprice Bunker; • California, Here I Come; • May the Best Man Win; • Piers of the Realm; ; DISC THREE: SEASON THREE; • Labour of Love; • The Party's Over; • Let Them Sniff Cake; • Keeping Mum; • Natural Selection; • Profit of Boom; ; DISC FOUR: SEASON FOUR; • Back from the Mort; • H*A*S*H; • Speaking in Tongues; • Hell and Farewell; • A Bigger Splash; • The Irrestible Rise of Alan B'Stard; Bonus Special: Who Shot Alan B'Stard?
• Cast: Rik Mayall, Michael Troughton, Marsha Fitzalan, Terence Alexander, Rowena Cooper, John Nettleton, Berwick Kaler, Nick Stringer, Steve Nallon, Victor Lucas, Vivien Heilbron, Brigitte Kahn, Adam Wide, John Carlin, Benjamin Whitrow, John Warnaby, Alan Hardwick, Charles Gray, Peter Sallis, Martin Friend, Andy Serkis, Celia Imrie, Jerome Willis, David Simeon, Judith Hibbert, Jim Brogan, Tip Tipping
• Runtime: 10:40
• Company: Yorkshire Television, Granada International, Image Entertainment
• Media Format: Series