The new statesman [videorecording] : the complete series / Yorkshire Television ; written and created by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran ; directed by Geoffrey Sax, Graeme Harper.
Rik Mayall, Michael Troughton, Marsha Fitzalan, Nick Stringer, John Nettleton, Terence Alexander. Originally broadcast by ITV 1987-1992. The hilarious Rik Mayall 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.
Contents:
disc 4. Who show Alan B'stard? Passport to freedom ; Sex is wrong ; Waste not, want not ; Friends of St James ; Three line whipping ; Baa baa black sheep -- disc 2. Fatal extraction ; Live from Westminster ; The Wapping conspiracy ; The Haltemprice bunker ; California here I come ; May the best man win ; Piers of the realm -- Labour of love ; The party's over ; Let them sniff cake ; Natural selection ; Profit of boom -- disc 4. Back from the mort ; H*A*S*H ; Speaking in tongues ; Heil and farewell ; A bigger splash ; The irresistible rise of Alan B'Stard ; Who show Alan B'stard?
Summary:
Rik Mayall stars as the unethical politician Alan B'Stard in a satire of 1980's British, political conservatism.
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