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Season 2 1988

  • 1988-03-06T22:00:00Z on ITV
  • 30m
  • 3h (6 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Comedy
Twiggy Rathbone, newspaper tycoon and owner of Rathouse International, relaunches his 'Daily Crucible' newspaper to a completely downmarket, sex and sleaze-centric tabloid - much to the dismay of the outgoing editor, Harry Stringer.

6 episodes

Season Premiere

1988-03-06T22:00:00Z

2x01 Religion of the People

Season Premiere

2x01 Religion of the People

  • 1988-03-06T22:00:00Z30m

Twiggy finds a replacement for the missing Harold Stringer, Greg Kettle acquires a government list of all known AIDS carriers and Spam signs up God as an advice columnist through Sergeant-Major Ken Lutterworth.

1988-03-13T22:00:00Z

2x02 The Joker to the Thief

2x02 The Joker to the Thief

  • 1988-03-13T22:00:00Z30m

Spam sets up Lipton for a serious assault when he imprisons an overweight woman and wires her jaw shut while he and Kettle pursue a sex scandal at an innocent pre-school. Maggie Troon follows up a lead about a mass murder involving the family of a High Court judge.

1988-03-20T22:00:00Z

2x03 The Hydra's Head

2x03 The Hydra's Head

  • 1988-03-20T22:00:00Z30m

Lipton tries to vet every story as Spam begins publishing 24 hours a day, Kettle competes with the Daily Star to save a Nicarauguan horse from the glue factory, and Maggie Troon discovers another murder as she continues to investigate the judge and his family.

1988-03-27T21:00:00Z

2x04 The Twilight Zone

2x04 The Twilight Zone

  • 1988-03-27T21:00:00Z30m

1988-04-10T21:00:00Z

2x05 Crown of Thorns

2x05 Crown of Thorns

  • 1988-04-10T21:00:00Z30m

Lipton begins to lose his grip on reality as the buxom beauties of page three go on strike, Twiggy opens ""Rat World"", Kettle infiltrates EastEnders, and Maggie Troon discovers odd evidence of an alien presence at the mass murder site.

1988-04-17T21:00:00Z

2x06 Unleash the Kracken

2x06 Unleash the Kracken

  • 1988-04-17T21:00:00Z30m

Maggie continues to dig into the Hitchcock murders amid rumors of UFOs while Spam and Lipton try different ways of spiking a critical government report on newspaper standards and practices.

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