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All Episodes 1986 - 1989

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  • 1986-02-16T22:00:00Z
  • 30m
  • 6h (12 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.

13 episodes

Special 1 The Rat Sat on the Cat

  • 1989-03-10T22:00:00Z30m

Twiggy threatens to demolish an 11th century church and replace it with the new tower block. Harry defends a Crucible story about cat food.

Series Premiere

1986-02-16T22:00:00Z

1x01 The Tell-Tale Heart

Series Premiere

1x01 The Tell-Tale Heart

  • 1986-02-16T22:00:00Z30m

Entrepreneur Twiggy Rathbone buys a failing Fleet Street newspaper, The Daily Crucible, and the first coup of the new managing editor Russell Spam is an exclusive smear of Prince Andrew's latest girlfriend and the discovery of Nikita Khrushchev, alive and well in Switzerland.

1986-02-23T22:00:00Z

1x02 The Modern Promethius

1x02 The Modern Promethius

  • 1986-02-23T22:00:00Z30m

The Crucible launches an all-out campaign supporting a return to capital punishment by interviewing murder victims through a seance and interviewing the brother of a state executioner who hanged himself. Spam discovers the man identified as Khrushchev is a fake, and the fellow dies during a live televsion interview.

1986-03-02T22:00:00Z

1x03 Beyond the Infinite

1x03 Beyond the Infinite

  • 1986-03-02T22:00:00Z30m

Spam launches an anti-Red campaign against Father Teasdale, and introduces ""Wobblevision"" to the page three beauties as a circulation ploy. Bill Tytla receives a mysterious tip that a nurse knows something sinister about the death of Donald Kubelsky, the Khrushchev impersonator.

1986-03-09T22:00:00Z

1x04 Casting the Runes

1x04 Casting the Runes

  • 1986-03-09T22:00:00Z30m

Kettle and Spam continue their persecution of Father Teasdale by adding charges of lycanthropy, Rathbone rails against Spitting Image, and Tytla looks into charges (from an anonymous source calling himself ""Sore Throat"") that the police are involved in covering up the Kubelsky murder.

1x05 The Slaughter of the Innocent

  • 1986-03-16T22:00:00Z30m

Rathbone negotiates a compromise to keep Father Teasdale's church open, Kettle stumbles on a multiple birth, and Tytla is caught while searching for Sore Throat's papers.

Season Finale

1986-03-23T22:00:00Z

1x06 The Respectable Prostitute

Season Finale

1x06 The Respectable Prostitute

  • 1986-03-23T22:00:00Z30m

Stringer springs back into action as he gets to the bottom of the Khrushchev impersonator's death and uncovers a political sex scandal.

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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