• 14
    watchers
  • 62
    plays
  • 70
    collected
  • 1984-01-03T00:00:00Z on BBC Two
  • 30m
  • 2h (4 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
Best remembered for giving early exposure to the still little-known Rik Mayall, A Kick Up the Eighties had little other connection to the alternative comedy boom. The series' roots were much older, its format lifted from '60s satirical show The Frost Report (BBC, 1966-67), with former Nationwide (BBC, 1969-84) presenter and humorist Richard Stilgoe in the David Frost role. Each edition featured a series of sketches around a particular social theme (work, death, sex, television), threaded together by Stilgoe's lightly cynical commentary. When the series returned in 1984, with Robbie Coltrane in Stilgoe's place, it had taken on a more straightforward sketch show format, though retaining Turvey's tortuous investigations. Note: The poster is from an unrelated book cover. Fan Art is not of the cast, but of a UK covers band of the same name.

4 episodes

Season Premiere

1984-01-03T00:00:00Z

2x01 Sex Again

Season Premiere

2x01 Sex Again

  • 1984-01-03T00:00:00Z30m

A dramatised re-enactment of the Second World War. Filmed entirely in and around the Arndale Shopping Centre, Leeds.
1: Hitler annexes Dewhurst Butchers and W.H. Smith's. Chamberlain tells him to stay out of Tesco's. Hitler's 8th Panzer trolleys invade Tesco's. Chamberlain declares war and sends in task force across the car park and into Burton's Outfitters. Japan mounts a surprise attack and bombs Woolworth's.

1984-01-10T00:00:00Z

2x02 Depression

2x02 Depression

  • 1984-01-10T00:00:00Z30m

The only TV quiz game that's obviously fixed.
This week Mr and Mrs Dunce from Jarrow are going to nearly win a new car, but they are going to blow it on the last question.

2x03 Nasty Little Sticky Things...

  • 1984-01-17T00:00:00Z30m

Why do successive governments refuse to discuss the strange signals coming from Jupiter? Backache - are beansprouts the answer? Marilyn Monroe - alive and well and working in Woolworth's?
A Kick Up the Eighties completely ignores these questions and instead pokes its nose into other things.
Filmed entirely on location in a nudist camp.

Season Finale

1984-01-24T00:00:00Z

2x04 The Supernatural

Season Finale

2x04 The Supernatural

  • 1984-01-24T00:00:00Z30m

The show the government tried to ban. This week the experts show you how to:
Avoid paying any tax. By-pass your electricity meter. Forge perfect bank-notes. Grow a new head of hair. And it's all legal!

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