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Who Dares Wins ...

Season 4 1988

  • 1988-04-19T23:00:00Z on Channel 4
  • 45m
  • 4h 30m (6 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Comedy
Who Dares Wins was a British television comedy sketch show broadcast between 1983 and 1988, featuring Jimmy Mulville, Rory McGrath, Philip Pope, Julia Hills and Tony Robinson. It was one of the first TV outlets for alternative comedy and was broadcast by Channel 4 late at night in a first attempt at "Post-Pub television" (the opening title sequence shows a man staggering home from the pub to get to the television in time for the programme). It was eventually aired by the Playboy Channel in cable television outlets in the United States. The show's title is also the motto of the British Special Air Service regiment (see Who Dares Wins), whose badge featured in the title sequence, and was often supplemented by a subtitle, e.g., "a week in Benidorm". Mulville, McGrath and Pope had all contributed material to Not the Nine O'Clock News. Other script material was provided by Not the Nine O'Clock News regulars Colin Bostock-Smith and Andy Hamilton as well as alternative comedy writer Tony Sarchet. The series established Mulville's Hat Trick Productions as a producer of comedy material for Channel 4. The show was recorded at the former independent production facility Limehouse Studios, on a soundstage in front of a live audience. The programme sometimes satirised current events but the mainstay was simple observational comedy and frequently employed base humour (for example, the tracking camera shot in the title sequence showed a drunk who had urinated in his trousers).

6 episodes

Season Premiere

1988-04-19T23:00:00Z

4x01 Show 1

Season Premiere

4x01 Show 1

  • 1988-04-19T23:00:00Z45m

It's back! The first of a new series of the comedy show that's a must for all intelligent, witty, dynamic, good-looking, sexually attractive people. As for the rest of you, there's probably Indoor Bowls on BBC, unless that's too racy for you. [source: TV Times]

1988-04-26T23:00:00Z

4x02 Show 2

4x02 Show 2

  • 1988-04-26T23:00:00Z45m

The story so far: Brad has been abducted by alien beings who want him to mend the windscreen wipers on their spaceship, while Loretta, the glamorous starlet, has begun a doomed relationship with a lesbian warthog.. I'm dreadfully sorry, this is the billing for Santa Barbara. It should say 'Don't miss Who Dares Wins, the very funny comedy show'. I blame the computer. [source: TV Times]

1988-05-03T23:00:00Z

4x03 Show 3

4x03 Show 3

  • 1988-05-03T23:00:00Z45m

Tonight, the complex issues of the Middle East, Nicaragua and Afghanistan. The team makes an in-depth analysis of these problems, decides they're too difficult and does lots of jokes instead. [source: TV Times]

1988-05-10T23:00:00Z

4x04 Show 4

4x04 Show 4

  • 1988-05-10T23:00:00Z45m

If you are a dull, repressed, drab, boring person who doesn't find anything in life at all funny then do not, repeat do not, watch Who Dares Wins, Channel 4's acclaimed comedy show. It will just upset you. [source: TV Times]

1988-05-17T23:00:00Z

4x05 Show 5

4x05 Show 5

  • 1988-05-17T23:00:00Z45m

This show has everything. Sketches, songs, slapstick, surrealism... um... I've run out of 'S' words. Anyway, don't miss the internationally acclaimed comedy show. (Due to the indisposition of Charlton Heston, Faye Dunaway, Robert De Niro, Sylvester Stallone and Lassie, their parts will be played by members of the Who Dares Wins team.) [source: TV Times]

1988-05-24T23:00:00Z

4x06 Show 6

4x06 Show 6

  • 1988-05-24T23:00:00Z45m

Show 6, and the last of this internationally acclaimed comedy series. The cast of Who Dares Wins are now available for panto. Also for weddings, funerals, baptisms, circumcisions, children's parties, barmitzvahs, SDP conferences, chicken-sexing competitions and gala fridge-openings. All correspondence to Channel Four. [source: TV Times]

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