Season 8

Episodes • 1995

Mel Smith
Griff Rhys Jones
Bad Microphones

1. Bad Microphones

30 min

The long-time collaboration between Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones continues as they return with a six part comedy series full of observational humour, man-to-man duologues and hard-hitting lunacy.

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Prescription Drugs

2. Prescription Drugs

30 min

With Jonathan Kydd and Steffanie Pitt.

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Missing Link

3. Missing Link

30 min

Maggie Philbin joins Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones in their new comedy series to launch Thick Aid - a charity helping the stupid to help themselves. Plus, other comic sketches including the problem of ordering food in a Japanese restaurant, and Mel worrying that he is getting too old to, "pull the birds."

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Griff has Stage Fright

4. Griff has Stage Fright

30 min

More fast-moving comedy and sharp-edged sketches from Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones. Including sketches about a visit to a brothel which specialises in correction, a cabinet minister who has trouble with his equipment, and the duo consider adopting children from foreign countries. Tonight's special guest is Lynda Baron.

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Tails

5. Tails

30 min

In a programme originally scheduled for 13 September, Dinsdale Landen plays an unintelligible country squire when he joins Mel and Griff. The duo discuss the joys of body piercing and present sketches including a comic look at the law of probability.

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Rough Direction

6. Rough Direction

30 min

Last in the series of fast-moving comedy and sharp-edged sketches, from Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones. With guests Stratford Johns and Geraldine James.

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