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Donald Sinden presents a Royal Bust-Up Special can it be true that Sir Alastair has split from the Royal couple? Ronald Reagan ponders his eventual retirement and George Bush tries to beef up his image.
Sketches
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David Owen gives a retiring Bill Rodgers a pound, but takes it back when he learns he got the idea of retiring from him. |
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Series 4 Opening Theme |
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Faith to Faith Presented by Bernard Levin, the panel discusses the issue of homosexuality in the Church of England. |
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A stewardess instructs the emergency procedures for the last board meeting of British Airways. |
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The Royal Bust-Up Special Is it finished between Charles and Diana... and Sir Alastair Burnet? |
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A stereotyped Scottish granny struggles to raise her daughter and asks for help. |
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At Kinnock's pub, he tries calling Hattersley on his cordless telephone, and the Tories don't turn up in the Commons for a debate. |
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George Bush is advised to act macho in a bar, and despite embarrassing himself, a couple say they'll still vote for him. |
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A bat-wielding thug demands a shotgun. |
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In a fairytale, the greedy Baron Maxwell gets a rather literally crappy version of the Midas Touch. |
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There's going to be a police investigation on a company but they don’t have to worry as they were all very irresponsible. |
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Spycatcher has already been read by everyone and adapted multiple times, despite Thatcher's best efforts. |
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Peewee Herman is offered a ticket for Phantom of the Opera for $50 and he manages to get both the ticket and his $50 back. End of Part One |
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David Coleman interviews Bryan Robson on his victory away from home Start of Part Two |
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When asked about the state of the US economy, Reagan replies that it's safe in his hands. |
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Kenneth Baker tells his advisors that he has "brilliant" ideas for education policies, to their dismay. |
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Journalists, from their cages, ask P.W. Botha if he thinks South Africa's reporting restrictions are too harsh. |
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Rupert Murdoch is very happy, not about having one the world’s finest financial newspapers, but about having tits on page 3. |
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Overacting with Donald Sinden |
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The Don't Care Bears |
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A pair of bank robbers think the police are coming but it turns to be some merchant bankers who show them how to really rob the bank. |
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Opera on 2 Featuring Luciano Pavarotti singing about food. |
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A man at a porn shop asks for the Cadbury's Flake advert and gets kicked out. |
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New Faces of 87 Presented by Marti Caine, Robert Maclennan tries to do his best impression of David Owen, with the SDP as the judge panel. |
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A commentating on the Formula One race turns into various different other races. Credits |
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Barry Norman and Selina Scott report on the opening of the film Ishtar, starring Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty. |
Characters
Main
- David Owen
- Bill Rodgers
- Lord Lucan
- Bernard Levin
- Paul Daniels
- Robert Runcie
- John Gummer
- James Anderton
- Prince Charles
- Princess Diana
- Alastair Burnet
- Sandy Gall
- Prince William
- Prince Harry
- Neil Kinnock
- Roy Hattersley
- Michael Foot
- John Smith
- Bryan Gould
- Eric Heffer
- Denis Healey
- Gerald Kaufman
- George H. W. Bush
- Ronald Reagan
- Nancy Reagan
- Robert Maxwell
- Rupert Murdoch
- Douglas Hurd
- Norman Fowler
- Nigel Lawson
- David Young
- Kenneth Baker
- Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Jayne Torvill
- Christopher Dean
- Paul Reubens
- David Coleman
- Bryan Robson
- George Shultz
- P.W. Botha
- Brian Walden
- John Cole
- Donald Sinden
- Laurence Olivier
- John Gielgud
- John Hurt
- Brian Blessed
- John Moore
- Norman Tebbit
- Cecil Parkinson
- Luciano Pavarotti
- PC Dimbleby
- Marti Caine (debut)
- Robert Maclennan (debut)
- David Steel
- Shirley Williams
- Nigel Mansell (debut)
- Barry Norman
- Selina Scott
- Princess Anne
- Mark Philips
- Dustin Hoffman
- Warren Beatty (face obscured)