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The New Statesman - Season 1 (1987)  link to The New Statesman - Season 1 on IMDb  

Number: 448

poster The New Statesman - Season 1

IMDb Rating:
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7.9/10 (1986 votes)

Country: UK,

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Comedy

Director(s): Geoffrey Sax, Graeme Harper, Marcus Mortimer

Video Codec: Unknown

Storyline:
Tells the adventures of Conservative MP Alan B'Stard, a man who doesn't have any morals at all. He stops at nothing to make himself richer and more powerful in the party and is involved in drugs, adult films, fraud (making up charities with the initials C.A.S.H when writing on cheques) and even murder but believes that he will never be caught as he is a Conservative MP and therefore all powerful. He has almost complete power over another MP - Piers Fletcher-Dervish who is nearly completely brainless. His wife Sarah B'Stard has very loose morals (both of them have affairs mostly every day) and has hated her husband from five minutes after they got married and tries to use Alan to get anything she wants. Each episode contains recent news items and Alan moves with the times with things like the end of the cold war, the Nazi hunt in the late 80's as well as the Animal Freedom Party. Keeping up with the huge amount of cash, Alan moves (in the 4th season) to the European Union to continue ...

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Cast:

photo Rik Mayall Rik Mayall Alan B'Stard, 29 episodes, 1987-1994
photo Michael Troughton Michael Troughton Piers Fletcher-Dervish, 26 episodes, 1987-1992
photo Marsha Fitzalan Marsha Fitzalan Sarah B'Stard, 21 episodes, 1987-1992
photo Terence Alexander Terence Alexander Sir Greville McDonald, 8 episodes, 1989-1992
photo John Nettleton John Nettleton Sir Stephen Baxter, 5 episodes, 1987-1989

Medium: Media file,

Location: D:\strm\TV\The New Statesman\The New Statesman.mp4

Loaned: No

Aspect ratio: Unknown