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Season 1

  • S01E01 Pratt Outta Hell

    • September 4, 1986
    • BBC One

    This week the hero, Vince, motorcycle despatch rider and master of the verbal wheelie, scorches his way through the metropolis in a leather-gussetted mission of life or death.

  • S01E02 Popsi

    • September 11, 1986

    Popsi is a traditional Jamaican barber. To him, blow waves and mousse are technological mysteries on a level with the silicon chip and the roasting bag. How is he managing in the 80s when he's still in his 60s? Should he give up cutting hair and just cut his losses? You have half an hour to answer these questions. Please watch clearly, using one side of the television only.

  • S01E03 Gronk Zillman

    • September 18, 1986

    The greatest detective in history is about to travel into the future to solve a crime that won't happen for 49 years. You might think that's impressive. Even more impressive than non-simmer chicken noodle soup. But to Gronk Zillman it's no big deal. He's so far ahead of his time that he considers travelling into the future to be already a thing of the past.

  • S01E04 Neighbourhood Watch

    • September 25, 1986

    There are some men digging a hole in the road. Are they the same men who dug it up after the last lot filled it in af

  • S01E05 What a Country!

    • October 2, 1986

    It's 1955: Desmond King, just arrived from Jamaica, sees England as a civilised land of unlimited job opportunities where you can make a fortune faster than Rudyard Kipling can make cakes. Is it possible to be this wrong?

  • S01E06 Heavenly Romance

    • October 9, 1986

    Heavenly Romance, the new video teen-magazine, tells the boy-meets-girl story in words, pictures and music. That is, sight and sound; taste, touch and smell have been banned. The question is: does it all work out in the end?