All Seasons

Season 1

  • S01E01 Sonny Sidles Up

    • October 27, 1987
    • BBC One

    He may be Brixton's 'Prince of Cool', but how will pirate broadcaster, style-counsellor and fashion model Delbert Wilkins handle the hot potato of an unexpected intrusion into his private life?

  • S01E02 Leg of Darkness

    • November 3, 1987
    • BBC One

    Alex invests in some meat of dubious origin, so Julie, the kebab house's one-woman Green Party, tries to convince Delbert of the difference between 'crucial' and 'critical'.

  • S01E03 Play Misty Blue for Me

    • November 10, 1987
    • BBC One

    Delbert is the confident Cupid of the Brixton Broadcasting Corporation's 'soul search' phone-in.

  • S01E04 Money's Too Tight to Mention

    • November 17, 1987
    • BBC One

    Delbert's belief in the cash-free society is put to the test.

  • S01E05 Out on Bails

    • November 24, 1987
    • BBC One

    Delbert and PC Monkhouse plan a cricket match to improve Brixton's community-police relations, but Sergeant Lillie is determined to put a riot shield in their wheel.

  • S01E06 A Mega-Star is Born

    • December 1, 1987
    • BBC One

    The kebab house goes up-market, the radio station goes middle-of-the-road, and Delbert's mum just goes.... forcing Delbert Wilkins, star of the 'BBC', to wonder where his future lies.

Season 2

  • S02E01 Back to My Roots

    • September 15, 1988
    • BBC One

    When the irrepressible Delbert Wilkins' TV career comes to an unscheduled end, he sets up a pirate radio station to rival his old, now legal, Brixton Broadcasting Corporation, controlled by Winston.

  • S02E02 Enterprise Zones

    • September 22, 1988
    • BBC One

    This must be a mistake, right? Geezers getting money out of banks with no questions asked and no nylon tights over their heads! I'd better check this out.' Not that Delbert Wilkins needs dosh, of course... especially when it's Winston asking for it!

  • S02E03 The Single Life

    • September 29, 1988
    • BBC One

    The Big Brixton Posse, Delbert and Winston, is back together, out gigging again. The music's crucial, the floor is hot, the crowd is immense!

  • S02E04 In-Laws and Out-Laws

    • October 13, 1988
    • BBC One

    Alex's Brixton Broadcasting Cor-what-a-Bore-ration and Crucial FM are in totally fierce competition. I should be sharpening up my play-list, but my mum wants me to hang with my new stepfather, Trev - that's 'T' for 'Trouble' - 'R' for 'Rigid'!

  • S02E05 The Crucial Health

    • October 20, 1988
    • BBC One

    Just because I'm laid up in hospital doesn't mean that Delbert Wilkins is out of action, right? I'm officially 'crucial' not 'critical'.

  • S02E06 Public Enemy

    • October 27, 1988
    • BBC One

    Delbert, suffering in the cause of his art, refuses to give in. 'Winston is reading this out for me, because my broken jaw's got more wire round it than Greenham Common!'

Season 3

  • S03E01 Pratt Outta Hell

    • October 27, 1987
    • BBC One

    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.

  • S03E02 Popsi

    • November 3, 1987
    • BBC One

    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.

  • S03E03 Gronk Zillman

    • November 10, 1987
    • BBC One

    The greatest detective in history is about to travel into the future to solve a crime that won't happen for years. You might think that's impressive.

  • S03E04 Neighbourhood Watch

    • November 17, 1987
    • BBC One

    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 after it was dug up by the lot before last who didn't fill it in?

  • S03E05 What a Country

    • November 24, 1987
    • BBC One

    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?

  • S03E06 Heavenly Romance

    • December 1, 1987
    • BBC One

    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?