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Series One - 1982
Demolition
"The fascist oiks at the Town Hall want to demolish the house. Why bother with Vyv around to do the business for them ?"
Guest Appearances:
Paul Bradley
Christine Ellerbeck
Chris Ellis
Ben Elton as the Presenter
Andy De La Tour
Gerard Kelly
Hilary Mason
Pauline Melville
Herbert Norville
Cyril Shaps
Anthony Sharp
Maggie Steed
Music By:
Nine Below Zero
Oil
"As Rick, Vyv, Neil, and Mike move into their new house, the talking
statuette the front door begins an odyssey of zaniness that is to culminate in a worker's revolution and a fully-fledged benefit concert in the front room."
Guest Appearances:
Tony Allef
Robbie Coltrane as the bouncer
Barry Cookson
Ronnie Golden as Buddy Holly
Mark Ezra
Terry Medlicott
Patrick Newell as the Man on the Raft
David Rhule
Music By:
Radical Posture & Alexei Sayle
Boring
"Is life really that boring for the four students ? A terrorist siege in their own house; a visitation from Hell; a fairy tale world that flourishes while they are asleep. And yet they are so B-O-R-E-D that Neil is driven to dig himself in a grave and Vyv chops his finger off."
Guest Appearances:
Mark Arden & Stephen Frost as the two Policeman
Roger Ashton-Griffiths
Pauline Melville
Patrick Newell
David Rappaport as Ftmsch
Music By:
Madness
Bomb
"A potentially explosive situation erupts when a bomb falls on the house ..... But worse ! The TV license man calls."
Guest Appearances:
Mark Arden as the husband on Cornflake Packet
Roger Sloman as TV License Inspector
Music By:
Dexy's Midnight Runners
Interesting
"It's party-time ! Where else could you mingle with the four horsemen of the Apocalypse, a giant sandwich and a singing tomato? Pretty amazing stuff eh ? Just ignore Neil's boring hippy friend chilling-out in the fridge ... "
Guest Appearances:
Keith Allen
Mark Arden & Stephen Frost as two gatecrashers
Dawn French as the preacher
Jennifer Saunders as girl at party
Music By:
Rip Rig and Panic
Flood
"While London floods, Rick tries to elevate proceedings with a game of hide-and-seek. Meanwhile his sociology file is set on fire by Vyv, Mike's room is occupied by a pride of lions, and landlord Alexei Sayle turns into an axe-wielding homicidal maniac."
Guest Appearances:
Mark Arden
Arnold Brown
Ben Elton as the blind DJ
Gareth Hale
Norman Pace
David Rappaport as Shirley
Series Two - 1984
Bambi
"Who produced the world's stickiest bogey and the world's stupidest bottom-burp ? Who's smashing the oiks on University Challenge and who's swotting away for teacher like a total spasmo?"
Guest Appearances:
Robbie Coltrane as Dr. Carlisle
Ben Elton as Kendal Mintcake
Stephen Fry as Lord Snot
Griff Rhys Jones as Bambi
Hugh Laurie as Lord Monty
Tony Robinson as the Doctor
Mel Smith as the Security Guard
Emma Thompson as Miss Money-Sterling
Music By:
Motorhead
Cash
"Hey man ! It's really weird ! Strange things keep happening. Like plates are disappearing and the tables keep, well, shrinking. Looks like there's a
poltergoost in the house...."
Guest Appearances:
Mark Arden & Stephen Frost as two ghosts
Paul Bradley
Lee Cornes
Andy De La Tour
Kay Stonham
Music By:
Jools Holland & co.
Nasty
"Ashes to ashes, funk to funky, Vyv is now a video head and Neil's wearing a dress because some really selfish negative vibe merchant boarded up his bedroom. Only pop music can save them now."
Guest Appearances:
Mark Arden & Stephen Frost as secret agents
Helen Atkinson-Wood as the woman condemned to Hell
Chris Barrie as the Captain
Arnold Brown
Andy De La Tour
Dawn French as the Devil
Gareth Hale & Norman Pace as two grave diggers
Damaris Hayman
Terry Jones as the drunken Priest
Tony Robinson as a one of the criminals
Daniel Peacock
Music By:
The Damned
Time
"Vyv's being violently and copiously sick because Rick's like scored with a chick and the whole house has like gone through some kind of time warp."
Guest Appearances:
Gary Beadle
Robbie Coltrane as the Captain
Dawn French as the Easter Bunny
Gareth Hale & Norman Pace as two peasants
Helen Lederer
Paul Martin (now known as Merton) as a Yokel
Jennifer Saunders as Helen Mucus
Music By:
Amazulu
Sick
"There's bogeys on the blankets and snot on the sheets when Neil and the others come down with the worst colds in the history of civilization !"
Guest Appearances:
Mark Arden & Stephen Frost as two bin-men
Ben Elton as the Schoolboy
Pauline Melville
Carla Mendonça
Brian Oulton
Peggy Thorpe-Bates
Music By:
Madness
Summer Holiday
"Hey, everybody ! School's out ! Hurray ! Hurray ! Except, like there's nothing to do, man, apart from getting on a big red bus and having a really explosive trip. It should be pretty good fun, actually."
Guest Appearances:
Brian Croucher
Ben Elton as the guy in advert
Stephen Frost
Lenny Henry as Nazi Postman
Jools Holland as the punk
Helen Lederer as the bank teller
Norman Lovett as the owner of the Penny Arcade
Lise Mayer
Roger Sloman
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