The New Statesman

TV Show (1987 - 1992)

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Political satire starring Rik Mayall

Season 4 Episode 6: The Irresistible Rise of Alan B'Stard (1992) Alan meddles with mountains of untaxed money lying hidden in the Channel Islands. Satirical comedy, with Rik Mayall
Season 4 Episode 5: A Bigger Splash (1992) It appears Alan has turned over a new leaf when he agrees to help war-stricken Yugoslavia - but he has his own interests at heart
Season 4 Episode 4: Heil and Farewell (1992) Alan B'Stard has a potentially explosive plan up his sleeve. Starring Rik Mayall and Marsha Fitzalan
Season 4 Episode 3: Speaking in Tongues (1992) Piers realises life in Brussels isn't all it's cracked up to be, and calls on Alan B'Stard to save his skin. Rik Mayall stars
Season 4 Episode 2: H*A*S*H (1992) B'Stard finds himself indebted to his wife, who has become a widely respected figure in Europe
Season 4 Episode 1: Back from the Mort (1992) Alan finally learns that freedom has a price - in this case he returns home in triumph to face financial and political ruin, and even his marriage is on the rocks

Season 3 Episode 6: Profit of Boom (1991) B'Stard spreads the gospel of capitalism through the Soviet Union, but soon finds himself thrown into a Siberian labour camp with only Sir Piers for company
Season 3 Episode 5: Natural Selection (1991) B'Stard ridicules his constituents at a party - but it's all part of another diabolical plot. Comedy, starring Rik Mayall
Season 3 Episode 4: Keeping Mum (1991) A bag lady threatens to expose the MP's double standards when he introduces a clause which could lead to the closure of residential homes
Season 3 Episode 3: Let Them Sniff Cake (1991) Death threats from animal activists threaten B'Stard's plans to dip into Lord Penistone's fortune
Season 3 Episode 2: The Party's Over (1991) John Major takes over leadership of the Conservative Party but support is waning, so B'Stard is appointed to improve popularity and sets about masterminding a dirty tricks campaign
Season 3 Episode 1: Labour of Love (1991) B'stard finds a new adversary when a Tory MP is introduced to the House and does his best to discredit the new right-winger

Season 2 Episode 7: Piers of the Realm (1989) B'Stard takes up a new hobby involving his wife and the gardener - dirty films. Comedy, starring Rik Mayall
Season 2 Episode 6: May the Best Man Win (1989) B'stard puts on the charm for Margaret Thatcher's Secretary, and makes a lunchtime date when he discovers the Iron Lady's right-hand woman is rather hot stuff
Season 2 Episode 5: California Here I Come (1989) B'stard turns on the charm to woo a Hollywood actress - until he discovers her passion for whips and chains. Rik Mayall stars
Season 2 Episode 4: The Haltemprice Bunker (1989) B'stard goes anti-Nazi and tries to secure his political future by handing over a suspect he has been blackmailing. Comedy, guest starring Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, with Rik Mayall and Michael Troughton
Season 2 Episode 3: A Wapping Conspiracy (1989) B'stard forms a ladies' organisation to help improve young minds. Rik Mayall stars
Season 2 Episode 2: Live from Westminster (1989) TV cameras are introduced in the Commons, and B'stard's promotional department's campaign lands him a contract to present a quiz. Rik Mayall stars
Season 2 Episode 1: Fatal Extraction (1989) B'stard charms a militant councillor, but his plans to drive her home leave them both stranded on the marshes. Rik Mayall stars

Season 1 Episode 7: Baa Baa Black Sheep (1987) The Tory MP is shocked by his fading popularity in opinion polls, and conjures up a cunning plot to help save his seat - a sheep farm. Rik Mayall stars
Season 1 Episode 6: Three Line Whipping (1987) B'Stard accidentally kills a taxi driver who makes fun of the irreverent politician's antics with a French maid
Season 1 Episode 5: Friends of St James (1987) A case of mistaken identity nearly proves fatal when B'Stard sets up a bank for a president. Rik Mayall stars
Season 1 Episode 4: Waste Not, Want Not (1987) Alan has to dispose of a large consignment of nuclear waste. Political comedy, starring Rik Mayall as unscrupulous politician Alan B'Stard
Season 1 Episode 3: Sex is Wrong (1987) Alan B'Stard, weary of pornography, Page Three and filth on the TV, decides it's time to start a moral crusade - but, as always, it soon transpires he has an ulterior motive. Rik Mayall stars
Season 1 Episode 2: Passport to Freedom (1987) B'Stard's wife decides to leave him after inheriting £1million worth of shares - but reckons without his dastardly plotting. Rik Mayall stars
Season 1 Episode 1: Happiness is a Warm Gun (1987) The scheming politician takes up arms dealing, rids himself of a blackmailing police chief, and saves a bishop from certain death

Season Special Episode 3: Who Shot Alan B'Stard - Part Three Part three of three. Alan ends up in court. Political satire, starring Rik Mayall
Season Special Episode 2: Who Shot Alan B'Stard - Part Two Part two of three. Alan continues his campaign to reinstate capital punishment. Political satire, starring Rik Mayall
Season Special Episode 1: Who Shot Alan B'Stard - Part One Special edition from 1990. The unscrupulous MP falls victim to an assassination attempt, and when he recovers, he decides to promote a bill to reintroduce capital punishment. Sure enough, he gets his way - but it all backfires when he finds himself on trial for murder. Rik Mayall stars