Alexei Sayle
Alexei Sayle's Stuff (1988)
Season 1
Alexei Sayle's Stuff is a comedy sketch show which ran on BBC2 for a total of 18 episodes over 3 series from 1988 to 1991.
Released Oct. 13, 1988
Episode 30 min
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Genres: Comedy
Keywords: imdb.british-comedy, imdb.alternative-comedy, imdb.sketch-comedy
Network: BBC Two
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S1E1 - Fun with Magnets
At the beginning of Alexei's quest to explore stuff, we investigate the abject failure of social services to prevent Herod's massacre of the innocents and the bloody reign of Vlad the Impaler, why the BBC is better than you, door-to-door cat boilers, and Freddy Kreuger's tenure as head of the Royal Opera Company, while dancing around in a series of tight suits.
Oct. 13, 1988, midnight
S1E2 - From Avogadro to Ava Gardner
Alexei investigates Einstein's Wilderness Years writing scripts for George Formby films, the Queen's Award For Capitalist Exploitation, sings about word association and reveals that he once abused drugs by insulting paracetamol.
Oct. 20, 1988, midnight
S1E3 - Cartesian Dualism for the Fuller Figure
27 October 1988
Instead of watching Alexei, why not stay on BBC1 and return to the age of sword and sorcery, in Dino de Laurentiis epic 'Seal Of The Soothsayer' ? Alternatively, discover the link between Classical Greek mathematicians and dung, and witness walruses flying south for the winter.
Oct. 27, 1988, midnight
S1E4 - The Dobsey Twins Isolate Radium
Witness what happens when two TV travel programmes experience a near collision, learn about Captain Pugwash's subsequent career as controller of BBC Two, and investigate the prong-horned antelope, a member of the gerbil family and a full-time stewardess with British Airways.
Nov. 3, 1988, midnight
S1E5 - Liebnitz: Man or Biscuit ?
Scream in terror at 'Revenge Of The Bendy Toys', attend parties with man-eating Triffids, learn how to defend yourself against skinheads through the use of puckish epigrams, and visit the Princess Alexei Home For Bereaved Ventriloquist's Dummies.
Nov. 10, 1988, midnight
S1E6 - How to Point at Chickens
Wonder at nature and the life cycle of the smoked salmon, learn of recent mass lay-offs in the works of Charles Dickens, experience the awkwardness of Jehovah's Witnesses on discovering they've knocked on the door of a lodging house for Biblical figures.
Nov. 17, 1988, midnight
Network: BBC Two
Episode Runtime: 30 min.
Season Runtime: 30 min.
Released: Oct. 13, 1988
Last Air Date: Nov. 7, 1991, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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