The New Statesman (1987) - Video Detective

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The New Statesman is a British sitcom made in the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the United Kingdom's Conservative Party Government of the period. It was written by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran at the request of, and as a starring vehicle for, its principal actor Rik Mayall.

Original Release

09/13/1987

Cast

Name	Character

Hugh Laurie	Waiter
Paul O'Grady	Marlene Dietrich
Terry Alexander
Rik Mayall	Alan B'Stard
Michael Troughton	Piers Fletcher-Dervish
Rowena Cooper
John Nettleton
Terence Alexander
Marsha Fitzalan	Sarah B'Stard
John Nettleton	Sir Stephen Baxter

(see additional cast & crew)

#	Title	Air Date
1	Back from the Mort	Sunday, 22 November 1992
2	HAS*H	Sunday, 29 November 1992
3	Speaking in Tongues	Sunday, 06 December 1992
4	Heil and Farewell	Sunday, 13 December 1992
5	A Bigger Splash	Sunday, 20 December 1992
6	The Irresistible Rise of Alan B'Stard	Saturday, 26 December 1992

Cast

Name	Character

Hugh Laurie	Waiter
Paul O'Grady	Marlene Dietrich
Terry Alexander
Rik Mayall	Alan B'Stard
Michael Troughton	Piers Fletcher-Dervish
Rowena Cooper
John Nettleton
Terence Alexander
Marsha Fitzalan	Sarah B'Stard
John Nettleton	Sir Stephen Baxter
Terence Alexander	Sir Greville McDonald
Michael Troughton
Rowena Cooper	Norman Bormann
Vivien Heilbron	Beatrice Protheroe
Nick Stringer	Crippen
Terence Alexander	Sir Greville
Benjamin Whitrow	Paddy O'Rourke
Rik Mayall
John Carlin	House of Commons Speaker
Alan Hardwick	Newscaster

Producers

Name	Role

David Reynolds	Executive Producer
John Bartlett	Executive Producer
Michael Pilsworth	Executive Producer
David Reynolds	Producer
Tony Charles	Producer
John Bartlett	Producer
Michael Pilsworth	Producer
David Noble	Producer
Andrew Benson	Producer
Bernard McKenna	Producer
David Reynolds	Producer