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- In Berlin, 1938, Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun have a love-hate relationship with their Jewish neighbours in this bizarre spoof of 'fifties American sitcoms.
- A star-studded TV production of the classic tale by Mary Stewart which follows Merlin down through history to the days of King Arthur.
- Comedy from the "Just for Laughs" festival in Montreal.
- Fresh off the Mary Whitehouse Experience, Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis separated themselves from Rob Newman and David Baddiel for this sketch show. Not only did they bring back old characters (Milky Milky and Embarrassing Dad) but brought in new ones, like a man called Martin and World of Wine. It ran for two seasons and spawned the still running Radio 4 series "The Now Show"
- Friends, family and co-workers discuss Dave Allen's comedic themes, especially those regarding religion.
- Topical comedy satire sketch series, broadcast each weeknight.
- Game show based around moral dilemmas.
- Comedian Keith Allen entertains with his own brand of humour, live from London's Astoria Theatre.
- The Casts of much loved series including Magpie, the Old Grey Whistle Test, On the Buses, It Ain't Half Hot Mum and Crossroads introduce Variety Acts.
- A Christmas special revolving around Euro Disney and classic Disney films. Highlights include: a segment about the real-world inspirations for the settings of a number of classic Disney films (such as Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria, Germany, where much of the special is filmed), including "Snow White" and "Peter Pan," including a live-action dance recreation of a scene from the latter; a medley of songs from "Peter Pan" performed by the band Five Star, including "You Can Fly!," "Never Smile at a Crocodile," and "The Second Star to the Right"; a selection from the 1952 cartoon "Pluto's Christmas Tree" and clips from a number of other classic Disney cartoons, including the 1942 cartoon "Donald's Snow Fight"; a clip from the Disney film "Oliver and Company"; Ruth Pointer performing the song "Streets of Gold" from "Oliver and Company"; a clip from the film "Pinocchio"; Tom Jones performing "When You Wish Upon a Star" in Collodi, Italy; a clip from the film "Cinderella"; a sketch featuring Miss Piggy singing "Someday My Prince Will Come," including a brief appearance by Kermit the Frog; a series of clips from films featuring the car "Herbie"; a clip from the film "The Aristocats"; opera singer Julia Migenes performing "Once Upon a Dream" in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France; and the Budapest Symphony Children's Chorus performing a medley of European Christmas songs on the Chain Bridge in Budapest, Hungary.
- Craig Charles goes behind the scenes at the second annual Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
- Comedy series in which real-life footage of the British Royal Family is dubbed over with humorous dialog.
- A live showcase of comedy acts performing at the 1990 Edinburgh Festival.
- The European Film Award 1988 was the first price ceremony for the newly founded European film award. It took place in West Berlins famous Theater des Westens. It was a live show recorded for German public broadcaster ZDF and other European public broadcasters in order to create a showcase for the European film. This first European film award show reached more than 40 million viewers in Europe. It was produced by Ufa film - producers Konstantin Thoeren and Wolf Bauer. The price ceremony invited famous European actors, directors, producers to give laudatios for the winners to show how popular European film can be. It was an effort to create a popular showcase for excellent European filmmaking.
- Drawing on details from the diaries of his life-long manager, this documentary features previously unheard audio and unseen archive footage from Cooper's personal and professional life, including material never performed before.
- Richard and Eddie are camping out on Wimbledon Common. Eddie has brought the tin opener but Richie has forgotten the tins. How will they survive? Chocolate Hob-Nobs and hedgehogs may be the solution.
- Richie and Eddie are left in charge of their landlord Mr. Harrison's shop as Mr. Harrison leaves to attend a funeral. But Eddie decides he'd rather watch a game of cricket and is not going to let relaxing on Sunday stop them. Richie reveals to Eddie that he is half red Indian who can predict the weather and Eddie thinks it has something to do with last night's curry.
- It is Richie's birthday, and he's planning a big party for all his friends, Eddie's friends and loads of women. However, Richie has an accident whilst putting up the decorations and breaks his leg and ends up in a wheelchair. Only Eddie's mates Spudgun and Dave Hedgehog show up at the party, and Richie learns he has no friends, and decides not to let his being in a wheelchair ruin his birthday.
- After inheriting £600 from his recently deceased Auntie Olga, Richie and Eddie head off down the funfair where Richie's wallet gets stolen, and he learns from a fortune-teller that he is to die in 72 hours. Eddie and Richie set out to prevent Richie's fate, and there is a visit by the Grim Reaper, strangely in the form of Eddie.
- Richie and Eddie are going on holiday in Doncaster and they begin to plan what they are going to do and what they are going to take with them.
- When Eddie returns home all drunk on a bottle of Old Spice, Richie and Eddie find their flat being burgled and manages to catch one of the burglars. When Richie and Eddie ties up the Burgular with sellotape, Richie and Eddie tries to think what to do with him and the loot he has burgled from other houses. Should they kill the Burgular than hand him over to the local police? or kill him or should they keep the loot for themselves and move away to the Bahamas?
- Richie and Eddie join 'Lily Linneker's Love Bureau' dating service in the hope of finding the perfect woman. Eddie gets a match with Sarah Ferguson, while Richie finds himself on a date with Lady Natasha Letitia Sarah Jane Wellesley Obstromsky Ponsonsky Smythe Smythe Smythe Smythe Smythe Oblomov Boblomov Dob, 3rd Viscountess of Moldavia. Richie pretends to be an eccentric millionaire, and Eddie plays along by pretending to be his butler.
- Eddie has been spending a lot of time in his room and Richie finds that he has been printing fake money. Unfortunately local counterfeiter "The Skullcrusher" is not amused and demands money. Luckily the pub quiz night could be their salvation.
- Eddie steals a car belonging to rugby captain 'Cannonball' Taffy O'Jones; in it are the hotel tickets for Cannonball and his new bride. Intent on having a free holiday, Richie and Eddie turn up at the honeymoon hotel, though Eddie is not happy at having to impersonate a woman and share a bed with Richie. The pair are even less happy when 'Cannonball' Taffy O'Jones finally catches up with them looking for retribution.
- Richie and Eddie are visited by a man from the Gas board. Afraid that their pipeline from next door is about to be rumbled they desperately try to cover their tracks. Murder, cannibalism and bus surfing are possible solutions.
- It's Christmas day and Richie is cooking the dinner to which Dave Hedgehog and Spudgun are invited. Dinner is not up to Michelin standard, but Richie's day improves when he finds out he is the son of God.
- After taking part in a identity parade at the local police station where Spudgun is being accused of stealing his mother Mrs. Potato's handbag, Richie and Eddie heads down to the Lamb and Flag pub where Richie gets into a argument with a one-legged Falklands war veteran, by pretending he also fought in the Falklands war and Richie and Eddie places a bet on a horse Sad Ken in a horse-race and gets the money from antiques dealer Ted in exchange for the one-legged Falklands war veteran's false leg.
- After a bad night down the pub failing to pick up women, Richie is depressed because nobody wants to have sex with him. He finds a 'Sex Spray' that promises to make him attractive to women, and he and Eddie return to the pub to see if the stuff actually works.
- On Halloween, after losing the "Spot the Balls" competition and being visited by trick-or-treaters, Richie and Eddie decide to have a party, but first they go trick-or-treating themselves, attempting to get money for beer for the party. Richie dresses up as a devil and dresses Eddie up as a banana; Eddie arms himself with an electric cattle prod. When Richie and Eddie invite Spudgun and Hedgehog back to the flat, Richie decides to raise the Devil so he can have sex with girls in exchange for his soul, but the Devil arrives in the form of Dave Hedgehog's daughter Doreen.
- It is the annual Hammersmith carnival where the local residents take part in riots and Richie and Eddie find watching the Carnival from their flat window is the best seats to watch the riots. After going looting, Eddie learns Richie has stolen a BBC camera and they decide to record a prime-time current affairs discussion program and hilarious accidents so they can make money, unaware that the video tape is a dirty video of Prime Minister John Major.
- Richie and Eddie are stranded on the big wheel at the fairground. It gets worse - the wheel is due to be demolished the next day!
- Richie and Eddie are depressed when their TV set is taken away when they fail to pay the rent and cannot think of anything to keep themselves occupied. Richie decides to challenge Eddie at playing some games, including "How much custard can you put in your underpants" and chess. Richie and Eddie decide to play chess by using various items in the house to replace the missing pieces.