The New Statesman

The ultra right-wing Alan B'Stard, the most selfish, greedy, dishonest, sadistic and sociopathic Conservative MP of them all, plots to achieve his meglomaniacal ambitions.

Genre: Comedy

Cast:Rik Mayall , Michael Troughton , Marsha Fitzalan , Terence Alexander , Rowena Cooper , John Nettleton , Berwick Kaler , Nick Stringer , Victor Lucas , Steve Nallon , Vivien Heilbron , Benjamin Whitrow , Brigitte Kahn , Adam Wide , John Carlin , John Warnaby , Alan Hardwick , Charles Gray

1Season 3

S3.E1 ∙ Labour of Love

Sun, Jan 6, 1991

Alan B'Stard's reputation as the most right-wing Tory MP in the House is under threat: Working class fatso Victor Crosby has just won the Accrington by-election for the Conservatives and, through his publicly declared extreme political views, is on the brink of stealing B'Stard's thunder.

2Season 3

S3.E2 ∙ The Party's Over

Sun, Jan 13, 1991

Major is securely belted in the driving seat of the Tory machine but despite the new leadership, Conservative fortunes are flagging - a severe economic crisis looms; the opinion polls predict the Party's imminent downfall.

3Season 3

S3.E3 ∙ Let Them Sniff Cake

Sun, Jan 20, 1991

Following the riotous TV appearance in 'Balance', a serious discussion slot chaired by MENSA member Joan Bakewell, Alan B'Stard is branded an animal hater across the front pages of the tabloid press.

4Season 3

S3.E4 ∙ Keeping Mum

Sun, Jan 27, 1991

In the House of Commons conniving Tory Alan B'Stard faces a barrage of hostility from an Opposition outraged by his proposal for an amendment to the Social Security Bill.

5Season 3

S3.E5 ∙ Natural Selection

Sun, Feb 3, 1991

During the annual cocktail party at his country residence B'Stard's scathing contempt for his Haltemprice constituents seriously backfires.

6Season 3

S3.E6 ∙ Profit of Boom

Sun, Feb 10, 1991

The purpose of Alan's USSR tour is to spread the gospel of Capitalism according to B'Stard, as well to acquire several thousand rubles by selling off video cassettes of his free-market sermons.

1Season 4

S4.E1 ∙ Back from the Mort

Sun, Nov 22, 1992

Alan is back and he is on the warpath.

2Season 4

S4.E2 ∙ HAS*H

Sun, Nov 29, 1992

While Piers Fletcher-Dervish is dealing with the ins and outs of political life, Alan B'Stard is somewhat put out to find himself indebted to his wife Sarah.

3Season 4

S4.E3 ∙ Speaking in Tongues

Sun, Dec 6, 1992

Brussels is a zoo, and it's getting on top of the new Commissioner for Internal Relations.

4Season 4

S4.E4 ∙ Heil and Farewell

Sun, Dec 13, 1992

The Molotov cocktails may be raining down on refugee hostels in Germany, but Alan B'Stard is more concerned with potentially explosive plan which he has up his sleeve.

5Season 4

S4.E5 ∙ A Bigger Splash

Sun, Dec 20, 1992

Alan B'Stard doesn't balk at the Balkans.

6Season 4

S4.E6 ∙ The Irresistible Rise of Alan B'Stard

Sat, Dec 26, 1992

All hell breaks loose when B'Stard decides to interfere with the mountains of untaxed cash lying hidden in the Channel Islands.

The New Statesman

S1.E1 ∙ Happiness Is a Warm Gun

S1.E2 ∙ Passport to Freedom

S1.E3 ∙ Sex Is Wrong

S1.E4 ∙ Waste Not Want Not

S1.E5 ∙ Friends of St. James

S1.E6 ∙ Three Line Whipping

S1.E7 ∙ Baa Baa Black Sheep

S1.E8 ∙ Alan B'Stard Closes Down the BBC

S2.E1 ∙ Fatal Extraction

S2.E2 ∙ Live from Westminster

S2.E3 ∙ The Wapping Conspiracy

S2.E4 ∙ The Haltemprice Bunker

S2.E5 ∙ California Here I Come

S2.E6 ∙ May the Best Man Win

S2.E7 ∙ Piers of the Realm

S2.E8 ∙ Who Shot Alan B'Stard?