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 1

S1.E1 ∙ Happiness Is a Warm Gun

Sun, Sep 13, 1987

In the first episode of this hilarious new political comedy ...

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ Passport to Freedom

Sun, Sep 20, 1987

Alan's wife, Sarah, inherits a million pounds....

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ Sex Is Wrong

Sun, Sep 27, 1987

Alan realises that joining a moral crusade....

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ Waste Not Want Not

Sun, Oct 4, 1987

Tory MP Alan B'Stard's dirty dealings have finally caught up with him ...

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ Friends of St. James

Sun, Oct 11, 1987

Alan organises a parliamentary fact-finding expedition....

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ Three Line Whipping

Sun, Oct 18, 1987

Alan is booked to appear on TVAM to discuss an important by-election result....

7Season 1

S1.E7 ∙ Baa Baa Black Sheep

Sun, Oct 25, 1987

Alan's hateful father-in-law, Roland Gidleigh-Park, threatens to have Alan thrown out ...

8Season 1

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

Sun, Mar 6, 1988

With ulterior motives, B'Stard approaches Thatcher to convince her in scrapping the BBC.

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.

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?

S3.E1 ∙ Labour of Love

S3.E2 ∙ The Party's Over

S3.E3 ∙ Let Them Sniff Cake

S3.E4 ∙ Keeping Mum

S3.E5 ∙ Natural Selection

S3.E6 ∙ Profit of Boom

S4.E1 ∙ Back from the Mort

S4.E2 ∙ HAS*H

S4.E3 ∙ Speaking in Tongues

S4.E4 ∙ Heil and Farewell

S4.E5 ∙ A Bigger Splash

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