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- 1. Happiness Is a Warm Gun Sep 13, 1987
- A newly elected Tory MP (Rik Mayall) earns illegal profits.
- 2. Passport to Freedom Sep 20, 1987
- Alan uses forgery to negate his wife's inheritance.
- 3. Sex Is Wrong Sep 27, 1987
- Alan profits from the sale of risque material.
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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 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.
The New Statesman: Created by Maurice Gran, Laurence Marks. With Rik Mayall, Michael Troughton, Marsha Fitzalan, Terence Alexander. 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.
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