Watership Alan (17 Nov. 1997)

After making negative comments about them Alan becomes a hate figure with local farmers. Matters are made worse when he interviews Peter Baxendale-Thomas,the local farmers' union leader and... See full summary »

Director:

Dominic Brigstocke

Writers:

Peter Baynham, Steve Coogan,

Stars:

Steve Coogan, Phil Cornwell, Barbara Durkin

Cast

Episode complete credited cast:
Steve Coogan	...	Alan Partridge
Phil Cornwell	...	Dave Clifton
Barbara Durkin	...	Susan
Simon Greenall	...	Michael
Felicity Montagu	...	Lynn Benfield
Sally Phillips	...	Sophie
Peter Baynham	...	Hugh Morris
Doon Mackichan	...	Jenny
Christopher Morris	...	Peter Baxendale Thomas
Simon Pegg	...	Steve Bennett

Storyline

After making negative comments about them Alan becomes a hate figure with local farmers. Matters are made worse when he interviews Peter Baxendale-Thomas,the local farmers' union leader and makes ignorant,insulting remarks. The farmers,however,get their revenge when Alan is shooting a commercial on a boat and they throw a dead cow off a bridge,which hits and injures him. Leaving hospital in a neck brace and with broken fingers he needs help to restore the satellite channel to the television in his hotel room,thereby exposing his fondness for the Porn Channel.

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Plot Keywords:

drunkenness | boat | receptionist | cow | farm | 

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Genres:

Comedy

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Details

Release Date:

17 November 1997 (UK)

Company Credits

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Goofs

In the final scene in Alan's bedroom, you can see the shadow of someone else in the room.

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Quotes

Alan Partridge: You are a big posh sod with plums in your mouth, and the plums have mutated and they have got beaks. You make pigs smoke. You feed beef burgers to swans. You have big sheds, but nobody's allowed in. And in these sheds you have 20ft high chickens, and these chickens are scared because the don't know why they're so big, and they're going, "Oh why am I so massive?" and they're looking down at all the little chickens and they think they're in an aeroplane because all the other chickens are so small...

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Connections

References Driving Miss Daisy (1989)

User Reviews

Alan Vs. The Farmers

When Alan has a dig at farmers on his radio show, the gloves are off. An interview with agriculturalist Peter Baxendale Thomas ( Christopher Morris ) is a disaster, ending with him walking out of the studio in disgust. Alan has to shoot a promotional video for a boating firm. His wife Carol refuses to appear in it, forcing him to hire an actress - Jenny ( Doon Mackichan )...

Superb episode, featuring cameos from Christopher Morris and Simon Pegg, the latter cast as the director of the film Alan is booked to appear in. Some nice dialogue as Alan tries to be 'one of the lads'. The 'Hugh Morris' ( Peter Baynham ) character was featured in a recent B.B.C.-2 documentary about how disabled people have been depicted on television over the years. He has no vocal chords due to cancer of the larynx, and has to speak using an electronic device, giving Alan the excuse to make a string of tasteless jokes.

Funniest moment - Alan's insult-packed encounter with Baxendale Thomas.

Second funniest moment - Jenny goes off to appear in 'The Bill', forcing Alan to replace her with a prop dummy. As the boat passes under a bridge, angry farmers hurl a dead cow at it. Guess who it lands on?