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.

Creators:

Maurice Gran, Laurence Marks

Stars:

Rik Mayall, Michael Troughton, Marsha Fitzalan

1 win & 1 nomination.

Cast

Series cast summary:
Rik Mayall	...	Alan B'Stard / ... 29 episodes, 1987-1994
Michael Troughton	...	Piers Fletcher-Dervish 26 episodes, 1987-1992
Marsha Fitzalan	...	Sarah B'Stard 21 episodes, 1987-1992

Storyline

Tells the adventures of Conservative MP Alan B'Stard, a man who doesn't have any morals at all. He stops at nothing to make himself richer and more powerful in the party and is involved in drugs, adult films, fraud (making up charities with the initials C.A.S.H when writing on cheques) and even murder but believes that he will never be caught as he is a Conservative MP and therefore all powerful. He has almost complete power over another MP - Piers Fletcher-Dervish who is nearly completely brainless. His wife Sarah B'Stard has very loose morals (both of them have affairs mostly every day) and has hated her husband from five minutes after they got married and tries to use Alan to get anything she wants. Each episode contains recent news items and Alan moves with the times with things like the end of the cold war, the Nazi hunt in the late 80's as well as the Animal Freedom Party. Keeping up with the huge amount of cash, Alan moves (in the 4th season) to the European Union to continue ...

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Plot Keywords:

british humour | dark comedy | surreal | parody | drugs | 

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Genres:

Comedy

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Details

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Release Date:

13 September 1987 (UK)

Also Known As:

Državnik novog kova

Company Credits

Production Co:

Alomo Productions, SelecTV, Yorkshire Television (YTV)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

25 min (26 episodes) 70 min (1 episode)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Quotes

Liberal Democrat MP: I should like to point out on behalf of the Liberal Democrats, That although we are very nice people we have absolutely no idea how to run a country.

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Connections

Referenced in Comedy Connections: The New Statesman (2007)

User Reviews

Rik Mayall always suceeds in comedy.

Rik Mayall always makes me laugh i don't think hes ever done a single duff sitcom or comedy routine. Its one of the rare ocassions hes not working along side Ade Edmundson but he still manages to do well. Its a shame theres no reruns of this but then i'm buying them on DVD. I guess we'll have to wait until The tories come back into power before we'll see this rerun. Someone should maybe try the same thing with the labour party.

TC Raymond, Benny hill and the carry on films are old hat and out of date. You'll have to accept that and move along. In my opinion they were boring and i'm glad we've left that era. You don't seem to like alot of comedy do you? Oh well your choice I guess.