The New Statesman

1987 - 1992 TV-14 1h 10m 7.8

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.

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 to make herself richer and to climb to the most powerful position he can reach...

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Episodes:

Episode 3 Sex Is Wrong

3. Sex Is Wrong

Aired: Sep 27, 1987

Alan realises that joining a moral crusade....

Episode 4 Waste Not Want Not

4. Waste Not Want Not

Aired: Oct 4, 1987

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

Episode 6 Three Line Whipping

6. Three Line Whipping

Aired: Oct 18, 1987

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

Episode 7 Baa Baa Black Sheep

7. Baa Baa Black Sheep

Aired: Oct 25, 1987

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

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Info about The New Statesman

Current Status: Ended

Network: ITV1

Genres: Comedy