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    Comedy TV Shows - 1980s 2 Mins Read

    Snakes and Ladders

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    In the ultra-Thatcherite future (1999) the Queen has resigned and Charles is king, television is called Murdochvision and the UK is subdivided into two regions with security guards manning the border posts and identity papers required to pass: Northern Britain is cold, bleak and bankrupt, while sunny South Britain is a place of relative luxury.

    When Australian baron Lord Tewkesbury, the wealthy owner of International Entirety PLC (the biggest private company in Britain), decides his hapless and snobbish son and heir Giles (Adrian Edmondson) needs more life experience, he arranges for Giles to work under the assumed name Alexander G St Clair.

    Unfortunately, a computer error results in Giles being sent to North Britain to do menial labour while impoverished young Scotsman Gavin Sinclair (John Gordon Sinclair) is transferred to sunny South Britain.

    The short-lived Channel 4 series came from Birds of a Feather and The New Statesman creators Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran. The following year, they teamed up with writer Paul Makin for Nightingales.

    Gavin Sinclair
    John Gordon Sinclair
    Giles Tewkesbury
    Adrian Edmondson
    Computer voice
    Ed Devereaux
    Gavin’s Dad
    Phil McCall
    Gavin’s mum
    June Watson
    TV reporter
    Elaine Collins
    Mr Haverty
    Christopher Godwin
    Donald
    Tony Meyer
    Mr Lambie
    Roger Sloman
    Serena
    Lynsey Baxter
    Mr Pym
    Ron Donachie
    Ronald
    David Meyer
    Robbie
    Steven O’Donnell
    Miss Ainscow
    Elizabeth Bennett
    Butler
    Anthony Benson
    Yana Haverty
    Andrée Bernard
    Emma
    Kate McKenzie
    Mr Gershwin
    Peter Cellier
    DI Ure
    Jake D’Arcy
    DC Cieslik
    Tony Osoba

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