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  • Night of Comic Relief, A (1988 Television)

    Television variety charity revue benefiting charitable causes in Great Britain and Africa. Includes a two-minute spoof of Macbeth played as a sitcom. In the living room Mrs Macbeth tells her husband that he...

  • Shakespeare (1987 Television)

    Series
    Cosby Show, The
    Director
    Jay Sandrich

    US television sitcom about the Huxtable family, an African-American family living in New York City. Dr Heathcliff (`Cliff’) Huxtable (Cosby) is a obstetrician, and his wife Clair (Rashid), is an attorney;...

  • Carol, Carl, Whoopi & Robin (1987 Television)

    Series
    Carol Burnett Special
    Director
    Korman Harvey; Roger Beatty
    Producer
    Stephanie Sills; Dick Clair; Jenna McMahon

    A special in the comedy and music series hosted by Carol Burnett. Includes a brief sketch in which Carl Reiner and Robin Williams have a backstage talk which leads to a parody of Shakespeare with Reiner...

  • Dial M for Pizza [24/11/1987] (1987 Radio)

    Series
    Dial M for Pizza
    Producer
    Paul Mayhew-Archer

    British radio sketch show with Brenda Blethyn and Robert Bathurst. Episode 2 includes a three-minute skit on Shakespeare’s Macbeth. ‘Macbash’, a BBC/Beano collaboration, as the fictional radio...

  • Sense and Senility (1987 Television)

    Series
    Blackadder the Third
    Director
    Mandy Fletcher
    Producer
    John Lloyd

    Comedy series. Prince George is worried about his popularity after an anarchist throws a bomb at him. He agrees to recite a brilliant speech by Blackadder, "to show the oppressed masses how unusually...

  • Every Clown Wants to Play Hamlet (1986 Television)

    Series
    Sorry!
    Director
    David Askey
    Producer
    David Askey

    Sitcom centred around Timothy Lumsden, a depressed 41-year-old who still lives at home with, and is dominated by, his mother. In this episode Timothy is the prompter for the local dramatic society production...

  • Saturday Night Live [22/11/1986] (1986 Television)

    Series
    Saturday Night Live
    Director
    Paul Miller (3)

    Late-night music/comedy series. In this episode, in a sketch entitled ‘Improv Hamlet’ and set in the Globe Theatre, Shakespeare (Lovitz)) is told that Richard Burbage has been replaced by another actor...

  • Head of the Class (1986 Television)

    Series
    Critical Choices
    Director
    Gary Gilbert

    Sitcom about a group of over-achieving honours students at Manhattan high school. In this episode their laid-back teacher (Hesseman) has to confront negative comments after inviting the class to review his...

  • Theo and Cockroach (1986 Television)

    Series
    Cosby Show, The
    Director
    Jay Sandrich

    US television sitcom about the Huxtable family, an African-American family living in New York City. Dr Heathcliff (`Cliff’) Huxtable (Cosby) is a obstetrician, and his wife Clair (Rashid), is an attorney;...

  • Giving Notes (1985 Television)

    Series
    Victoria Wood - As Seen on TV
    Director
    Geoff Posner
    Producer
    Geoff Posner

    Television comedy sketch series written by Victoria Wood. In the two-minute skit ‘Giving Notes’ Julie Walters, as director Alma, gives notes from the stage to an unseen group of amateur actors - ‘But I...