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  • Chance of a Lunchtime (1991 Television)

    Series
    Only Fools and Horses
    Director
    Tony Dow
    Producer
    Gareth Gwenlan

    Sitcom centred on the wheeling and dealing of the Trotter brothers who run an ‘import export’ business from their South Peckham flat. In this episode Del’s wife Raquel, dreaming of a career on stage,...

  • Takeaway (1990 Television)

    Series
    Nightingales
    Director
    Tony Dow
    Producer
    Esta Charkham

    Television sitcom about night security staff. Includes a long sequence in which Bell and Carter consider disposing of Sarge using passages from Richard III (mostly from I iv, the death of Clarence).

  • Stand-Up Shakespeare (1990 Television)

    Series
    Adrienne Clarkson Presents
    Director
    Mark Blandford
    Producer
    Mark Blandford

    A revue. Readings from Shakespeare and songs set to music. Performed cabaret-style in the pub’Will’s Place’. The music embraces jazz, baroque, samba and gospel-rock. First staged by the Shubert...

  • Salisbury Plain (1990 Radio)

    Series
    And Now in Colour
    Producer
    Lissa Evans

    Episode 5 (Series 1) of the comedy sketch show contains a two-minute skit on "The Mind of a Shakespearean Actor". It reproduces the interior monologue of an actor who is performing Macbeth at the theatre.

  • Power of the Pen, The (1990 Television)

    Series
    Different World
    Director
    Debbie Allen
    Producer
    Debbie Allen

    Us sitcom. A spin-off series from THE COSBY SHOW. The series centres around the life of students at Hillman College, a fictional historically Black college in Virginia. In this episode Dwayne, who loves...

  • Ein Kessel Buntes [01/09/1990] (1990 Television)

    Series
    Ein Kessel Buntes
    Director
    Karlgerhard Seher
    Producer
    Guenter Steinbacher

    Variety show. 13-minute parody sketch presented by black German singer Roberto Blanco and Helga Hahnemann as part of their popular GDR television variety show. The sketch depicts Desdemona sitting on her bed...

  • Shakespeare was a Greek (1990 Television)

    Series
    Acropolis Now
    Director
    Pino Amento

    An Australian sitcom set in a Greek coffee shop of the same name. In this episode Liz takes Jim to see a Shakespeare play. Jim likes it so much he wants to stage Romeo and Juliet in the cafe and pays a...

  • Hysteria 2 (1989 Television)

    aka: Shakespeare Sketch

    Director
    David G. Croft
    Producer
    Trevor Hopkins

    Television charity variety show to support World Aids Day. The event was directed by Stephen Fry and directed for television by David G. Croft. Includes a sketch (c6 mins) in which Rowan Atkinson (in...

  • Night of Comic Relief 2, A (1989 Television)

    Television charity variety revue. An evening of comedy acts, classic comedy shows and reports on the charities benefiting from the programme in Great Britain and Africa. Includes Jonathan Pryce and comedian...

  • Winter’s Tale, A (1989 Television)

    Series
    Never the Twain
    Director
    Nick Hurran
    Producer
    Anthony Parker; Johnnie Mortimer

    Special episode in a British sitcom created by Johnnie Mortimer about two feuding ex-business partners and neighbours Simon Peel (Donald Sinden) and Windsor Davies (Olive Smallbridge) broadcast at the end of...