The New Statesman

The New Statesman

1987
★★★★☆ 7.4/10
📺 4 Seasons
🎬 26 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 30 min/episode
Comedy
The New Statesman is a British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time.

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Seasons

Season 1
1987 • 7 Episodes
Alan is blackmailed into passing a bill arming the police.
Season 2
1989 • 7 Episodes
Alan finds oil on public lands then tries to buy it from a Labour Party leader.
Season 3
1991 • 6 Episodes
A new MP threatens Alan's status as the most right-wing member of Commons.
Season 4
1992 • 6 Episodes
Having survived imprisonment at hard labour in a Russian gulag, Alan attempts a return to politics by joining the European Parliament as representative from an obscure part of East Germany.

Cast

Rik Mayall
Rik Mayall
Alan B'Stard
Michael Troughton
Michael Troughton
Piers Fletcher-Dervish

Crew

Producer
David Reynolds

Network

ITV1

Keywords

london, englandsurrealnorthern englandgreedpoliticsparliamentpoliticiansatireyorkshiredark comedy