Series

The New Statesman

Name: The New Statesman
Released: 1987-01-01

1987 | ★ 7.4

Comedy

Seasons & episodes

Season

Happiness is a Warm Gun

1987-09-13

Alan is blackmailed into passing a bill arming the police.

Passport to Freedom

1987-09-20

Alan tries to ruin a company of which Sarah has just inherited shares.

Sex is Wrong

1987-09-27

Alan impersonates Sir Steven, leader of the Campaign for Moral Regeneration.

Waste Not, Want Not

1987-10-04

Alan secretly has to move 1000 gallons of toxic waste.

Friends of St. James

1987-10-11

Alan tries to get investors for a Caribbean bank.

Three Line Whipping

1987-10-18

Alan misses an important vote then appears on TV AM without knowing the result.

Baa Baa Black Sheep

1987-10-25

Alan's tries to get an American businessman to build a fast food factory in Haltemprice.

The New Statesman is a British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time.

Rik Mayall

Alan B'Stard

Michael Troughton

Piers Fletcher-Dervish