| Episode | Transcript | Gallery |
Sketches[]
| Picture | Sketch |
|---|---|
| ? | The Royal Family watch the Royal Variety Show. |
| ? | Series 4 Opening Theme |
| ? | Richie Benaud reports on the England cricket team's progress in India. |
| ? | Vincent Price summons a spirit with some people, but it turns out to be a familiar leader saying his party will restructure itself. |
| ? | Diana lies about Fergie looking good to trick her into wearing ridiculous clothing. |
| ? | Andrew Ridgeley asks George Michael why his name is not on his latest album. |
| ? | Ronald Reagan is angry at the commies as they’ve come up with another nonsensical word, “glasnost”, so he decides to throw some words back at them. |
| ? | David Steel struggles with a title for his memoir. |
| ? | The Book Programme As hosted by John Mortimer, Queen Elizabeth greets various books. |
| ? | Jimmy Tarbuck has lost his old joke in the hospital, so he wants it buried and given to Ted Rogers. |
| ? | Ronald Reagan's most troubling part is finally surgically removed, and it thanks the doctor for the procedure. |
| ? | Film '87 Barry Norman goes through the top movies of the year and chats with Richard Attenborough on his new apartheid blockbuster. |
| ? | A choirboy singing in the forest with animals gets hunted down by Prince Philip. End of Part One |
| ? | Start of Part Two Kinnock denies that there's any similarities between him and Arthur Scargill until Hattersley tells him Scargill will get elected and he won't. |
| ? | Thatcher decides to bring back hanging, drawing and quartering, and the Cabinet becomes a cult of executioners who execute Hurd for "blasphemy". |
| ? | John Birt has Paul Daniels perform an inescapable death trap as a magic trick, as the last time he escaped, people complained. |
| ? | A commercial for nuclear radiated Captain Fishy North Sea Cod. |
| ? | Reagan gets to the toughest part of making world peace: signing the paper. |
| ? | In a surgery room, a man walks in and asks for Big Mac, and another gets a Tidbits. |
| ? | Edwina Currie walks into what seems to a patient’s ward but is actually the nurse’s quarters. |
| ? | John Moore asks Thatcher why they're abolishing free eye tests... the people won’t be able to see what they’re up to. |
| ? | In a commercial for Yellow Pages, Jeffrey Archer is unable to find his book even in Yellow Pages but it beats his book. |
| ? | Alastair Burnet reports on Archer's finalised arrangements to his donation to the Ely Cathedral restoration fund. |
| ? | It strikes 9 while a couple is watching TV and they realise its the watershed hour, when violence, sex and mild left-wing bias is allowed. A BBC executive is disgusted by what he saw but he and Birt agree to put it on after 9. |
| ? | David Owen calls for his only supporter, himself, who leaves. |
| ? | Cecil Parkinson asks John Moore if he could increase child benefits to save himself from getting lots of women pregnant. |
| ? | It's that time of the year where the where the BBC Criminal Sports Personality of the Year wins the award. |
| ? | Lord Young tells a newborn baby in hospital that his earning capacity is too low. |
| ? | The Four Horsemen sing "Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud". Credits |
| ? | Gorbachev and his wife are initially bored by their itinerary for their state visit to the UK, until they learn the time his talks with the PM will end, so he decides he’ll go to Carnaby Street in a black taxi with Raisa. |
Characters[]
- Queen Elizabeth II
- Prince Philip
- The Queen Mother
- Prince Edward
- Stephen Fry (mentioned)
- Richie Benaud
- Mike Gatting
- Graham Gooch (mentioned)
- Vincent Price
- Prince Charles
- Russell Grant
- David Jenkins
- Princess Diana
- Sarah Ferguson
- Marti Caine
- Andrew Ridgeley
- George Michael
- Brigitte Nielsen
- John Gielgud
- Cyndi Lauper
- Ronald Reagan
- George H. W. Bush
- David Gergen
- David Steel
- Shirley Williams
- John Mortimer
- Melvyn Bragg
- Jimmy Tarbuck
- Bruce Forsyth
- Denis Norden
- Ben Elton
- Barry Norman
- Michael J. Fox
- Dustin Hoffman
- Cecil Parkinson
- Richard Attenborough
- P.W. Botha
- Anthony the Anteater
- Roy Hattersley
- Neil Kinnock
- Arthur Scargill (mentioned)
- Denis Healey
- Bryan Gould
- Margaret Thatcher
- Douglas Hurd
- Nigel Lawson
- David Young
- Nicholas Ridley
- Geoffrey Howe
- John Birt
- Paul Daniels
- Edwina Currie
- John Moore
- Jeffrey Archer
- Alastair Burnet
- John Cole
- David Owen
- Des Lynam
- David Coleman
- Lester Piggott
- Ian Botham
- PC Dimbleby
- Cilla Black
- Terry Wogan
- Paul Daniels
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Raisa Gorbacheva