The New Statesman

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

Genre: Comedy,

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Creator: Maurice Gran, Laurence Marks,

Country:

Type: tv

Season: 4

Episode: N/A

Duration: 30 minutes

Release: 1987-09-13

Rating: 7.511

Season 1 - The New Statesman
1987-09-13
Alan is blackmailed into passing a bill arming the police.
1987-09-20
Alan tries to ruin a company of which Sarah has just inherited shares.
1987-09-27
Alan impersonates Sir Steven, leader of the Campaign for Moral Regeneration.
1987-10-04
Alan secretly has to move 1000 gallons of toxic waste.
1987-10-11
Alan tries to get investors for a Caribbean bank.
1987-10-18
Alan misses an important vote then appears on TV AM without knowing the result.
1987-10-25
Alan's tries to get an American businessman to build a fast food factory in Haltemprice.

Season 2 - The New Statesman
1989-01-15
Alan finds oil on public lands then tries to buy it from a Labour Party leader.
1989-01-22
Televised debates turns Alan into a media superstar
1989-01-29
Alan is accused of fraternizing with teenaged girls.
1989-02-05
Alan needs publicity so he annonunces that he has found a Nazi.
1989-02-12
Alan tries to sell a sitcom to an American producer, but Piers has to bail Alan out of jail first.
1989-02-19
Alan tries to sabotage Piers' wedding.
1989-02-26
Alan files for divorce. Piers gets promoted.

Season 3 - The New Statesman
1991-01-06
A new MP threatens Alan's status as the most right-wing member of Commons.
1991-01-13
Alan tries to help the Labour party win the next election so he can blame them for the impending oil shortage.
1991-01-20
Alan upsets animal rights activists. A old friend wants a birthday ""cake"" from Alan.
1991-01-27
Alan's mum visits and threatens to stay forever unless Alan repeals his new bill abolishing social security.
1991-02-04
At his annual cocktail party, Alan upsets a local VIP who threatens to take over his seat in the House.
1991-02-11
MI5 and the KGB ask Alan to start a new cold war because they no longer have anyone to spy on.

Season 4 - The New Statesman
1992-11-22
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.
1992-11-29
Alan is worried that European drug lords may interfere with his attempt to make a profit from the forthcoming legalization of marijuana.
1992-12-06
Alan schemes to make some illicit profits from the translators who work for the EC.
1992-12-13
Alan tries to take over leadership of a neo-Nazi organization.
1992-12-20
Alan tries to become a war profiteer by arranging shipments of aid to Bosnia.
1992-12-26
With his fortunes falling in Europe, Alan tries to get himself appointed to a government post back in England.