The New Statesman is a British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time.
26 episodes total
Status
Ended
First Aired
1987
Rating
7.5/10
46 votes • HD
Episodes
Episode 1 • Sep 13, 1987
Alan is blackmailed into passing a bill arming the police.
Episode 2 • Sep 20, 1987
Alan tries to ruin a company of which Sarah has just inherited shares.
Episode 3 • Sep 27, 1987
Alan impersonates Sir Steven, leader of the Campaign for Moral Regeneration.
Episode 4 • Oct 04, 1987
Alan secretly has to move 1000 gallons of toxic waste.
Episode 5 • Oct 11, 1987
Alan tries to get investors for a Caribbean bank.
Episode 6 • Oct 18, 1987
Alan misses an important vote then appears on TV AM without knowing the result.
Episode 1 • Jan 15, 1989
Alan finds oil on public lands then tries to buy it from a Labour Party leader.
Episode 2 • Jan 22, 1989
Televised debates turns Alan into a media superstar
Episode 3 • Jan 29, 1989
Alan is accused of fraternizing with teenaged girls.
Episode 4 • Feb 05, 1989
Alan needs publicity so he annonunces that he has found a Nazi.
Episode 5 • Feb 12, 1989
Alan tries to sell a sitcom to an American producer, but Piers has to bail Alan out of jail first.
Episode 6 • Feb 19, 1989
Alan tries to sabotage Piers' wedding.
Episode 1 • Jan 06, 1991
A new MP threatens Alan's status as the most right-wing member of Commons.
Episode 2 • Jan 13, 1991
Alan tries to help the Labour party win the next election so he can blame them for the impending oil shortage.
Episode 3 • Jan 20, 1991
Alan upsets animal rights activists. A old friend wants a birthday ""cake"" from Alan.
Episode 4 • Jan 27, 1991
Alan's mum visits and threatens to stay forever unless Alan repeals his new bill abolishing social security.
Episode 5 • Feb 04, 1991
At his annual cocktail party, Alan upsets a local VIP who threatens to take over his seat in the House.
Episode 6 • Feb 11, 1991
MI5 and the KGB ask Alan to start a new cold war because they no longer have anyone to spy on.
Episode 1 • Nov 22, 1992
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.
Episode 2 • Nov 29, 1992
Alan is worried that European drug lords may interfere with his attempt to make a profit from the forthcoming legalization of marijuana.
Episode 3 • Dec 06, 1992
Alan schemes to make some illicit profits from the translators who work for the EC.
Episode 4 • Dec 13, 1992
Alan tries to take over leadership of a neo-Nazi organization.
Episode 5 • Dec 20, 1992
Alan tries to become a war profiteer by arranging shipments of aid to Bosnia.
Episode 6 • Dec 26, 1992
With his fortunes falling in Europe, Alan tries to get himself appointed to a government post back in England.
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