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Broadcaster: ITV (Granada)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Written by: Nick Vivian, Piers Ashworth,
Peter Learmouth, Peter Morgan, Paul Unwin,
Stephen Ward
Stars: Rik Mayall
Films: 6
Film Average: 8.500
BEST FILM:
Dancing Queen (1993)
Onion Jack's rating:
SERIES ONE
(1993)3 films
Series Score: 27
Film Average: 9.00
Perfect 10's: 1
6
8
7.6
MICKY LOVE
Originally broadcast: 20 May 1993
Directed by: Nick Hamm
Written by: Peter Morgan
MICKY LOVE
(Rik Mayall)
PADDY LOGAN
(Nick Hancock)
TAMSIN
(Jennifer Ehle)
GREG DEANE
(Alan Cumming)
ADELE FRANKLIN
(Eleanor Bron)
DAVID CRITCHLEY
(Peter Capaldi)
TONY SCOTT
(Michael Maloney)
RUSSELL JAMES
(Ian Redford)
MARTIN BOWEN
(Nicky Henson)
CHLOE
(Kim Vithana)
BABS
(Sara Stockbridge)
LISA DE LAZLO
(Sarah Thurstan)
JENNY
(Anne Reid)
VIOLET
(Frances Cox)
DENNIS
(Freddie Davies)
A production team conspire to set-up a troubled TV presenter, a rumour that his daytime show is to be axed spreads quickly, and a series of misunderstandings see the situation spiral out of control.
"Shit! Shit! Shit! Shit! Bollocks! Ah, erm...Hello, well, I'm Micky, aren't I?
You caught me... doing my swearing practice."
HOLY GODIVA 4 - ONION JACK 5
TOTAL: 9
3
8
7.6
BRIEFEST ENCOUNTER
Originally broadcast: 27 May 1993
Directed by: Nick Hamm
Written by: Peter Learmouth
GREG
(Rik Mayall)
SIOBHAN
(Amanda Donohoe)
A man thinks his luck's in when he's invited back to a woman's flat, things start to turn sour when he admits to being a gatecrasher, and the presence of her beloved pet dog causes him no end of trouble.
"Anyway, I must look a bloody mess."
HOLY GODIVA 4 - ONION JACK 4
TOTAL: 8
8
10
7.9
DANCING QUEEN
Originally broadcast: 3 June 1993
Directed by: Nick Hamm
Written by: Nick Vivian
NEIL
(Rik Mayall)
PANDORA / JULIE
(Helena Bonham Carter)
SOPHIE
(Serena Gordon)
MARGARET
(Dorothy Tutin)
NIGEL
(Nathaniel Parker)
DONALD
(Martin Clunes)
POLICEMAN
(Bill Cashmore)
TICKET LADY
(Judith Barker)
TICKET MAN
(Peter Martin)
A stag wakes up miles from home on the morning of his wedding, the pranksters are left chasing his train when it fails to stop at Doncaster, and the stripper from the night before is his only hope of making it back.
"Excuse me, I've got a booking with a Mr... Well, it looks like 'Bollockhead' to me, but that can't be right, can it?"
HOLY GODIVA 5 - ONION JACK 5
TOTAL: 10
SERIES TWO
(1995)3 films
Series Score: 24
Film Average: 8.00
Perfect 10's: 0
4
8
7.8
THE BIG ONE
Originally broadcast: 29 January 1995
Directed by: Simon Cellan Jones
Written by: Piers Ashworth
LEWIS FOX
(Rik Mayall)
LEON
(Philip McGough)
JULES
(Saffron Burrows)
SECURITY GUARD
(Paul Barber)
MRS. WILDE
(Phyllis Logan)
MILES
(Phil Daniels)
JEFF
(Cal MacAninch)
PETER McCRANE
(Edward Tudor-Pole)
JOHN WILDE
(David Sibley)
An estate agent assumes the identity of a dead man to impress a pretty girl, another set of lies see him in bed with the dead man's wife, and suggestions of cosmetic surgery attract the worst kind of attention.
"If you admit that you're a liar, why should we believe you when you say you were lying?"
HOLY GODIVA 4 - ONION JACK 4
TOTAL: 8
4
9
7.5
DIRTY OLD TOWN
Originally broadcast: 5 February 1995
Directed by: Paul Unwin
Written by: Paul Unwin, Nick Vivian, Stephen Ward
RAYMOND
(Rik Mayall)
VIC LEIGH
(Brian McCardie)
CLAIRE
(Helen McCrory)
MICHAEL
(Sean McGinley)
SALLY DENTON
(Frances Barber)
JEREMY SWAIN
(Michael Kitchen)
RIK POWER
(Duncan Bell)
KLAUS
(Metin Yenal)
STEFAN
(Thomas Russell)
A tramp causes an accident when he walks out in front of a taxi, a scriptwriter ends up in hospital minus his latest work, and a desperate producer refuses to hear the truth and signs a deal with the wrong man.
"Yes. Yes, I'd like more sex. I'd like some sex. Yes, yes. Yes, I'd like some sex."
HOLY GODIVA 5 - ONION JACK 4
TOTAL: 9
3
7
7.6
CLAIR DE LUNE
Originally broadcast: 12 February 1995
Directed by: Paul Unwin
Written by: Nick Vivian
TOBY
(Rik Mayall)
PETE
(Lee Evans)
CLARE
(Serena Scott Thomas)
MRS. GAFFNEY
(Selena Cadell)
ANNIE
(Leonie Sooke)
BURGER BOY
(Gregor Truter)
HOTEL CLERK
(Bill Thomas)
TERRY DEVANE
(Mark Frankel)
A taxi driver stops to offer a lift to a damsel in distress, a birthday trip to Camelot has to take a detour when a request call comes in, and a dumped lover doesn't take kindly to his house being blown up.
"Oh, God. I'm going to go to prison, aren't I? I'm going to be cornered in the laundry room by women in loose-fitting overalls."
HOLY GODIVA 4 - ONION JACK 3
TOTAL: 7
These six standalone films were broadcast over two series. Mixed in with the usual comedy are some rare glimpses of Rik playing it straight, perhaps offering a hint of where things might have gone had he not had his quad bike accident in 1998. Some claim that these were his finest work.
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