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The Strike

Episode number: 1

Overview: Al Pacino (Peter Richardson) and Meryl Streep (Jennifer Saunders) star as Arthur Scargill and his wife in an overly-dramatized Hollywood epic about the 1984 miners' strike.

More Bad News

Episode number: 2

Overview: Five years after their far-from-amicable break-up, the members of heavy metal band Bad News reunite when they are offered a record deal and a chance to play the festival at Castle Donington.

Mr. Jolly Lives Next Door

Episode number: 3

Overview: Two boozers who run the Dreamytime Escort agency are in for the night of their lives when they accept a job to ""take out"" popular TV entertainer Nicholas Parsons.

The Yob

Episode number: 4

Overview: A trendy music video director has his brain crossed with that of a football hooligan in a freak accident resulting when he mistakes a cerebral teleportational machine for a portable toilet. He begins a slow and painful transition from artsy high-fashion connoisseur to violent Neanderthal thug, finding himself physically incapable of suppressing his newfound urges to drink lager and vandalize public lavatories. This episode pays tribute to David Cronenberg's film classic The Fly.

Didn't You Kill My Brother?

Episode number: 5

Overview: Carl Moss, a convicted murderer, is released early from prison and is confronted by his brother who framed him.

Funseekers

Episode number: 6

Overview: A social loser goes to a sleazy holiday resort in Spain for under-30s.