Alas Smith and Jones - Season 3

Alas Smith and Jones - Season 3

Season 3

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Episodes6
DatesSept. 18, 1986 - Okt. 23, 1986
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Episodes

Gas Readers
Season 3Episode 130 min

Gas Readers

British Gas stakeout / Opening titles / Dead guests / Reckless driver ("I bet he drinks Carling Black Label") / Ayushi XL20 stereo system / Theatrical agent for South Africa / Cannabis judge / Middle Eastern correspondent / Head to head - money / Kwik Fit advert parody / Bomb disposal team / "Just say no thank you" / Bingo (proposed motorway route) / One Man and Somebody Else's Dog / Collective nouns / Funeral / End credits / Weather report (children's paintings)
Sept. 18, 1986
Try Not To Look Like A Badger
Season 3Episode 230 min

Try Not To Look Like A Badger

Country code / Opening titles / Chess match / Dog porn cinema / Suicide jumpers / Making an advert out of a crisis / Topical references (George Davis, Cruise missiles, Kathy Kirby) / Police search (golf) / Home made video (new camera) / Points of View letter (accents) / Head to head - astrology / Overpaid reporters / Swellings / Minor MP (song) / Head to head - Friday the 13th / Author menaced by a window cleaner / Baby businessmen (restaurant) / News with subtitles for the militant tendency / End credits / Pub lock-in
Sept. 25, 1986
Scuba Diver
Season 3Episode 330 min

Scuba Diver

Author menaced by frogman / Opening titles / Celebrities in ancient Rome / Tat auction with one bidder / Male rape victim / Millwall FC supporters transfer / TeleMexico (Korean and Bulgarian team names) / Head to head - holidays / Fast Lane Loony (song) / Swimming pool poseurs / Charity appeal - Wormigro (World Organization for Middle Income Groups) / Male pregnancy / Head to head - Club 18-30 holidays / Cryptic spies / "I can remember when this was all fields" / Job losses and gains / Medical Watch - venereal disease / Just Buried / End Credits / Message for parents of new born babies
Okt. 2, 1986
Football Supporters On A Plane
Season 3Episode 430 min

Football Supporters On A Plane

Football supporters (crashing plane) / Opening titles / Introduction - Mel adlibs ("knickers!") / Day centre for ugly children / Police firearms procedure / Blow the Wind Southerly (drama with microphone booms in shot throughout) / Vorsprung Durch Technik (car crash victim) / Home made video - Eastbourne / Bergicoat low fat paints / Don't drink paint (warning) / Arts Review - the irritable young men (John Upstart) / Head to head - jury duty / Open University physical chemistry course (unpleasant shirt) / Sprakken Ze Afrikaans / Achmed and June / Temporary faults / Money discussion / Actor's idol / Speeches (erection) / End Credits / Deutsche Direkt
Okt. 9, 1986
Getting Ready For The Show
Season 3Episode 530 min

Getting Ready For The Show

Rushing to the studio / Opening titles / Judge berates barrister / Mexico 1910 / Cryptic spies / Arts underfunding / IBA interruption / An actor prepares (70mph crash) / Newsflash and Eastendersflash / Doctor's surgery - bad test results / Roy Hattersley's dentist / Head to head - the human body / Local cinema advertising / Suicide jumpers (the lift's been mended) / Police drug sniffer horse / It Doesn't Matter What We Play (song) / End credits / The Mattress by Carla Lane
Okt. 16, 1986
Mel Gives Birth
Season 3Episode 630 min

Mel Gives Birth

Last Smith and Jones for a while. Featuring the definitive opus of Peter Leander Brewis, 'Concerto for string quartet and next-door neighbour', recorded earlier in the year at the Oddfellows Hall, Peckham.
Okt. 23, 1986

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