Alexei Sayle's Stuff - Season 1

Alexei Sayle's Stuff - Season 1

Season 1

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Episodes6
Datesoct. 13, 1988 - nov. 17, 1988
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Episodes

Fun with Magnets
Season 1Episode 130 min

Fun with Magnets

At the beginning of Alexei's quest to explore stuff, we investigate the abject failure of social services to prevent Herod's massacre of the innocents and the bloody reign of Vlad the Impaler, why the BBC is better than you, door-to-door cat boilers, and Freddy Kreuger's tenure as head of the Royal Opera Company, while dancing around in a series of tight suits.
oct. 13, 1988
From Avogadro to Ava Gardner
Season 1Episode 230 min

From Avogadro to Ava Gardner

Alexei investigates Einstein's Wilderness Years writing scripts for George Formby films, the Queen's Award For Capitalist Exploitation, sings about word association and reveals that he once abused drugs by insulting paracetamol.
oct. 20, 1988
Cartesian Dualism for the Fuller Figure
Season 1Episode 330 min

Cartesian Dualism for the Fuller Figure

27 October 1988 Instead of watching Alexei, why not stay on BBC1 and return to the age of sword and sorcery, in Dino de Laurentiis epic 'Seal Of The Soothsayer' ? Alternatively, discover the link between Classical Greek mathematicians and dung, and witness walruses flying south for the winter.
oct. 27, 1988
The Dobsey Twins Isolate Radium
Season 1Episode 430 min

The Dobsey Twins Isolate Radium

Witness what happens when two TV travel programmes experience a near collision, learn about Captain Pugwash's subsequent career as controller of BBC Two, and investigate the prong-horned antelope, a member of the gerbil family and a full-time stewardess with British Airways.
nov. 3, 1988
Liebnitz: Man or Biscuit?
Season 1Episode 530 min

Liebnitz: Man or Biscuit?

Scream in terror at 'Revenge Of The Bendy Toys', attend parties with man-eating Triffids, learn how to defend yourself against skinheads through the use of puckish epigrams, and visit the Princess Alexei Home For Bereaved Ventriloquist's Dummies.
nov. 10, 1988
How to Point at Chickens
Season 1Episode 630 min

How to Point at Chickens

Wonder at nature and the life cycle of the smoked salmon, learn of recent mass lay-offs in the works of Charles Dickens, experience the awkwardness of Jehovah's Witnesses on discovering they've knocked on the door of a lodging house for Biblical figures.
nov. 17, 1988

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