Alexei Sayle's Stuff

Season 31988

Alexei Sayle's Stuff is a comedy sketch show which ran on BBC2 for a total of 18 episodes over 3 series from 1988 to 1991.

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6 Episodes

E01 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.

October 13, 1988

E02 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.

October 20, 1988

E03 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.

October 27, 1988

E04 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.

November 3, 1988

E05 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.

November 10, 1988

E06 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.

November 17, 1988

Alexei Sayle's Stuff

E01 Fun with Magnets

E02 From Avogadro to Ava Gardner

E03 Cartesian Dualism for the Fuller Figure

E04 The Dobsey Twins Isolate Radium

E05 Liebnitz: Man or Biscuit ?

E06 How to Point at Chickens

Record of Youth

Ecomoda

Hwarang: The Poet Warrior Youth

City Hunter

Noble, My Love

Squid Game

Shopaholic Louis

Eek! The Cat

Alchemy of Souls

Touch Your Heart

Jewel in the Palace

Flower Boy Next Door

En nombre del amor

Them

Hi Bye, Mama!

Love Next Door

Lovestruck in the City

Extraordinary You

The Silent Sea

Marimar

E01 Fun with Magnets

E02 From Avogadro to Ava Gardner

E03 Cartesian Dualism for the Fuller Figure

E04 The Dobsey Twins Isolate Radium

E05 Liebnitz: Man or Biscuit ?

E06 How to Point at Chickens