Season 1
6 episodes · Feb 16, 1986
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- S1E1
The Tell-Tale Heart
Feb 16, 198630mEntrepreneur Twiggy Rathbone buys a failing Fleet Street newspaper, The Daily Crucible, and the first coup of the new managing editor Russell Spam is an exclusive smear of Prince Andrew's latest girlfriend and the discovery of Nikita Khrushchev, alive and well in Switzerland.
- S1E2
The Modern Prometheus
Feb 23, 198630mThe Crucible launches an all-out campaign supporting a return to capital punishment by interviewing murder victims through a seance and interviewing the brother of a state executioner who hanged himself. Spam discovers the man identified as Khrushchev is a fake, and the fellow dies during a live televsion interview.
- S1E3
Beyond the Infinite
Mar 2, 198630mSpam launches an anti-Red campaign against Father Teasdale, and introduces ""Wobblevision"" to the page three beauties as a circulation ploy. Bill Tytla receives a mysterious tip that a nurse knows something sinister about the death of Donald Kubelsky, the Khrushchev impersonator.
- S1E4
Casting the Runes
Mar 9, 198630mKettle and Spam continue their persecution of Father Teasdale by adding charges of lycanthropy, Rathbone rails against Spitting Image, and Tytla looks into charges (from an anonymous source calling himself ""Sore Throat"") that the police are involved in covering up the Kubelsky murder.
- S1E5
The Slaughter of the Innocent
Mar 16, 198630mRathbone negotiates a compromise to keep Father Teasdale's church open, Kettle stumbles on a multiple birth, and Tytla is caught while searching for Sore Throat's papers.
- S1E6
The Respectable Prostitute
Mar 23, 198630mStringer springs back into action as he gets to the bottom of the Khrushchev impersonator's death and uncovers a political sex scandal.