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Profit of Boom: Directed by Graeme Harper. With Rik Mayall, Michael Troughton, Marsha Fitzalan, Kevin McNally. The purpose of Alan's USSR tour is to spread the gospel of Capitalism according to B'Stard, as well to acquire several thousand rubles by selling off video cassettes of his free-market sermons.
- (50)
- Comedy
- Graeme Harper
- 1991-02-10
'A Profit Of Boom', the final episode of Season 3, takes Alan off to Russia as part of a trade programme called 'Soviet Relief'. Piers was meant to go instead until Alan pulled a few strings and had him posted to Northern Ireland with the Territorials. Alan sees the trip as an opportunity to promote British business interests, his own mainly.
Check out ShadeGrenade's 9/10 review of "The New Statesman: Profit of Boom"
Details Episode 6 Aired Feb 11, 1991 Profit of Boom Alan and Sir Piers are lured into a trap by a Soviet temptress and end up in a Siberian labour camp. Details
Brilliant political satire. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 November 2013. Verified Purchase. Rik Mayall is absolutely brilliant as Alan B'Stard, the Conservative MP for the fictional constituency of Haltemprice, who was a selfish, greedy, dishonest, devious, lecherous, sadistic ultra-right-wing Conservative back bencher.
- (473)
- PAL
- Rik Mayall
- English
A British comedy that might be described as a combination of Yes, Minister and Blackadder, this is the story of A. B'Stard, a statesman in the tradition of Genghis Khan, who will stop at nothing to make himself richer and more comfortable.
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