Stop That Laughing at the Back

STOP THAT LAUGHING AT THE BACK
Made by: Granada
Shown on: ITV
Years shown: 1987

This thirty minute sketch show was one of a number of short-lived experiments on CITV in the mid 1980s, in the same vein as Your Mother Wouldn’t Like It. On a good day, it was trying to be anarchical in a watered-down Spitting ImageBlue Peter. kind of a way, and it relied largely on the universal agreement among pre and early teens that both parents and teachers are crap and seriously uncool. It starred Paul Bradley, Michael Fenton Stevens, Jo Unwin, Nimmy March and also featured - for some undisclosed reason - the pop duo Hue and Cry; and it included a slot called ‘Aw, I’m Not Doing That!’, which was an advice column for getting out of doing household chores. This show was part of why most parents switched the television to BBC and then removed the batteries from the remote, so their children would be forced to watch

SQUARE EYES RATING: 2/10

(Thanks to www.mikefs.co.uk for the borrowed pic)