The New Statesman is a British sitcom made in the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the United Kingdom's Conservative government of the period. It was written by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran at the request of, and as a starring vehicle for, its principal actor Rik Mayall.
The show's theme song is an arrangement by Alan Hawkshaw of part of the Promenade from Pictures at an Exhibition by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky.
The programme was made by the ITV franchise Yorkshire Television between 1987 and 1992, although the BBC made two special episodes; one in 1988, the other in 1994.
Cast list
Rik Mayall as Alan B'Stard MP
Michael Troughton as Piers Fletcher-Dervish MP
Marsha Fitzalan as Sarah B'Stard
Rowena Cooper as Norman/Norma Bormann (Series 1; she was credited as "R. R. Cooper" in all but episode six, in order to keep her gender uncertain)
Charles Gray as Roland Gidleigh-Park (Series 1)
Vivien Heilbron as Beatrice Protheroe (Series 1)
Steve Nallon as Mrs Thatcher (Series 1–2)
John Nettleton as Sir Stephen Baxter (Series 1–2)
Nick Stringer as Bob Crippen (Series 1–2)
Berwick Kaler as Geoff Diquead (Series 2)
Terence Alexander as Sir Greville McDonald (Series 2–4)
Brigitte Kahn as Frau Kleist MEP, who shares Alan's office for most of Series 4.
Peter Sallis as Sidney Bliss, (played by John Normington in the special Who Shot...) a former hangman and current publican in Alan's constituency
John Woodvine as Sir Malachi Jellicoe (Series 1)
Benjamin Whitrow as Paddy O'Rourke
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