Alexei Sayle’s Merry-Go-Round
Louise
Gold appeared as Anna Chessington, series first screened on BBC 2 on: 8, 15, 22, 29 May and 5 & 14 June 1998
Cast (Includes)
Regular Cast
Alexi Sayle
Denise Coffey - Edna
Guest Appearances
Episode 1, recorded 6
July 1997, broadcast 8 May 1998
Jessica
Stevenson -
Episode 2, recorded 21
October 1997, broadcast 15 May 1998
David
Williams – Newsagent
Episode 3, recorded 17
October 1997, broadcast 22 May 1998
Episode 4, recorded 22
October 1997, broadcast 29 May 1998
Lee
Hurst - The All New Lee
Hurst 2000
Episode 5, recorded 22
October 1997, broadcast 5 June 1998
Gemma Rigg - Mandy
Reece Shearsmith - Phillip Arthurs
Episode 6, recorded 28
October 1997, broadcast 14 June 1998
Other Appearances
Omid Djalili
Steve Furst
Louise Gold - Anna Chessington
Simon Greenall - Interviewer
Production Team
Written by - Alexei Sayle, Kevin Cecil, Dave Cummings, Kevin Gildea, Andy Riley, Jon Rowlands, and, Edgar Wright
Additional Material - David Stafford, and, Dennis Berson
Director - Edgar Wright
Executive Producer - Jon Plowman
Producer - Jon Rowlands
Editor - Peter Drinkwater
Lighting Design - Mark Kenyon
Rachel And The Roarettes,
Laugh??? I Nearly Paid My Licence
Fee, Rita Rudner, A Kick Up The Archive, A Week In The West End, and, Transmission: Impossible With Ed And Oucho were also first broadcast on BBC2, where The Alan Clark
Diaries also made its terrestrial debut (having premiered on BBC 4), and City Lights
made it’s national debut (having premiered on BBC Scotland).
Kevin
Cecil, and, Andy Riley had previously
written for Spitting Image.
Alexei Sayle had previously appeared in Roland Rat The Series.
Louise Gold definitely appeared in Episode 4
(according to the BBC Programme Catalogue), but it seems likely that she did
not appear in the other episodes.
Louise Gold had actually been Denise Coffey’s replacement as a Team Captain on the radio quiz Let’s Do The
Show Right Here.
Simon Greenall may have taken part in Thing A Thon.
Omid Djalli went on to appear in Oliver!
Critics Comments
Links about Alexei Sayle’s
Merry-Go-Round
Internet
Movie Database, page
for the programme: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0155439/
BBC
Comedy Guide’s Page for
the programme: http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/a/alexeisaylesmerr_66603010.shtml
TV.Com’s page for the programme: http://www.tv.com/alexei-sayles-merry-go-round/show/33727/summary.html
Mark
Kenyon (Lighting Designer)’s
work on Comedy Programmes: http://www.markkenyon.com/comedy.htm
British
TV Show Reviews ‘A’: http://www.eskimo.com/~rkj/a.htm
BBC Programme Catalogue entry for series: http://open.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax/series/ALEXEI+SAYLE%27S+MERRY-GO-ROUND and for that episode: http://open.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax/programme/LEGI148D
