THE STRIKE:
SEASON 4 : SHOW 1
FIRST SHOWN: FEBRUARY 20TH 1988
WRITERS: PETER RICHARDSON & PETE RICHENS
DIRECTOR : PETER RICHARDSON & PETE RICHENS
CHANNEL 4, 10.50PM , 75 MINUTES
CAST :
ADRIAN EDMONDSON ---------- Adrian/Slim/Policeman
DAWN FRENCH ---------- Verity/Old Lady/Celebrity
PETER RICHARDSON ---------- Pacino
JENNIFER SAUNDERS ---------- Meryl
RIK MAYALL ---------- Speaker/Hunchback
NIGEL PLANER ---------- Bernard/Old man/Camp actor
ALEXEI SAYLE ---------- Paul
ROBBIE COLTRANE ---------- Goldie/Dutch Celebrity
RONALD ALLEN ---------- Prime Minister
KEVIN ALLEN ---------- Workman/Film crew member/TV Interviewer/waiter/Hotel Manager/Third man/Cinemagoer
KATRINA MANSOOR ---------- Tammy
DERREN NESBITT ---------- Chauffeur/McGregor
STEVEN O'DONNELL ---------- Gerry/Second man/Picketer
DANIEL PEACOCK ---------- Workman
PETE RICHENS ---------- Workman 2
KEITH ALLEN ---------- Film Exec/Camp actor 2/Architect/Celebrity
Al Pacino (Peter Richardson) and Meryl Streep (Jennifer Saunders) star as Arthur Scargill and his wife in an overly-dramatized Hollywood epic about the 1984 miners' strike.
TRIVIA:
This episode won the Golden Rose and Press Award at the Montreaux Festival.
QUOTES:
Paul: Uhhm excuse me Mr Goldstein, the whole point of the story is that the miners are on strike. It's the miners strike, and that means the mines are closed-they're not working.
Goldstein: So you're saying that this Scarface..
Verity: Scargill
Goldstein: Scargill-schmargill, you're saying that this guy, the hunky hero, the head of the miners, you're saying that he's too chicken-shit scared to go down the mine and dig out Meryl Streep!
Bernard: I'm sorry, what's Meryl Streep got to do with it?
Goldstein: I dunno, she's available in July.