![]() ![]() ![]() Originally meant to be a one-off mocking the plague of promotional videos and adverts done by many British towns during the 1980s and 1990s, the characters proved so popular that they snowballed into a regular parody of small town and village councils run by the parochial minded with jarring grandiose aspirations for themselves and the people they are trying to serve (for example, bidding to host the Olympic Games). Stoneybridge Town Council (played by the entire cast) are the council of the fictional small Scottish town of Stoneybridge.A second Radio 4 series of four programmes was broadcast from 25 June 2017, and a third in July 2019. Following an award-winning one-off radio reunion special for BBC Radio 4 in 2013, the show returned for a new four-part radio series with most of the original cast in September 2015. The original television series, produced by Absolutely Productions, aired on Channel 4 for four series between May 1989 and February 1993. The cast and crew are mainly Scottish the principal writers and performers are Moray Hunter, Jack Docherty, Peter Baikie, Gordon Kennedy (all of whom had performed together as The Bodgers for many years), Morwenna Banks ( English) and John Sparkes ( Welsh). ![]() Absolutely Productions / The Comedy Unit / Gusman ProductionsĪbsolutely is a British comedy sketch show. ![]()
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