The show consisted of 6 television plays of 50–60 minutes duration, each being separate and self-contained from the others, the only connection between them being the two types of humour.

The episode "Secrets" was wiped,[2] only surviving because a domestic videotape copy was made from the mastertape by its producer, Mark Shivas.

A Wardour Street movie tycoon accidentally hires the wrong script-writer to pen a film about the life of Queen Anne and pays him £500,000, and now has to figure out how to get the money back.

When a flu pandemic sweeps over the country and threatens to wipe out civilization, a drug concocted by a British pharmaceutical company might just be the answer, but alas, it does have a side-effect: it renders people impotent.

When a possible and accidental baby-snatching occurs in front of a launderette, all hell breaks loose.