• Air date: 13 Sep '87 7 episodes
      The New Statesman is a British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time.
  • List of Episodes (7)
    • 1. Happiness is a Warm Gun

      13 Sep '87
      Alan is blackmailed into passing a bill arming the police.
    • 2. Passport to Freedom

      20 Sep '87
      Alan tries to ruin a company of which Sarah has just inherited shares.
    • 3. Sex is Wrong

      27 Sep '87
      Alan impersonates Sir Steven, leader of the Campaign for Moral Regeneration.
    • 4. Waste Not, Want Not

      04 Oct '87
      Alan secretly has to move 1000 gallons of toxic waste.
    • 5. Friends of St. James

      11 Oct '87
      Alan tries to get investors for a Caribbean bank.
    • 6. Three Line Whipping

      18 Oct '87
      Alan misses an important vote then appears on TV AM without knowing the result.
    • 7. Baa Baa Black Sheep

      25 Oct '87
      Alan's tries to get an American businessman to build a fast food factory in Haltemprice.