Robin Houston

Jim et Hilda, un couple de retraités, vivent dans un cottage isolé en pleine campagne. Ils apprennent qu’une nouvelle guerre se prépare : une guerre nucléaire. Le couple, confiant dans le gouvernement du pays qui a déjà gagné deux conflits mondiaux, ne comprend guère les implications de cette nouvelle menace mais suit à la lettre les instructions de survie absurdes. La guerre est annoncée à la radio. Hilda se précipite pour aller chercher le linge et Jim, en panique, se met en colère pour la première fois contre sa femme. Les missiles tombent et le cottage est la dernière chose débout dans un paysage calciné. Jim et Hilda se mettent à faire le ménage en attendant que leurs « gars » arrivent. Sans eau ni nourriture, ils commencent à se sentir malades, ignorant qu’ils subissent les premiers effets de la radioactivité…

The Dame Edna Experience is a British television comedy talk-show hosted by Dame Edna Everage. It ran for twelve regular episodes on ITV, plus two Christmas specials. The first seven aired for the first time in 1987, the next seven in 1989. It was directed by Ian Hamilton and Alasdair MacMillan and produced by London Weekend Television. Regulars on the program, besides Dame Edna, were her "bridesmaid" Madge Allsop and Robin Houston who was the announcer, with orchestra conducted and arranged by Laurie Holloway. Each program featured several celebrity guests, usually three, but some programs included up to eight guests. There would also be other invited "guests" like Kurt Waldheim and Imelda Marcos who once introduced at stage right would fall victim to a trap door or something similar and fail to make it to their chair. The entire series was released on DVD by BBC Video in June 2004, and can now also be purchased as a complete set including the Christmas specials and the three An Audience with Dame Edna specials, plus other material. The series was released for Region 2 by Network DVD in the UK in 2007, as a 4-disc set. For reasons unknown, the Region 2 release does not include the 1989 Christmas special "The Dame Edna Satellite Experience" that ended the second series and featured Ursula Andress, Yehudi Menuhin, and Robert Kilroy-Silk. It does, however, include the one-off 1990 Christmas special A Night On Mount Edna with guests Mel Gibson, Charlton Heston, Gina Lollobrigida and Julio Iglesias.

Game for a Laugh is a British light entertainment programme which ran for 56 editions and four specials between 26 September 1981 and 23 November 1985, made by London Weekend Television for the ITV network.