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Written by the prolific Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran, The New Statesman (ITV, 1987-94) was a satirical sitcom about a young Conservative MP, Alan B'Stard (Rik Mayall), self-appointed 'rising star of the New Right'.
Devious and conniving, he will stop at nothing to benefit his political career or his wealth.
Other characters included Alan's wife Sarah (Marsha Fitzalan), to whom he was constantly unfaithful, though she paid him back in kind, usually with his publicist Beatrice Protheroe (Vivien Heilbron).
Alan's dim sidekick, fellow MP Piers Fletcher-Dervish (Michael Troughton) and transsexual accountant, Norman/Norma Bormann (R.R.Cooper), played supporting roles in Alan's schemes, and usually came off the worse for it.
The show spanned the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major, sometimes uncannily pre-empting real-life events.
In the episode 'Sex Is Wrong' (tx. 27/9/1987), Alan's moral regeneration campaign foreshadowed Major's 1993 'Back To Basi
