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A British comedy sketch television series featuring Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones that ran on BBC One and BBC Two from 31 January 1984 to 14 October 1998. From series 5 in 1989 the 'Alas' title was dropped and became simply Smith and Jones.
1985
Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones begin their side-splitting six week series with a show that has everything: comedy, music and a nasty skin complaint.
With Chris Barrie and Robin Driscoll. The critics have hailed this series as, "The most expensive comedy programme since Tender is the Night. Miss the Nine 0 'Clock News to catch it."
Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones bring you the third programme of this 425 part epic science series. This week they ask the question which has baffled millions: "How does James Burke get away with it ?"
Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones host this special charity edition in aid of those unfortunate millions who have been on the Terry Wogan show. With Stephen Fry, Gwen Taylor and Robin Driscoll.
Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones bring you the hit entry of this year's Leningrad Television Festival where it won the coveted 'Zinc Daisy of Stalin Award' for the most agriculturally informative comedy show of the year. With Stephen Fry and Robin Driscoll.
Conclusion of the series. Not to put too fine a point on it the show starts on a rubbish tip and ends with a fart.
1984
The first of six programmes starring Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones with Annabel Leventon, Annette Lynton, Shane Rimmer. Andrew Francis, Raymond Mason and a special guest appearance by Nicholas Ball. A hard-hitting exposé of sperm banks, Samurai accountants and chiropody, all done with impeccable taste and integrity.
With Ken Morley, Hugh Thomas and Geoff Capes. The 'right to know' team look into orange juice cartons and discover divorce, pornography, bran and two donkeys.
Guest stars Tony Robinson and Brenda Blethyn. This is your only chance to discover what the Pope really gets up to at home, how the French Resistance resisted and the secret of Roger Moore's success.
Witness Margaret Thatcher 's finest hour, sample the exciting qualities of real ale and spend a day with the Great Gobbo in this week's tasteful programme.
Join the police on a night siege and probe the soft underbelly of the pop world. Yes, it's another exciting episode in the Smith and Jones 'Guide to Life'. This week: how to become a barbed-wire consultant and solve the enigma of correlation.
The last of six programmes starring Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones, with Andrew Francis, Tony Robinson, Brenda Blethyn, Annabel Leventon, Annette Lynton and Hugh Burden. Alas the last Alas... but beware these scholars of history, literature and contemporary comment may well return to enlighten you. Tonight's dissertation is on the Spanish Civil War. Ole.
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Mel Smith
Griff Rhys Jones
1987
They're back to back, head to head and side by side, but fortunately not on top of each other.
1997
Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones return with six new programmes of comic sketches, characters and the traditional head-to-head chats.
1989
Starring Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones with Chris Langham and Heather Tobias.
1990
The boys are back. Head to head, back to front and upside down. For new viewers, Smith is the slightly larger one and Jones is slightly Welsh.
1998
Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones return for another series of comic sketches, including more head-to-head discussions.
1995
The long-time collaboration between Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones continues as they return with a six part comedy series full of observational humour, man-to-man duologues and hard-hitting lunacy.
1992
Return of the British Comedy Award-winning series starring Mel Smith Griff Rhys Jones. Among the subjects promised in this new series are endangered species, courtship in the 50s, dustcart trophies, traffic wardens, political speeches, the postal system and street vendors - and of course a weekly 'head to head'.
1986
A bad year on the horses and a worse one on the property market means that BBC2 is proud and extremely lucky to present The New Series.
The Show They Tried to Ban! ... is not on tonight. They succeeded. So there's this instead. With Tracie Bennett and John Humphrys.
Starring Pete Duel and Ben Murphy. Special guest appearances by Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones.
Nobody could ever accuse Alas Smith and Jones of poor taste. It costs a fortune.
Guest starring Roger Lloyd Pack and Linda Lusardi.
Probably the most refreshing and part-reaching comedy show in the world with Kim Clifford.
Last chance to get your complaints in before the series finishes. With Janice Cramer Robin Driscoll Nigel Harman, Peter McCarthy and Garfield Morgan.
Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones star in the second of six programmes of new comic sketches, characters and the traditional head-to-head dialogues.
Tonight, Mel thinks he has a resemblance to Tom Cruise, and Mr Green and Mr Brown try to pick up some free wine at the bottle bank.
Tonight's show features a spoof of the James Bond films, the return of the cabaret duo, and Jimbo and Timbo the incompetent builders trying to eat a Chinese takeaway.
This week's programme features a modern slant on the ten commandments, the advent of widescreen TV, and the special effects men at a fertility clinic.
The last in the current series of comic sketches, characters and head-to-head confrontations with Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones. The programme features the sound effects men in charge of Hitler's Nuremberg Rally PA system, a look at life in an inflation-hit South American republic and the resident cabaret musos dispensing more words of wisdom.
With Chris Langham, Josie Lawrence and Kate Williams.
Mount Olympus - luxurious home of Greece's first family - the Gods. Follow their triumphs and disappointments in the classic soap opera Olympus.
In Olympus II, Sara Crowe as Aphrodite and Miranda Richardson as Hera.
With Chris Langham, Rosemary Martin and Heather Tobias.
Starring Jane Horrocks, Chris Langham, Rosemary Martin, Andy Taylor, Heather Tobias, Kate Williams. With the final episode of that classic soap Olympus.
A second bumper package of humorous skits featuring loveable, chubby Mel Smith and cheeky chappie Griff Rhys Jones.
A third foray into the funny, farcical and felicitous world of the comical duo whose names begin with the letters 'j' and 's'.
Discover how the pyramids were built. Accompany Sir John Harvey-Jones on his latest troubleshoot. And discover why the drivers of F-registration Montegos should beware the next budget.
Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat, so hang the decorations and the fairy lights and join Smith and Jones on a trip to funnyland.
Tonight's show guarantees no references to Christmas, hangovers, boxing, sleighbells, or the works of Charles Dickens.
Last in the series starring Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones. A preview of a new movie about the Welsh mafia, and clairvoyant Doris Cockney.
Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones continue their series of comic sketches. There's a spoof of Alfred Hitchcock 's classic film Rear Window and new dance sensation Conga Britannica.
Mel and Griff try to find out if their friend Frank, played by Alun Armstrong, is wearing a toupee.
This week Griff tries to combat Mel's snoring and the duo unearth a long-lost satire programme of the sixties.
The duo play soldiers with a timekeeping problem, Mel goes to an all-night celebrity party, and there's a head-to-head on the problems of managing an all girl band.
Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones conclude their series of comic sketches with the duo revealing an amazing breakthrough in personal technology. With guest, rock guitarist Brian May.
With Jonathan Kydd and Steffanie Pitt.
Maggie Philbin joins Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones in their new comedy series to launch Thick Aid - a charity helping the stupid to help themselves. Plus, other comic sketches including the problem of ordering food in a Japanese restaurant, and Mel worrying that he is getting too old to, "pull the birds."
More fast-moving comedy and sharp-edged sketches from Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones. Including sketches about a visit to a brothel which specialises in correction, a cabinet minister who has trouble with his equipment, and the duo consider adopting children from foreign countries. Tonight's special guest is Lynda Baron.
In a programme originally scheduled for 13 September, Dinsdale Landen plays an unintelligible country squire when he joins Mel and Griff. The duo discuss the joys of body piercing and present sketches including a comic look at the law of probability.
Last in the series of fast-moving comedy and sharp-edged sketches, from Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones. With guests Stratford Johns and Geraldine James.
More subjects are given an unexpected twist - plus musical set-pieces.
More comedy sketches, musical set-pieces, and a 'head to head' problem that needs to be discussed.
Another fast-moving sequence of sketches, songs and 'head-to-head' problems.
The award-winning duo. More fun and frolics from the slightly larger one who comes from London and the slightly thinner one who comes from Wales.
Last in the comedy series starring Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones. A collection of comic items as the double award-winning duo add to the gaiety of nations.
Starring Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones with Alexandra Dane, Peter Dawson, Robin Driscoll, Nigel Harman, Peter McCarthy , Gareth Milne and Sylvestra Ie Touzel.
With special appearances by Mick Channon, Gary Glitter, Leslie Grantham, Jools Holland, Hazel O'Connor and Janet Street-Porter.
More fun and frolics as the whacky duo think it a super wheeze to rehash an old Terry and June script.
Two men, two minds, two visions... one porpoise.
Last Smith and Jones for a while. Featuring the definitive opus of Peter Leander Brewis, 'Concerto for string quartet and next-door neighbour', recorded earlier in the year at the Oddfellows Hall, Peckham.
