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Beadle's About

Beadle's About

  • TV sketch show
  • ITV1
  • 1986 - 1996
  • 94 episodes (10 series)

Hidden camera show hosted by Britain's favourite practical joker, Jeremy Beadle.

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Series 7, Episode 9

A wicked trick is played on a video cameraman, at a spoof wedding set up by Beadle. A private detective - actually an actor, of course - interrupts the ceremony, accusing the bride of having an affair with the video man. What will be the cameraman's response when the bride's brother tries to force him into a shotgun wedding - to a lady he's never seen before?

Pranks

Rat pie - Woman works in a pie making factory. She is led to believe some of the pies contain rat meat
Trifle #2 - Victim works in a trifle making factory, and the machines take over
Stop the wedding - Victim is assisting the video cameraman at a wedding. As the ceremony is about to start a private detective bursts in claiming that the bride is having an affair with the victim. Eventually he is persuaded to marry the bride by one of her mafia type relatives

Broadcast details

Date
Saturday 19th December 1992
Time
6:30pm
Channel
ITV1
Length
30 minutes

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