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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 8

A grandmother who takes her car for an MOT gets a shock when the mechanics decide to test its suspension by dropping it from a great height. A factory worker gets covered in trifle, and the Beadle team build a gents' loo outside a woman's house - only to discover that their victim proves to be the Boadicea of South London.

Pranks

Happy mechanic - Woman takes her car for an MOT/routine service. The mechanics decide to do the VW bounce test, and she comes back to see her car falling to the ground and not bouncing like the car does in the commercial. The car is a clone of her car and later they try toget her to buy her own car back.
Trifle #1 - Victim goes to work in a trifle factory and finds the machine that mixes them has a mind of its own
Gents Loo - a row of mens' urinals are installed against the wall of a woman's house.

Broadcast details

Date
Saturday 12th December 1992
Channel
ITV1
Length
30 minutes

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