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Mr Don & Mr George

30min

Comedy

Mr Don & Mr George was a Channel 4 sitcom, featuring two characters from the Scottish comedy sketch show Absolutely. Moray Hunter and Jack Docherty played two unrelated characters who happened to share a surname. Hunter and Docherty wrote the series and it was made by their production company, Absolutely Productions. The humour was surreal and often featured ridiculous visual gags and wordplay. A single six-episode series was made, and was first broadcast in the UK on Channel 4 in 1993. The series was released on VHS in the 1990s. A single VHS tape was released with all six episodes on as well. This tape stated that it had the entire first series on one tape, however no further series were made.

Episodes

Cast

Season 1

You Can Run ... But You Can't Hide Your Legs

1. You Can Run ... But You Can't Hide Your Legs

30min

25th Aug 1993

Armed with a matchbox full of 34 deadly sulphur guns, Don and George set out on a deadly post-cold-war mission. To find someone to spy on.

The Winslow Apple

2. The Winslow Apple

30min

1st Sep 1993

The police net closes in on Don, following his theft of an apple as a child. George is so tense he is in danger of exploding. A holiday not to Switzerland is the only answer.

There's Been a Thing

3. There's Been a Thing

30min

8th Sep 1993

Don has fallen for Miss Burns the air hostess. Naturally, George tries to have his friend arrested for conspiring to go out on a date. A tale of love, jealousy and trembling lower lips.

You've Eaten My Future

4. You've Eaten My Future

30min

15th Sep 1993

Don strikes a lucrative business deal with the Ecuadorean government. One problem. Don & George don't have a business. However, they do have two hundred boxes of cornflakes, enough to build a splendid office.

No Wasps

5. No Wasps

30min

22nd Sep 1993

George is going to pieces, drinking three bottles of whisky a day. Don, and a mysterious approach from Hollywood, convince George to get fit. Just in time, coincidentally, for George's boxing match with Dennis "Killer" Bowles.

This is This... Goodbye is Goodbye.

6. This is This... Goodbye is Goodbye.

30min

29th Sep 1993

Don's tenure of friendship with George expires. But Don owes money for the rental of his spectacles, so George has little option but to pawn his friend. Unfortunately, Don is purchased by two former Nazis as a large timepiece.

First air date

25th Aug 1993

Last air date

29th Sep 1993

Status

Ended

Type

Scripted

Original language

en

Networks