Men Behaving Badly 6. The show aired for six series and forty two episodes, including a Christmas special titled 'Jingle Balls', which was broadcast over Christmas 1997. A final short run of three 45-minute episodes was made in 1998 to conclude the series. Series one was the only series to feature Dermot, played by Harry Enfield, and the only series not to feature Neil Morrissey as Tony. The episodes of the first two series are about 24 minutes long because they were shown on ITV and time was needed for advertisements. When the show began on the BBC, the episodes were about four
Chalk (TV series) to 22:20. The second series received an unstable timeslot, being replaced in its more mainstream slot by "Men Behaving Badly". Commenting on the second series, the Glasgow "Herald" said, "the manic depute head of Galfast High, Eric Slatt, is looking more and more like Basil Fawlty on a bad day. So are those of us who remain glued to it in ghoulish fascination to see if it can get any worse." Tabloid newspaper "The Mirror" published a damming review of the show's second series opener: The head of comedy at Television Centre deserves six of the best for bringing back