Colin Gilbert he began working as a producer and director. His credits during this period include "A Kick Up the Eighties" with Tracey Ullman, Miriam Margolyes Roger Sloman, Ron Bain and Robbie Coltrane, "Naked Radio", "Laugh??? I Nearly Paid My Licence Fee" with Robbie Coltrane and John Sessions, "Naked Video" with Gregor Fisher, Jonathan Watson, Helen Lederer, John Sparkes, Andy Gray, Tony Roper and Elaine C Smith, "I Lovett" with Norman Lovett, "Kevin Turvey the Man Behind the Green Door" which he co-wrote with Rik Mayall, "City Lights" with Gerard Kelly and "Rab C Nesbitt" with Gregor Fisher, created and written by
Alfresco (TV series) Alfresco (TV series) Alfresco is a British sketch comedy television series starring Robbie Coltrane, Ben Elton, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Siobhan Redmond and Emma Thompson, produced by Granada Television and broadcast by ITV from May 1983 to June 1984. Running for two series, it totalled 13 episodes and was named Alfresco (from the Italian "al fresco", meaning "in the fresh air") because, unusually for a comedy sketch show of the time, it was shot on location rather than in a studio. The programme is a sketch show which was intended as an answer to the BBC's highly successful "Not the