A Kick Up the Eighties own career as an actor. The first series won a Scottish BAFTA for Best Entertainment Programme in 1982. A compilation episode was broadcast on 31 December 1987, entitled "A Kick Up The Bells". A Kick Up the Eighties A Kick Up the Eighties was a 1981-1984 BBC 2 sketch show starring Robbie Coltrane, Tracey Ullman, Richard Stilgoe, Miriam Margolyes, Rik Mayall, Ron Bain and Roger Sloman. The series was created by Tom Gutteridge (producer/director) and Sean Hardie (executive producer). Colin Gilbert was script editor. The show was the first break into television for Rik Mayall, who played the anorak-wearing investigative
The Sketch Show were recreated, such as the California Dreamin', English Course and the Sign Language sketch. A famous sketch on the American version had Grammer waking up from a nightmare, which he describes as: "I dreamt that "Frasier" was over, and I was on this Sketch Show!" The sketch is a spoof of the "Newhart" series finale, in which Bob Newhart woke up and realised that the whole series was all a dream, which was itself a spoof of Pam Ewing of the television soap opera "Dallas" waking up and declaring that the entire ninth season was just a dream so that