A Kick Up the Eighties 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 reporter Kevin Turvey; it was also the start of Tracey Ullman's television comedy career. Peter Capaldi, a trained graphic artist from Scotland, contributed to designing the show's opening sequence prior to launching his
Kevin Eldon Kevin Eldon Kevin Eldon (born 2 October 1959) is an English actor and comedian. He featured in British comedy television shows of the 1990s including "Fist of Fun", "Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge", "Big Train", "Brass Eye" and "Jam". In 2013 he appeared in his own BBC sketch series, "It's Kevin". Eldon has appeared in minor speaking roles in the HBO series "Game of Thrones". Eldon was born in Chatham, Kent. He has been a practising Nichiren Buddhist since 1990. He has two children with his long-term girlfriend Holly whom he met in late 2005 on the set