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 Sacre Kevin Sacre Kevin Sacre-Dallerup (born Kevin Bignell on 23 March 1978) is a British actor. He is most famous for his performance as Jake Dean in the British Channel 4 soap opera "Hollyoaks", a role he played from 2002 to 2010. He was born in London. He attended secondary school at Aylesbury Grammar School. Kevin started his career at the Royal Shakespeare Company followed by TV series Night and Day for ITV in which he played Dennis Doyle from 2001–02 with ex-cast member Stuart Manning then on to Hollyoaks. He left the show in May 2008. In December 2008, Kevin