Wood and Walters a later Wood creation 'Kitty' (as played by Patricia Routledge). Rik Mayall also appeared in a one-off monologue as a chauvinistic feminist called Mitch, filling a similar guest slot as he had with Kevin Turvey in the sketch show "A Kick Up the Eighties". Another alternative comedy innovator to appear on the show was John Dowie, who had already toured with Wood in 1978. Wood's view of the series was "Some bits of it were good, some deadly". Around this time, Wood made a weekly musical appearance in the BBC Radio 2 show "The Little and Large Party", narrated an
The Black Seal billed as "Himself"); as with his appearances as Kevin Turvey in "A Kick Up the Eighties" (1982), Mayall liked to experiment at this time with a form of performance which blurred the boundaries between fact and fiction and encouraged the audience to believe the action was really happening. His appearance marked his first collaboration with Rowan Atkinson and it was noted that their work together took on a competitive edge; Mayall would dominate the set and preferred to rewrite his own lines. The competitiveness continued into their next Blackadder appearance together when Mayall played the role of the overbearing womaniser,