Kevin Turvey Kevin Turvey Kevin Turvey was a British television comedy character, created by actor and comedian Rik Mayall, who featured in the BBC sketch show "A Kick Up the Eighties" in 1981. Turvey, an awkward and socially inept character who spoke with a broad West Midlands accent, was a self-styled "investigative journalist" who still lived with his mother, wore a shapeless blue anorak, fancied a local girl called Theresa Kelly (who was never depicted), and rarely ventured outside his home town of Redditch, north Worcestershire. Each week, his "investigations" amounted to little more than an over-excited, rambling, uninformed monologue delivered straight
Kick Start (TV series) Kick Start (TV series) Kick Start was a motorcycle trials series on BBC television that aired between 1979 and 1988. The idea originated from Nick Brittan, the organiser of the 1978 Lombard RAC Rally, who thought top trials motorcyclists, competing over a hazardous track and obstacles, would make exciting television. It was produced by BBC Pebble Mill producer Derek Smith, who also created Top Gear. The first series, which was hosted by Dave Lee Travis, aired in August 1979 filling the slot vacated by "Nationwide". The course for these three shows was devised by trials rider Sammy Miller and constructed