Tom Gutteridge direct the BBC's General Election coverage. In 1980 Gutteridge moved to Music & Arts department as Executive Producer, where he was responsible for the twice-weekly Russell Harty chat shows. In 1982, he produced and directed the comedy sketch series "A Kick Up the Eighties", which first discovered the talents of Rik Mayall (as Kevin Turvey) and Tracey Ullman, and which won a Scottish BAFTA. In 1983 and 1984, he produced and directed the popular BBC1 dance series "The Hot Shoe Show", starring Wayne Sleep and Bonnie Langford, which in 1984 was nominated for a BAFTA as Best Light Entertainment Series.
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