Vic Reeves Big Night Out(1990)
Comedy
First Air Date: 1990-05-25
Average Runtime: 30m
Rating: 7.0
Votes: 11
Seasons: 2
Episodes: 14
Vic Reeves Big Night Out is a British cult comedy stage show and later TV series which ran on Channel 4 for two series in 1990 and 1991, as well as a New Year special. It marked the beginnings of the collaboration between Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer and started their Vic and Bob comedy double act. The show was later acknowledged as a seminal force in British comedy throughout the 1990s and which continues to the present day. Arguably the most surreal of the pair's work, Vic Reeves Big Night Out was effectively a parody of the variety shows which dominated the early years of television, but which were, by the early 1990s, falling from grace. Vic, introduced by Patrick Allen as "Britain's Top Light Entertainer and Singer", would sit behind a cluttered desk talking nonsense and introducing the various segments and surreal guests on the show. Vic Reeves Big Night Out is notable as the only time in their career where Vic solely took the role of host, while Bob was consigned to the back stage, appearing every few minutes as either himself or as a strange character. The two received equal billing in the series credits. On 3 October 2007, the first episode was re-broadcast on More4 as part of Channel 4 at 25, a season of classic Channel 4 programmes shown to celebrate the channel's 25th birthday.
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Channel 4Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
Episodes: 6E01
Season 1, Episode 1
Air Date: 1990-05-25
The first ever show hosted by the dashing, intelligent, larger-than-life Vic Reeves with Bob Mortimer, Novelty Island...
E02
Season 1, Episode 2
Air Date: 1990-06-01
The surreal comedy series has a very special guest. Ladies and gentlemen it's Charles Darwin!
E03
Season 1, Episode 3
Air Date: 1990-06-08
Vic meets a man who burns important documents, and demonstrates how to make a ray gun out of denim.
E04
Season 1, Episode 4
Air Date: 1990-06-15
Vic is joined by a man who lives in a jam jar full of oil. And there's a special guest appearance from Les's pet jell...
E05
Season 1, Episode 5
Air Date: 1990-06-22
Vic is joined by a man who slithers to the sound of Morse code and another chap who flatters Brie. And there's an app...
E06
Season 1, Episode 6
Air Date: 1990-06-29
Vic tussles with a rebel, demonstrates what to do with unwanted bark, and meets Mr Popkins and his lovey dovey doughn...
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