The Weekenders (TV pilot)
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This article is about "The Meat Festival" episode of "The Weekenders" UK proposed television series. For the pilot episode of The Weekenders US TV series, see "Crush Test Dummies".
The Weekenders is a one-off comic television pilot starring Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, produced by Granada Television for Channel 4. Broadcast on Wednesday 17 June 1992 as part of a series of pilots entitled Bunch of Five, it was a surreal sitcom in which two friends, Jim and Bob, visit a meat festival taking place in an open field. They are then chased by aliens who want the meat they have bought to feed their queen.[1]
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The Weekenders | |
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Also known as | The Meat Festival |
Genre | Surreal sitcom |
Written by | Vic Reeves Bob Mortimer |
Directed by | Sandy Johnson |
Starring | Vic Reeves Bob Mortimer John Thomson Simon Day Paul Whitehouse Phil Oakey |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Executive producer | David Liddiment |
Producer | Mark Robson |
Running time | 24 minutes 39 seconds |
Production company | Granada Television |
Original release | |
Network | Channel 4 |
Release | 17 June 1992 (1992-06-17) |
Related | |
The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer Catterick |
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