Alexei Sayle’s Merry-Go-Round
Louise Gold appeared as Anna Chessington, series first screened on BBC 2 on: 8, 15,
22, 29 May and 5 & 14 June 1998
Cast (Includes)
Regular Cast
Alexi
Sayle
Denise
Coffey - Edna
Guest Appearances
Episode 1, recorded 6 July 1997, broadcast 8 May 1998
Jessica Stevenson -
Episode 2, recorded 21 October 1997, broadcast 15 May 1998
David Williams – Newsagent
Episode 3, recorded 17 October 1997, broadcast 22 May 1998
Episode 4, recorded 22 October 1997, broadcast 29 May 1998
Lee Hurst - The All New Lee Hurst 2000
Episode 5, recorded 22 October 1997, broadcast 5 June 1998
Gemma
Rigg - Mandy
Reece
Shearsmith -
Phillip Arthurs
Episode 6, recorded 28 October 1997, broadcast 14 June 1998
Other
Appearances
Omid
Djalili
Steve
Furst
Louise
Gold - Anna
Chessington
Simon
Greenall -
Interviewer
Production Team
Written by -
Alexei Sayle, Kevin Cecil, Dave Cummings, Kevin Gildea,
Andy Riley, Jon Rowlands, and, Edgar Wright
Additional
Material - David Stafford, and, Dennis Berson
Director - Edgar
Wright
Executive
Producer - Jon Plowman
Producer - Jon
Rowlands
Editor - Peter Drinkwater
Lighting
Design - Mark Kenyon
Rachel And
The Roarettes, Laugh???
I Nearly Paid My Licence Fee, Rita Rudner, A Kick Up The Archive, and, A Week In The West End were also first
broadcast on BBC2, where The Alan Clark Diaries also made its
terrestrial debut (having premiered on BBC
4), and City Lights made it’s national debut
(having premiered on BBC Scotland).
Kevin Cecil, and, Andy Riley
had previously written for Spitting Image.
Alexei Sayle had previously
appeared in Roland Rat The Series.
Louise Gold definitely
appeared in Episode 4 (according to the BBC Programme Catalogue), but it seems
likely that she did not appear in the other episodes.
Louise Gold had actually
been Denise Coffey’s replacement as
a Team Captain on the radio quiz Let’s
Do The Show Right Here.
Critics Comments
Links about Alexei
Sayle’s Merry-Go-Round
Internet Movie Database, page for the programme: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0155439/
BBC Comedy Guide’s Page for the programme:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/a/alexeisaylesmerr_66603010.shtml
TV.Com’s page for the programme: http://www.tv.com/alexei-sayles-merry-go-round/show/33727/summary.html
Mark Kenyon (Lighting Designer)’s work on
Comedy Programmes: http://www.markkenyon.com/comedy.htm
British TV Show Reviews ‘A’: http://www.eskimo.com/~rkj/a.htm
BBC Programme
Catalogue entry for series: http://open.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax/series/ALEXEI+SAYLE%27S+MERRY-GO-ROUND and for that
episode: http://open.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax/programme/LEGI148D
