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	A compilation episode was broadcast on 31 December 1987, entitled "A Kick Up The Bells". On 31 December 1998 BBC2 screened "A Kick Up The Archive", a further highlights compilation.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/04236ff5738a4cf2ba03720b74a00e99\|title=A Kick Up the Archive\|date=31 December 1998\|issue=3906\|pages=156\|via=BBC Genome}}</ref>		A compilation episode was broadcast on 31 December 1987, entitled "A Kick Up The Bells". On 31 December 1998 BBC2 screened "A Kick Up The Archive", a further highlights compilation.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/04236ff5738a4cf2ba03720b74a00e99\|title=A Kick Up the Archive\|date=31 December 1998\|issue=3906\|pages=156\|via=BBC Genome}}</ref>
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	==References==		==References==

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{{Short description|Television series}}
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{{Infobox television
| image = A_Kick_Up_the_Eighties.jpg
| caption = Opening 1981 title card
| runtime = 30 minutes.
| creator =
| starring = [[Robbie Coltrane]] [[Tracey Ullman]] [[Richard Stilgoe]] [[Miriam Margolyes]] [[Rik Mayall]] [[Ron Bain]] [[Roger Sloman]]
| country = United Kingdom
| company = [[BBC Scotland]]
| network = [[BBC2]]
| first_aired = {{start date|1981|9|21|df=y}}
| last_aired = {{end date|1984|1|24|df=y}}
| num_series = 2
| num_episodes = 10
}}

'''''A Kick Up the Eighties''''' was a 1981–1984 [[BBC 2]] comedy [[sketch show]] starring [[Robbie Coltrane]] (Series 2), [[Tracey Ullman]], [[Richard Stilgoe]] (Series 1), [[Miriam Margolyes]], [[Rik Mayall]], [[Ron Bain]] and [[Roger Sloman]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b736c4bcc|title=A Kick up the Eighties[21/09/81] (1981)|website=BFI}}</ref><ref name="bbccomedyguide" />

The show was created by [[Tom Gutteridge]] (producer/director) and [[Sean Hardie]] (executive producer).<ref name=bbccomedyguide>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/k/kickuptheeightie_7773980.shtml |title=BBC - Comedy Guide - A Kick Up The Eighties |publisher=Web.archive.org |accessdate=2014-06-27 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20041221013216/http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/k/kickuptheeightie_7773980.shtml |archivedate=21 December 2004 }}</ref> [[Colin Gilbert]] was script editor. Series One, comprising six shows, was broadcast on [[BBC2]] from 21 September 1981 to 26 October 1981. Series Two, comprising four shows, was broadcast on BBC2 between 3 January 1984 and 24 January 1984. A contemporary sketch show with a nod to the then emerging wave of [[alternative comedy]], a strong team combined to perform short sketches and various musical parodies.

The show was the first break into television for [[Rik Mayall]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27765539 |title=Obituary: Rik Mayall |publisher=BBC |date=2014-06-09 |accessdate=2014-06-27}}</ref> who played an over-excited, anorak-wearing investigative reporter [[Kevin Turvey]]. To maintain the illusion that his character was real, Mayall's name did not appear in the closing credits whereas Kevin Turvey's did.<ref name=screenonline>{{Cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/1120267/|title=BFI Screenonline: Kick Up the Eighties, A (1981, 1984)|website=screenonline.org.uk}}</ref> The show was also the start of [[Tracey Ullman]]'s television comedy career.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/news/2016-01-11/how-us-comedy-star-tracey-ullman-came-home-to-the-bbc/|title=How US comedy star Tracey Ullman came home to the BBC|website=Radio Times}}</ref> [[Peter Capaldi]], a trained graphic artist from Scotland, contributed to designing the show's opening sequence prior to launching his own career as an actor.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britishclassiccomedy.co.uk/kicking-off-1980s|title=A Kick Up The Eighties|date=1 January 2017}}</ref> The first series won a Scottish BAFTA for Best Entertainment Programme in 1982.

For the second series, Colin Gilbert was brought in as producer, his debut TV production with the newly formed BBC Scotland Comedy Unit. Richard Stilgoe had left the show and Robbie Coltrane took his place.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/500418/index.html|title=BFI Screenonline: Coltrane, Robbie (1950-) Biography|website=screenonline.org.uk}}</ref> This second series was more slick and competent than the first, and Coltrane was praised for his vocal range, powerful delivery and natural acting technique.<ref name=bbccomedyguide/>

A compilation episode was broadcast on 31 December 1987, entitled "A Kick Up The Bells". On 31 December 1998 BBC2 screened "A Kick Up The Archive", a further highlights compilation.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/04236ff5738a4cf2ba03720b74a00e99|title=A Kick Up the Archive|date=31 December 1998|issue=3906|pages=156|via=BBC Genome}}</ref>
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==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{IMDb title|0081887}}
*{{Screenonline TV title|id=1120267}}

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