Andrew Sachs – MRQE

Looking for Victoria (TV)

Wed, 10 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

“That Peter Kay Thing”

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

That Peter Kay Thing is a series of six spoof documentaries shown on Channel 4 in January 1999. Set in and around Bolton, these follows the lives of different characters and stars Peter Kay as the subject of each documentary. All of the episodes display Kay’s penchant for nostalgic humour and unsympathetic lead characters. The series was narrated by Andrew Sachs. Many of the plot lines were based around actual events from Kay’s life. At least six of the characters appear in the spin-off series Peter Kay’s Phoenix Nights.

Breaking the Bank (2014/II)

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

With ruthless US and Japanese investment banks circling Tuftons, a struggling two-hundred-year-old, family-run British bank, can its bumbling, incompetent chairman, Sir Charles Bunbury, fend off the onslaught and save the bank?

“Fawlty Towers”

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Owner Basil Fawlty, his wife Sybil, a chambermaid Polly, and Spanish waiter Manuel attempt to run their hotel amidst farcical situations and an array of demanding guests.

Taxandria

Mon, 08 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A lighthouse guardian leads a young prince towards an imaginary world, Taxandria, where the boy learns about the power of love and the value of liberty. A totalitarian regime has forbidden time: time watches have been confiscated, photo cameras are illegal as they freeze a point in time. A typical Servais theme: a power is oppressed by a constraint that denies what is best in the individual, and therefore has to be twisted in various ways, to establish an entirely artificial world, that has rules that may question some of the rules of our world at this side of the mirror.

The Forgotten Toys

Mon, 20 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A festive tale about two lost toys searching for a new home.