• 1993
  • 25m
Inside Victor Lewis-Smith

Summary This series takes a look inside the mind of comic author, prankster, and journalist Victor Lewis-Smith as he lies immobilized in a "comic coma" in a BBC hospital for distressed broadcasters. Throughout the course of the series, Lewis-Smith confronts the dark recesses of his own psyche as he embarks on a guided tour of his internal organs via his bloodstream, accompanied by a chatty cab driver who doubles as a narrative linking device. The hospital story line is woven around a series of comedy sketches that emerge from Lewis-Smith's subconscious when his life-support system is fed into a television monitor, in effect transforming him into a "human video playback machine." The result is a bold, bizarre, and hilarious collection of skits embedded within a surreal, highly innovative situation comedy format. Each episode features one or more of Mr Lewis-Smith's signature phone pranks played on some unsuspecting member of the public. View more details

  • 1993
  • 25m

Inside Victor Lewis-Smith

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Nickolas Grace Annette Badland Victor Lewis-Smith Moya Brady

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7.2

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Genres : Comedy

Release date : Oct 31, 1993

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Summary This series takes a look inside the mind of comic author, prankster, and journalist Victor Lewis-Smith as he lies immobilized in a "comic coma" in a BBC hospital for distressed broadcasters. Throughout the course of the series, Lewis-Smith confronts the dark recesses of his own psyche as he embarks on a guided tour of his internal organs via his bloodstream, accompanied by a chatty cab driver who doubles as a narrative linking device. The hospital story line is woven around a series of comedy sketches that emerge from Lewis-Smith's subconscious when his life-support system is fed into a television monitor, in effect transforming him into a "human video playback machine." The result is a bold, bizarre, and hilarious collection of skits embedded within a surreal, highly innovative situation comedy format. Each episode features one or more of Mr Lewis-Smith's signature phone pranks played on some unsuspecting member of the public. View more details

Details

Genres : Comedy

Release date : Oct 31, 1993

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

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Inside Victor Lewis-Smith (1993)

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Episode 1 • Oct 31, 1993
Episode #1.1
After a motorcycle accident resulting from an untimely sneeze, TV and radio personality Victor Lewis-Smith has been deposited in a BBC-owned hospital that serves as a dumping ground for burnt-out broadcasters, scriptwriters, and other unwanted TV people. As Victor lies in a full body cast suffering from a comic coma, a doctor hooks his life-support machine up to a television in order to stimulate his subconscious by pumping his brain full of dull old programs. Trapped within his body and searching in vain (and in his veins) for a way out, Victor brings new meaning to the idea of introspection as he embarks on a taxi tour through his ventricles. And in the first of a series of weekly phone pranks indulging his alter ego's need to "lash out" at society, Victor phones a masseur who has placed an ad in a newspaper.
Episode 2 • Nov 07, 1993
Episode #1.2
Hospital staff members are bemused by the discovery that Victor's subconscious, having been saturated with old television programs, has begun transmuting the input and spewing out original images and comedy skits, using the television hooked to his life-support system as a channel to project the disturbed workings of his mind. The BBC nurse takes a fancy to Victor after inspecting his curvy X-rays, and he receives a visit from the National Elf Service. Overcome once again by the need to lash out, Victor's alter ego places a call to the Monopolies Commission.
Episode 3 • Nov 21, 1993
Episode #1.3
Having learned that Victor is acting as a transmitter broadcasting to the entire hospital, the BBC doctor and station officials begin making plans to phase out the BBC's current staff and equipment and replace them with this far more economical one-man transmitter. But first, they will need to open up Victor's brain and have a rummage around in the national interest. Victor's alter ego insults a Belgian.
Episode 4 • Nov 28, 1993
Episode #1.4
Victor is prepped for surgery to have his brain cut open and inspected by BBC officials, prior to being launched as a cheap replacement for all existing BBC programming. However, he and the hospital staff are trapped in the lift on the way to surgery. When supplies run low, the others may be forced to eat bits of him for sustenance. Victor's alter ego consults the office of a New York plastic surgeon.
Episode 5 • Dec 05, 1993
Episode #1.5
The doctor concludes that desperate measures are called for and subjects Victor to "Edison Medicine" (i.e., an electric shock administered directly to the head), leaving him susceptible to paranoid delusions of conspiracy. As Victor's subconscious ruminates on the Kennedy assassination, his wife informs him that she has rented out his room and intends to appeal to the court for his right to a dignified death. Victor's alter ego rings a Japanese newspaper with a scoop about a possible conspiracy in connection with the death of River Phoenix. After the credits, the Director General of the BBC sends the order to have Victor terminated.
Episode 6 • Dec 12, 1993
Episode #1.6
The TV Vicar visits in preparation for Victor's imminent termination. Victor's wife agrees to donate his bits to medical science because that's against everything he stands for, and his father arrives eager to lay claim to his few remaining possessions. Just when it seems there's light at the end of the tunnel, Victor's intravenous taxi service -slash- narrative linking device comes to an unsavory end and is eaten by one of the nurses. Before the BBC pull the plug to terminate both Victor and the series, he has time to indulge his alter ego with one final phone call, which he uses to pester a florist.
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