This page is a full list of episodes of lead balloon arranged by series. Robbie coltrane, jack dee, raquel cassidy, sean power, anna crilly, antonia campbellhughes, rasmus hardiker, tony gardner, john biggins, sophie winkleman, alex hardcastle, lead balloon series 1 4 6dvd box set lead balloon series one to four, lead balloon series 1 4 6dvd box set, lead balloon series one to four, alex. Lead balloon series 2 episode 6 debacle dead parrot duration. Lead balloon tv series 20062011 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Jul 18, 2018 mythbusters season 6 episode 2 lead balloon. Lead balloon season 2 episode 1 tonight, spleen appears on a quiz show as a guest celebrity and manages to talk a contestant out of winning a car. Father ted s2 e1 hell father ted series 2 episode 1 dead parrot duration. With jack dee, raquel cassidy, sean power, anna crilly.
He is sick and tired of doing endless corporate gigs. Lead balloon series 2 episode 2 hero dead parrot duration. Lead balloon series and episode guides tv from radiotimes. When it looks as though hes going to be accused in the tabloids of smoking cannabis, rick asks mel to pretend she has ms. Faced with his own paranoia, a collection of friends whose use varies, and the antics of his family, spleens life is. In other words, hes still the same old selfdeluded liar, making a reasonable living from corporate gigs, appearing on lowrent chat shows and hoping for h. Allergic rick discovers he may have inadvertently killed one of britains bestloved entertainers, but hes preoccupied by a missing shoeorganiser. Dec 20, 2007 rick hosts an event for a pharmaceutical company. Meanwhile, rick fronts a tv recycling campaign that backfires badly. Looking out the window to yet another grey, miserable day, summer seems to be a million years ago, but thankfully, the end of summer means the beginning of the new television season.
Jack dee returns as worldweary standup rick spleen in all 8 episodes from the second series of this critically acclaimed comedy. Sharon and her son shaun are helping one couple escape life in a tent. Lead balloon series 1 episode 5 pistachio dead parrot youtube. In the series premiere, cynical comedian rick spleen jack dee tries to avoid an ugly babys christening and stars in a publicservice announcement about recycling that backfires.
Oct 04, 2006 watch lead balloon full episodes online. Watch lead balloon season 2 episode 6 debacle online now. Series 2, episode 2 hero rick becomes a local hero when he stops a suicide. Rick spleens back and as he will tell you, hes on the way up, his career is going from strength to strength and hes never been so popular.
Instead, we open with max called to the carpet by professor gruner, the head of the hospital, whose lectures viewers saw last week includes torturing women with hysterics. Lead balloon series 1, episode 1 british comedy guide. As usual its ricks hopeless attempts to lie and wriggle his way out of disaster that are the meat of the comedy. Mar 22, 2019 mythbusters season 6 episode 2 lead balloon. Raquel cassidy, sean power and tony gardner also star. The fifth episode of the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy television series. In the season 2 premiere, rick appears as a celebrity oracle on a tv quiz show. Lead balloon series 2 episode 2 hero dead parrot youtube.
The team tests whether dynamite can create ideal surfing conditions. The first series of six episodes aired in 2006 and a second series, extended to eight episodes, aired in 2007. Lead balloon tv show season 4 episodes list next episode. We have original comedy formats, stand up and sketches, as well. A guide to wayne, episode 2 from series 1 of lead balloon. October 18, 2008 in the season 2 premiere, rick appears as a celebrity oracle on a tv quiz show. Click the link below to see what others say about lead balloon. The series was created and is cowritten by comedian jack dee and pete sinclair. We love the series and wish the other 2 seasons would be released on prime, since they made no region one dvds. Lead balloon series 1, episode 2 wayne british comedy guide. Rick becomes a local hero when he stops someone from committing suicide.
Search before requesting anything you need permission message when trying to access certain files. Episodes were also made available as streaming downloads on. Mythbusters season 6 episode 2 lead balloon dailymotion. As a result, a tv executive agrees to discuss ricks career over dinner.
Lead balloon series 2 episode guide british comedy guide. His attempts to persuade marty, mel and newlyqualified driver magda to take the rap all fail and he ends up having to attend a speeding management course where he is humiliated by a sarcastic group leader. Rick is having a bad time of it at the moment, he has to deal with an electrician who is very sarcastic and stealing spoons from the cafe doesnt turn out to be. At first it sounds too easy that george could have done it again, but soon pauli finds a breakthrough that stuns the team. His standup goes down surprisingly well, but some of his illadvised gags have farreaching consequences. Watch all 8 lead balloon episodes from season 2,view pictures, get episode information and more. He does everything to put himself in the best light possibleincluding throwing everyone else. He decides that the purchase of a leather jacket would give a more butch semblance but his paranoia about being mistaken for a gay leads to some unfortunately homophobic comments at the annual hairdressers awards. Rick spleen is a worldweary comedian who ends up doing far too many corporate jobs to pay the bills. Callaghan and pauli investigate the case of a missing boy, and soon they are hot on the trail of a previously convicted pedophile named george. Meanwhile, back at home, trouble is brewing as magda, his surly eastern european help, has finally handed in her notice. With mark womack, samantha womack, tom georgeson, paul broughton. Series 2, episode 7 rita rick appears along side of a hollywood starlet after landing a cameo role in a movie.
And then he seems likely to have landed the star role in a television series. Season 3 guide for lead balloon tv series see the episodes list with schedule and episode summary. Rick is caught speeding and sees that if he gets three more points he will be disqualified from driving. Lead balloon series 2 episode 7 rita dead parrot youtube. Rick buys a pistachio coloured motor scooter, which causes general derision and comments that it makes him look gay. Ricks acclaimed as a local hero after stopping a man from committing suicide. Lead balloon tv show season 3 episodes list next episode. Watch lead balloon online full episodes of season 4 to 1. He does everything to put himself in the best light possibleincluding throwing everyone else under the bus.
Jan 27, 2020 the premiere episode of vienna blood ended on a cliffhanger. Meanwhile, magda becomes fed up with rick and threatens to quit. Lead balloon series 2 episode 3 points dead parrot youtube. All episodes are written by jack dee and pete sinclair, and are directed and produced by alex hardcastle. When rick spleen jack dee was younger he dreamed of being a great stand up comic. A guide to rubbish, episode 1 from series 1 of lead balloon.
Lead balloon series 3 episode 1 gas dead parrot youtube. Rick is peeved that everybody goes overboard for mels client,rival comic dan arrowsmith who,unlike rick,is up for a clutch of awards but,just for once,fortune smiles on rick as,following his commercial for car polish,he is chosen to fill in for the holidaying male presenter of the bargain channel,britains premier shopping channel. Series 2, episode 4 idiot rick agrees to front a tv charity appeal for a worthy cause, and is asked to be a guest on a former ice skaters new show. As for his home life, well, hes about to lose magda. Meanwhile, one of mels clients is presenting a new holiday show, what not to pack. Rick fronts a lame government tv recycling campaign which backfires spectacularly. Series 2, episode 1 giraffe rick decides to take up exercise having been humiliated about his weight on tv by daytime chatshow host adam. The spleen household has a teaspoon shortage and rick decides to take matters into his own hands by stealing some from michaels cafe, with unfortunate consequences. He gets even more excited when, as a result, a tv executive agrees to come to dinner to talk about rick s career. Series 2, episode 3 points rick tries to get others to take the. He read in the papers about liebermanns exploits with the police. Lead balloon series 1 episode 2 wayne dead parrot youtube. A place for uk and irish tv shows only to be posted no youtubedailymotion etc links for shows,also no torrent links.
Rick agrees to front a tv charity appeal for a worthy cause. Series 3 of lead balloon consists of seven episodes. The fourth series premiered on bbc 2 on 31 may 2011. Lead balloon series 1 episode 1 rubbish dead parrot duration.
Rick and mel are invited to the christening of a very ugly baby. Rick appears as a celebrity oracle on daytime quiz show trick or treat. Lead balloon series 1 episode 5 pistachio dead parrot. After surviving a neardeath experience in the television studio, rick decides that life is sweet and,to martys cynical amazement,becomes placid and positive,letting insects go free and not even blowing his top when magda sells his fathers war medal in a boot sale.
Dead parrot is a new youtube comedy network that brings you the best in great british comedy. Lead balloon was the first comedy series to be broadcast on the bbcs highdefinition service, bbc hd, with another repeat run beginning on 21 december 2006. It stars dee as rick spleen, a cynical and misanthropic comedian whose life is plagued by petty annoyances, disappointments and embarrassments. Rick has agreed to present a youve been framed style dvd, but neither he nor his writing partner marty can come up with any decent links.
Sitcom about rick spleen, a disillusioned standup comedian and writer whose career has not gone to plan. Series 2, episode 4 idiot rick agrees to front a tv charity appeal for a. Neverbefore seen footage and exclusive interviews show what really happened behind the scenes during this season s run of amish mafia. Mythbusters season 1 episode 3 larrys lawnchair balloon, goldfinger, poppyseed drug. Lead balloon series one 2 dvd set lead balloon series 1. Rick manages to land himself a spot on an ice skating chat show but after all things hes said about the show, will he. This is a list of episodes of the british television situation comedy lead balloon. Rick spleen is back and as he will tell you, hes on the way up, his career is going from strength to strength and hes never been so popular.
Gas 1 7 mel announces that magda, their easteuropean help, is moving in with them temporarily. When rick discovers that michael, the local cafe owner, is going on a metaldetecting weekend, he suggests he should be on the show. Lead balloon tv series 20062011 the movie database tmdb. Series 2 episode 1 the garner and the rodriguez families are back helping fellow brits find their dream homes in the sun. Rick spleen is a disillusioned standup comedian writer. Season 4 guide for lead balloon tv series see the episodes list with schedule and episode summary. Lead balloon is a british television series produced by open mike productions for bbc four. Rick likes to think his career has finally come good but in reality, its as badas it ever was. Meanwhile, one of mels clist celebrity clients, exiceskating champ gina therese, has a new series coming up.
Lead balloon series 2 episode 1 giraffe dead parrot youtube. Rick dee stars in this amazing bbc america comedy as rick spleen, a comedian who really wants to be more successful and famous than he really is. Lead balloon series 2 episode 4 idiot dead parrot youtube. Lead balloon was a rock band whose music measured 418 megabels, a tiny amount in comparison to disaster area.
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