Victor and Barry guested on this variety show for BBC1 . Wen I found the information below about it, I had NO recollection that David Bowie had been a guest too. He wasn’t there when we recorded our bits. I sense he might have just appeared via pop video. But who was there, in one of the fallow periods of her career, shooting for an earlier episode in the series, was Cher. and I remember that when she left ,her people had taken the flowers and the vase they were in, and the cookies and the plate they were on!

Paramount City

3 Aug 91 BBC 1

David Bowie provides the music in the last in the present series featuring the very best in British and American music and comedy. Also appearing tonight are comedians John Hegley , Caroline Aherne ,

Victor and Barry, Jim Tavare , Dana Gould and Norman

Macdonald. With resident funnyman Tommy Cockles. Presented by comedy duo Curtis and Ishmael.

Series producers Juliet Blake and Trevor Hopkins

An English Channel production for BBCtv

Victor and Barry's swan song was entitled In The Scud, which is a Scottish phrase meaning naked. And so Victor and Barry were bearing their souls and selves one last time for their fans. Forbes and I worked really hard on the script for this show with our friend Ashtar Alkhirsan, and in one of the previews at the Tron theatre in Glasgow Ashtar actually appeared as Victor, wearing Jimmy Somerville's motorbike helmet which we had borrowed from him! Don't ask! Suffice to say that the reason she was impersonating Victor was that Forbes was getting ready to re-enter as one of Victor and Barry's female friends. The scene was cut when we did the show the next night in Cumbernauld, and Jimmy's helmet was returned.

We went on to perform In The Scud at the Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh during the Fringe festival and then took it to the Kings Theatre in Glasgow before taking it to the Perrier Pick of the Fringe season later in the year where we performed a short run of a version of the show at the Purcell Rooms on the South Bank in London.