Micky Love was part of a series of three films made for Granada TV under the umbrella title Rik Mayall Presents.
Rik plays the title role of Micky Love, a TV game show host, and I played his nemesis Greg Deane, the presenter of a youth TV show that was claiming Micky's prized time slot. It also starred Jennifer Ehle (who later worked with me in Design For Living) and Eleanor Bron (who later played my mother in Hamlet). It was shot in Manchester at Granada TV studios, and directed by Nick Hamm.
A Word In Your Era was a panel game (or historical comedy series according the press blurb!) in which Rory McGrath invited some of Britain's top comic talents to step back in time. Three guests are given the chance to become their favourite character from the history books. I seem to remember that if you won, your historical character was guaranteed their place in immortality.
I did two episodes and in this first one I played Mozart, Hugh Dennis was Noah and Nick Revell was Attila the Hun. And I won!
In the second episode, Patrick Barlow impersonated Christopher Columbus, Tony Slattery was Lassie and I was Lord Baden Powell. I think Tony won!
The Airzone Solution is a sort of Doctor Who homage, and indeed features four actors who played Doctor Who in the cast. It was made in those wilderness years between Doctor Who series on the BBC, and I became involved with it via my friend Bill Baggs who directed it and who was an AD on The Last Romantics. We shot it in Nottingham, and I liked being a baddy.
This Yorkshire Television play was based on the theatre piece by Scottish writer Liz Lochead. The story again concerned the poets Byron and Shelley, and again I played Shelley! This time though, the focus was on how Mary Shelley came to write her novel Frankenstein.
