Bottom
- TV sitcom
- BBC Two
- 1991 - 1995
- 18 episodes (3 series)
Richie Richard and Eddie Hitler are a pair of disgusting, anti-social and regularly violent losers who share a grubby flat in Hammersmith. Stars Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson.
Streaming rank this week: 307
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Series 2, Episode 2 - Culture
After their TV is repossessed by Rumbelows, Eddie and Richie are left bored at home for the evening. Perhaps a game of chess could pass the time.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Thursday 8th October 1992
- Time
- 9pm
- Channel
- BBC Two
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
| Rik Mayall | Richie Richard |
| Adrian Edmondson | Eddie Hitler |
| Rik Mayall | Writer |
| Adrian Edmondson | Writer |
| Ed Bye | Director |
| Ed Bye | Producer |
| Ed Wooden | Editor |
| Chris Hull | Production Designer |
| Garry Freeman | Production Designer |
Press
Bottling it: Bottom S2, E2 - 'Culture'
The Comedy Doctor gives her prognosis on the importance of boredom in this classic episode.
The Comedy Doctor, Capers Magazine, 4th May 2021Bottom is an unfortunate name for a programme, inviting all manner of scatological put-downs from jaded TV critics; a more appropriate title might be Living Off Past Glories as Rik Mayall and partner rehash one more time the same limited repertoire of puerile, violent and nonsensical gestures that worked so brilliantly a decade ago in The Young Ones.
Victor Lewis-Smith, Evening Standard, 9th October 1992