The Glam Metal Detectives
- TV sitcom
- BBC Two
- 1995
- 7 episodes (1 series)
Comedy series about a band who want to save the planet with their music. Stars Gary Beadle, Mark Caven, Phil Cornwell, Doon Mackichan, Sara Stockbridge and more.
Press clippings
Peter Richardson (the least-known but most influential member of The Comic Strip) has spent three years assembling what he describes as "a comic on TV, inspired by Viz and that sense of the absurd" and he's created a frenetic and gloriously incoherent series which makes The Fast Show look like a Fifties kittens-in-beermugs interlude.
Victor Lewis-Smith, Evening Standard, 17th March 1995Peter Richardson has clearly watched cable TV in many a seedy hotel, poor soul, idly playing with his remote - as which of us has not - when he got the idea for The Glam Metal Detectives (BBC2). You could say he has struck a chord. This is an electronic breakthrough comparable to the pop-up toaster. It saves the viewer all the bother of flickering through the channels by flicking for him.
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 24th February 1995