
- Genres
- Sitcom, Comedy Drama
- Broadcast
- 1991
- Channel
- Channel 4
- Episodes
- 4 (1 series)
- Starring
- Christoph Waltz, Ian Richardson, Jacques Sereys, Anita Zagaria, Jeremy Child, John Dicks, Henry Goodman, Janek Lesniak and others
- Writer
- Malcolm Bradbury
- Director
- James Cellan Jones
- Producers
- Philip Hinchcliffe and Ian Warren
Post-glasnost jewel of the Eastern European crown, the Balkan state of Slaka is a tasty treat on The Gravy Train. Newly-liberated after years of Communist control, the little nation wants to embrace the European Community and share its bountiful fruits of capitalism and the free market.
Animosity between the East and West is now a thing of the past, so why is Slaka's entry into the E.C. so hotly-contested - enthusiastically encouraged by the Deputy President of the E.C. and violently opposed by the British Government?
The Balkan state's economic and political disarray makes E.C. entry unlikely, but perhaps only one man can perform the required economic miracle in Slaka - the naÏve, bungling European dogsbody Hans Dorfmann.
Confounded and manipulated by all parties, he finds himself out in the cold and expelled from Slaka - but doggedly in pursuit of the state's missing fortune!
- Production company
- Laugh track
- None
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Monday 28th October 1991 on Channel 4 at 10pm
- Last new broadcast
- Monday 18th November 1991 on Channel 4 at 10pm
- Length of episodes
- 65 minutes
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