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Filthy Rich & Catflap

7/10
Release Date 1987-02-11
Runtime 30 minutes
Genres Comedy
Stars Nigel Planer, Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson
Directors

The series featured former The Young Ones stars Nigel Planer, Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson as its three title characters respectively. It was written by Ben Elton with additional material credited to Mayall. One series of six half-hour episodes was produced. (The notion of a second series is played upon in the final episode, and the continuity announcer on the last instalment says "...and Filthy Rich and Catflap will return next year." They didn't.)

1. Dead Milkmen

1987-01-07

Richie wakes up feeling sexy then discovers Eddie is also in his bed. Richie worries that he has caught Eddie's 'trouser rash.' Eddie has his head under the back of Richie's robe on a rash hunt when the milkman walks in. Richie smashes the milkman over the head with some milk bottles and inadvertently kills him. They hide the bod in the cub. Soon, several more milkmen die as Richie and Eddie dash to the hospital to foil a paternity suit being brought against Richie in a dastardly plot to get hold of Richie's cash.

2. Game Show

1987-01-14

Richie appears on a TV game show with disastrous results. He also has trouble with a blackmailer. Eddie dabbles in the art world.

3. Dinner Party

1987-01-21

Ritchie has invited some of his showbiz pals to dinner. Getting the food ready proves a problem, which eventually makes him a fugitive from the law. Luckily, Ralph Filthy come to the rescue.

4. A Death in the Family

1987-01-28

Great news! Richie's dad's about to croak and Richie's all set to do an advertisment for a flower company at his funeral. Until, worse luck his dad recover's and Richie's going to loose everything! Unless of course his dad still dies... Things get heavy when Eddie and Richie find themselves in a gay bar propositioning men. But what they're doing in Foxy and Mr Men oven gloves with enough rat poison to kill an army is anybody's guess.

5. Breakfast Television

1987-02-04

Keep your finger on the remote control - Richie's about to become enorm! He's got a showbiz job reading the gossip on TV AM with those megastar totties Anne Diamond and the Pink Goddess. But his rise to stardom hits an obstacle. When he finds himself plastered over the papers. Things get worse when Eddie and Richie are caught Mooning to three million viewers.

6. Smear Campaign

1987-02-11

Richie and Eddie have given up showbiz and begun a career as the scum. As journos they're digging up dirt on Midge Ure and Mrs Thatcher and what they can't find they make up. But watch out ! Now Richie's dug up his ballpoint there's no stopping him. Who else is he going to smear with his evil lies? and if Brucie and Tarby aren't safe - Who is?

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