kazzypat

Does anyone else remember a set of films shown on tv about bizzare things such as a man that got stuck in his chair to then get thrown out by his wife coz she thaought he'd left, one where a man got his foot stuck in a hole that was slowly dragging him in and a tramp stole his shoe, one where a man had a zip down his body and when he finally unzipped it a new him stepped out and he left his old skin at the railway station. there were others but can't really remember them. if anyone does remember can you please let me know what they were called.
thanx everyone, Karen

Euryale

I think this is one of them:

The Zip (1988)

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Euryale

Here is a list from the BFI:

BFI | Film & TV Database | SHORT AND CURLIES

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Lord Lionheart

I thought this thread was about the excellent short by Mike Leigh starring David Thewliss & Alison Steadman

The Short & Curlies (1987) (TV)

Never mind

Euryale

I think that Mike Leigh's short was chronologically the first produced. Its title was subsequently used as the covering name for the series of films that followed. Therefore the thread is inclusive of both.

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Simon Coward

A complete list, as far as I know:

26-Dec-89 Unusual Ground Floor Conversion
27-Dec-89 The Loss Adjuster
28-Dec-89 Duck
29-Dec-89 Closed Circuit
30-Dec-89 Out Of Town
31-Dec-89 Treacle
01-Jan-90 The Zip
02-Jan-90 The Short And Curlies
03-Jan-90 Making Waves
04-Jan-90 Why Don't You Dance?
05-Jan-90 Arcadia

06-Jun-90 The Universe Of Dermot Finn
13-Jun-90 The Kitchen Child
20-Jun-90 Work Experience
27-Jun-90 The Childeater

09-Jan-91 The New Look
16-Jan-91 Geh Kinde Geh
23-Jan-91 One Man's Meat
30-Jan-91 The Hangover
06-Feb-91 A Nice Arrangement
13-Feb-91 Dear Rosie

21-Oct-92 Life's A Gas
28-Oct-92 Heart Songs
04-Nov-92 The Big Fish
11-Nov-92 Broken Skin
18-Nov-92 Now That It's Morning
25-Nov-92 London South West
02-Dec-92 Gaia

12-Jan-94 The Cutter
19-Jan-94 My Little Eye
26-Jan-94 Flight Of The Swan
02-Feb-94 The Zebra Man
09-Feb-94 No Head For Heights

23-Nov-94 Syrup
30-Nov-94 Home Away From Home
07-Dec-94 Tomorrow Calling
14-Dec-94 Chicken Talk

10-Jan-96 The Pan Loaf
17-Jan-96 Seventeen
31-Jan-96 Fathers, Sons And Unholy Ghosts
07-Feb-96 A Martial Kind Of Men
14-Feb-96 The Spy Who Caught A Cold

22-May-97 It's Not Unusual
29-May-97 Hello, Hello, Hello
05-Jun-97 The Short Walk
12-Jun-97 Take Pity
17-Jun-97 Skin

02-Apr-98 The Sin Eater
09-Apr-98 Closer
16-Apr-98 Daphne And Apollo
23-Apr-98 Dual Balls
30-Apr-98 Wet And Dry
21-May-98 I Love My Mum
28-May-98 Shark Hunt
04-Jun-98 Silent Film

benchcluttocks

Does anyone have any of these short and curlies ?? I remember some of them and they were brilliant. Did the Zip star Dennis Lawson ? I do have Out Of Town. I recall one where a young lad goes for tea at his girlfriends house and everyone there eats fish like seagulls, very weird.

CardiffKermit

I'm also trying to find out where I can see these - I remember the one where the man gets hit on the head with a radio controlled plane and gets his foot stuck in a hole. In the end he gets dragged down into the hole & a tramp comes along and steals his shoe from his foot tha's just sticking out of the mud! Hilarious! What was it called?

Thanks!

Jack Gurney

Is that the same series where a play was screened starring Daniel Massey and Jack Shepherd as a couple of inmates in an asylum who think they're ducks (or something like that) and another one with (I think) Daniel Peacock as a karate instructor in a room with a powercut, where all the students turn out to have learning difficulties or severe quadroplegia? I think there was a third one about a man with no legs trying to leave his wife in a bedroom in the dark whilst concealing a mistress in the wrdrobe..or something along those lines.

Anyway, the point is, I think I still have all these on tape...but I'd have to dig them out and look at them again.

"I do not tinker."

Euryale

No, I think these were from a trilogy of plays about disability by Peter Barnes.

More here:

Nobody Here But Us Chickens (1989) (TV)

And here:

NOBODY HERE BUT US CHICKENS

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Euryale

That episode was Out of Town. Don't think it has ever been commercially released. I think one or two films out of the series are on this DVD:

cinema16 | short film dvds

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Steve Crook

Not a part of that Short & Curlies series, but one short film that I caught by accident being used as a filler between films on FilmFour and that I really liked was The Call (2005)

It's no longer available at the FilmFour site, but luckily I saved a copy and it's available here

Steve