The League of Gentlemen [First Series]

The League of Gentlemen is a quartet of British comedy writer/performers, formed in 1995 by Jeremy Dyson, Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith. The television program for which they are best known, although officially labelled a sitcom, was initially more sketch-based, linked together by their common setting: the fictional village of Royston Vasey, set somewhere in the north of England. The first series aired on BBC Two in 1999, and follows the lives of dozens of the town's bizarre inhabitants, played by Gatiss, Pemberton and Shearsmith in a number of different guises and make-up.



The League of Gentlemen is primarily a sitcom, albeit an unusual one. It consists of a series of sketches which come together to form an overall story. Since all the action takes place, and nearly all the characters live in the same village, there is much overlap, and the events and characters of one story play a part in the lives of others, much as in a soap opera. There is usually a main plot to which the minor stories tend to be tenuously connected.



In the first television series, the main plot involves a new road being built through Royston Vasey, raising the possibility of great numbers of strangers visiting the town. The road development ends when Tubbs and Edward discover that the construction manager is their long lost son, David, and convince him to end construction and live "locally".



The majority of the inhabitants of the village Γ?? male and female Γ?? are played by Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton, and Mark Gatiss, and the script was written by these three, along with Jeremy Dyson. Dyson, not an actor like the others, appears only in cameo roles. As there are usually only three actors on screen at any one time, the different characters mostly play out their own stories in several serialised sketches, rarely crossing into each others' storylines. Only rarely do actors "meet themselves". Exceptions include Papa Lazarou facing the Reverend Bernice in the Christmas Special (both Reece Shearsmith), Alvin Steele buying food from Iris at a supermarket checkout in Series 2 (both Mark Gatiss). The idea is taken further in the The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse, when the characters meet the actors (especially when Herr Lipp meets his creator, Steve Pemberton).



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Series 1 (11 Jan 1999 - 15 Feb 1999)

"Welcome To Royston Vasey" (11 Jan 99)

"The Road To Royston Vasey" (18 Jan 99)

"Nightmare In Royston Vasey" (25 Jan 99)

"The Beast Of Royston Vasey" (1 Feb 99)

"Love Comes To Royston Vasey" (8 Feb 99)

"Escape From Royston Vasey" (15 Feb 99)



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THE ENITRE SERIES IS FAR TOO LARGE TO OFFER IN ITS ENTIRETY. ONCE THE FIRST SERIES HAS SOME SEEDERS THE SUBSEQUENT INSTALLMENTS [SECOND SERIES, CHRISTMAS SPECIAL, THIRD SERIS, LIVE AT DRURY ROAD, AND APOCALYPSE] WILL BE OFFERED INDIVDUALLY