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The Mark Thomas Comedy Product - Series 1 (1996) - (6 shows)

# Broadcast Description Channel
1 23/02/1996 Bear necessities - Interviews several MPs dressed as a bear, MTV presenter, bumrush of LiveTV's News Bunny, Jerry Hayes dresses up as a penis. Channel 4
2 01/03/1996 Mc Donalds and Mad Saddam - McFun at McDonalds, ECGD bad debts in Iraq and Nigeria. Channel 4
3 08/03/1996 Parliament! - Mark stands for parliament at Harmsworth, gives Malcolm Rifkind some fashion tips. Channel 4
4 15/03/1996 Scandal Tours of London - Conditionally Exempt Art, phones Tory party central office and upsets them. Channel 4
5 22/03/1996 MI6 and birching young offenders - Mark visits MI6, phones the Columbian embassy, loses a few footballs and videos the video voyeur. Channel 4
6 29/03/1996 Show in a flat - Mark bets the production budget for the last show on a horse in the 2:30 from Doncaster, loses and has to make the last show of series one in his mate's living room, tries to give cash away at the Bank of England and raises money at the Torython. Channel 4

The Mark Thomas Comedy Product - Series 2 (1998) - (7 shows)

# Broadcast Description Channel
1 21/01/1998 Cannabis surgery with Jack Straw, Alistair Campbell's porn past, Mohammed Al Fayed draws his own penis! Channel 4
2 28/01/1998 Mark probes the ethics of the Church of England's investments and runs a float at the Lord Mayor's show. Channel 4
3 04/02/1998 The friendly face of genetic engineering, DuPont's Onco mouse, radioactive pigeon shit at Sellafield, Burston Marsteller and Mark does his impression of Lord Simon. Channel 4
4 11/02/1998 Trouble at Victoria - mark runs a promotion on the concourse, relabels a few Virgin trains and gets a song played on Virgin radio. Channel 4
5 18/02/1998 Access all areas Channel 4
6 25/02/1998 Mark investigates the government's "new deal", delivers Pizzas and discusses abortion with the pro-lifers here and abroad. Channel 4
7 04/03/1998 Number stations, more conditionally exempt art, Santa goes to the Dome and Mark reveals what the series 2 backdrops are all about. Channel 4

The Mark Thomas Comedy Product - Series 3 (1999) - (8 shows)

# Broadcast Description Channel
1 13/01/1999 Mark sets up a PR company at an arms fair in Greece and interviews Major General Widjojo from Indonesia. " After discussing with the Major General the Army`s involvement in the massacre of 271 innocent civilians in a churchyard, I spent the afternoon with an Iranian arms dealer talking through whether a mortar bomb could be the solution to moles on my back lawn." Channel 4
2 20/01/1999 More fun with the arms trade, Mark pitches for PR training for the Indonesian army and has a look at the UK arms export industry and what the DTI lets it get away with. Channel 4
3 27/01/1999 "Weirder than a goat milkshake" - All about Geoffrey Robinson! Channel 4
4 03/02/1999 Organise your own local referendum, PFI, the NHS and the Air Traffic Control service. Channel 4
5 10/02/1999 Nuclear trains - After the residents of Cricklewood find out thay will be getting nuclear wast in their back yard, Mark goes to Dungeness to guard a train carrying nuclear waste and add a little bit of information to the vistors centre. Channel 4
6 17/02/1999 Class - Company directors' home addresses, strikers and electrician safety on the Jubilee line extension. Channel 4
7 24/02/1999 Menwith Hill tours - Mark has a scare whilst hot-air balooning over RAF menwith Hill, a US-run listening station in Yorkshire. Channel 4
8 03/03/1999 "a bit of a rag bag of a show" - William Hague at Loughboough University, Mark organises a Labour conference standing ovation, House of Lords attendance, the nutty John Battle, updates on nuclear trains, the DTI and "The showgirls of truth"! Channel 4

The Mark Thomas Comedy Product - Series 4 (1999-2000) - (11 shows)

# Broadcast Description Channel
1 21/09/1999 Human rights in Burma, Premier Oil and Robin Cook. Channel 4
2 28/09/1999 Mark tried to take a sanctions busting teddy bear to Iraq, a beanie baby to the Whitehouse and featured a woman with a price on her head for saving lives. Channel 4
3 05/10/1999 Nestle and baby milk action Channel 4
4 12/10/1999 In this show Mark Thomas cast his critical all-seeing eye on things nuclear, and took a peek over the fence at the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston, and unexpectedly became the first programme since the 1970s to be invited to film an interview from within the base. Channel 4
5 19/10/1999 The Export Credit Guarantee Department and their role in arms dealing. Channel 4
6 06/01/2000 Mark met David Shayler, found out about his own MI5 file, enlisted some acrobatic mailmen, came face to face with Jack Straw, investigated the lack of accountability of the intelligence services, and the lunacy of the Official Secrets Act. Channel 4
7 13/01/2000 Human milk from cows and more baby milk action. Channel 4
8 20/01/2000 Pig's heart or pig's ear? This week, Mark looked at the wacky world of xenotransplantation and found out how politicians may be playing God. Channel 4
9 27/01/2000 ECGD spending out of control and the Ilisu dam in Turkey. Channel 4
10 03/02/2000 Law enforcement under Jack Straw, freedom of information, visiting Pinochet and the Cambridge 2, imprisoned for 5 years under section 8 of the misuse of drugs act. Channel 4
11 10/02/2000 Series round up and a day out at the Millenium Dome. Channel 4

The Mark Thomas Product - Series 5 (2001) - (7 shows)

# Broadcast Description Channel
1 08/01/2001 The data protection act and the CCTV competition. Channel 4
2 10/01/2001 The register of MEPs interests and how they are lobbied. Channel 4
3 17/01/2001 THE UK MP's register of interests. Channel 4
4 24/01/2001 In this show Mark investigated corporate advertising and arranged a debate about conditions in clothing factories in Indonesia between the global affairs director of Adidas, union activists from Jakarta and Richard Howitt MEP in a school where Year 9 students were able to ask questions of the senior Adidas representative in charge of global marketing. Channel 4
5 31/01/2001 ECGD Revisited and The Ilisu dam. Channel 4
6 07/02/2001 PPP and the London Underground. Channel 4
7 14/02/2001 Series updates and William Hague's speaking fees. Channel 4

The Mark Thomas Product - Series 6 (2002) - (6 shows)

# Broadcast Description Channel
1 27/03/2002 Organophospates. Channel 4
2 03/04/2002 Drug dumping. Channel 4
3 10/04/2002 Corporate killing and the Simon Jones case. Channel 4
4 17/04/2002 More dams, Ilisu and Yusefeli, Balfour Beatty and AMEC. Channel 4
5 24/04/2002 Quangos, transparency, accountability and the select committee. Channel 4
6 01/05/2002 How to become an arms dealer in 8 days. Channel 4

Specials - (4 shows)

# Broadcast Description Channel
1 06/03/1999 Thomas Country - Mark poses as a right-wing farmer who infiltrated genuine farming conferences to investigate the true aims and ambitions of the Countryside lobby. Channel 4
1 29/05/2002 Mark Thomas' Secret Map of Britain - Mark Thomas draws up a map of Britain that reveals the places the government and the establishment do not want the public to know about, disproves the claim that the government is an 'open' institution, and looks at the secret democracy that Britain really is. Channel 4
1 31/01/2003 Mark Thomas, Weapons Inspector - Mark assumes the role of a weapons inspector and attempts to uncover British and American weapons of mass destruction. Channel 4
1 22/10/2003 Mark Thomas, Debt Collector - Post war Iraq is bust. The country owes $383,000,000,000 to various companies, banks and countries from loans/credit which it took to build palaces, buy weapons and such. Mark Thomas decides to try and help out by taking it onto himself to try to raise money to help them out. Channel 4