Season 1

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  Fun with Magnets

  Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/13/1988

  At the beginning of Alexei's quest to explore stuff, we investigate the abject failure of social services to prevent Herod's massacre of the innocents and the bloody reign of Vlad the Impaler, why the BBC is better than you, door-to-door cat boilers, and Freddy Kreuger's tenure as head of the Royal Opera Company, while dancing around in a series of tight suits.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  N/A/100 votes

  From Avogadro to Ava Gardner

  Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/20/1988

  Alexei investigates Einstein's Wilderness Years writing scripts for George Formby films, the Queen's Award For Capitalist Exploitation, sings about word association and reveals that he once abused drugs by insulting paracetamol.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Cartesian Dualism for the Fuller Figure

  Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/27/1988

  27 October 1988 Instead of watching Alexei, why not stay on BBC1 and return to the age of sword and sorcery, in Dino de Laurentiis epic 'Seal Of The Soothsayer' ? Alternatively, discover the link between Classical Greek mathematicians and dung, and witness walruses flying south for the winter.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  N/A/100 votes

  The Dobsey Twins Isolate Radium

  Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/3/1988

  Witness what happens when two TV travel programmes experience a near collision, learn about Captain Pugwash's subsequent career as controller of BBC Two, and investigate the prong-horned antelope, a member of the gerbil family and a full-time stewardess with British Airways.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Liebnitz: Man or Biscuit ?

  Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/10/1988

  Scream in terror at 'Revenge Of The Bendy Toys', attend parties with man-eating Triffids, learn how to defend yourself against skinheads through the use of puckish epigrams, and visit the Princess Alexei Home For Bereaved Ventriloquist's Dummies.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  How to Point at Chickens

  Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/17/1988

  Wonder at nature and the life cycle of the smoked salmon, learn of recent mass lay-offs in the works of Charles Dickens, experience the awkwardness of Jehovah's Witnesses on discovering they've knocked on the door of a lodging house for Biblical figures.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown