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Hot metal is a London Weekend Television sitcom about the British Newspaper industry broadcast between 1986 and 1988. The daily crucible, the dullest newspaper in Fleet Street, is suddenly taken over by media magnate Terence "Twiggy"

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Season 1

  • The Tell-Tale Heart
    7.0/1016 votes

    The Tell-Tale Heart

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 2/16/1986

    Entrepreneur Twiggy Rathbone buys a failing Fleet Street newspaper, The Daily Crucible, and the first coup of the new managing editor Russell Spam is an exclusive smear of Prince Andrew's latest girlfriend and the discovery of Nikita Khrushchev, alive and well in Switzerland.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Andrew Marshall, David Renwick

  • Casting the Runes
    6.9/1010 votes

    Casting the Runes

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 3/9/1986

    Kettle and Spam continue their persecution of Father Teasdale by adding charges of lycanthropy, Rathbone rails against Spitting Image, and Tytla looks into charges (from an anonymous source calling himself ""Sore Throat"") that the police are involved in covering up the Kubelsky murder.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Andrew Marshall, David Renwick

  • Beyond the Infinite
    6.6/1013 votes

    Beyond the Infinite

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 3/2/1986

    Spam launches an anti-Red campaign against Father Teasdale, and introduces ""Wobblevision"" to the page three beauties as a circulation ploy. Bill Tytla receives a mysterious tip that a nurse knows something sinister about the death of Donald Kubelsky, the Khrushchev impersonator.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Andrew Marshall, David Renwick

  • The Slaughter of the Innocent
    6.6/1010 votes

    The Slaughter of the Innocent

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 3/16/1986

    Rathbone negotiates a compromise to keep Father Teasdale's church open, Kettle stumbles on a multiple birth, and Tytla is caught while searching for Sore Throat's papers.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Andrew Marshall, David Renwick

  • The Modern Promethius
    6.3/1012 votes

    The Modern Promethius

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 2/23/1986

    The Crucible launches an all-out campaign supporting a return to capital punishment by interviewing murder victims through a seance and interviewing the brother of a state executioner who hanged himself. Spam discovers the man identified as Khrushchev is a fake, and the fellow dies during a live televsion interview.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Andrew Marshall, David Renwick

  • The Respectable Prostitute
    6.1/1011 votes

    The Respectable Prostitute

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 3/23/1986

    Stringer springs back into action as he gets to the bottom of the Khrushchev impersonator's death and uncovers a political sex scandal.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Andrew Marshall, David Renwick