Hot Metal

Season 1

1986 · 6 episodes · 3h 0m in all

Episodes

1. 1

   1. The Tell-Tale Heart

   16 Feb 1986 · 30 min

   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.

2. 2

   2. The Modern Prometheus

   23 Feb 1986 · 30 min

   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.

3. 3

   3. Beyond the Infinite

   2 Mar 1986 · 30 min

   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.

4. 4

   4. Casting the Runes

   9 Mar 1986 · 30 min

   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.

5. 5

   5. The Slaughter of the Innocent

   16 Mar 1986 · 30 min

   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.

6. 6

   6. The Respectable Prostitute

   23 Mar 1986 · 30 min

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