Every Alan Partridge Project Ranked From Worst To Best

Never afraid to wade in on big subjects (as well as triflingly small ones), in Scissored Isle Alan Partridge takes on the great British class divide (following a few moments of public shame, necessitating another career rehabilitation).

Scissored Isle is a gag-packed, pacy collection of ludicrous set pieces, all of which are hilarious. Alan takes a job at Tesco (a modern day cathedral, per his narration), where he quickly becomes the best at scanning. He ingratiates himself with some Mancunian tearaway teens. He treats himself to a day in a stately home to see how the other half live.

The one off mock doc pitches Partridge in a relatively sympathetic light, eager to make amends for his blunders, though typically he’s hoping to benefit from it as well. It’s a light hearted affair, but features some of the finest laugh out loud moments of the character’s second run (including a gag about the road to Damascus - perhaps the single funniest Partridge joke ever written).

The format works brilliantly - like Welcome To The Places Of My Life, it’s a Peartree production, meaning “Alan Partridge” has final edit, though he still manages to make himself look a bozo.