Following on from the runaway success of The Young Ones, stars Mayall, Nigel Planer and Mayalls lifelong comedy partner Ade Edmondson next graced British television screens in 1987 with an entirely different brace of grotesques in Filthy, Rich & Catflap. The eponymous Rich was an out of work (or resting) actor, a delusional luvvie with no talent who remained convinced that he was a superstar a legend in his own living room. Paranoid that everyone he met wanted to cash in on his non-existent fame (or kill him), Richie hired a horrendous drunken mess of a man, Eddie Catflap (Edmondson), to act as his minder. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9xzcznaEtM Filthy Rich & Catflap only ran for one series (you can find all six episodes uploaded in their entirety to YouTube), but it continued the manic slapstick partnership between Mayall and Edmondson that had started when they met as students in Manchester in the late seventies and continued until shortly before Mayalls death.
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