In Bed With Medinner
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In Bed With Medinner was a legendary 1990s late-night British TV programme starring Bob Mills.
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History
In Bed With Medinner was a London Weekend Television production for ITV. Standup comic Bob Mills specialised in a cynical view of life and its everyday objects, and in pastiches of popular culture icons.
It had a clip show format, in which Mills presented a long rambling commentary that inevitably led to a story about a video clip, and then to the amusing video clip itself.
Only shown very late in the evening, it distinguished itself as entertainment for the very very tired, or possibly very drunk, viewer.
Original broadcasts and video releases
In Bed With Medinner ran from 1992 through to 1999, totalling 60 episodes, 54 thirty-minute episodes and 6 sixty-minute episodes.
- Series One consisted of 2 thirty-minute specials shown 20 & 27 Nov 1992.
- Series Two consisted of 6 sixty-minute episodes and ran from 8th Apr to 13th May 1994.
- Series Three consisted of 26 thirty-minute episodes and ran from 11th Jan to 22nd Nov 1997.
- Series Four consisted of 26 thirty-minute episodes and ran from 6 Feb to 24 Apr 1998 and 10th Jan to 25th Apr 1999.
- An hour-long highlights compilation of the First and Second series Wot A Palaver - The Best Of In Bed With Medinner aired by London-area ITV on 2nd August 1996, having been released on VHS on 26th September 1994.
Cultural references
Series Two and Three opened with a parody of The Prisoner, The set was meant to be Bob Mills' own flat but was closely based on Number Six's Flat from The Prisoner.
The fourth and final series was re-titled Still In Bed With Medinner, and the opening sequence changed to be a parody of the Avengers Series Five title sequence.
The title was a parody of the UK title of Madonna's movie In Bed With Madonna, originally titled Truth or Dare in the US.
Episode guide
- In Bed With Medinner series 1 details
- In Bed With Medinner series 2 details
- In Bed With Medinner series 3 details
- In Bed With Medinner series 4 details