Hot Metal (1986) is a comedy web series in English. On MovieLinkBD: full story, cast, ratings, season & episode guide, official trailer and where to watch Hot Metal online in HD.
Hot Metal — Storyline
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" Rathbone. Its editor Harry Stringer is 'promoted' to managing editor, and is replaced in his old job by Russell Spam. Spam then takes the paper shooting downmarket and turns the crucible into a sensation seeking scandal rag, very much in the style of the British tabloids of the 1980s. He is helped along by his ace gutter journalist, Greg Kettle, who intimidates his tabloid victims by claiming to be "a representative of Her Majesty's press" and produces stories such as accusing a vicar of being a werewolf. Throughout the first series, a running plot involved cub reporter Bill Tytla gradually uncovering an actual newsworthy story that went to the very heart of government.
Written by David Renwick and Andrew Marshall, it is very much a continuation in style from their previous sitcom Whoops Apocalypse!. It was produced by Humphrey Barclay.
Cast & Crew
- Starring: Robert Hardy, Caroline Milmoe, David Barrass, Richard Wilson, Richard Kane
Hot Metal — Series Details
| First Air Date | 1986-02-16 |
| Seasons | 2 |
| Episodes | 13 |
| Genre | Comedy |
| Language | English |
| Network | ITV1 |
| Status | Ended |
| Rating | 5.4/10 (8 votes) |
Hot Metal — Episode Guide
Season 1
- E1: The Tell-Tale Heart (1986-02-16) — 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 A
- E2: The Modern Prometheus (1986-02-23) — 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 executio
- E3: Beyond the Infinite (1986-03-02) — 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 t
- E4: Casting the Runes (1986-03-09) — 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 anonymo
- E5: The Slaughter of the Innocent (1986-03-16) — 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.
- E6: The Respectable Prostitute (1986-03-23) — Stringer springs back into action as he gets to the bottom of the Khrushchev impersonator's death and uncovers a political sex scandal.
Season 2
- E1: Religion of the People (1988-03-06) — Twiggy finds a replacement for the missing Harold Stringer, Greg Kettle acquires a government list of all known AIDS carriers and Spam signs up God as an advice columnist through S
- E2: The Joker to the Thief (1988-03-13) — Spam sets up Lipton for a serious assault when he imprisons an overweight woman and wires her jaw shut while he and Kettle pursue a sex scandal at an innocent pre-school. Maggie Tr
- E3: The Hydra's Head (1988-03-20) — Lipton tries to vet every story as Spam begins publishing 24 hours a day, Kettle competes with the Daily Star to save a Nicarauguan horse from the glue factory, and Maggie Troon di
- E4: The Twilight Zone (1988-03-27) — Bright young hope Maggie Troon may yet achieve some real investigative journalism for the Daily Crucible, increasing Richard Lipton's hopes of cleaning up the paper.
- E5: Crown of Thorns (1988-04-10) — Lipton begins to lose his grip on reality as the buxom beauties of page three go on strike, Twiggy opens ""Rat World"", Kettle infiltrates EastEnders, and Maggie Troon discovers od
- E6: Unleash the Kraken (1988-04-17) — Maggie continues to dig into the Hitchcock murders amid rumors of UFOs while Spam and Lipton try different ways of spiking a critical government report on newspaper standards and p
- E7: The Rat Sat on the Cat (1989-03-10) — Twiggy threatens to demolish an 11th century church and replace it with the new tower block. Harry defends a Crucible story about cat food. (Comic Relief special)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many seasons does Hot Metal have? 2 season(s) with 13 episodes.
Where can I watch Hot Metal? See the Where to Watch section above for current streaming options.
