This Is David Lander
Spoof investigative journalist David Lander chases down and exposes scandal and wrongdoing in nineteen eighties Britain.
- 1988-1988
- 1 season
- Comedy
Spoof investigative journalist David Lander chases down and exposes scandal and wrongdoing in nineteen eighties Britain.
Season 1 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 1988
Episode 1
Not a Pretty Site
David Lander investigates a dodgy property developer and his builder.
Episode 2
The Nicholson Story
David Lander tells the story of drunken, philandering and incompetent double agent with the KGB and MI5 who graduated from Cambridge University.
Episode 3
A Growing Crisis
David Lander exposes the terrible treatment of animals, farm workers and the environment in the British countryside under the auspices of the Common Agricultural Policy as prescribed by the European Economic Community.
Episode 4
A Question of Trial and Error
David Lander investigates the case of a young man imprisoned for the theft of some valuable paintings based on evidence that makes no reasonable sense whatsoever.
Episode 5
The Rocketing Cost of Defence
David Lander reports on a new British weapon system that doesn't work, costs hundreds of millions, sinks the wrong ships and lands in people's back garden.
Episode 6
Reduced to Tears
David Lander investigates a dubious weight loss clinic that fails to make their patients get thinner and loses his spleen in the process.