"I'm Alan Partridge" (1997) TV series 1997-2002

Seasons:

1 | 2

Release Date:

3 November 1997 (UK)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot Keywords:

Radio | Sitcom | Celebrity | Radio Presenter | Personal Assistant

Awards:

5 wins & 6 nominations

Cast

Steve Coogan	...	Alan Partridge (12 episodes, 1997-2002)
Phil Cornwell	...	Dave Clifton (12 episodes, 1997-2002)
Simon Greenall	...	Michael (12 episodes, 1997-2002)
Felicity Montagu	...	Lynn Benfield (12 episodes, 1997-2002)
Amelia Bullmore	...	Sonja (6 episodes, 2002)
Barbara Durkin	...	Susan (6 episodes, 1997)
Sally Phillips	...	Sophie (6 episodes, 1997)
David Schneider	...	Tony Hayers (6 episodes, 1997)
James Lance	...	Ben (5 episodes, 1997)

Also Known As:

I'm Still Alan Partridge (UK) (working title)

Runtime:

30 min (12 episodes)

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

Hilton Hotel, Elton Way, Watford, Hertfordshire, England, UK

Company:

TalkBack Productions

Quotes:

Alan Partridge: Thank you for being this morning's farmer, Robert Moon. Have you had your breakfast this morning, Robert?
Robert Moon: Well, the way things is going, I dunno...
Alan Partridge: Can you just answer "yes", for the purposes of a joke?
Robert Moon: ...Yes.
Alan Partridge: Well, then, you must be a *full* moon!
[pause]
Alan Partridge: Hello?
Robert Moon: I'm still here.
Alan Partridge: I was... I was just making a pun on your name.
Robert Moon: Oh. Oh, right.
[...]

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Favouritism: Michael Portillo's Great British Losers (#1.4)" (2005)

The best British comedy of the '90s

Like Fawlty Towers in the '70s and Blackadder in the '80s, this is British comedy at its very best - a handful of episodes, all of them tighter line-for-line than Alan's shorts ("the boys are back in the barracks"). Partridge may well be the most ingeniously unsympathetic character ever created - every time you start to feel sorry for him, he manages to do something truly unspeakable. Painfully funny.