Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell (2012)
News satire. A half-hour weekly round-up, branding, inoculation and crutching of all the important news stories of the week. Along with a like-minded Think Tank of reporters and pundits, offering not only reportage and analysis of the week’s events but discussion, argument and dissection of what’s making the world turn every which way.
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Episode 1 - Episode 1
Release Date: 2022-07-20The Mad as Hell team leave their planet to escape a collision with a comet and find a ship full of frozen convicts.
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Episode 2 - Episode 2
Release Date: 2022-07-27Passing through a time warp, the Mad as Hell team return to Earth in the year 1996. They are mistaken as cast of Good News Week and are offered a contract with Channel 10.
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Episode 3 - Episode 3
Release Date: 2022-08-03A spaceship requests medical help for their computer and Francis Greenslade has to perform brain surgery on it.
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Episode 4 - Episode 4
Release Date: 2022-08-10After killing a hostile alien, Emily Taheny comes across a Wil Anderson in the ABC cafeteria who explains the murdered creature was his agent.
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Episode 5 - Episode 5
Release Date: 2022-08-17On a planet where a primitive people are ruled by a computer, Tosh Greenslade goes against character and saves Stephen Hall's life.
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Episode 6 - Episode 6
Release Date: 2022-08-24Using an alien machine Christie Whelan Browne creates an army of cyborgs to conquer the universe.
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Episode 7 - Episode 7
Release Date: 2022-08-31The Mad as Hell team take a boy home to his planet and come across a space lighthouse. The boy gets angry when they tell him they don't have enough fuel to get him home. They apologise and leave.
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Episode 8 - Episode 8
Release Date: 2022-09-07Accidentally landing on a undiscovered planet, Francis, Emily and the Robot find the ABC is now an archaeological site and that they are in the future.
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Episode 9 - Episode 9
Release Date: 2022-09-14A group of space hippies is going to destroy the planet. The Mad as Hell team let them.
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Episode 10 - Very Final Episode
Release Date: 2022-09-21After 15 seasons over 10 years, the final episode with self-indulgent back patting, clips of so-called 'classic' moments and a tearful farewell song that undoes any vestige of its reputation as a comedy show.